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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
  • 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)
  • Or I could leave it as an optimist and hope for the best.   (source)
    optimist = someone who expects the best
  • 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)
  • As it was only 2:25, and Chef Zhukovsky had yet to turn the corner from pessimist to optimist, he curtly replied: "Of course not!"†   (source)
  • Eventually we reached the front of the line, and the talent agent seemed optimistic about my sister.†   (source)
  • The replies are vague, but are enough to provoke slight optimism.†   (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)
  • I was optimistic about what our evidence might accomplish in the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.†   (source)
  • Eddie wondered how the guy could be so optimistic.†   (source)
  • This was disappointing, as some small, optimistic part of me had still hoped we might make it there.†   (source)
  • Teabing's optimism darkened.†   (source)
  • When Minho returned, safe and sound, Thomas thought he seemed very optimistic that it really was an exit.†   (source)
  • That's pretty dang optimistic for you, Dad.†   (source)
  • I'm feeling optimistic.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, Williams remained optimistic.†   (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)
  • Harry felt optimistic about Gryffindor's chances; they had, after all, never lost to Malfoy's team.†   (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)
  • I don't share her optimism.†   (source)
  • Today I'm thinking I should be more optimistic.†   (source)
  • He also was optimistic that I would be able to compensate well with one arm in the future.†   (source)
  • But, conversely, an optimistic person was that way because he wanted to believe in something better than his reality.†   (source)
  • He was not optimistic; with his number-two ranking in his ROTC unit, the Army was under no obligation to honor his choice.†   (source)
  • Optimistically: we won't be here that long.†   (source)
  • I try to look optimistic.†   (source)
  • I could sign up for a class at the gun range, the optimistic part of me would think.†   (source)
  • That's optimistic.†   (source)
  • The playing fields were optimistically green and empty before us.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, it seems, I am surrounded by optimists.†   (source)
  • Reynie decided not to look at Constance; his optimism had been spoiled enough.†   (source)
  • For a girl with no family and no home, Tess is surprisingly optimistic.†   (source)
  • He could not have explained his optimism—he was happy and therefore bound to succeed.†   (source)
  • But he was optimistic.†   (source)
  • She was astonished by their optimism and their joy in living, despite everything they had been through.†   (source)
  • But, talking with my mother, Len Fenerman had shown himself for what he was: an optimist.†   (source)
  • Thank you for the optimism.†   (source)
  • What Larry McCaslin saw in Rahel's eyes was not despair at all, but a sort of enforced optimism.†   (source)
  • "They sounded optimistic," she said.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • After numerous chapters brimming with optimism and cheer, the book ends with the sobering reality of Nazi-dominated Europe.†   (source)
  • Immigrants who come to the United States are by nature optimists.†   (source)
  • "Ever the optimist," I say.†   (source)
  • Judging by how my life was going so far, I wasn't real optimistic.†   (source)
  • I did not yet understand how foolish, how optimistic, how, yes, just like Nick I was for thinking this.†   (source)
  • "Of course," said Murtagh with forced optimism, then slapped his thigh.†   (source)
  • The children could tell, from Phil's statement about everything and everybody having a good side, that he was an optimist.†   (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)
  • Only incorrigible optimists had still cherished the delusion that Poland's determined stance would deter Hitler at the last moment.†   (source)
  • But when our eyes met, it was not a look of optimism that we exchanged.†   (source)
  • "You seem more...optimistic than usual," I observed.†   (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)
  • At the time, I already had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but I was optimistic.†   (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)
  • Hollingsworth billed it as an overall guide to helping modern young housewives create a peaceful, optimistic, and sanitary household.†   (source)
  • Along with personal messages were rumors about the world outside, each more wildly optimistic than the last.†   (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)
  • He had started The Little School in the same optimistic vein.†   (source)
  • Maybe he'd gotten his optimism from his granddad Clive Marlowe.†   (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)
  • "The next point is cultural optimism," Sophie said.†   (source)
  • Drunk Rachel sees no consequences, she is either excessively expansive and optimistic or wrapped up in hate.†   (source)
  • Ryan noted to himself that he might have been overly optimistic about their chances for success.†   (source)
  • I left the consulate feeling vaguely optimistic, but the waitingover the next few weeks was unbearable.†   (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)
  • She did not lose her head over this or her optimistic frame of mind.†   (source)
  • His words to us were packed with meaning, edged with menace, but nonetheless optimistic.†   (source)
  • She allowed herself the uncharacteristically optimistic thought that maybe she and her family were finally safe.†   (source)
  • Both John and I remained optimistic, and we tried to reassure them by saying, "She's going to come back.†   (source)
  • Mary Todd Lincoln had noticed his recent optimism and now, during their afternoon carriage ride, she spoke to him about it.†   (source)
  • You remember those days: everyone was so optimistic when the Berlin Wall came down.†   (source)
  • His voice is overflowing with optimism.†   (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)
  • Father Nicanor did not agree: the growing generosity of the faithful permitted him to make more optimistic calculations.†   (source)
  • "He likes pool," I offered optimistically.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "Thank you, Chuckles," Liam cut in, "for that rousing burst of optimism."†   (source)
  • I see these car crashes as part of a long tradition of American optimism.†   (source)
  • It's pretty optimistic thinking on my part.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Over dinner with Janice and Larry one night, Kelley could sense their reservations, despite the optimism they conveyed—exactly what she was experiencing.†   (source)
  • Is there evidence for 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)
  • But hey, I've always been an optimist ......don't ask me why.†   (source)
  • Stevie Rae said with her usual perky 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)
  • By that time I was too tired to be optimistic.†   (source)
  • The optimists were jubilant: "Well?†   (source)
  • And pretty optimistic.†   (source)
  • He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm.†   (source)
  • Still, he was an eternal optimist, so he kept the great cage of the fifth level always in readiness.†   (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)
  • When he stood up, his head cleared for a moment and he felt a wild optimism—maybe he was over being drunk.†   (source)
  • I thought your optimism was as deep as a well, and as wide as a church.†   (source)
  • I'm not too optimistic, though.†   (source)
  • Before long, his optimism permeates the entire lot.†   (source)
  • Even stalwart, optimistic Henry Knox suffered his own private anguish.†   (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)
  • With the optimism of ignorance I thought that the morning was bound to bring a more pleasant solution.†   (source)
  • He ticked off the reasons for optimism on his fingers.†   (source)
  • Fox proposed optimistic and pessimistic scenarios.†   (source)
  • The captain was piqued, but managed to carry on with a pretense of optimism.†   (source)
  • I'll make a profit—she says optimistically—from the book I intend to write:'†   (source)
  • Nothing for half an hour, but my optimism didn't wane.†   (source)
  • The three of us were up early the next morning, and this alone gave me farther reason for long-range optimism.†   (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)
  • It isn't the most optimistic outlook I've ever heard.†   (source)
  • So, let's be optimists," mused Nix.†   (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)
  • Jake was slightly optimistic he could have a chat with Judge Atlee, perhaps another late Friday afternoon meeting on the porch with whiskey sours, and after the edge was knocked off he could broach the notion of a delay or change of venue.†   (source)
  • He is not optimistic, nor even hopeful.†   (source)
  • I might even ...be an optimist ...if you weren't around.†   (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)
  • So full of optimism.†   (source)
  • It was about dreams, vivid and optimistic dreams of a future as radiant as Buck Rogers's cosmos.†   (source)
  • I forced optimism into my voice.†   (source)
  • Suddenly optimistic.†   (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)
  • Then my old confidence and optimism revived, and I tried to plan my time in the North.†   (source)
  • A few days later, however, the survey came back and diminished some of their optimism.†   (source)
  • Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.†   (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)
  • Or optimistically?†   (source)
  • Optimistic about it.†   (source)
  • Javier is wearing his Pioneers uniform, bright and new as the revolution, as his optimistic face.†   (source)
  • During pauses in the music, if one listened carefully, one could hear its steady optimistic sound.†   (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)
  • As always, Aunt tried to be optimistic in the midst of sorrow.†   (source)
  • Oscar told Karla that he was having trouble staying optimistic.†   (source)
  • Daisy admired Polina's optimism.†   (source)
  • But I have been optimistic the whole way through.†   (source)
  • Cassius and Glensather exchanged knowing winks of success, for everyone left the room feeling a bit more optimistic.†   (source)
  • He was a good man—inexplicably good and oddly optimistic, considering the suffering with which fate saddled him.†   (source)
  • He is optimistic everything will be all right.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I was too optimistic; perhaps I expected too much.†   (source)
  • Oz took this in stride, his optimism barely tarnished.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He is very optimistic, much more than Early.†   (source)
  • Experience teaches us not to be too optimistic.†   (source)
  • As it turned out, he was optimistic.†   (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)
  • "First the marketing," I said smiling, for who would not at such optimism, "then the plans."†   (source)
  • The desks were an optimistic shade of pale pine, like something from an IKEA catalog.†   (source)
  • Most of the scientists disagree, and think that Jorgensen is optimistic.†   (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)
  • The optimism of a revolutionary always gives rise to a sense of wonder.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Optimism.†   (source)
  • People in our position move rapidly from depression to optimism and back down again.†   (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)
  • In my dealings with criminals in the past one thing had become obvious, that all were incurable optimists, as well as egotists.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Nevertheless, with our goal in sight, my usual optimism was returning.†   (source)
  • As Crake had once said, Jimmy was a romantic optimist.†   (source)
  • And what turned me into an alien was my optimism.†   (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)
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