pessimistic

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• 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
• An optimistic theory of evolutionary progress was surreptitiously beginning to replace the pessimistic doctrine of universal decay.
• He also noticed that depressed patients were more negative and pessimistic about themselves and their performance than nondepressed patients. Red Flags or Red Herrings?
• 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.
• If all this sounds unduly pessimistic, take heart. Why Am I Afraid to Divorce?
• Overall, are you hopeful or pessimistic about the future for religious freedom? Christianity Today
• 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.