Sentence examples for Pessimistic sense from inspiring English sources

Iraq, which had been his big selling point, was moving off the agenda, and there is always a deep pessimistic sense in centre-left circles of 'we're going to lose'.

Throughout the eighteen-thirties, the give-and-take between Carlyle's deeply pessimistic sense of the primal violence that lay beneath the surface of civilization and Mill's insistence that the cure for the primal illness was more civilization was one of the creative engines of English thought.

Hamlet to him as to his contemporaries was a modern character who was "obsessed with evil in the world long[ed] to escape from knowledge of it in themselves [and had a] pessimistic sense that suffering changes nothing and that the world must go on as it is".

Their unhelpful, pessimistic sixth sense tells them that this really is impossible, then comes the melt down, the shut down, the collapsing into a heap at the kitchen table, the tears, the anger.

An outcome function can be implemented in this setting if and only if it is optimal for the principal for some belief over agent types which is more pessimistic, in the sense of the likelihood ratio order, than the prior.

Mr. Kostunica, who describes himself as a generally pessimistic man, now senses "a feeling of victory in the air".

The outlook of the environmental movement of the 1960s and early '70s was generally pessimistic, reflecting a pervasive sense of "civilization malaise" and a conviction that Earth's long-term prospects were bleak.

At its best, "The Game" keeps efficiently moving forward while evoking the sense of pessimistic stalemate that often envelops good spy novels and films.

It's pessimistic and ironic, in the sense that you are always only half-committed to your way of life.

"I just don't see any reason to be pessimistic; it doesn't make sense," she continued.

Her death prompted pride in the two friends' parallel achievements, as political leaders who pulled gloomy, pessimistic countries back from a sense of inevitable decline, with a robust faith in individual endeavour and freedom that pulled both democracies firmly to the right.