How To Use Optimism In A Sentence

  • His optimism was misplaced and the conflict continued for four years. Times, Sunday Times
  • The thing about getting up so early is that one is full of optimism. Times, Sunday Times
  • About mid-career, in order to create a mask of professionalism, many journalists tend to pulp the optimism and joy they first felt at writing.
  • But taking the long view, there is cause for considerable optimism about the future of relations.
  • He also expressed optimism that an acceptable constitutional arrangement could be agreed which would obviate the need for Quebec to seek independence.
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  • Wall Street insiders attributed this bullishness to optimism about new technologies.
  • Faced with technophobia, hyped techno-optimism, and Futurist discourses of progress that make us blind to the clumsy reality of computers, how do we think about and live with technology?
  • But this year's spring optimism may have been boosted by an early conclusion to hostilities.
  • The present political climate gives little cause for optimism .
  • Compared with the survey we published three months ago, this one shows upticks of optimism in nearly every category.
  • The sport must hope that optimism is not misplaced. Times, Sunday Times
  • But Moorcroft insisted that there was still an air of optimism in British athletics.
  • Wonderful bubbles of optimism are coursing round my body again. Times, Sunday Times
  • Inspiration moves one from pessimism to optimism, from doubt to faith, from despair to hope, and from darkness to light! RVM 
  • Optimism and energy, especially in the face of adversity, are defining characteristics of our clan.
  • Don't pour cold water on their optimism.
  • There is renewed optimism about the potential of the Internet and digital technologies.
  • Out of their constitutional optimism, and because a class struggle is an abhorred and dangerous thing, the great American people are unanimous in asserting that there is no class struggle. THE CLASS STRUGGLE
  • The cue of answer: calm and silent, clearly, strong standpoint, positive pertinacity, kind heart and care about other people, strong adaption and sense of humor, optimism and fraternity.
  • John / Halcyon stuck a mental tag in the folds of my brain: optimism tax.
  • What would such a life of radical optimism and pessimism look like? Christianity Today
  • Positive thinking leads us to confidence and optimism, negative thinking blinds us to possibility and achievability. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • I like the optimism in thinking that one would lead naturally to the other but I'm very skeptical.
  • He's a natural salesman, whose secret weapon is the sheer confidence and optimism that he exudes rather than backslapping bonhomie.
  • My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 
  • After fifteen more attacks, that hope had dwindled to a vague, undefined optimism.
  • Let's bring on the can-do optimism. Times, Sunday Times
  • At first, like other returning veterans, Frankie faces the future with optimism.
  • Although optimism is running high, the current lull in violence is fragile.
  • Is there any cause for optimism in this bleak landscape? Times, Sunday Times
  • He responds with the optimism and fervour of the incurable romantic.
  • she is the personification of optimism
  • The selected candidate will be responsible for CREEPS Inc. corporate messaging and branding to advance sales of our cheap to manufacture, high profit margin line of big name consumable products such as ANXIETY, FEAR and TOTAL IGNORANCE as CREEPS continues its decades of success to crush and destroy the capacity of ailing competitors selling OPTIMISM built using expensive High Hopes processes based on inclusive collaborative methods that prop up the menace of human decency and shared values. Progressive Bloggers
  • Agile and on his toes most of the time Dr Syiem hardly looks like a person who has had a tryst with Cancer and for the time being it seems he has beaten it with his optimism resilience and buoyancy.
  • When you let go of the past, you will experience increased self-esteem and renewed optimism.
  • The most successful presidencies have kicked off with speed, clarity and optimisms, no matter the obstacles. Times, Sunday Times
  • They expressed cautious optimism about a solution to the crisis.
  • Typical of the infectious optimism was Michael Ainslie, president of Sotheby's auctioneers.
  • As she spoke she felt a bubble of optimism rising inside her.
  • The fear of decline has given way to renewed optimism. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unemployment figures this week will dampen optimism, though they will lag the upturn. Times, Sunday Times
  • What has happened is a failure to understand the difference between optimism and hope. Times, Sunday Times
  • With close friends in their lives,people develop courage and positive attitudes.Teenagers have the moral support to assert their individuality;the elderly approach their advanced years with optimism and an interest in life. 
  • In spite of the scale of the famine, the relief workers struggled on with dauntless optimism and commitment.
  • There was a note of optimism in his voice as he spoke about the company's future.
  • It's unimaginable what could happen if optimism were reinterpreted as artifice and the pitchmen ended up being punished.
  • Does this readiness to invest in so-called safety devices represent sheer barking madness or a rather admirable brand of cockeyed optimism?
  • Wells was captivated by the wave of optimism engendered by the great age of heroic invention at the turn of the century.
  • With close friends in their lives,people develop courage and positive attitudes.Teenagers have the moral support to assert their individuality;the elderly approach their advanced years with optimism and an interest in life. 
  • There appears to be a lot of increasing optimism about the future price of oil.
  • We identify both personal morality and social optimism and justice with the self-control needed for dieting.
  • Sitting alone on the stage with only his trademark flask of tea and his pipe for company, the old boy positively exudes optimism.
  • The experiment proposed by Fry and Walther intends to make use of the first BCH Inequality, dispensing with auxiliary assumptions, but the second BCH Inequality will also be reviewed here, because of its indispensability in case the optimism of Fry and Walther regarding the achievability of certain desirable experimental conditions turns out to be disappointed. Bell's Theorem
  • But the optimism rapidly evaporated with his abrupt about-face a few days later.
  • Nothing must be allowed to subvert the text; no optimism springing from political chauvinism or national frenzies.
  • Optimism turns to pessimism and a growing sense of helplessness, however, as funds are depleted and rejection letters arrive.
  • Two minutes into extra time, our weary legs found new energy and our optimism was confirmed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Moreover, we must grant that although our ability to affect the environment is entropically grand, it is not unbounded, thus our optimism to uniquely steer the course of the natural history is incongruous with physics. Progressive Bloggers
  • The term optimism as thus extended would also include "meliorism", a word first used in print by Sully to designate the theory of those who hold that things are, indeed, bad, but that they can be better, and that it is in our power to increase the happiness and welfare of mankind. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • In a rare show of optimism, Mottaki stressed that a settlement could be reached on the nuclear issue.
  • The Budget also helped to blow a gust of optimism through the wind power sector. Times, Sunday Times
  • They ended the discussion on a note of optimism.
  • That optimism is beginning to fuel a key post-recession driver of growth: inventory replenishment.
  • Such self-satisfaction and optimism have nowhere been more on display than in the financial media.
  • Charles could look to the future with a reasonable optimism that he would secure a modest triumph over his occasionally unhinged enemies.
  • Dad thought himself a pinnacle of strength and a pillar of optimism to guide everyone through the dark times.
  • Her optimism, that lifebuoy of hope that kept her floating above the reality of the marriage, seemed insubstantial in the face of the force that was her husband. A Small Death in the Great Glen
  • It also takes me back to an era of great optimism and confidence. The Sun
  • Today, a scant two years later, as chaos erupts in that great expanse of geography that once was the Soviet Union, our optimism is at home with a severe autumn cold. Canada's World Role
  • Experts suggest the optimism is not misplaced. Times, Sunday Times
  • I will bless thee, black-vested minister of optimism, stern pioneer of happiness!
  • Shareholders would be forced to bear the full risk of the positions they have taken and suffer the resulting losses. financial crises continue to occur for the same reasons as always - overoptimism, excessive debt and leverage ratios, and misguided incentives and perspectives - and our solutions must continue to address these basic problems. Thomas Hoenig For Fed Chairman
  • he was surprised by the prevalence of optimism about the future
  • There's swearing and sweaty closeups, offset with tender optimism by an exciting comic presence. Times, Sunday Times
  • From a position of optimism generated by a highly impressive presentation, potential winners had suddenly become abject losers, all the long hours of campaigning reduced to nothing.
  • My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 
  • He also expressed optimism that an acceptable constitutional arrangement could be agreed which would obviate the need for Quebec to seek independence.
  • Everybody at the club was breathless with excitement and brimming with optimism when we took to the field at Old Trafford on the opening day. Times, Sunday Times
  • The system of Optimism, to which I assent & which I therefore profess, is not without difficulties, great & many. but every other system appears to me to have more Letter 211
  • Seligman's learned optimism is grounded primarily in the cognitive model of psychology.
  • And considering that the Guthrie's new complex on the river will present more opportunities to do new work, we can, without undue optimism, expect to see an increase in distaff dramatists in the Guthrie's future.
  • This view is not derived from a sense of optimism, but from a realisation that viable alternatives need to be developed to reduce car usage and pollution.
  • With close friends in their lives,people develop courage and positive attitudes.Teenagers have the moral support to assert their individuality;the elderly approach their advanced years with optimism and an interest in life. 
  • After months of renovations the historic venue has unveiled its new façade, sparking optimism across the city. Times, Sunday Times
  • We had been warned about this by an occupational therapist at DVH, who worked at the Bethlem Royal some years earlier and had cautioned us against overoptimism about how much good the place would do Henry. Henry’s Demons
  • Suddenly there was that feeling again; that unwarrantable, totally irrational feeling of optimism.
  • Inspiration moves one from pessimism to optimism, from doubt to faith, from despair to hope, and from darkness to light! RVM 
  • Underpinning the optimism is a belief that the sovereign-debt concerns that rattled markets earlier in the year have become less threatening. Deal Making Increases in Europe
  • He swings from wild optimism to total despair.
  • I live in a world where I feel enormous optimism for the future.
  • I know they are carrying me with their sweet innocence, their natural optimism. Times, Sunday Times
  • They ended the discussion on a note of optimism.
  • You feel a rush of energy and optimism as the new moon enters your birth sign. The Sun
  • It restored my confidence and my optimism, and I felt embraced by these many wonderful enlightened spirits.
  • We skipped dessert which included pear tart, Italian summer pudding (there's optimism for you) and tirami su.
  • She smiled brightly, her own buoyant optimism coming to the surface again.
  • The pulling down of the Berlin Wall infused the world with optimism.
  • In his optimism, Sale has even talked about exporting ethanol, at the same time touting Manitoba as a cheap place to grow the grain used to distil ethanol.
  • Tom gently probed the wound, his expression lacking optimism. Rot & Ruin
  • Optimism about curability was misplaced despite the emerging science of psychiatry, and hospital crowding led to a lapse to custodianship again.
  • Immigration, at least from the Arab-American point of view, was just more innocent andI don't want to say naïvebut it had a kind of hopefulness and optimism that wasn't as charged by issues of race and politics as it is now. Diana Abu-Jaber discusses her true identity with Origin
  • (and with what Lurie here even more generously calls "overoptimism"), this is troubling. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • He hustles from television hit to fundraiser to pep rally, with gusto and endless optimism. Though often overshadowed, DNC Chairman Tim Kaine remains a tireless, loyal messenger
  • After 17 years of European style instrument making, he finally came up with a product, which is a hybrid mixture of discipline, practicality and Australian cockeyed optimism.
  • This is what makes men stoical with a fatalism that is so complete it allows for neither optimism nor pessimism. Times, Sunday Times
  • Any optimism is, however, tempered by the fact that - should the Shiva hypothesis be true - the next swarm of Oort Cloud comets could even now be speeding towards the inner solar system.
  • Bellow has a strong sense of morality, so his works demonstrate a strong moral sense, ethical optimism and rejection of the denigration of human life.
  • Such an assessment strikes me as the kind of optimism that only the extremely eccentric would back up with betting money. Times, Sunday Times
  • These divergent trends have produced a record gap between personal optimism and public pessimism. Times, Sunday Times
  • But his mood, that current of fretful optimism alternating with a cavernous disenchantment, is more or less unchanged: “I don’t know if this makes me a bad person or whatever, but it’s hard for me to get interested in other people’s vacations.” Revenge of the Wimps
  • Publicly, Saudi oil executives express optimism about the future of their industry.
  • Subsequent wars and revolutions have made Kant's optimism unfashionable.
  • A jazz equivalent of a National Theatre company or ENO has never been seriously broached in England, though a National Jazz Centre was almost built in Covent Garden in the early 80s, before overoptimism, underfunding and Thatcherism sank it. London jazz festival: the grand nationals
  • You will have the energy and optimism that make people want to know you better. The Sun
  • Part I began with a swinging overture and maintained sprightly tempi and bright colors throughout, befitting the optimism of its subject: the annunciation of the birth of Christ. Tracing the Gospel With Renewed Vigor and Drama
  • At its worst, this habit of optimism allows us to bury our heads in the sand, deny the ubiquity of pain in ourselves and others, and to immure ourselves in a state of deliberate heartlessness to ensure our emotional survival. Buddha
  • But, in nonhuman models where extensive experimental tools are available, there is cause for optimism that the contribution of regulatory sequences to evolution will be increasingly well understood in the near term. 2005 July - Telic Thoughts
  • You may not agree with their philosophy for creating a better future for America, but the optimism is the same. Michael Maslansky: Hope and Change 2.0: It's the Tea Party's Turn
  • There was good reason for optimism. Times, Sunday Times
  • In recent weeks there has been an upsurge in optimism about our economic prospects.
  • I have always kept my optimism and my positive approach to life.
  • But beneath the breezy optimism there is a much greyer note. 'I don't want to live on the dole and sell weed'
  • I spoke with mothers fretful and tearful about their bleak prospects but struggling to maintain a facade of optimism and cheerfulness in the presence of their children.
  • But, as is so often the case here, something has emerged from the grey area that might provide cause for guarded optimism. Times, Sunday Times
  • We now know that the duty of the lexicographer is to record and not to criticize, that refined speech and elegant speech are the delusions of a mistaken optimism, and that the only people who now speak English with any approach to historical correctness are the few surviving agricultural laborers who are old enough to have escaped the devastating effects of the Elementary Education Act. Johnson's Dictionary went far to accomplish, in the eighteenth century, what the Italian and French Academies had unsuccessfully attempted in the seventeenth. On Dictionaries
  • The burst of optimism came as a more bullish mood took firm hold. Times, Sunday Times
  • This common genetic thread linking all tumours gives us grounds for considerable optimism. Times, Sunday Times
  • The day veered between optimism and pessimism. Times, Sunday Times
  • The title track, full of optimism and with knowing references to the band's past, is a marvellous way to start the new album.
  • In the poem, Tate is speaking his usual blind optimism.
  • Some fans have warmed to giving him a chance but it is guarded optimism. Times, Sunday Times
  • At the outset of her career she was full of optimism but not now.
  • Na Na is a Russky version of 'N Sync, and now the Russian culture minister wants to enroll them in the space program, since "[t] heir healthy optimism, stability and sense of tradition could be a symbol for young Russians". Boing Boing: June 17, 2001 - June 23, 2001 Archives
  • I have genuine optimism for the future of Scotland as a must-visit destination.
  • The air of despair that pervaded the Greenyards last season has been supplanted by a buoyant optimism borne out of two successive wins by Melrose in the opening rounds of the BT Premiership.
  • Wonderful bubbles of optimism are coursing round my body again. Times, Sunday Times
  • More widely in Italy, he became known for fronting a series of commercials for an electronics chain in which he extolled the virtue of optimism. Times, Sunday Times
  • And it bred optimism among people who knew ruthless competition and gruelingly hard work.
  • Deci, această secţiune este prezentat aici ca un substituent, un monument mici pentru a optimismul meu. Ideonexus.com »2003» October
  • It ended with good intentions all round and guarded optimism and the usual call for more investment in research; more planning for an increasingly aged population. Times, Sunday Times
  • Is there any cause for optimism in this bleak landscape? Times, Sunday Times
  • Various barriers confronted borrowers from accessing available credit, weakening confidence and optimism among individuals and corporations; except for exceptional gilt-edged enterprises. Patrick Yam: Epiphinal Economic Times
  • In my usual burst of optimism, and at the risk of being termed pollyannaish (optimistic), I will bet against the nay-sayers, says From getting a birth certificate to opening a business venture, India's record in clearing red tape continues to be poor, hurting the country's progress. Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
  • His optimism contrasted sharply with the low morale of his supporters.
  • There's swearing and sweaty closeups, offset with tender optimism by an exciting comic presence. Times, Sunday Times
  • Naomi is meeting the changes in her life with characteristic optimism.
  • Washington should use the new wave of optimism for science to drive policy-making rather than to boost political agendas.
  • However, elements on both sides oppose further compromise, and on Monday there was little optimism about a breakthrough.
  • They bring about an element of optimism and cheer in one's life.
  • America's working neophytes' unrestrained optimism stems from having come of age in a flush economy and a tight labor market, with lots of highly visible examples of meteoric corporate career arcs.
  • Course I say that in the full knowledge that there hasn't been an outbreak of the lurgy in the England camp for a couple of months so my optimism could prove to be as ridiculous as ever.
  • This year there was tentative agreement that the mood was cautious optimism. Times, Sunday Times
  • To be able to look at childhood fantasies with indulgence and optimism is a lot about recognising the child in all of us.
  • In his optimism, Sale has even talked about exporting ethanol, at the same time touting Manitoba as a cheap place to grow the grain used to distil ethanol.
  • Pre-season training is really terrible, sheer hell basically, but you always come back with fresh optimism and we have got to look forward now.
  • Such optimism might sound misplaced after studying the following statistic. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then, going to the bag, her compressed lips twitching, her gray eyes piercing into its clasp with a kind of distrustful optimism, she lifted the pincers and tweaked it hard. Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
  • In fact, optimism is the single most important factor in predicting who bounces back. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Indian Prime Minister has expressed optimism about India's future relations with the USA.
  • Their goals, Arrom argues, exemplified the Bourbon modernizing project in their optimism that mendicity could be eradicated, and in their utilitarian, disciplinary, and civilizing intent.
  • And the army's own overoptimism, that professional deformation of soldiers, also played a part in the very mixed military record since the first Iraq war. Army cuts: Not 'All Sir Garnet' | Editorial
  • With close friends in their lives,people develop courage and positive attitudes.Teenagers have the moral support to assert their individuality;the elderly approach their advanced years with optimism and an interest in life. 
  • He also saved his detailed, melancholic diary - which did not turn up for more than a century, and which provides such a valuable anchor to Frémont's buoyant optimism.
  • Everybody at the club was breathless with excitement and brimming with optimism when we took to the field at Old Trafford on the opening day. Times, Sunday Times
  • It brings home the reality of hunger, depersonalization, belonging, and optimism experienced by refugees.
  • And part of that story is the optimism that the human brain is not even remotely close to its limits on capacity.
  • He is a man of apparently boundless optimism.
  • Her optimism neutralizes his gloom
  • The first movie was laced with youthful optimism and the first flush of romance and the possibilities that had seemed endless.
  • I know my rose-coloured glass optimism keeps me somewhat naïve, but I honestly do believe that people are good, trustworthy and honourable, and I see expressions of gratitude all the time, everywhere I look, more often than not. Beverley Golden: A Little Gratitude for Servers, Please and Thank You
  • Going off the rails with optimism is no sin and this is a fabulously informative, feel-good book. Times, Sunday Times
  • She rattles off a dozen questions usually put to contestants and comes up with answers, which have the keywords - confidence, optimism, and determination - sprinkled all over.
  • In spite of the loss, Waterloo must look to next season with optimism, especially given the talented young players who were rookies this season.
  • With close friends in their lives,people develop courage and positive attitudes.Teenagers have the moral support to assert their individuality;the elderly approach their advanced years with optimism and an interest in life. 
  • They professed optimism about the outcome.
  • But Sunnydale was a surprising place, so it was with a cautious optimism that he opened the library on his normal noncrisis schedule, and looked around. Deep Water
  • The novella begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his tutor, Pangloss. Archive 2009-03-01
  • Optimism turns to pessimism and a growing sense of helplessness as funds are depleted and rejection letters arrive.
  • Like a bucket of cold water the harsh realities of life drown your sunny optimism leaving you feeling despondent.
  • At the moment there's neither optimism nor pessimism. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was an optimism in the air that you could almost reach out and touch. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ewing and Davis fluctuate between nervous jitters and cautious optimism, with the first day of the inaugural event only a few days away.
  • The thing about getting up so early is that one is full of optimism. Times, Sunday Times
  • Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Helen Keller 
  • He also expressed optimism that an acceptable constitutional arrangement could be agreed which would obviate the need for Quebec to seek independence.
  • There is thus an urgent need to find some nontrivial topics on which America and China can work together and so rediscover the win-win logic that prevailed during the Age of Optimism. Zero-Sum Future
  • For those of us who consider air travel to be a positive development, this suggests some optimism that the panics haven't won.
  • The renewed optimism was evident in official retail sales figures for last month. Times, Sunday Times
  • I took up my work with enthusiasm and optimism, and was cordially welcomed by the civil servants.
  • With the stoicism of a sodbuster and the optimism of youth, Tirrel isn't about to bail out. Anxious In Sioux Falls
  • Optimism is in short supply in the boardrooms of British business. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, elements on both sides oppose further compromise, and on Monday there was little optimism about a breakthrough.
  • I have drive and optimism and enthusiasm to keep going on.
  • Grey skies had seen the floodlights switched on before noon but nothing could darken the mood of optimism which swirled around the transformed Station View prior to kick off.
  • They share a characteristic I call "practical optimism" -- although they clearly perceive current reality, they unflinchingly confront it. Michele Hunt: 2012: A New Day
  • Reaction to the wreck showed an almost demented optimism about the venture.
  • Despite the crisis a cautious optimism prevailed.
  • It is, however, fair to state that the term “meliorism,” coined by William James, describes far more accurately than “optimism” the view of the process philosophers mentioned. TIME
  • We have to hope his optimism is justified. Times, Sunday Times
  • to catch waves of optimism, there's hope you may die young at 80.

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