Sentence examples for pessimistic by from inspiring English sources

Being relentlessly pessimistic by nature, I figured it probably wouldn't work out with Mac.

"I'm pessimistic by nature, so I'm always thinking that around the corner there's a disaster looming".

Each group was made pessimistic by the depth of the bias they had experienced.

"French people are very pessimistic by nature," Marc Weitzmann, a novelist who used to edit the cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles, told me.

As it happens, Mr Bildt, no doubt mindful of the EU's previous abject failings over Bosnia, was perhaps unduly pessimistic: by the end of the week the talk of large-scale outside intervention had subsided.

But France is morose, inward looking, pessimistic by nature, unsure of itself and so lacking in confidence that even a teasing, if unflattering, photograph of its president on the front page of the Guardian can cause a national trauma and accusations of "le French bashing".

Peters's poetry (Poems, 1964; Satellites, 1967; and in several anthologies) is less pessimistic, characterized by a hope that good will prevail and by a sense of discovery.

At home, American studios took note of the newly pessimistic mood by producing film noir -- largely a postwar genre made by European emigre directors.

The sheer severity of the recession has taken even the most pessimistic analysts by surprise.

The pound took a bashing on October 22nd, following a pessimistic speech by Mr King the evening before.

Conrad's satirical novel manages to be darkly humorous and simultaneously deeply pessimistic even by his standards.