| You would have had to have been one of life's eternal optimists to have entertained thoughts like those. |
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| The dangerous game of prediction separates the optimists from the pessimists. |
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| To optimists among them, at the very least the war seems to offer an opportunity for enhanced autonomy within a federal state. |
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| The first is pessimism, the conviction that social transformation is, contrary to the sanguine illusions of the optimists, profoundly difficult. |
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| For those of us hopeless optimists for whom every nibble is surely an interested salmon, the fly can seem sterile. |
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| They are the starry-eyed optimists who cannot wait for adulthood to take the world for all it has to offer. |
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| Stock market optimists point to signs of resilience in the wider US economy, citing stronger than expected consumer confidence figures. |
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| The outlook exceeds what most optimists thought possible just a few years ago. |
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| Even the most ardent Internet optimists would likely concede that basic reading skills have to precede computer literacy. |
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| Pessimists and optimists differ in how they explain the causes of both good and bad events. |
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| Such a hands-off view, coupled with the posit of ontologically distinctive quantifiers, is endorsed by various optimists, including McDaniel. |
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| Again, the philosophers have been charged as utopians and shallow optimists. |
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| Events of the past fortnight suggest escaping our hellish past might prove harder than the optimists imagined. |
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| Job market pessimists outnumbered optimists by the widest margin in more than seven years, according to the February report. |
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| Can there be any possibility of reconciliation between such clearly opposed positions as those of pessimists and optimists about determinism? |
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| And nobody except the most inveterate optimists expected anything dramatic. |
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| The rallying dollar, sinking crude, and surging financial stocks do today create a rather inspiring backdrop for the optimists and Pollyannas. |
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| The councillors are optimists and we believe that the good will prevail over evil in our Garden Town. |
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| What a pity that so many writers who, in other circumstances, are optimists about human progress, should shut their eyes to what is happening. |
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| They are just a bunch of cockeyed optimists, those stock analysts. |
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| Those whose cup is half full are the world's optimists, the Pollyannas and the kind of people to be avoided at all costs, particularly at parties. |
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| He had returned after the revolution, one of thousands of optimists who had wanted to help in the great leap forward. |
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| Yes, optimists should stand aside, but fatalists should, too. |
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| I'll hand it to 'em, they're nothing if not the eternal optimists. |
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| According to a brief article in the New York Times, research has shown that pessimists are, ironically, more likely to die earlier than optimists. |
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| These resilient folks are commonly called optimists but if that term conjures up images of carefree Pollyannas, a psychological definition may surprise you. |
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| We in our land of optimists like to believe our species is perfectible. |
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| These optimists have spawned a movement of like-minded life extension enthusiasts who call themselves immortalists. |
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| Although almost all nelumbos are rated hardy to zone 5, or according to some optimists, zone 4, that rating assumes enough water and soil to protect the tubers from freezing. |
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| Optimists argue that the U.S. will keep its innovation lead because it has invented new products before. |
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| Optimists say that green buildings will be the standard in five to 10 years. |
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| Optimists claim we are on the right track, but still cancer refuses to yield. |
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| Optimists may say that the glass is half-full, pessimists that the glass is half-empty. |
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| Optimists saw a world where captive-bred animals would inspire public support for conservation and repopulate the wild. |
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| Optimists argue that companies are awash with cash and their balance sheets are strong. |
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| Some of the better-known service clubs include Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis and Optimists. |
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| Optimists see robotic and cyber warfare largely supplanting human conflict. |
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| Optimists say these initiatives could show the way for federal programs. |
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