Word: pessimistically
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...course no stereotype necessarily applies. Not every Jew is a pessimist, and only 75 percent of American Jews receive a college diploma according to the 2004 National Jewish Population Survey. Popular culture has found a representation of its changing self in trite Jewish stereotypes, and it has again pigeonholed Jews into those characteristics...
...still going in the right direction. So to me, we've changed the way we raise kids, and we probably made them a little more boring, but it is a remarkable generation of wholesomeness. If you don't like wholesomeness, then you're a pessimist, but if you sort of like it, then it's one reason to be fairly optimistic for the next 50 years...
...postseason bracket ended the team’s run. The Crimson also recorded eight wins in 2004, when the team scored an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament and lost to Connecticut in the first round, 2-1. “I’m always the biggest pessimist,” said co-captain goalie Katie Shields after Saturday’s victory. “Last year, we had a very tough schedule and a very tough preseason schedule. This year, we tied some games we probably should not have tied. I do think we?...
...second half of the book is a captivating record of 1956 to 1966, when the director's collaborations with Beckett and Albee brought all three to the pinnacle of esteem. Schneider, a born pessimist, details the missteps and agonies of doubt that led up to each landmark production and makes every victory seem as surprising in retrospect as it was to him at the time. Few books have so vividly portrayed the initial fragility of what now seem eternal works of dramatic writing. Schneider specifies some literate imbeciles who offhandedly dismissed the talents of Beckett, Harold Pinter and Eugene Ionesco...
...other psychologists are more skeptical. Some simply doubt that personality is that flexible or that individuals can or should change their habitual coping styles. "If you're a pessimist who really thinks through in detail what might go wrong, that's a strategy that's likely to work very well for you," says Julie Norem, a psychology professor at Wellesley College and the author of The Positive Power of Negative Thinking. "In fact, you may be messed up if you try to substitute a positive attitude." She is worried that the messages of positive psychology reinforce "a lot of American...