Sentence examples for pessimistic statement from inspiring English sources

Is it an optimistic or pessimistic statement?

To reject China's advances would thus be a disservice to future generations, as well as a deeply pessimistic statement about capitalism's confidence in itself.

"From a former board member of the E.C.B. this is a very pessimistic statement," said Jörg Krämer, chief economist at Commerzbank in Frankfurt.

But the crash of the gay novel is well preserved in publishing's institutional memory, and, for now, I suspect that some version of my friend's pessimistic statement remains, very quietly, the consensus.

However, given Fannie Mae's declining financial condition, and the fact that even a slightly pessimistic statement from Mr. Paulson about the company's finances would be likely to send its stock price into a tailspin, the company has few options but to concede to the government's demands.

This is not a pessimistic statement.

The government's increasingly pessimistic statements about the capital's prospects have touched off a new wave of panic buying.

Farmers from case farms could have looked for an external cause of the reintroduction of infection and therefore make more pessimistic statements regarding pig suppliers, dealers and transport companies or visitors than farmers from control farms.

10 Items include pessimistic statements ("There's no use in really trying to get something I want because I probably won't get it") and optimistic ones ("I look forward to the future with hope and enthusiasm").

This is because whereas Adorno, with his highly pessimistic philosophical statements about historical development, could talk about a negative progression of humanity from the "slingshot to the megaton bomb", Marcuse continued to maintain a more optimistic view of what could be achieved.

In recent weeks, Peter Olson, chief executive of Bertelsmann's Random House division, laid the groundwork for the cutbacks by issuing unusually pessimistic public statements about the lackluster state of the business, even appending them on occasion to apparently unrelated press releases about executive changes.