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- noun Plural form of
pessimism .
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Examples
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It is worth explaining why I chose Africa and climate change as the two great pessimisms of today.
Africa Needs Growth, Not Pity and Big Plans MATT RIDLEY 2010
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We are not hurt directly by the facts which happened in Greece or other European countries, but we are impacted by the pessimisms of the consequence of news that's published every morning and evening.
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We are not hurt directly by the facts which happened in Greece or other European countries, but we are impacted by the pessimisms of the consequence of news that's published every morning and evening.
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We are not hurt directly by the facts which happened in Greece or other European countries, but we are impacted by the pessimisms of the consequence of news that's published every morning and evening.
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I've always preferred a certain amount of pessimism as the main modality for experiencing life, but it has become rather bleak by consequence of bleakness being pessimisms very nature.
indiankurtis Diary Entry indiankurtis 2008
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Z and the rug merchants exchanged pessimisms, Z grousing about Sharon and the Arabs complaining about Arafat.
Zion's Vital Signs P. J. O'Rourke 2001
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Z and the rug merchants exchanged pessimisms, Z grousing about Sharon and the Arabs complaining about Arafat.
Zion's Vital Signs P. J. O'Rourke 2001
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There are, to be sure, the mystical optimisms and pessimisms to be reckoned with, the sweeping assertions of certain schools and individuals that everything is equally good or equally bad.
Problems of Conduct Durant Drake
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Most of our mean estimates of human nature in modern literature, and our false realisms in art, and our stupid pessimisms in philosophy, are due to an unintelligent reading of surface facts.
Friendship Hugh Black
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These make their appearance daily in the morning press, thrusting their pessimisms across our breakfast tables, beleaguering our faith with ill-natured judgements and querulous warnings.
Out To Win The Story of America in France Coningsby Dawson 1921
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