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To be sure, a negativist, no-exit attitude that shies away from moral crisis cannot develop very far; while at the same time so much overt anger must shut the door on irony.

From Time Magazine Archive

But though the persona could not accept Whiston’s program, he was not a mere negativist.

From A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) by Collins, Anthony

Absolute faith he had none; he was essentially a negativist, guided by the mere relations of phenomena.

From Born in Exile by Gissing, George