When asked by Sweet what she thinks about life, Buffy gives her pessimistic take on its meaning ("Something to Sing About").
Reading from a pair of cocktail napkins on which she had taken notes of their conversation, Clara Harris recalled that her husband had said she was "too big," meaning overweight, and too "pessimistic".
Yet it remained negative, at -9, from -17 in December, meaning that more businesses were pessimistic about their prospects than optimistic.
An optimistic Lakers fan could take that as meaning the team is back on track, a pessimistic one would note that this just proves that Howard doesn't fit with this team.
The first option may seem the less pessimistic, but it faces evident difficulties, one of which is that different interpreters read different meanings into the same historical texts.
Writers over the years have noted the many forms and meanings of laughter: life-affirming laughter, laughter through tears, the laughter of resignation, pessimistic laughter, the laughter of defiance, the laughter of contempt, escapist laughter, and more.
His entire oeuvre to date hangs on the pessimistic supposition that sex is the one thing we cling onto in a modern world devoid of any meaning.
Mr. Bernstein notes that for the first time in seven years, the ratio of upward earnings revisions to downward revisions has fallen to 0.5 — meaning that for every corporate earnings forecast that has grown more positive, two have become more pessimistic.
That looks unduly pessimistic.
St Augustine was pessimistic.
