My apologies. The question was asking if this statement was "gratuitously negative" or just "regular negative", so I thought we could take its negativity for gr

My apologies. The question was asking if this statement was "gratuitously negative" or just "regular negative", so I thought we could take its negativity for granted. I would tend to agree with the original commenter that "horrible" is a negative word, and with you that "blue" is not. I hope that clears it up.