But after the talks fell apart on Friday, Mr. Todd said he and his partners began to discuss a more pessimistic possibility.
Another, more pessimistic, possibility is that as the Chinese private sector grows, comes under scrutiny and adopts commonly accepted structures, its vitality will diminish.It is often said in China that a new economic era has recently begun, described as guo jin min tui: state advances, private retreats.
The Society is pessimistic about possibility of interplanetary travel within the next few years & will admit only that it has "an optimistic attitude regarding probability of (space flight) in this century".
Krugman had been getting more and more pessimistic about the possibilities for recovery.
"I've come out of this process more pessimistic about the possibilities than I thought I would".
It was not, and frustrated hopes have left many in a grumpy mood, as pessimistic about the possibilities of enlightened governance as any libertarian Texan.
Although deeply pessimistic about the possibilities of school reform, he nevertheless published many books on the subject, including "The Preparation of Teachers: An Unstudied Problem in Education" (1962), with Kenneth S. Davidson and Burton Blatt; "How Schools Might be Governed and Why" (1997); and "Educational Reform: A Self-Scrutinizing Memoir" (2002).
Others are more pessimistic, seeing robust possibilities for morally reasoning with one another only on the basis of deeply shared "identities" or moral commitments (e.g., Sandel 1998).
We produced four scenarios of future energy supply, E, that bracket pessimistic to optimistic possibilities.
By 1949, however, Althusser was totally pessimistic about this possibility and, in a letter to his mentor Jean Lacroix, he argued that the sole possibility for realizing Christian values is through communist action.
