The negativity continued after Masonga Kitanda Olivier's murder.

So let's call it the death spiral of negativity.

I want to do away with that added negativity.

Mennad wanted to eliminate all the negativity in his life.

And that's why I lump growing lethality of hatred and death spiral of negativity under the general rubric, reasons to be cheerful.

The talks have never managed to throw off that shroud of negativity, and this puts the stakes at Paris as high as they can be.