I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.
“I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.”
“It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.”