| Her small mouth was pushed down pessimistically at the ends, her brow furrowed with worry and lined with age. |
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| Mr Kirilov spoke pessimistically about the prospects not only of Bosnia and Herzegovina but of the region as a whole. |
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| However, there are two reasons why, in my view, it would be wrong to interpret this situation pessimistically. |
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| Refiled traffic is also pessimistically assumed to be settled at the lowest prevailing settlement rate. |
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| Manitobans started 2009 less pessimistically than they ended 2008, but consumer confidence dropped as the new year wore on. |
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| 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. |
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| Chart datum must be set with the low-stage years in mind and may appear pessimistically low during high-stage years. |
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| Ginzburg's novels of the 1970s and '80s pessimistically explore the dissolution of family ties in modern society. |
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| Rival campaigners amongst environmentalists, human rights activists and trade unionists marvel at the way Jubilee 2000 has trounced those who talked pessimistically about the apathy and fatalism of civil society. |
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| Although 18 to 24-year-olds in the province rarely look to the future pessimistically, the last month saw a near doubling of the confidence index for this group. |
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| More pessimistically, one might hold that there will always be people who act irrationally some of the time, and that in the context of an overloaded road system, episodes of gridlock will be inevitable. |
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| Experts state pessimistically that there is practically no stimulus to experiment for developers because of the spectacular housing shortage in the Swiss conurbations. |
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