Sentence Examples

  • In turn, his complaining could just mean that his personality type is that of a pessimist.
  • Carlyle was throughout a pessimist or a prophet denouncing a backsliding world.
  • There is a touch of Byron, Swinburne and even of Schopenhauer in many of his rubais, which clearly proves that the modern pessimist is by no means a novel creature in the realm of philo- sophic thought and poetical imagination.
  • Till Amos (with the solitary exception of Micaiah ben Imlah, in i Kings xxii.) prophecy was optimist - even Elijah, if he denounced the destruction of a dynasty and the annihilation of all who had bowed the knee to Baal, never doubted of the future of the nation when only the faithful remained; but the new prophecy is pessimist - it knows that Israel is rotten to the core, and that the whole fabric of society must be dissolved before reconstruction is possible.
  • He is a pessimist as regards women; "From a woman was the beginning of sin; and because of her we all die" (xxv.
 
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