optimistic

How To Use optimistic In A Sentence

• But again, perhaps problematically, they are beautiful statues – inspiring, optimistic, and utopian; totems to the radiant future that was always promised, but never quite arrived.
• One might be optimistic and say that, given it's their job to judge a book by the words on the page rather than by the stushie surrounding it, one can expect them to be more concentrated in the category of detached shruggers; one can expect a higher standard of scrutiny, surely. Hype Hype Hoorah!
• Guardian International correspondent Jonathan Steele called Bush's and Blair's denial of the horrors attending the Iraq civil war "Panglossian" - referring to the ever optimistic Dr. Pangloss of Voltaire's novel Candide who, at every disaster, proclaims that ours is the best of all possible worlds. Surge to Purge: The 80% Solution in Iraq
• So in some ways, farming ends the year on a more optimistic note than it began it.
• Is deceiving a patient about her true medical condition, in the interest of promoting an optimistic attitude, likely to increase her chances of recovery?
• I personally think a more optimistic outcome is within our grasp as we understand more and more the way the brain works. Times, Sunday Times
• Improbably yet convincingly, the film ends on an optimistic note.
• Andrew took a more optimistic view.
• We are still optimistic about further growth during the year with a number of new product launches planned in the coming months.
• For all their differences and ambiguities, empires have shared in common a will to power that should make us skeptical of their most optimistic self-assessments.