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  • You're certainly an incurable optimist, she says.   (source)
    optimist = someone who expects and sees the best in all things
  • Just when normal life felt almost possible—when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed.   (source)
    optimism = a tendency to expect and see the best in all things
  • My mom always said optimism was my best trait.   (source)
  • But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.   (source)
    optimism = expectation that things would go well
  • Or I could leave it as an optimist and hope for the best.   (source)
    optimist = someone who expects the best
  • But this optimism lasted only a moment, because as they descended into the valley, they saw that it wasn't as beautiful as it might have been-indeed, as it once was.   (source)
    optimism = expectation that things would go well
  • Nilda wasn't optimistic about his plan.   (source)
    optimistic = expecting good results
  • They instilled in their children and grandchildren that same love of country and a spirit of optimism.   (source)
    optimism = a tendency to expect and see the best in all things
  • "I," says Prat, "am an optimist."   (source)
    optimist = someone who expects the best; or who focuses on the good part of things
  • Is it any wonder, asks the radio, that courage, confidence, and optimism in growing measure fill the German people?†   (source)
    optimism = a tendency to expect and see the best in all things
  • After his graduate years in Texas, my father had returned to Iran full of American optimism.†   (source)
  • But things are not quite as optimistic as you think.†   (source)
  • Where he was a pessimist, I was an optimist, and there was no sense in scaring people with his theories.†   (source)
  • A land of optimism, precision, and political neutrality, it was the Switzerland of the hotel.†   (source)
  • And what turned me into an alien was my optimism.†   (source)
  • An optimist!†   (source)
  • Be brave and look to the future with optimism.†   (source)
  • I don't have the sparkling personality, amazing wit, sense of humor and energy that goes along with an optimistic attitude that people look for.†   (source)
  • Despite his skinny frame and baby face, his eyes were lifeless and hooded, without a hint of spark or optimism.†   (source)
  • Eddie wondered how the guy could be so optimistic.†   (source)
  • I was optimistic about what our evidence might accomplish in the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.†   (source)
  • This was disappointing, as some small, optimistic part of me had still hoped we might make it there.†   (source)
  • When Minho returned, safe and sound, Thomas thought he seemed very optimistic that it really was an exit.†   (source)
  • Teabing's optimism darkened.†   (source)
  • Maybe I was too optimistic, maybe I was just too far in love, but I really believed that anything Aspen and I wanted badly enough, we could make happen.†   (source)
  • For a girl with no family and no home, Tess is surprisingly optimistic.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, Williams remained optimistic.†   (source)
  • I'm feeling optimistic.†   (source)
  • Harry felt optimistic about Gryffindor's chances; they had, after all, never lost to Malfoy's team.†   (source)
  • That's pretty dang optimistic for you, Dad.†   (source)
  • I don't share her optimism.†   (source)
  • I could sign up for a class at the gun range, the optimistic part of me would think.†   (source)
  • Today I'm thinking I should be more optimistic.†   (source)
  • Reynie decided not to look at Constance; his optimism had been spoiled enough.†   (source)
  • I try to look optimistic.†   (source)
  • A few wind-whipped and decrepit Victorian mansions, remnants of a lost era of seagoing optimism, loomed out of the snowfall on the town's sporadic hills.†   (source)
  • He also was optimistic that I would be able to compensate well with one arm in the future.†   (source)
  • "THIS ISN'T GENERALLY AN OPTIMISTIC SIGN," said Owen Meany.†   (source)
  • Optimistically: we won't be here that long.†   (source)
  • But, conversely, an optimistic person was that way because he wanted to believe in something better than his reality.†   (source)
  • The playing fields were optimistically green and empty before us.†   (source)
  • That's optimistic.†   (source)
  • He could not have explained his optimism—he was happy and therefore bound to succeed.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, it seems, I am surrounded by optimists.†   (source)
  • But, talking with my mother, Len Fenerman had shown himself for what he was: an optimist.†   (source)
  • Thank you for the optimism.†   (source)
  • She was astonished by their optimism and their joy in living, despite everything they had been through.†   (source)
  • It was not the same as being the respected craftsman he had been before the war, but he did the best he could and continued to feel optimistic.†   (source)
  • But he was optimistic.†   (source)
  • We went back and forth a few times until I began to feel much more optimistic about the future and things in general.†   (source)
  • However, there's reason for optimism.†   (source)
  • Immigrants who come to the United States are by nature optimists.†   (source)
  • What Larry McCaslin saw in Rahel's eyes was not despair at all, but a sort of enforced optimism.†   (source)
  • After numerous chapters brimming with optimism and cheer, the book ends with the sobering reality of Nazi-dominated Europe.†   (source)
  • "I admire your optimism," Klaus said, smiling at Phil.†   (source)
  • "They sounded optimistic," she said.†   (source)
  • "Of course," said Murtagh with forced optimism, then slapped his thigh.†   (source)
  • I did not yet understand how foolish, how optimistic, how, yes, just like Nick I was for thinking this.†   (source)
  • "You seem more...optimistic than usual," I observed.†   (source)
  • Judging by how my life was going so far, I wasn't real optimistic.†   (source)
  • "Ever the optimist," I say.†   (source)
  • He had started The Little School in the same optimistic vein.†   (source)
  • For Gogol Ganguli," it says on the front endpaper in his father's tranquil hand, in red ballpoint ink, the letters rising gradually, optimistically, on the diagonal toward the upper right-hand corner of the page.†   (source)
  • Mary Todd Lincoln had noticed his recent optimism and now, during their afternoon carriage ride, she spoke to him about it.†   (source)
  • Maybe he'd gotten his optimism from his granddad Clive Marlowe.†   (source)
  • The blank videotape sitting on the bench beside us suddenly seemed like an incredible embarrassment, a sharp reminder of our blind, naive optimism.†   (source)
  • "The next point is cultural optimism," Sophie said.†   (source)
  • At the time, I already had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but I was optimistic.†   (source)
  • I left the consulate feeling vaguely optimistic, but the waitingover the next few weeks was unbearable.†   (source)
  • Along with personal messages were rumors about the world outside, each more wildly optimistic than the last.†   (source)
  • This five-hundred-mile swath of territory is filled with would-be arctic explorers in great wheeled houses, optimistically northbound, and more than a few rejects who have abandoned their bagos in the north country and hitched a ride back down south.†   (source)
  • Only incorrigible optimists had still cherished the delusion that Poland's determined stance would deter Hitler at the last moment.†   (source)
  • Drunk Rachel sees no consequences, she is either excessively expansive and optimistic or wrapped up in hate.†   (source)
  • But there was nonetheless a spirit of at least intermittent optimism that refused entirely to die in Marin, perhaps because Marin was less violent than most of the places its residents had fled, or because of the view, its position on the edge of a continent, overlooking the world's widest ocean, or because of the mix of its people, or its proximity to that realm of giddy technology that stretched down the bay like a bent thumb, ever poised to meet the curved finger of Marin in a slightly squashed gesture that all would be okay.†   (source)
  • Forever the optimists, even when we're outnumbered and outgunned, we still tend to think we have a chance to make it out alive—and be home in time for dinner.†   (source)
  • But when our eyes met, it was not a look of optimism that we exchanged.†   (source)
  • His words to us were packed with meaning, edged with menace, but nonetheless optimistic.†   (source)
  • Hollingsworth billed it as an overall guide to helping modern young housewives create a peaceful, optimistic, and sanitary household.†   (source)
  • I wanted to believe they promised a breakthrough, but such optimism seems delusional now Pete Snyder's schedule will allow only one lesson a month or so, and Lamp isn't going to keep a light on for Nathaniel indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Ryan noted to himself that he might have been overly optimistic about their chances for success.†   (source)
  • His voice is overflowing with optimism.†   (source)
  • She allowed herself the uncharacteristically optimistic thought that maybe she and her family were finally safe.†   (source)
  • The information didn't offer much optimism about such surgery.†   (source)
  • Father Nicanor did not agree: the growing generosity of the faithful permitted him to make more optimistic calculations.†   (source)
  • But in some ways, being who they naturally were, they made for a great pairing to raise us—optimistic and focused on God and His plan for our lives.†   (source)
  • You remember those days: everyone was so optimistic when the Berlin Wall came down.†   (source)
  • "Thank you, Chuckles," Liam cut in, "for that rousing burst of optimism."†   (source)
  • He has an optimistic certainty that she's a good person at her core.†   (source)
  • Dan appreciated that Abby was determined to find the silver lining in everything that morning; he needed a dose of her optimism in his life.†   (source)
  • Beck's cheer and limitless optimism were so winning that, in spite of myself, I grew to like him a lot.†   (source)
  • It's pretty optimistic thinking on my part.†   (source)
  • She did not lose her head over this or her optimistic frame of mind.†   (source)
  • Still, he was an eternal optimist, so he kept the great cage of the fifth level always in readiness.†   (source)
  • I see these car crashes as part of a long tradition of American optimism.†   (source)
  • My parents are trying to take the most optimistic view-that my sister will sleep as much as she wants to, and one day she'll wake up like nothing ever happened, and everything'll go back to normal.†   (source)
  • Outside, on the old stone steps, they burst into talk; Ron was pleased, cautiously optimistic, but the others were ebullient, hugging Caroline to thank her for her speech.†   (source)
  • "He likes pool," I offered optimistically.†   (source)
  • They were started by door-to-door salesmen, short-order cooks, orphans, and dropouts, by eternal optimists looking for a piece of the next big thing.†   (source)
  • I might even ...be an optimist ...if you weren't around.†   (source)
  • The optimists were jubilant: "Well?†   (source)
  • Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.†   (source)
  • By that time I was too tired to be optimistic.†   (source)
  • 'You had to admire Jamie's optimism.†   (source)
  • But Rath's attractiveness and winning personality are perilous bounties for a rural Cambodian girl, and her trusting nature and optimistic self-assuredness compound the hazard.†   (source)
  • Stevie Rae said with her usual perky optimism.†   (source)
  • I'm not too optimistic, though.†   (source)
  • I'm not optimistic.†   (source)
  • Nothing for half an hour, but my optimism didn't wane.†   (source)
  • Is there evidence for optimism?†   (source)
  • The jazzy Congolese and Brazilian rhythms were uplifting, full of optimism, but when I retired to my room, afloat in beer, my melancholia was always worse.†   (source)
  • And pretty optimistic.†   (source)
  • But hey, I've always been an optimist ......don't ask me why.†   (source)
  • He is not optimistic, nor even hopeful.†   (source)
  • When he stood up, his head cleared for a moment and he felt a wild optimism—maybe he was over being drunk.†   (source)
  • It isn't the most optimistic outlook I've ever heard.†   (source)
  • I'll make a profit—she says optimistically—from the book I intend to write:'†   (source)
  • Fox proposed optimistic and pessimistic scenarios.†   (source)
  • A few weeks later, sitting in the same classroom, he stares at a pile of application forms, trying to muster the optimism he'll need to fill out each one convincingly.†   (source)
  • Over dinner with Janice and Larry one night, Kelley could sense their reservations, despite the optimism they conveyed—exactly what she was experiencing.†   (source)
  • Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification: an optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody.†   (source)
  • Fellow prisoners, offended, sniffed that I must he feeling "some kind of way," as I was not my usual optimistic self.†   (source)
  • Let us attack this with optimism and hope.†   (source)
  • I thought your optimism was as deep as a well, and as wide as a church.†   (source)
  • The three of us were up early the next morning, and this alone gave me farther reason for long-range optimism.†   (source)
  • With the optimism of ignorance I thought that the morning was bound to bring a more pleasant solution.†   (source)
  • Some of them even fluttered over and perched on the canoe itself, huddling together and staring at him with a sort of desperate, terrified optimism.†   (source)
  • So, let's be optimists," mused Nix.†   (source)
  • As my optimism grew, I pictured myself with Father, checking him out of the hospital in a few days, spending time with him one on one, then maybe ...one day soon ...I could return again on military leave, and all of us could sit down to a dinner.†   (source)
  • He ticked off the reasons for optimism on his fingers.†   (source)
  • Even stalwart, optimistic Henry Knox suffered his own private anguish.†   (source)
  • The captain was piqued, but managed to carry on with a pretense of optimism.†   (source)
  • It was about dreams, vivid and optimistic dreams of a future as radiant as Buck Rogers's cosmos.†   (source)
  • Before long, his optimism permeates the entire lot.†   (source)
  • Oscar told Karla that he was having trouble staying optimistic.†   (source)
  • I forced optimism into my voice.†   (source)
  • So full of optimism.†   (source)
  • As always, Aunt tried to be optimistic in the midst of sorrow.†   (source)
  • The sisterly friendship that had begun to blossom between the optimistic little Quaker, Merry Wickford, and the grim and damaged Jane Martin, and how it seemed a healing thing for the spirits of both.†   (source)
  • Then my old confidence and optimism revived, and I tried to plan my time in the North.†   (source)
  • He is optimistic everything will be all right.†   (source)
  • But I have been optimistic the whole way through.†   (source)
  • They seem, by their expressions, to be in a better mood though, and John says optimistically, "I'm going to put on everything I own, and then we'll make it all right."†   (source)
  • Or optimistically?†   (source)
  • They were heading for a competition in the home of the best baseball in the world, yet they seemed eager and unafraid, displaying only the exuberance of youth and its unfettered optimism.†   (source)
  • Cassius and Glensather exchanged knowing winks of success, for everyone left the room feeling a bit more optimistic.†   (source)
  • A few days later, however, the survey came back and diminished some of their optimism.†   (source)
  • Suddenly optimistic.†   (source)
  • Optimistic about it.†   (source)
  • During pauses in the music, if one listened carefully, one could hear its steady optimistic sound.†   (source)
  • He was a good man—inexplicably good and oddly optimistic, considering the suffering with which fate saddled him.†   (source)
  • Daisy admired Polina's optimism.†   (source)
  • Javier is wearing his Pioneers uniform, bright and new as the revolution, as his optimistic face.†   (source)
  • He is very optimistic, much more than Early.†   (source)
  • I whispered to her, and I knew from her blank stare that somehow that bit of optimism, the assumption that she would one day be a majorette, had failed.†   (source)
  • Oz took this in stride, his optimism barely tarnished.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I was too optimistic; perhaps I expected too much.†   (source)
  • Experience teaches us not to be too optimistic.†   (source)
  • As it turned out, he was optimistic.†   (source)
  • She was beautiful, smart, funny, and optimistic, and at first, I had a lot of trouble believing she wanted to have anything to do with me.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Glass had made this last offer on her feet—in fact, halfway out of the living room, in the direction of the kitchen, looking rather grim with optimism.†   (source)
  • I thanked her for her very optimistic wishes for my health, and said I would let her know when I was ready.†   (source)
  • Even after the Brills moved in and their cluttery decorations choked the airy rooms, he remained serenely optimistic.†   (source)
  • The desks were an optimistic shade of pale pine, like something from an IKEA catalog.†   (source)
  • They knew her pressure points, and the ganglia of her optimism, and one by one, pinch by precision pinch, they were immobilizing her.†   (source)
  • I was very thoughtful for the balance of the day, and there were moments when I wondered if my hopes of gaining the confidence of the wolves might not be overly optimistic.†   (source)
  • Right along with the energetic practice of optimism, and deeper than this, was an abiding awareness of mortality itself—most of all the mortality of a parent.†   (source)
  • Maybe he is not a Nazi, she thinks optimistically—but then, surely a man so highly placed must be a member of the Party.†   (source)
  • Most of the scientists disagree, and think that Jorgensen is optimistic.†   (source)
  • People in our position move rapidly from depression to optimism and back down again.†   (source)
  • "First the marketing," I said smiling, for who would not at such optimism, "then the plans."†   (source)
  • It was an end that no prophet had ever foreseen-an end that repudiated optimism and pessimism alike.†   (source)
  • A few optimistic storekeepers had prudently boarded windows, split by blast on The Day or broken by looters afterwards, against water and wind.†   (source)
  • As I see it, the time has come to look forward to an agenda for the future, to unify, to bind up the Nation's wounds, and to restore its health and its optimistic self-confidence.†   (source)
  • The optimism of a revolutionary always gives rise to a sense of wonder.†   (source)
  • Optimism.†   (source)
  • Bernie was an optimist who needed proof that his philosophy of joy and the resurrection of the spirit was not the delusion of a grinning Pollyanna.†   (source)
  • In my dealings with criminals in the past one thing had become obvious, that all were incurable optimists, as well as egotists.†   (source)
  • You're optimistic.†   (source)
  • Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.   (source)
  • But as you remember, Phil was an optimist, so the actual work turned out to be much, much worse.†   (source)
    optimist = someone who expects the best; or who focuses on the good part of things
  • Violet and Sunny, of course, were worried that Dr. Orwell had some connection with Count Olaf, not that their brother would get a shot, but it was useless to try to explain such things to an optimist.†   (source)
  • Surely her cockiness, her optimism and energy, her pizzazz, will get her out of this.†   (source)
  • I try to say this with optimism, but my voice cracks.†   (source)
  • As Crake had once said, Jimmy was a romantic optimist.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, with our goal in sight, my usual optimism was returning.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 13 — THE PESSIMIST AND THE OPTIMIST.†   (source)
  • Despite Max's optimism, the rain he saw outside mirrored his growing foreboding.†   (source)
  • A tiny flame, one that had been rekindled-optimism.†   (source)
  • Whatever optimism I'd been holding on to shed faster than Sif's golden hair.†   (source)
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