| 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. |
| 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 shop was owned by a bald-headed pessimist who had once been a gold prospector in Canada. |
| It's something that I, as a card-carrying pessimist, have thought about plenty of times before. |
| He does not allow the voice of the pessimist spirit to prevail, as a poeticule of the morbid school would have done. |
