Sentence examples for pessimistic reflections from inspiring English sources
** These stately pessimistic reflections, however, are overlaid with a personal development: in the wake of a professional colleague's sudden death in an auto accident, and under the strain of erotic frustration and alcohol, cigarette, and sedative abuse, the hero of "Whatever" suffers a breakdown; he abandons his job, consults a psychiatrist, and enters a hospital.
A spokesman for Family Care blamed its sky-high rates on overly pessimistic underwriters and said that, upon reflection (and after seeing what competitors planned to charge) it would cut its rates even more than 15percentt.
If Beauvoir's ruminations on "the curse" are pessimistic (and pessimism runs through "The Second Sex" like a poisonous river) her reflections on sexual initiation and marriage make them sound like torture.
That looks unduly pessimistic.
St Augustine was pessimistic.
Globally, I'm pessimistic.
But scientists are pessimistic.
Avivah Litan is pessimistic.
