Word: pessimistically
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...only other statement to which Max made violent objection was the one saying that he was a pessimist at heart. Apparently in Max's mind, a pessimist is as bad as an anarchist. "I'm no pessimist," he declared, "and I'd hate to have my friends and business associates think...
...concluded, "I don't like it when you say I am dissatisfied with life, and I don't like to have you say I am a pessimist. I want a retraction in tomorrow's paper...
...Though a pessimist at heart, Max declared that he endeavored to be kind and considerate to his fellow...
...English pessimist, after hearing that the Commission of Fine Arts for England was purely advisory and enjoyed no actual power, expressed his doubt as to the probability of Town Councillors asking advice from anybody with regard to their public projects. He thus described the making of a memorial statue: "First of all, they select a man with a beard, then they look up the worst local sculptor, and the sculptor goes to the man's tailor and gets a copy of the man's suit, and in time up the thing goes-beard and suit, true to life...
...Goose Hangs High. Regarding the younger generation there seem to be only two attitudes. You must be either a pessimist or a chauvinist. Playwright Lewis Beach is the latter...