| No country, say the pessimists, has ever attained global supremacy without a war or two. |
| 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. |
| A long-term ally of stock-market pessimists has gone over to the bullish side. |
| This ideologically diverse group is made up of cultural pessimists, environmentalists, traditionalists, egalitarians, and technophobes. |
| There are economic pessimists who refuse to accept good news about our economy. |
