All 3 Uses of
optimistic
in
Do You Speak American?
- Suddenly optimistic.†
Chpt 1 *
- Not all young blacks share the civic optimism.†
Chpt 6optimism = a tendency to expect and see the best in all things
- Baz Dreisinger, who teaches at Queens College, New York, speaks of "a new racial frontier that shaped American culture and especially American music— the frontier that optimists call racial hybridity and pessimists call cultural theft."†
Chpt 6optimists = people who expect the best; or who focus on the good part of things
Definition:
expecting the best; or focusing on the good part of things