| If one is a pessimist, the issue between determinists and libertarians is felt to be particularly important. |
| The pessimist recoils from this picture, and in his recoil there is, typically, an element of emotional shock. |
| It's something that I, as a card-carrying pessimist, have thought about plenty of times before. |
| 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. |
| He does not allow the voice of the pessimist spirit to prevail, as a poeticule of the morbid school would have done. |
| Might we not induce the pessimist to give up saying this by giving the optimist something more to say? |
