Possible Clues:

• General disposition to expect the worst
• Disposition to see the glass as half-empty
• Lack of hope
• Negative outlook
• Lack of hope in the future
• Disposition to always see the glass as half-empty rather than half-full
• Gloomy view of life
• Not thinking much of the future?
• Ah, it's hopeless, for example - you'll never work it out!
• It 'never won any battle,' according to Eisenhower