To Johnnie, weary to the point where aching muscles and blood charged with uneliminated waste spelled pessimism, that high board fence seemed to make of the pretty place a prison yard.

The acceptance of this change was facilitated by the historical pessimism of Islâm, which makes the mind prepared for every sort of decay, and by the true Moslim habit of resignation to painful experiences, not through fatalism, but through reverence for Allah's inscrutable will.

Where the possibility of this operation is despaired of, there may arise a pessimism, which finds no path of liberation from the painful vicissitudes of life other than the annihilation of individuality.

And nowadays he posed as the painter of an expiring society, professing the greatest pessimism, and basing a new religion on the annihilation of human passion, which annihilation would insure the final happiness of the world.

But all this literary pessimism did not trouble Mathieu.

She even went further in her opinions than they did, displaying the wildest pessimism, and such extreme views on literature and art that they themselves could not forbear laughing.

They seemed to typify vice for vice's sake, elegant vice and pessimism as a principle.

The melancholy pessimism of this essay led to some remonstrance from robuster readers of the London Magazine.

It is somewhat customary to speak of this age as an age of doubt and pessimism, following the new conception of man and of the universe which was formulated by science under the name of involution.

His resignation is at times almost Oriental in its fatalism, and occasionally it suggests Schopenhauer in its mixture of fate and pessimism.

He is, therefore, hardly a realist, but rather a man blinded by pessimism; and his novels, though generally powerful and sometimes fascinating, are not pleasant or wholesome reading.

The undue optimism of one man will be balanced by the undue pessimism of another; and, if there is no prevailing bias in either direction, the errors of judgment will not affect the results for the industry as a whole.

There are those who hold our case to be desperate, to whom the disillusionment of peace, after the high optimism engendered by the vast heroism and the exalted ideals instigated by the war, has brought nothing but a mood of deep pessimism.

We see nothing of the angry pessimism of his later writings.

il penseroso [It], melancholia, dismals^, blues, lachrymals^, mumps^, dumps, blue devils, doldrums; vapors, megrims, spleen, horrors, hypochondriasis [Med.], pessimism; la maladie sans maladie [Fr.]; despondency, slough of Despond; disconsolateness &c adj.; hope deferred, blank despondency; voiceless woe.

] Hopelessness N. hopelessness &c adj.; despair, desperation; despondency, depression &c (dejection) 837; pessimism, pessimist; Job's comforter; bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen.

But with prosperity and conquest came inaction; then fatalism, out of the weakening of endurance, created the pessimism of Islam's later years.

"Yes, if something don't happen," he declared, in tones of deep pessimism.

Johnson has something in common with the fashionable pessimism of modern times.

I said, masking my pessimism with a smile.

I am convinced also that pessimism was invented as a comfort to satisfy a want, sum up all human misery, and put it into a philosophic formula.

The manifestation of modern pessimism in John Norton has been described, and how its influence was checked by constitutional mysticity has also been shown.

The Reformation was the thin end of the wedge, it was the first denial of authority, and you see what it has led tomodern scepticism and modern pessimism.

Unreflecting optimism about Popular Government is sickening, but calculated pessimism is not much better.

" CHAPTER XVIII Casey was restless, and his restlessness manifested itself in a most unusual pessimism.