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.
Now Proust, whose novel admittedly incorporates a number of pessimistic statements, is about as much a Schopenhauerian as Richard Rorty, who talks an awful lot about solidarity, is a Communist.
But it's not hard to find pessimistic public statements about three of the four options.
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.
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.
Is it an optimistic or pessimistic statement?
This is not a pessimistic statement.
The 10 items in the second factor concerning therapeutic optimism about depression were comprised of reverse scored pessimistic and deterministic statements about depression and its treatment, 6 of which were derived from the original DAQ.
Kellyanne contends that Obama's dour, pessimistic economic statements also hurt him politically.
