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pessimism

Main Entry:	pes·si·mism [pes-uh-miz-uhm] /ˈpɛsəˌmɪzəm/ Show Spelled
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We wonder whether the wisdom of our ancestors was all wrong upon another point-- the proclivity of old age toward pessimism.

And so, those folks who think student writing keeps getting worse need to check their pessimism for evidence.

There is nothing new in society being gripped by anxiety about the present and pessimism about the future.

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We wonder whether the wisdom of our ancestors was all wrong upon another point-- the proclivity of old age toward pessimism.

And so, those folks who think student writing keeps getting worse need to check their pessimism for evidence.

There is nothing new in society being gripped by anxiety about the present and pessimism about the future.

Intrusive memories and spiraling pessimism worm their way into every moment of consciousness.

Once again, his pessimism proved to be deadly accurate.

Pessimism as philosophy is skeptical of the idea of progress.

We all know that to get the economy on track you need government spending to overcome private pessimism.

Such rapid development makes pessimism seem almost perverse.

We forgot what was learned a generation ago and this article is substantiation of the initial pessimism.

The pessimism stems from a legendary episode in the history of petroleum geology.

We are settling into a dangerous national pessimism.

Their pessimism is supported by some recent findings.

The current pessimism brings together two strands of thinking.

Therefore it's easy to get trapped in a bad habit, a destructive cycle of bad health and pessimism.

For technology investors, the consolation may be that share prices are already reflecting much of the earnings pessimism.

Intense pessimism prevails in political and financial circles.

Relentless pessimism about the economy has driven down yields almost continuously ever since.

Having survived that, you can never really take pessimism seriously.

His advice is the essence of plain common sense tinged a little with pessimism.

Whether you look at housing or manufacturing it is hard to avoid some pessimism.

Humor will see you through times of adversity better than gloom and pessimism.

The year is ending in a mood of unrelenting pessimism.

The main reason for our pessimism stems from our view that construction and housing booms rarely peter out smoothly.

All this ought to be the point of maximum pessimism where contrarian investors start buying.

For weeks, the government had been feeding the public's pessimism.

Americans were not the only ones to register rising pessimism.

Investors are erratic, swayed by waves of excessive optimism followed by waves of excessive pessimism.

Contrition, pessimism and voluminous disclosure are the order of the day.

It would be naive to believe that emerging pessimism is unrelated to your then quite accurate description.

The intellectual arguments against climate pessimism are there.

But the prevailing mood has swung way too far towards pessimism.

The arithmetic argument for pessimism is equally compelling.

Pessimism inhibits economic activity, which can be hard to stop and can stretch the financial system past its breaking point.

As the calendar rolls forward, it's easy to be overcome by pessimism about the market and about academe in particular.

Yet the personal happiness is counterbalanced by feelings of pessimism about the state of the world.

Here the answer contains reasons for both optimism and pessimism.

Pessimism about future default can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Another strain of policy pessimism argues that interest-rate cuts will only fuel inflation, without helping the economy.

More than ever, mutual fund investors will have to sit tight and ride out the bouts of pessimism.

Drolet's pessimism about the potential for his industry is widely shared.

But there was almost absolute pessimism about the broken economy, as the chart above shows.

As for the online segment, recent history is cause for pessimism.

Against this backdrop, the big thinkers about today's media revolution tend to veer towards extremes of optimism or pessimism.

More broadly, the eco-car plan has met with pessimism among some leading industry players.

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