Mr Laqueur is too gloomy about the prospects of Muslims playing a more constructive role.
Some critics of the government's poverty figures argue that the impression they give is too gloomy.
They may be too gloomy, forgetting the extent to which the government can still marshall and direct money in China.
The Labor Department boosted estimates for November (by 86, 000 to 247, 000) and December (41, 000 to 196, 000), a sign that earlier snapshots were too gloomy.
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Likewise, when the global information technology bust dragged Asia into recession in 2001, forecasters turned out to be much too gloomy about Asia's prospects.
Still, the Labor Department boosted estimates for November (by 86, 000 to 247, 000) and December (41, 000 to 196, 000), a sign that earlier snapshots were too gloomy.
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This is his pre-election diagnosis of the French too work-shy, too gloomy, too anti-American, among other things mixed with a personal pitch to be understood as a straight-talking guy who wants to put things right.
If companies grow faster in future than in the past, for reasons over and above the investment of retained earnings, then actual earnings will grow faster as well, and the earnings yield will prove to have been too gloomy an indicator.
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For more on this theme, seem my article Austrian Economic Forecasts Too Gloomy and my series on the impact of the deficit, Risk of Inflation Due to the Deficit, Potential of a Debt Crisis in America, and Taxes Going Up.
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In recent years, a hint of off-putting harshness has crept into Winslet's work (in "Revolutionary Road" and "Mildred Pierce, " she did too much gloomy suffering for our sins), but in "Titanic" she plays Rose as a spiky princess, trapped by privilege, who allows herself to melt like a girl and, in doing so, melts her own prison and finds herself as a woman.
So too, Bagehot submits, is its gloomy prophetic corollary the widespread notion that, having failed to make a mid-term breakthrough, the Lib Dems are destined to be brutally culled at the forthcoming election.
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