Crossword-Solution: PESSIMISTS
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| French "existentialist" types. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PESSIMISTS (5)
But even in Homer the reflective passages are cheerless,(73) and the moment the Greeks grew systematically pensive and thought of ultimates, they became unmitigated pessimists.(74) The jealousy of the gods, the nemesis that follows too much happiness, the all‐encompassing death, fate’s dark opacity, the ultimate and unintelligible cruelty, were the fixed background of their imagination.
And the conceited Germans merely had to repeat the words of these pessimists in order to strengthen their belief in their own superiority.
The ordinary detective goes to pot-houses to arrest thieves; we go to artistic tea-parties to detect pessimists.
This is an analysis of the psychology of all those who have the “evil eye” and are pessimists by virtue of their constitutions.
Was, then, woman the utterly unmoral creature as depicted by the German pessimists? he asked himself, as he tossed under his reading lamp, unable to sleep or read.
Quotes with PESSIMISTS (3)
The work of the philosophical policeman," replied the man in blue, "is at once bolder and more subtle than that of the ordinary detective. The ordinary detective goes to pot-houses to arrest thieves; we go to artistic tea-parties to detect pessimists. The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that a crime will be committed. We have to trace the origin of those dreadful thoughts that drive men …
Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery, equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons.
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).