Sentence examples for great pessimistic from inspiring English sources
Two of the great pessimistic proclamations of 20th-century literature — Adorno's "To write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric" and Beckett's "I can't go on, I'll go on" — have at least one thing in common.
As his friend Alfred Döblin — the author of "Berlin Alexanderplatz," the great pessimistic novel of the era — wrote of Sander's work in 1929, "The tensions of our time become clear when we compare the photograph of the working students with that of the professor and his so peaceful family, nestling contentedly and still unsuspecting".
The religion would try to counter the optimistic tenor of modern society and return us to the great pessimistic undercurrents found in traditional faiths.
Corbucci's "Navajo Joe" and "Great Silence," also pessimistic revenge tales, in this case ones that do not end happily for the hero.
Madison Grant, in "The Passing of the Great Race," a supremely pessimistic work of race theory first published in 1916, admitted defeat: "The term 'Caucasian race' has ceased to have any meaning, except where it is used, in the United States, to contrast white populations with Negroes or Indians or in the Old World with Mongols".
People in many parts of the world are more pessimistic and feeling greater economic stress.
But the recent drop has been greater than even the most pessimistic predictions.
Collins's greater disappointment, though, was the pessimistic tone attending the observation of the ten-year anniversary of President Clinton's announcement that the human gene code had been cracked.
In contrast, those who did not expect uncertainty exhibited more pessimistic attitudes and greater ambiguity aversion, perceiving uncertainty as a threat.
On the broader question of Internet culture, Helprin's pessimistic vision has a great deal to recommend it.
Abounding in descriptive passages of great virtuosity, his poignant and often pessimistic verses have become proverbial, thanks to their compact diction and fluent style.
