Don't be pessimistic

I don t want to be gloomy.

Why are you so pessimistic these days?

These are ominous predictions, especially in light of troop movements.

Don't make it so ominous. It's not like you'll eat me alive.

By the way, I don t mean to be pessimistic by doing so.

Here is Steve Jobs introducing multi touch and making a rather foreboding joke.

However, the move triggered an outpouring of pessimistic response on the popular Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo.

But I'm also not pessimistic, because I know it doesn't take a lot to get them charged up.

Recent assessments have offered a downbeat picture of the world s second largest economy.

That sounded rather pessimistic when speaking of something that everyone had worked hard to make a reality.

But there's a more fundamental reason that it's not intrinsically upbeat, because a non zero sum game, all it tells you for sure is that the fortunes will be correlated for better or worse.

As for the election, bloggers reflections range from optimistic and pessimistic analysis of what is happening and what is expected to the effect of all this on the average Lebanese citizen.

If markets are confused or pessimistic about China s longer term agenda, but if the direction of structural change and reform is positive, there may be investment opportunities that were absent in the more exuberant recent past.

Ms. POLO FLOREZ (Colombia) agreed that the text should remain as it stood, except that she supported the suggestion to delete the word possible . The paragraph should be neither overly optimistic nor overly pessimistic.

In the light of the two United Nations publications on the world economic and social situation for the years 1993 and 1994, current economic trends in the world point to gloomy forecasts in the short and medium term, particularly for many third world countries.

Now, this sounds like an intrinsically upbeat worldview in a way, because when you think of non zero, you think win win, you know, that's good. Well, there are a few reasons that actually it's not intrinsically upbeat.

People in the Middle East and other emerging democracies have definitely changed from their recent experiences, and their expectations have been raised. But they need to understand the challenges they face in building a new society.