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pessimism noun blighted hope, cheerlessness, dashed hopes, defeatism, dejectedness, dejection, depression, despair, desperation, despondence, disconsolation, discouragement, disheartenment, dispiritedness, dolefulness, downcastness, downheartedness, faint hope, forlorn hope, gloom, gloominess, gloomy outtook, glumness, heaviness of heart, heaviness of spirit, hopelessness, joylessness, lack of enthusiasm, lack of expectation, low-spiritedness, low spirits, melancholia, melancholy, misery, sorrowfulness, uncheerfulness, wretchedness See also: damper How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Van Creveld's philosophical pessimism leads him to believe that a political end is constituted as the seizure of a province or the creation of an empire, and are based upon a cost-benefit analysis (p. Mauriac's shift from the Right to the Left in the late '30s is a paradigm of a larger transformation: the movement of the Catholic hierarchy and Catholics generally in democracies like France, Great Britain, and the United States, from political conservatism and philosophical pessimism to an alliance with the forces of internationalism and cosmopolitanism. |
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