"Most people are just annoyed, rolling their eyes with a pessimistic attitude, like how could this even happen?" said Chris Monfort, a food-delivery man from the Bywater neighborhood.
With his pessimistic posture and bleary blue eyes, Mr. Corrigan makes an ideal, if unintentional, advertisement for the demand for Project Liberty, a government-sponsored, and fiscally endangered, program that provides mental health services for firefighters affected by 9/11.
Pessimistic companies tend to slog away "solving problems," always with a grim eye on retrieving sunk costs.
Those who are older might say that I am undue and pessimistic, but if they could see the chaos and the sadness in the eyes of these people, they would change their mind.
If they failed, participants who had ruminated and acted pessimistic during the waiting period "were more motivated to spring into action, presumably with an eye on retaking the exam at the next available opportunity," the researchers write.
Ford, in Andrew Sarris's famous phrase, keeps his eye on the horizon line of history; Douglas, whose sensibility is at once more pessimistic and humanistic than Ford's, concentrates on the immediate problems facing the characters in the foreground.
My pessimistic half is of the abyss, and it is staring back at you with a redolent stink-eye".
Using pessimistic estimates of variation, heritability, and selection intensity, Nilsson and Pelger came to the conclusion that it would take 364,000 generations for a fish eye to evolve.
That looks unduly pessimistic.
St Augustine was pessimistic.
