All 8 Uses of
optimistic
in
Arrowsmith
- He was a bright and happy Christian, a romping optimist who laughed away sin and doubt, a joyful Puritan who with annoying virility preached the doctrine of his tiny sect, the Sanctification Brotherhood, that to have a beautiful church was almost as damnable as the debaucheries of card-playing.†
Chpt 2
- After three years on a backwoods football team he still believed with unflinching optimism that he could sterilize young men by administering reproofs, with the nickering of a lady Sunday School teacher and the delicacy of a charging elephant.†
Chpt 2
- Martin's confused sorrows turned to optimism.†
Chpt 6 *
- But even this drop of wholesome optimism was lacking in his final doubts.†
Chpt 12
- Oh, he's awfully optimistic—he puts things over—he— Oh, Leora, am I going to be a sour, cranky, unpopular, rotten failure again?†
Chpt 19
- He was a correspondent of many of the nickel-plated Great Men whose pictures and sonorous aphorisms appeared in the magazines: the advertising men who wrote little books about Pep and Optimism, the editor of the magazine which told clerks how to become Goethes and Stonewall Jacksons by studying correspondence-courses and never touching the manhood-rotting beer, and the cornfield sage who was equally an authority on finance, peace, biology, editing, Peruvian ethnology, and making…†
Chpt 22
- Yet dis is a funny t'ing: really, in private, he is not cold nor heartless— so much less cold than the Professional Optimists.†
Chpt 26
- He was flustered by Sondelius's hilarity, his compliments, his bounding optimism, his inaccuracy, his boasting, his oppressive bigness.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(optimistic) expecting the best; or focusing on the good part of things