Sentence examples for rather less optimistic from inspiring English sources

The result is an updated "Family of Man," just as earnest as the original but rather less optimistic and only slightly more relevant.

Someone with an optimistic frame of mind starts a results day playlist with Kelly Watch the Stars by Air, followed by the rather less optimistic contribution, Totally Fucked from Spring Awakening.

The challenge of determining which of the multitude of such traditions could be deemed to be authentic already exercised premodern Islamic scholars and led to a sophisticated philological weighing of the material, even though modern Western scholarship takes a rather less optimistic view of the feasibility of establishing the Prophetic origin of specific ḥadīth reports.

In a recent and rather less optimistic article in the New Yorker on the Amazon phenomenon, George Packer acknowledges the impact on the publishing industry of digital text: the decline in physical sales; and the removal of what might be termed the "gatekeepers", the editors and critics who sifted the great ocean of literary content for works of value.

Interestingly, optimism levels were similar in the 2 diseases studied and this may suggest that people suffering from either AxSpA or low back pain are rather less optimistic than a healthy population.

The rather less optimistic-sounding Touchwood centre will open in Solihull before the end of the year, the WestQuay centre has just opened in Southampton, and Birmingham's new centre will open in the Bull Ring in 2002.

Some thought the space should have been given over to coverage of something rather less fundamentally optimistic - the recession.

German songwriter Frank Dostal was less optimistic, saying that he'd rather not be part of Kroes's dream.

Butler seemed less optimistic.

Locals are less optimistic.

Others are less optimistic.