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How to use pessimist in a sentence

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Might we not induce the pessimist to give up saying this by giving the optimist something more to say?
He does not allow the voice of the pessimist spirit to prevail, as a poeticule of the morbid school would have done.
In interviews, he is a perennial pessimist, never willing to talk his teams up regardless of the situation.
Can we fill in the lacuna which the pessimist finds in the optimist's account of the concept of moral responsibility?
Whether you are a cloudy pessimist or a sunny optimist, you can be effective or ineffective.
A pessimist, they say, is someone passionate who has been disappointed on too many occasions.
If one is a pessimist, the issue between determinists and libertarians is felt to be particularly important.
The pessimist may be supposed to ask why freedom in this sense justifies blame.
The pessimist recoils from this picture, and in his recoil there is, typically, an element of emotional shock.
My suspicions don't mean that I am a doom-monger or cynical pessimist, but utopian thinking hasn't led to very happy ends in the past.
It's something that I, as a card-carrying pessimist, have thought about plenty of times before.
The shop was owned by a bald-headed pessimist who had once been a gold prospector in Canada.
A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
I want to tell my colleague that, indeed, they always play the pessimist card.
Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, we still have much work to do, but I am no pessimist.
The composer, a pessimist, merely hoped the work would complete the schedule of eight performances.
They say that the pessimist is never disappointed, but on the other hand the meek shall inherit the earth.
But I believe that anyone participating in effecting change cannot be a pessimist.
The pessimist is one who cannot enjoy the joys of life and is very conscious that he has the passion of the unsatisfied and of the unsatisfiable.
No matter how Allen grows or experiments, fails or succeeds, he is forever the amusing worrier, the reasonable pessimist.
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Examples from Classical Literature
To more special subjects the pessimist then turns, such as crystallography, eugenics, child-psychology.
Wibird Penhallow's heaviest patron was the keeper of a variety store, and the first specimen of a pessimist I ever encountered.
He was not sanguine, and a French pessimist is the worst thing of the kind that is to be found.
Though very far from being a pessimist, he was not a man of foolish illusions.
Mr. Clemens, you are not a pessimist, you only think you are.
He was remembered as a man who expressed the opinions of a pessimist in the language of a lounger.
Nor could the pessimist shake his surety of the three hundred thousand of Alaskan gold he as going to shake out of the moss-roots.
Mark Twain was not a pessimist in his heart, but only by premeditation.
Shelley, who wrote vaudeville turns in the concrete cell, was a chronic pessimist.
But may I ask, at heart, are you an optimist or a pessimist?
A pessimist is one who never expects to find anything to suit him.
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