This " malaise speech " further damaged his reelection bid because it seemed to express a pessimistic outlook and blamed the American people for his own failed policies.

After delivering a characteristically pessimistic speech, Marvin was plugged into the bridge's opening circuits and the whole cyberstructure instantly folded itself up and collapsed from sheer misery, presumably after being directly exposed to Marvin's chronically depressed view of the Universe.

Steiner's pessimistic speech about the future is quoted in an English translation in the song " The Certainty of Chance " by The Divine Comedy from their 1998 album Fin de Siècle.

Very much the political man, Helion felt himself deeply affected by the increasingly pessimistic atmosphere of France and all Europe, whose foundations seemed to him more and more shaky.

" Anxiety is also linked and perpetuated by the person's own pessimistic outcome expectancy and how they cope with feedback negativity

Film noir, which was given its name by Nino Frank, is marked by lower production values, darker images, underlighting, location shooting, and general nihilism: this is because, we are told, during the war and post-war years filmmakers were generally more pessimistic ( as well as filmgoers ).

As he grew older, Webster's attitudes changed from those of an optimistic revolutionary in the 1780s to those of a pessimistic critic of man and society by the 1820s.

The review recommended the book for " readers who enjoy vigorous writing ", who " will be glad to be rubbed the wrong way by Spengler's harsh aphorisms " and his pessimistic predictions.

Such waiting would be fostered by a pessimistic outlook.

This form is often pessimistic, characterized by irony, sarcasm, moral indignation and personal invective, with less emphasis on humor.

The estimation of the IMF was proven to be somewhat too pessimistic, as Spain's GDP sank less than that of most advanced economies in 2009 and by the first quarter of 2010 had already emerged from the recession.

Although not as complex as other measures, and now essentially replaced by the Human Development Index, the PQLI is notable for Morris's attempt to show a " less fatalistic pessimistic picture " by focussing on three areas where global quality of life was generally improving at the time, and ignoring Gross National Product and other possible indicators that were not improving.

The view that long-lasting peace is not likely to be achieved is described by other theorists as a largely pessimistic view of international relations.

Fox and His Friends has been deemed homophobic by some and overly pessimistic by others.

As the movie opens, high school senior Ferris Bueller ( Matthew Broderick ) decides to skip school on a nice spring day by faking an illness to his parents ( Lyman Ward and Cindy Pickett ), then encourages his girlfriend, Sloane Peterson ( Mia Sara ) and his pessimistic best friend, Cameron Frye ( Alan Ruck ) to spend the day in Chicago as one of their last flings before they head off to different colleges.

Inspired by the rise of fascist regimes in Germany and Italy, and following Tacitus in both literary style and pessimistic insight, the work challenged prevailing attitudes concerning the last years of the Roman Republic.

Of the latter, Philip Purser wrote: " The commentary, spoken by Sir Michael Redgrave, took on an unremittingly pessimistic tone from the outset.

However as society changed and formerly taboo topics such as sex and drugs became more openly discussed, critics came to attack the book for other reasons ; mainly that it was too pessimistic, and that it was a journey in the footsteps of a psychotic and showed humanity through his warped and unstable viewpoint, a fact that Hesse did not dispute, although he did respond to critics by noting the novel ends on a theme of new hope.

Disaffected by his experience of the Third Reich, he had an extremely pessimistic world view.

POD allows a publisher to exploit a short " sales window " with minimized risk exposure by " guessing low "-using cheaper conventional printing to produce enough copies to satisfy a more pessimistic forecast of the title's sales, and then relying on POD to make up the difference.

Second is the inheritance optimistic ( boost a minimum amount ) or pessimistic ( boost by more than the minimum amount ):

However, Rawlinson was unimpressed by the calibre of Wilson ’ s staff and the young Archibald Wavell thought the atmosphere overly pessimistic.

; Divine ( or spiritual ) romance: may include, but is not limited to these following types: realistic, as well as plausible unrealistic, optimistic as well as pessimistic ( depending upon the particular beliefs held by each person within the relationship.

But Burmese Days is a far more pessimistic book than A Passage to India, because official failures are not redeemed by successful personal relations.

For example, the characters in Lerner and Loewe's musical My Fair Lady, which is based on George Bernard Shaw's 1914 play Pygmalion, are essentially unchanged from those in Shaw's stage work, because the musical version is quite faithful to the original ( except for the changed ending, which is pessimistic in the play ), even to the point of retaining most of Shaw's dialogue.

George Morrow was one of the few to be pessimistic, predicting that Commodore would " make mincemeat " of the " toylike " PCjr.

This wide field of authors includes an eclectic mix of philosophers, politicians, poets, agitators, and social critics, ranging from the fairly benign pessimistic poet-scholars of Weimar Germany ( such as Stefan George, Ernst Juenger, and Martin Heidegger ) to the terrifying vitriol of genocidal racists such as Heinrich Himmler and American white supremacist, William Pierce.

He returned to Washington on June 3 with a pessimistic assessment, stating he had an " uneasy feeling " about Chaney and his staff.

The emphasis on dukkha is not intended to be pessimistic, but rather to identify the nature of dukkha, in order that dukkha things may be overcome.

Throughout history, the pessimistic disposition has had effects on all major areas of thinking.

On the other hand, if clients plead based on their lawyers ' overly pessimistic advice, the cases do not go to trial and the clients are none the wiser.

Personality Plus opines that pessimistic temperaments ( e. g. melancholy and phlegmatic ) can be useful inasmuch as pessimists ' focus on the negative helps them spot problems that people with more optimistic temperaments ( e. g. choleric and sanguine ) miss.

Many of the extant letters she wrote him attest to her exasperation towards Arthur's pessimistic outlook on life, his haughtiness, and his assertive manners.

They proposed themes similar to those of the founding fathers, with a more pessimistic emphasis on the development of society ( Ferragina, 2010: 76 ).

In the introduction to The Assault on Truth, Masson challenged his critics to address his arguments: " My pessimistic conclusions may possibly be wrong.

In 1985, the new line-up of Smith, Tolhurst, Gallup, Thompson, and Williams released The Head on the Door, an album that managed to bind together the optimistic and pessimistic aspects of the band's music between which they had previously shifted.

Recently, however, he has become more pessimistic on this score.

The studio, wary of such a pessimistic conclusion, insisted on adding a prologue and epilogue to the movie that suggested a more optimistic outcome to the story which is thus told mainly in flashback.

Others were his ingenious Satire on False Perspective ( 1753 ); his satire on canvassing in his Election series ( 1755 – 1758 ; now in Sir John Soane's Museum ); his ridicule of the English passion for cockfighting in The Cockpit ( 1759 ); his attack on Methodism in Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism ( 1762 ); his political anti-war satire in The Times, plate I ( 1762 ); and his pessimistic view of all things in Tailpiece, or The Bathos ( 1764 ).

Wang was originally part of the pro-war group ; but, after the Japanese were successful in occupying large areas of coastal China, Wang became known for his pessimistic view on China's chances in the war against Japan.

However, he soon came to disavow Schopenhauer's pessimistic outlook on life and sought to provide a positive philosophy.

Badoglio was not in favour of the Italian-German Pact of Steel and was pessimistic about the chances of Italian success in any European war but he did not oppose the decision of Mussolini and the King to declare war on France and Great Britain.