hopefulness

[ UK /hˈə‍ʊpfə‍lnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈhoʊpfəɫnɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. full of hope
  2. the feeling you have when you have hope
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How To Use hopefulness In A Sentence

  • Youthful, idealistic romance has grown into love, hopefulness into doubt, and anger into distance.
  • So Paul, with the hopefulness which is the prerogative of youth, recovered by degrees from the depression of spirit that the memory of the tragedy of Tewkesbury cast over him, and learned by degrees to take In the Wars of the Roses A Story for the Young
  • His hopefulness is connected to his understanding of the uniqueness and fragility of Grand Isle.
  • What divides them is his agnosticism and cynicism versus their faith and hopefulness.
  • He greeted Mr. Fear hospitably, having been so lately an offcast of the streets himself that his adoption had taught him to lose only his old tremors, not his hopefulness. The Conquest of Canaan
  • As such it is effective in changing symptoms of depression and despondency to those of cheerfulness and hopefulness.
  • At 73 June sings those lyrics with the same determined pluck as she did at 9, revealing an artist whose hopefulness proved as solid and indefatigable as her voice.
  • Of course there was nothing unusual in his hopefulness, which is common enough in cases of phthisis -- symptomatic, in fact; and, of course, I did not discourage him. Wandering Heath
  • He was rather better-looking in the face than she had supposed; and in this light she observed more clearly the rather odd expression he wore about the eyes, a quality of youthful hopefulness, a sort of confidingness: not the look of a brick-thrower, unless you happened to know the facts in the case. V. V.'s Eyes
  • Without Mugabe, a return to peace and prosperity in Zimbabwe will likely be slow, but leaders already exist who might take the country back to a kind of hopefulness that, in itself, will lead to a gradual confidence in investment of the sort that has lately benefited Mozambique, Angola, and Zambia. What Will It Take to Save Zimbabwe?: Alexandra Fuller
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