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Usage examples of optimistic.

The pessimistic Ascenders dourly pursued an otherworldly Goal they were assured of never reaching, and the optimistic Descenders giddily embraced a this-worldly creation whose Source they celebrated but never experienced.

The magazine was to be intensely American in spirit, optimistic and enthusiastic in tone, and very chummy with its readers.

Possibly some such plan might have had some chance of success had the forces of the Entente been concentrated upon a single effort, and optimistic critics anticipated a breach to the north of Verdun which might close or at least threaten the neck of the German bottle between Metz and Limburg and precipitate a withdrawal from their carefully prepared positions in northern France and Belgium.

The gallant but optimistic Symons, Gunning of the Rifles, Sherston, Connor, Hambro, and many other brave men died that day.

It had given the meeting an optimistic tone, and the men filed out with good cheer, while he moved out still feeling the misery of the Cold, and clenched his jaw for the uphill walk in the rain.

Some optimistic soul had put up colored trimmings and streamers, and servants in full formal dress were preparing a buffet of little snacks and munchie things.

But Tilyon is still too optimistic about reviving real estate in Pomelo City.

Anarchy or anarchistic theory is the only ideology that is in the least bit optimistic.

But when she looked out on the gallery and saw the two black children, both of them barefoot, bending down attentively on each side of Flower while she showed them how to print their names in chalk on the piece of slate, Abigail felt a prescience about the future that was more optimistic than any she had experienced in years.

Berlin, a cheerful, optimistic guy, our expert in radiobiology, took a walk in a wooded area near his apartment, and somehow decided to take his own life, or so the police said.

It was the eternally optimistic Kelp who had first met the old coot, named Hiram Rangle, and brought him around to the OJ.

If the usually optimistic Therm had any doubts about the new outpost, he did not voice them.

We might be optimistic about doing this, because the best current science of nature, quantum physics, is standardly interpreted as postulating uncaused events.

He could see at once that the optimistic estimate of the Hammers that he had made in church might have to be overhauled.

A less zealous, optimistic and dogged individual than he would not have even supposed that, so years after the Hearts had emigrated east from Vegas, that city of all American cities phantasmagoric and insubstantial as a delirium hallucination, there could be any trace, any vestigial memory of them.