How To Use Pessimist In A Sentence

Regardless of whether those pessimistic readings of the debate are correct, and of whether the zombie idea itself is sound or incoherent, it continues to stimulate fruitful work on consciousness, physicalism, phenomenal concepts, and the relations between imaginability, conceivability, and possibility. Zombies
And they are a rebuke to cultural pessimists in the West who often feel vindicated by the perfidies of the Muslim world but could stand, on occasion, to be humbled by examples of its courage. The Face of Pakistan's Courage
An optimistic theory of evolutionary progress was surreptitiously beginning to replace the pessimistic doctrine of universal decay.
Might we not induce the pessimist to give up saying this by giving the optimist something more to say?
He also noticed that depressed patients were more negative and pessimistic about themselves and their performance than nondepressed patients. Red Flags or Red Herrings?

The other trump card of the pessimists, erotic desire, is notoriously restless and insecure, and apt to deliver only partial fulfilments.
Ben, for all his many flaws (and they ARE many), is a superb number-cruncher who knows the normal partisan leans of precincts across the county, and I'll remain pessimistic unless and until we KNOW Marsden has won. PROJECTED WINNER
Hardy has often been criticised for an excessively pessimistic view of life.
On the surface he was an optimistic extrovert, preaching freedom of conscience and religion; but underneath he was a brooding pessimist, with intransigent, darkly mystical views about the drama of human history and sexuality.
‘I love this book: but the very thought of the young men and women this book has made pessimists and negativists makes me uneasy’, he wrote later.
If all this sounds unduly pessimistic, take heart. Why Am I Afraid to Divorce?
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Overall, are you hopeful or pessimistic about the future for religious freedom? Christianity Today
Up here in the hills of the Acadien Orogeny (geology talk) I like to think My little farm might be too far east to lay under significant ashfall (yes, I am the Pollyanna Pessimist and I actualy think about such things, but I grew up a mormon so you might understand ...). Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
The most pessimistic observers believe everything is stacking up for a crash.
They desire clear, unbending moral and behavioral codes, a fondness for systematization, a willingness to tolerate inequality and an inherently pessimistic view of human nature. June Carbone: Polarized Politics: How Extremists Have Taken America Hostage
Despite these somewhat pessimistic conclusions, the study represents an advance on earlier studies in this field of inquiry.
Barely a negative vibe will be emitted from any of the bidding nations, nor a single quote uttered which might seem remotely downbeat or pessimistic.
The article struck a pessimistic note; it suggested there would be no improvement.
Civil War combat had hardened him to a pessimistic expectation of repeated failure.
If the pessimists are right and it turns out to be a long and costly quagmire then people will remember the negatives and the pendulum will swing back the other way.
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. Oscar Wilde
The trustees present three projections, based on pessimistic, middle-of-the-road and optimistic economic assumptions, respectively.
Most are pessimistic that a sustainable deal will be reached and expect the dispute to escalate.
Some analysts are less pessimistic about the prospects for solar panel manufacturers in the West.
This may sound like putting the cart before the horse and being unnecessarily pessimistic.
This pessimistic extreme is as foolish as its optimistic predecessor.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
She responded with a quixotic courage that eventually infected me; during her two-year illness, I'd grown less pessimistic both about her prognosis and about life itself.
But we must allow for the possibility that the more pessimistic forecasts are right.
However, others argue that even a short visit to Varna can refute pessimistic appraisals of the situation.
The commonplace pessimistic argument points out that since low interest rates have been good for the economy, higher interest rates will be bad.
The film, though starting with the national flag flying high, ends on a pessimistic note of the flag flying at half mast symbolising the persistence of the struggle of women in various fields.
Can there be any possibility of reconciliation between such clearly opposed positions as those of pessimists and optimists about determinism?
Not everyone is so pessimistic about the future.
If we are lucky some of them may return for an informal visit, but no thanks to those mentioned above or all the other pessimistic moaners who tried to rubbish the event.
The pessimist recoils from this picture, and in his recoil there is, typically, an element of emotional shock.
They know that you are a bore or not a bore, a grouser or not a grouser, generous or mean, sentimental or cynical, an optimist or a pessimist, and that you have or have not a sense of humour. If I May
Which had probably all been thrown out along with the clothes, Liz told Alec Stainton herself pessimistically, to exorcize the ghosts. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
Impossible, say the educational pessimists. Times, Sunday Times
Time had proved him not unduly pessimistic, he said. Times, Sunday Times
An essentialist, necessitarian, and neo-Stoic pessimist, Schopenhauer is quick to separate his inquiry from theories of "liberty" and "rights," which "only refers to an ability, that is, precisely to the absence of physical obstacles to the actions of the animal" (Schopenhauer 4). The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction
After the pessimistic sales forecasts, production was halved.
He was without kith or kin, a lonely old man, embittered and pessimistic, fighting vermin the while and looking at Garibaldi, Engels, and Dan Burns gazing down at him from the blood-bespattered walls. DAN CULLEN, DOCKER
I was surprised by this, because I like my Reverend - he's "strong-minded," yes, and a pessimist, but he tries relentlessly to save everybody in town, and never gives up, and he's also one of the smartest, sharpest crayons in the town box. More Under The Dome angst
A vicious circle would establish itself, in which the condition of the patients and the pessimistic views of the nursing staff regarding their recovery became mutually reinforcing. PLACEBO: The Belief Effect
But it'll not happen," she concluded pessimistically.
The object was to show how a certain sector of the economy fulfilled or overfulfilled its plan, despite wreckers, saboteurs, pessimists, and other perils.
The dollar pessimists argue that the Asian central banks are already dangerously overexposed both to the dollar and to the U.S. bond market.
It's easy to sell insurance to a pessimist.
He said he has grown increasingly pessimistic about halting black-on-black violence.
An overexcitable fantasist or a moaning pessimist? Times, Sunday Times
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? Rene Descartes
But I also know you have to find the positives in a situation and stop being so pessimistic with life. The Sun
life insurance no physical and arere on all quetzal and the chamomile in political tunis and cursor is the slaveholding of pessimistically milkweed. Rational Review
He remains deeply pessimistic about the peace process.
The protection effect may overpower the encouragement effect when citizens are optimistic and vice versa when citizens are pessimistic. Times, Sunday Times
So, what would the pessimists say? Times, Sunday Times
Sunshine and flowers in the philosophical smile, the sad and painful sigh in the pessimistic.
Men in the same age bracket are too pessimistic by about two years. Times, Sunday Times
She continued tirelessly, painting with pessimistic strokes the growing black future her husband was meditating for her, while the boy, fearful of some vague, incomprehensible catastrophe, began to weep silently, with a pendulous, trembling underlip. CHAPTER XIX
Michael rose to the top, he outsang his cynics, he outdanced his doubters, he outperformed the pessimists. CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2009
The doomsayers were having a field day, spreading their pessimistic philosophy of gloom and doom to every forum they could ooze their way into.
Those of us who think it is important to preserve the distinctiveness of Christian universities have reason to be both pessimistic and optimistic.
Probably some remote dustball at the far end of the Federation, she predicted pessimistically. Reap the Whirlwind
Pessimistic people are more likely to ignore a lucky situation when it presents itself.
This survey of the EU's institutions, like the new institutionalist literature itself, might seem to paint a generally sombre, downbeat, pessimistic picture of modern political life.
Although the picture painted here is a pessimistic one, despair or fatalism is by no means called for. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
The pessimist may be supposed to ask why freedom in this sense justifies blame.
Being naturally a pessimist, I tend to look toward the dark side of life and have to keep reminding myself to look out for some of the things that weneed to be truly thankful for -- such as agood book, enough food to keep us healthy and ... Happy Thanksgiving and a photo of Pumpkin Pie taken near Baghdad....
It has proven itself right time after time. It has discomfited its critics and it has repeatedly astonished even its pessimistically inclined well-wishers, such as myself.
Yet the prevalent mood at the end is not pessimistic or despairing but upbeat, in spite of the devastation.
Many investors regard the Fed's intervention as either a sign of panic or a sign that the balance sheets of banks were much ropier than even the most pessimistic bear had imagined. David McWilliams: The Most Dramatically Tragic Week
Modest, kind or optimistic people often smile more than snobbish, unkind or pessimistic people. Dr T.P.Chia
He remains deeply pessimistic about the peace process.
The protection effect may overpower the encouragement effect when citizens are optimistic and vice versa when citizens are pessimistic. Times, Sunday Times
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Modest, kind or optimistic people often smile more than snobbish, unkind or pessimistic people. Dr T.P.Chia
A pessimist, they say, is someone passionate who has been disappointed on too many occasions.
When we do, is it unduly pessimistic to wonder if we will all remain as united on free trade? Times, Sunday Times
According to a brief article in the New York Times, research has shown that pessimists are, ironically, more likely to die earlier than optimists.
You don't have to be a pessimist to realize that we're in trouble.
Such a pessimistic view of a place once described as a paradise is unacceptable.
We can only hope that the projection does not become more pessimistic with equal rapidity.
she was unduly pessimistic about her future
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill
It would be too painful and pessimistic not to hope and believe in you.
He said he was pessimistic about current peace prospects, partly because Israel continued to build settlements -- but also because of the Palestinian leadership's "recalcitrance" in insisting on a total settlement freeze and its rejection of Israel's partial settlement freeze as sufficient grounds to restart talks. JTA - Recent News
A distinctively prickly, pessimistic, faintly unrewarding comedy of embarrassment. Involuntary – review
For this reason, people often view him as pessimistic and downbeat.
Don't be so pessimist, look the bright side of this story.
He does not allow the voice of the pessimist spirit to prevail, as a poeticule of the morbid school would have done.
Such pessimistic notes have often quickly been followed by some fresh insight or intriguing argument. 1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
Maybe I am overpessimistic about the use of acronyms. The Big Picture
Is the book unduly pessimistic? Times, Sunday Times
Job market pessimists outnumbered optimists by the widest margin in more than seven years, according to the February report.
Philosophical miserableness, stoicism, nihilism and spiritual (not pragmatic) scepticism all lead to the view that only the imposition of order will suffice No wonder this the life hating, paranoid Nixonite figure of Gordon Brown appeals to every cowardly pessimistic fibre of the nation. The Pontiff Is In...
What you are going to do is polarise the debate, declare yourself an optimist and make the pessimists look like dills.
I can't speak for anyone else, but for me my bin is cyclically in various degrees of emptiness and fullness: perhaps balancing out to both the proverbial half empty of the pessimist and the half full of the optimist.
This pessimistic mass society thesis stressed the conservative and reconciliatory role of mass culture for the audience.
Although realized the contradiction between tool rationality and value rationality, as to the return of value rationality, Weber took a pessimistic outlook .
It is possible that this will turn out to be the case, of course, just as the earlier more pessimistic views might have been right. Times, Sunday Times
It knows that a modern audience, filled with pessimistic ironists who think the world is not dark enough won't cotton to a true James Brown experience awash in love and understanding.
One can only hope that such a gloomy view is unduly pessimistic.
No country, say the pessimists, has ever attained global supremacy without a war or two.
The receivers are understood to have been approached by a potential buyer for the company, which prints and binds literature for the direct mail market, but staff remain pessimistic.
There is the pessimist who feels that the "irreligion" of to-day is responsible; there is the one who blames feminism; and there is the type that finds in Democracy and liberalism generally the cause of the receding old-fashioned morality. The Nervous Housewife
But both have such a narrow and pessimistic view of human potential that they believe rigorous selection will identify the few who might prove useful to the economic system.
Second, what will happen if the media's most persistent critics go back and read the specific stories that we criticized for being one-sided or pessimistic?
A partial sense of the facts as we know them is certainly present to the pessimist's mind.
Contrary to the almost mechanistic, rationalist view of human nature underpinning the neo-liberal, free-market vision, Brooks notes Taleb's more pessimistic, more conservative view: He subscribes to what he calls the tragic vision of humankind, which 'believes in the existence of inherent limitations and flaws in the way we think and act and requires an acknowledgement of this fact as a basis for any individual and collective action.' Archive 2008-10-01
A spokesman for the 13 workers involved in the dispute said they felt pessimistic about the prospect of a settlement.
But also on the Greek Parnassus of that time sat the same connoisseurs of degeneration who, in ornate words, declared their pessimistic conviction that nothing in this world was worth anything except their ability to express perfectly this very thought. Nobel Prize in Literature 1979 - Presentation Speech
he evaluated his chances for survival rather pessimistically
When people feel irritable about the lack of bounce in the economic rebound; when words like malaise and phrases like triple dip and creeping decrepitude are bruited about - the moment is ripe for yeasayers to pop the pessimists.
Well, I am extremely pessimistic about Mexican-American relations, not because the U.S. had done anything specifically wrong to our southern neighbor but because a (now not quite so) wealthy country has as its abutter a Latin society with all of its characteristic deficiencies: congenital corruption, authoritarian government, anarchic politics, near-tropical work habits, stifling social mores, Catholic dogma with the usual unacknowledged compromises, an anarchic counter-culture and increasingly violent modes of conflict. Think Progress
Keeping warm, romantic ideas close was better than letting the pessimistic, defeatist attitude be victorious within her.
The second view is pessimistic and fearful. Times, Sunday Times
Touche, the ship's grouser and dismal James, was taking the optimistical side, whilst Bompard, generally cheerful, was the pessimist. The Beach of Dreams
Dixon also accused him of being unduly pessimistic about the prospects for renewable energy.
My suspicion is that the reason for the generally low opinion held of the pessimist is related to his close ties to the critic, the cynic, the misanthrope, the whiner and the curmudgeon.
Go out worry rain, catch the train worried about late, exam worry can't recall the answer, speech worry brownout, love worry is jilt...The pessimist seems always with all kinds of anxiety in combat.
He was tall, elegant, handsome and "very Czech, by which I mean passionate and pessimistic" – the very embodiment of a romantic emigre, one who came to London after Soviet tanks had crushed the Prague spring in 1968, with £50 in his pocket. The Saturday interview: architect Amanda Levete
Should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the prospects for democracy in the electronic republic of the century ahead?
In his last years, perhaps under the strain of illness, Lenin's writings took on a dark, pessimistic tone.
When I think of it, and how it compares to the passivism of either "being an optimist" or "being a pessimist," the image that invariably pops into my mind is that of Rosie the Riveter, from the WWII poster. Jeff Biggers: Unblock the Climate Debate: New Book is Required Reading for Climate Change Summit Leaders
Mental hygiene incorporated a variety of beliefs; it implied a pessimistic attitude insofar as curability was concerned while simultaneously affirming an optimistic faith in the possibility of prevention. The Mad Among Us
They appeared surprisingly pessimistic about their chances of winning.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Having been dubbed "perma-bear" for his generally pessimistic tone, an accusation he calls "myopic," Rosenberg appeared quite bullish on Japan. Forbes.com: News
Perhaps Cowen is unduly pessimistic. Times, Sunday Times
If one is a pessimist, the issue between determinists and libertarians is felt to be particularly important.
This year, the most pessimistic forecasters expect another 180,000 jobs to go.
It is very pessimistic," said another senior commercial banker at an international financial institution.
The report emphasizes that the pessimistic prognoses of some critics that the initiatives would damage competitiveness have been dashed.
Although few expect an outright crash, even property professionals who ritually talk up the market are pessimistic.
Industry analysts are pessimistic about Ansett's prospects of raising the required capital.
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? Eugenio Montale - Banquet Speech
Johnson's voice is darkly pessimistic, yet trapped in the formulas of the Cold War.
He laughs grimly when I ask whether he is optimistic or pessimistic about the future. Times, Sunday Times
Men in the same age bracket are too pessimistic by about two years. Times, Sunday Times
A short by Peter Regan entitled Jonny the Pessimist was interesting.
The dangerous game of prediction separates the optimists from the pessimists.
In his ultimate view of life, he was a drastic pessimist, and what we call materialism receives from his hands the clinching fiat of a terrific imprimatur. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
I'm given to entertaining pessimistic thoughts on more than the rare occasion, so I'd always have some smart-alecky remark for him when he'd ask me, but we'd always take it in stride and laugh it off, and lo and behold I would almost always be pleasantly surprised. Tearing Up the Recipe Card
You may pass me off as an incorrigible pessimist for having spoken thus; but believe me, if you were in my spectacles or better still if you analyse life the way I have, may be you would have separate ideas.
As for the economy, perhaps the reason people are pessimistic is that many, perhaps most, of them are now earning less, in either real dollars or buying power, than they were 10 years ago. Matthew Yglesias » Oh, The Irony
But this is to take the most pessimistic view and to advance the minimum case for action. Times, Sunday Times
It also attract pessimists, hell-fire merchants, preachers and doomsters.
An optimistic theory of evolutionary progress was surreptitiously beginning to replace the pessimistic doctrine of universal decay.
A period of uncertainty such as an election causes people to be either optimistic or pessimistic.
Pessimistic comments from Soundview Financial analyst Rick Whittington drove down a key barometer of semiconductor stocks by 7. 7 percent.
The philosophic pessimist is not a fretful and malignant caviller who sneers at the follies of others because he thinks himself so much wiser than they. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama
Although some thinkers who espoused these ideas came to be called futilitarians because of the somewhat pessimistic outlook that this notion of man alone in the cosmos seemed to connote, most humanists were not pessimistic.
The pessimistic view is that they are preparing to pull money out of the country. Times, Sunday Times
Were people intrigued by the plight of the individual versus society, as depicted with such pessimistic intensity by Orwell, supposed to be drawn into the world of Slan, where it turns out that the dictator is a good guy, just a little misunderstood? MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 2)
There is a reservoir of support from Euro-pessimists, negativists, even.
An optimistic theory of evolutionary progress was surreptitiously beginning to replace the pessimistic doctrine of universal decay.
His films have become increasingly gloomy and pessimistic, even morbidly so.
The pessimists in our midst envision a truly calamitous chain of events.
He accused champagne houses of harming the region's reputation through excessively pessimistic talk. Times, Sunday Times
Only what I call the pessimistic conservatives believe your meme. They can no longer blame the GOP - Erick’s blog - RedState
I am beginning to wonder if any politician appreciates quite how much Labour's laws and its corrosively pessimistic view of society have permeated national life or, for that matter, the way that a culture of fear, encouraged by government and the popular press, leads to ludicrous overreaction on the ground. So, how do the parties match up on protecting our freedom?
Contrary to what it might seem this is not a fatalistic or a pessimistic approach, but a realistic one.
Both McLuhan's and Marcuse's dissection of modern technology is neither dystopian nor pessimistic.
Dunbar-based drinks minnow Belhaven has continued to confound the pessimists with bubbling trading results and analysts now expect profits to rise from #5.7m to at least #7.2m in the current year.
The pessimistic outlook is likely to persist next year unless there is a radical improvement in economic conditions, he said. Times, Sunday Times
A falling moving average shows that the crowd is becoming more pessimistic - bearish.
This ideologically diverse group is made up of cultural pessimists, environmentalists, traditionalists, egalitarians, and technophobes.
The majority of the UK's managers feel pessimistic about economic growth in the year ahead but remain upbeat about their own businesses. Times, Sunday Times
The big iron ore miners are increasingly pessimistic. Times, Sunday Times
George is quite realistic throughout the book and is in some cases, justifiably pessimistic.
If you think about it in terms of a two horse race, then Americans chose the relatively more rational candidate (i.e. the one whose policies pander less to anti-market bias, pessimistic bias, make-work bias, and anti-foreign bias). A Confession: What I Was Thinking the Morning of November 3, 2004, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
He is not pessimistic due to the fact that there is no credible evidence for the reality of demonic possession.
Flowers_; and with a dozen "chaperones" -- whom I always suspected of taking in washing during the winter months, -- lined up as closely as was possible to the door, as if in preparation for the hotel's catching fire any moment, to give us pessimistic observal. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking
German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer was one of history's great pessimists.
You know the pessimists who write so much about our slowness, what they call our dullness, and sometimes our blunders; they would not be satisfied unless they had the news of a Waterloo with their porridge every morning for breakfast; then their appetites would still leave them hungry for a Trafalgar each day every month. Australia's Part in the Scheme of Empire
A long-term ally of stock-market pessimists has gone over to the bullish side.
He was a gradualist, and that was because he was historically pessimistic, but not despairing.
We're hopelessly pessimistic about life expectancy. Times, Sunday Times
These events function as pessimistic and prophetic metaphors, not optimistic of the future.
Sunshine and flowers in the philosophical smile, the sad and painful sigh in the pessimistic.
Which had probably all been thrown out along with the clothes, Liz told Alec Stainton herself pessimistically, to exorcize the ghosts. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
As long as the scandals keep coming, few will question his pessimistic view. Times, Sunday Times
Pina is also pessimistic about the prospects for more accurate media coverage of Haiti.
The government has issued a pessimistic economic forecast.
Most Americans remain pessimistic about the state of the economy. Biden credits stimulus plan with sparking economic recovery
Both gained the measure of a reluctant, turgid pitch that offered the seam bowlers less movement than home pessimists feared. Times, Sunday Times
In appearance it's a rather dark and pessimistic vision about eidetic reduction.
You always look on the dark side of things, ie are always pessimistic.
For more information, see Optimistic and pessimistic record locking in the Information Center.
a dozen religions: some of them barbarous; some cynical and pessimistic; some amoristic and romantic; some sceptical and challenging; some kindly, simple, and intuitional; some sophistical and intellectual; none suited to the character and conditions of western civilization unless it be the Christianity which was finally suppressed by the Crucifixion, and has never been put into practice by any State before or since. Treatise on Parents and Children
Unlike him she was of a nervous and pessimistic disposition. Times, Sunday Times
Unlike him she was of a nervous and pessimistic disposition. Times, Sunday Times
Let puritans and pessimists damn, disapprove or dismiss these appetites; that is their loss.
He calls himself ‘a problem drinker, a user and occasional abuser of narcotics, a high school dropout, a pessimist prone to loose women and no stranger to prostitutes and deviant sexual behaviour’.
Another 20 per cent are pessimists - who find themselves opting for the lesser of two evils. The Sun
But once we know what it means in terms of services, benefits and jobs it will be different, say the pessimists. Times, Sunday Times
This can sometimes mean that the diplomats become a bit too optimistic, while the military are unduly pessimistic as a result of looking at "worst case "scenarios. Preventing World War III - A Realistic Grand Strategy
The passive-negative techniques can be said to identify a pessimistic, anxious, passive and self-critical stance, according to the authors of the study.

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