Sentences with phrase «of general pessimism»

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«People who are good at scaling and long - term planning in general have a really weird combination of optimism and pessimism,» Sutton said.

But the decline of marriage, rising drug addiction, suicide, and a general pessimism about the future indicate that there's a hollowness at the center of today's secular establishment.

«Whilst in this state of philosophic pessimism and general depression of spirits about my prospects, I went one evening into a dressing - room in the twilight to procure some article that was there; when suddenly there fell upon me without any warning, just as if it came out of the darkness, a horrible fear of my own existence.

Speaking to The Australian Financial Review from California's Napa Valley, Mr Steer expressed disappointment and pessimism about the future of Australian manufacturing in general.

It's just I don't get the more general sense of pessimism among the gooner fans recently.

Across 40 years he has spoken publicly of his atheism and general pessimism while drawing from these sentiments in even his goofiest comedies.

School resources Looking first at schools» current feelings about budgets and the availability of general resources, while some schools continue to indicate insufficient provision of all teaching resources, many are more optimistic about future funding after several years of pessimism.

This is doubly so because, as Machin also pointed out, the general climate of retirement pessimism is exasperated by the fact «private sector defined benefit pension plans have virtually disappeared from the Canadian retirement landscape.»