| A long-term ally of stock-market pessimists has gone over to the bullish side. |
| What you are going to do is polarise the debate, declare yourself an optimist and make the pessimists look like dills. |
| The foreign policy expert mentioned in the introduction is among the pessimists. |
| There are economic pessimists who refuse to accept good news about our economy. |
| Optimists may say that the glass is half-full, pessimists that the glass is half-empty. |
| Whatever the pessimists might say, there is plenty of oil to last for the foreseeable future. |
