semi-positive

Example Sentences

• "But it's really tough to like or even keep a semi-positive attitude toward people who seem to try to make your life miserable -- people like one of my drill instructors in Recon school that hated me from the first second he saw me for some unknown reason."
• "In any event, she nodded at the appropriate moments, initiating the mumbling semi-positive responses which pass for acquiescence in a seventeen year-old and so I felt confident that at least 10% of the rules would be adhered to about 5% of the time."
• "A few days later Jack told us the consensus of opinion was that the small tumor had looked highly suspicious, as in cancerous, but not the pancreatic kind. That was semi-positive, although I had a feeling it was his way of not scaring the crap out of us."
• "Figure 5 illustrates the action of a semi-positive mold."
• "Usually, T-invariants are defined to be vectors over T, that is, mappings from T to the integer numbers Z. For the BA, we are only interested in semi-positive T-invariants, that is, mappings from T to the natural numbers N."