Eminescu, who worked for the Conservative Party tribune Timpul, confided in Arbore about his pessimistic vision of Romanian society.

When the Third Citizen offers his pessimistic vision of trouble ahead ("When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks"), the impact is all the greater.

But it's not showing a doomsday world; it's rather laughing off that kind of pessimistic vision as a thing that can't work.

The others disagreed with Modigliani's pessimistic vision of a grey and uniform post-war world.

Never one for happy endings, Tudor ends with a pessimistic vision of spiritual and physical destruction.

This pessimistic vision must not prevail.

Political debate as set by the Conservatives is framed wholly on deficit reduction, a pessimistic and bleak vision of what Britain can achieve.

The deeply pessimistic vision of Wagner is not exactly fashionable nowadays.

His interlocutor suggested that this was a pessimistic vision.

These orthodox theologians had outlawed the pessimistic visions of the Gnostics, Marcionites and Montanists and had settled for the middle road.