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Pierre felt the different outlooks of these various worlds and made haste to satisfy all their expectations.

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 Meanings and Examples of OUTLOOK
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outlook
 n.  prospect; view; belief about the future ; act of looking out
Classic Sentence:
1  This child, with his innocent outlook upon life, was the compass that showed them the point to which they had departed from what they knew, but did not want to know.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 22
2  "That will come," was the consoling reassurance given him by Golenishtchev, in whose view Vronsky had both talent, and what was most important, culture, giving him a wider outlook on art.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 13
3  Major's speech had given to the more intelligent animals on the farm a completely new outlook on life.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
4  For a long time there had been rumours--circulated, he had reason to think, by some malignant enemy--that there was something subversive and even revolutionary in the outlook of himself and his colleagues.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
5  At daybreak he left two intelligent men on the outlook, and returned to the Prefecture of Police, as much ashamed as a police spy who had been captured by a robber might have been.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
6  The back court was surrounded by tolerably high walls, and the outlook was only on several gardens.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—DAWN
7  And as a lion sees from some lofty outlook a bull stand far off on the plain revolving battle, and flies at him, even such to see is Turnus' coming.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
8  Pierre felt the different outlooks of these various worlds and made haste to satisfy all their expectations.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XII
9  At the basis of the works of all the modern historians from Gibbon to Buckle, despite their seeming disagreements and the apparent novelty of their outlooks, lie those two old, unavoidable assumptions.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER I
Example Sentence:
1  Even optimists admit the outlook to be poor.
2  With that cynical outlook, he doesn't trust anyone.
3  Most western societies are liberal in outlook.
4  The outlook for the economy is bleak.
5  I adopted a positive outlook on life.
6  Priestley's rational outlook in science carried over to religion.
7  The general global economic outlook now looks more positive than it was earlier in the year.
8  While their mood improved, consumers 'outlook has dimmed considerably from the mid-70s levels earlier in the year, when the economic recovery was faster.