Both Uses
optimistic
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Finding a Voice - One Writer's Beginnings - Chpt 3
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- 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.†
*optimism = a tendency to expect and see the best in all things
- Here I am leading to the last scenes in my novel, The Optimist's Daughter: She had slept in the chair, like a passenger who had come on an emergency journey in a train.†
optimist = someone who expects the best; or who focuses on the good part of things
Definitions:
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(1)
(optimistic) expecting the best; or focusing on the good part of things
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)