There is some indication that many members of Congress are beginning to join the pessimist camp.
There are ample other causes for alarmism for the dedicated pessimist as the century's end nears.
But only a foolhardy pessimist would deny the wonderful opportunities that lie ahead.
A. Well, as I've had a lot of people tell me, I'm a pessimist, but also I--I wasn't prepared.
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If you're a pessimist and chances are you are you should read "Future Perfect" by the technophilic science writer Steven Johnson.
What is this animal that is so ruffling the governing elite: professional pessimist, or lucid analyst of the French mood?
Chaka said in our situation, it's a luxury to be a pessimist.
Depending on whether you are an optimist or a pessimist, the grant is a significant boost or a drop in the ocean.
Twin boys, one a pessimist and one an optimist, were sent to a psychiatrist because their parents were disturbed by their personality extremes.
The pessimist in me worries that it will detract from the story and the sense of urgency that made the last game so great.
The prime minister said this morning he was an optimist not a pessimist when it came to getting meaty reforms from his EU partners.
About 25.5% said that they expected their sales and profits to decline, decreasing 19.5 points from the large pessimist group of 45% for fiscal 2009.
If Freud were simply a pragmatic pessimist there is no way I would suggest giving him (actually, his ideas) a seat at your holiday table.
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That said, this is an important book as well as a provocative one: the best statement to date of the pessimist's position on Islamic immigration in Europe.
Techniques like this tell us that the mind of the pessimist is drawn imperceptibly toward the negative while the upbeat and positive is a magnet for the optimist.
John Cusack brings an affecting, lightly parodistic ardor to the role of a romantic, prematurely world-weary student the kind of character who could have thought up this cockeyed pessimist of a movie.
Cue mordant laughter from three different kinds of pessimist.
In response, a pessimist might note that Texas is appealing a ruling in another capital case that the defendant received inadequate counsel -- when, indisputably, his lawyer slept through much of the trial.
But if you are a low-skilled immigration pessimist, especially if you are conservative, then this seems like a far preferable system to points systems or other command and control government handouts that are usually proposed.
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