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Example sentences for: pessimism

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avoidance, disdain, and pessimism as well as inadequate time, insufficient education, and lack of resources as barriers.
I wonder if it's that Swift, for all his pessimism, was deeply engaged in the events of his day.
But, because no one knows whether these new leases on life should be measured in weeks, months, years, or decades, balancing optimism and pessimism requires a delicate touch.
You mention her "optimism"; I would prefer the word "cheer," for I think Powell was deeply pessimistic in many ways--in the grand old Stoical manner--and that it was this pessimism that permitted her to throw herself into life and living with such abandon.
Stein and many others worried that after nearly a decade of disappointing performance, the U.S. economy might simply fail to respond to monetary and fiscal policies, that a self-reinforcing downward spiral of pessimism and financial collapse might already be out of control.