This effect was not apparent when the subjects were shown the neutral or negative words.
Hovering in the middle are the vast number of neutral words that can swing either way.
Blade kept quiet until he was able to find neutral words.
It took enormous self-discipline to hold myself to four neutral words.
The next time, they repeated an everyday, neutral word.
There was meaning in his careful voice, his neutral words.
Response would have been a good neutral word, but neither side was thinking neturality that late in the afternoon.
Chekov wondered why it was that people always felt the need to find neutral words for the horrible things in which they were involved.
The captain's neutral words seemed to hang in the air, while Wesley wondered how much the man knew.
Diabetes wasn't a distant, emotionally neutral word to her.