pessimism 的定义
- the tendency to see, anticipate, or emphasize only bad or undesirable outcomes, results, conditions, problems, etc.: His pessimism about the future of our country depresses me.
- the doctrine that the existing world is the worst of all possible worlds, or that all things naturally tend to evil.
- the belief that the evil and pain in the world are not compensated for by goodness and happiness.
pessimism 近义词
belief in bad outcome
更多pessimism例句
- This pessimism persisted, thanks in part to the continual warnings by experts and many in government that terrorist networks were growing, along with the chances of another attack.
- Worldwide economic pessimism brought on by concerns over the delta variant is sending large amounts of capital to the sidelines.
- I honestly don’t know what to believe, but the tension builds in my mind every day as I try to survive pessimism.
- As I answered his questions, at times tinged with irony, anguish enveloped my head in a balloon of pessimism and nerves.
- Economic historian Robert Gordon calls himself “the prophet of pessimism.”
- In reality,” Francis said, “theatrical severity and sterile pessimism are often symptoms of fear and insecurity.
- My pessimism leads me to fight harder, or try to understand how I can do it differently.
- Indeed, in some surveys pessimism about the next generation stands at an all-time high.
- This pessimism—for all the discussion on campuses about “white privilege”—is even more deeply seated among young whites.
- This pessimism is particularly intense among white working class voters, and large sections of the middle class.
- Which simple sentence contains more wisdom than all the pessimism of the King of kings.
- The disease of pessimism springs never from real troubles, which it braces men to bear, which it delights men to bear well.
- If a fervent desire to help Man, instead of wasting time in prayer to "God," is pessimism, I am a pessimist.
- Is the use of a danger signal at a hazardous crossing, for the purpose of preventing disaster, pessimism?
- Though his pessimism be in great part born of his climate, it has had a very real effect upon his statecraft.