The most pessimistic observers believe everything is stacking up for a crash. |
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I'm feeling abnormally pessimistic about the absurd lack of substantive leadership we are receiving. |
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A pessimistic view would be that it is a question for weak students to do badly, average students to avoid, and for good students to prove. |
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At a time when race relations have never been so smooth, increasing numbers of people are pessimistic about racial issues. |
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We can only hope that the projection does not become more pessimistic with equal rapidity. |
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Naturally, one can be overly pessimistic in assessing worst-case scenarios. |
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But we must allow for the possibility that the more pessimistic forecasts are right. |
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And last but not least, I've become depressed, noncommittal, and grossly pessimistic. |
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His take on the respectability of SETI in the scientific community is unduly pessimistic. |
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Personally, I'm hugely pessimistic about this, but I'm loath to spoil the mood. |
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Their opposition is driven by a pessimistic sense that agbio is the latest example of how modern society has transgressed natural limits. |
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But they also tend to give a misleadingly pessimistic account of the information we receive and of conflict and its resolution. |
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However, others argue that even a short visit to Varna can refute pessimistic appraisals of the situation. |
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My advice to anyone who has kidney failure is not to be pessimistic and don't look on the black side. |
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He said he has grown increasingly pessimistic about halting black-on-black violence. |
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Experts said that the blind trust on slimness formed a bias against fat people, who may lose confidence and become depressed and pessimistic. |
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She was naggy, annoying and could be such a little brat when she was pessimistic. |
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I don't want to sound pessimistic, but the majority of people living in this age, including myself, could be described as spineless. |
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Such a pessimistic view of a place once described as a paradise is unacceptable. |
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Although few expect an outright crash, even property professionals who ritually talk up the market are pessimistic. |
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Deaths and injuries sustained by ordinary people increase panic, fear, and pessimistic sentiments tenfold. |
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It's good, though, to find someone who is even more pessimistic about human nature than I am. |
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As my taxi halted at a red light in the darkened, deserted city centre one night, I feared my own story was about to veer towards pessimistic. |
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It is hard to be anything other than pessimistic when confronted by so many closed minds in the educational establishment. |
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His films have become increasingly gloomy and pessimistic, even morbidly so. |
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Scriptures based on true revelations are never melancholy, pessimistic, or depressing. |
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Yet the prevalent mood at the end is not pessimistic or despairing but upbeat, in spite of the devastation. |
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Dixon also accused him of being unduly pessimistic about the prospects for renewable energy. |
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The pessimistic and even the dark side of society should also be explored, or at least part of it. |
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Contrary to what it might seem this is not a fatalistic or a pessimistic approach, but a realistic one. |
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A spokesman for the 13 workers involved in the dispute said they felt pessimistic about the prospect of a settlement. |
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This year, the most pessimistic forecasters expect another 180,000 jobs to go. |
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In his last years, perhaps under the strain of illness, Lenin's writings took on a dark, pessimistic tone. |
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Civil War combat had hardened him to a pessimistic expectation of repeated failure. |
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Pina is also pessimistic about the prospects for more accurate media coverage of Haiti. |
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Industry analysts are pessimistic about Ansett's prospects of raising the required capital. |
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As she wanders, her thoughts become more and more pessimistic and she begins to reflect on life and grows depressed. |
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Most are pessimistic that a sustainable deal will be reached and expect the dispute to escalate. |
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The commonplace pessimistic argument points out that since low interest rates have been good for the economy, higher interest rates will be bad. |
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The most conflicted and pessimistic families were least likely to move to a new conversational level. |
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Her approach to life is direct and she can also be pessimistic, critical and something of a fusser. |
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The humanism was still there, but it was now pessimistic and darkly existential. |
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Johnson's voice is darkly pessimistic, yet trapped in the formulas of the Cold War. |
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Keeping warm, romantic ideas close was better than letting the pessimistic, defeatist attitude be victorious within her. |
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The report emphasizes that the pessimistic prognoses of some critics that the initiatives would damage competitiveness have been dashed. |
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The trustees present three projections, based on pessimistic, middle-of-the-road and optimistic economic assumptions, respectively. |
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These events function as pessimistic and prophetic metaphors, not optimistic of the future. |
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He is not pessimistic due to the fact that there is no credible evidence for the reality of demonic possession. |
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He was a gradualist, and that was because he was historically pessimistic, but not despairing. |
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Both McLuhan's and Marcuse's dissection of modern technology is neither dystopian nor pessimistic. |
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The doomsayers were having a field day, spreading their pessimistic philosophy of gloom and doom to every forum they could ooze their way into. |
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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? |
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Thomas Edsall offers a bleakly pessimistic assessment of American politics in his new book, The Age of Austerity. |
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Many companies took the knife to their cost base early in the downturn and many have revisited their cost base as revenue projections became increasingly pessimistic. |
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I will be happy if events prove me too pessimistic, but the political atmosphere in Washington is rancid. |
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Hoffman plays Jon Savage, the sarcastic and pessimistic brother to his sister, Wendy. |
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But otherwise he was far more pessimistic about the rest of the Deep South. |
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Darkly pessimistic towards the end, he despaired of ever liberating art from the art world. |
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Some art critics have described Westermann's work as darkly pessimistic. |
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It satirizes and parodies the romanticised, pessimistic accounts of rural life by writers like Thomas Hardy and Mary Webb. |
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In the latter period, forecasts have been overwhelmingly too pessimistic. |
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Four Friends has a decidedly sad, pessimistic, and disturbing undercurrent that belies its characters' joie de vivre with a cautionary, almost remonstrative subtext. |
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But in his 1932 novel Brave New World, he created one of the truly memorable 20th-century dystopias, which is also one of the most frighteningly pessimistic. |
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If any minister had reason to be pessimistic, it was the imprisoned Paul. |
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Are you more pessimistic about the overall public education crisis given this current environment? |
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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. |
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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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For this reason, people often view him as pessimistic and downbeat. |
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Challenge the reality of your pessimistic or negative thought. |
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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. |
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These concerns are not essentially narcissistic and not necessarily anti-analytical in the sense that made Freud pessimistic about the curability of narcissists. |
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One can only hope that such a gloomy view is unduly pessimistic. |
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But at the time I was so pessimistic that the notion of staying and fighting just seemed like an empty gesture. |
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It would be too painful and pessimistic not to hope and believe in you. |
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The relationship between these optimistic and pessimistic strains can be seen, in diachronic terms, as a struggle for ideological dominance throughout the nineteenth century. |
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On the whole they were pessimistic, and tended to overestimate how high taxes were. |
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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. |
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However pessimistic their predictions, most scientists and scholars who warn of impending disaster are really acting from antidystopian motives. |
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This had a great effect on the arts and culture, which took a decidedly morbid and pessimistic direction. |
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Pratchett was a trustee for the Orangutan Foundation UK but was pessimistic about the animal's future. |
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His use of symbolic landscapes was typical of the Romantic era, while his sceptical and pessimistic perspective was typical of the Modern era. |
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Nestor Ramirez, a book promoter from Mexico City was equally pessimistic. |
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But there is considerable space between these poles of pessimistic realism for the modest optimism of a meliorative liberalism. |
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People who purport to be liberals have gotten me more pessimistic that we're in for another cycle of gotcha politics, this time from the left. |
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The prognosis offered is pessimistic, especially given the current leadership's tendency towards political illiberalism. |
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Yet sentiment is pessimistic, and this is exactly what contrarians love to see. |
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Should we be optimistic or pessimistic at this critical point? |
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Today's pessimistic activity from the options crowd seemed to belay those good tidings for the firm, however. |
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They were criticized for being pessimistic and for concentrating excessively on the darker aspects of life. |
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Driven back on his individuality, he accepted its burdens and its uncompromisingly pessimistic vision of reality. |
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Going forward, Czechs have become more wary and pessimistic of religion overall. |
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However, many, including Isaac Newton, were pessimistic that a clock of the required accuracy could ever be developed. |
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The choice of being half full represents an optimistic viewpoint while the choice of being half empty represents a pessimistic viewpoint. |
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While pessimistic in tone, Mumford argues that urban planning should emphasize an organic relationship between people and their living spaces. |
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During its four movements the Cello Symphony moves from a deeply pessimistic opening to a finale of radiant happiness rare for Britten by this point. |
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She's crude, jaded, pessimistic and, most importantly, outlandishly funny. |
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The prolific and destructive richness of tropical nature and the dreariness of human life within it accorded well with the pessimistic mood of his early works. |
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Bede painted a highly optimistic picture of the current situation in the Church, as opposed to the more pessimistic picture found in his private letters. |
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Frugal gardeners will wonder why they ever dithered about the cost, and curmudgeonly gardeners, who think tulips belong in Holland, will foreswear their pessimistic outlook. |
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Later, Williams was interested in the work of Pierre Bourdieu, though opining that the latter was too pessimistic in terms of the possibilities for social change. |
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An alternative to pessimistic locking is optimistic versioning. |
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The unimpressive evidence for validity and operational problems related to projectives led Reilly and Chao to a pessimistic conclusion regarding projectives. |
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