What is "optimist"

Usage examples of "optimist".

And when you have the optimist and pessimist acutely opposed in a mixing group, they direct lively conversations at one another across the gulf of distance, even of time.

I was enough of a peacenik, optimist, and funker to take the other view.

He was, as has been said, a vorticist before Descartes, an optimist before Leibnitz, a Copernican before Galileo.

Rapt and prophetic, his plump hands clasped round the handle of his umbrella, his billycock hat a trifle askew, this irascible little man of the Voice, this impatient dreamer, this scolding Optimist, who has argued so rudely and dogmatically about economics and philosophy and decoration, and indeed about everything under the sun, who has been so hard on the botanist and fashionable women, and so reluctant in the matter of beer, is carried onward, dreaming dreams, dreams that with all the inevitable ironies of difference, may be realities when you and I are dreams.

As for the indispensable cleric, not the wildest optimist could suppose that the Reverend William Tuxted, who happened to be the only clergyman with whom Selina was well acquainted, could be suborned by any means whatsoever into performing his part in the affair.

And over on East Main Street, the Optimist Club had its yearly Christmas tree lot open already.

The fear they had been sensing in Ben all morning had become a strange disconnectedness, and Mara - always more of a realist than an optimist - assumed the worst.

I was enough of a peacenik, optimist, and funker to take the other view.

Both the young girls thought the dream gave a very hard view of the optimists, who look forward to a reorganization of society which shall rid mankind of the terrible evils of over-crowding and competition.

Baudelaire orphans ate their damp casserole, and they tried to be optimists like Phil, but try as they might, none of their thoughts turned out pleasant or hopeful.

It is undoubtedly under such circumstances that the most determined optimist finds himself at a loss.

He was neither an optimist nor a pessimist, any more than one can say that the ocean is beneficient or malevolent.

Still, his father Ninthag was a perennial optimist and, despite the pleas of Sixthon who had budded Tenthag for him and never childed with anybody else, he was happy to turn a blind eye when his son did what in olden times all young'uns were accustomed togo swimming out of storm-season on the northern coastalong with Fifthorch, who was next-to-youngest.

A rooster crowed like a rusty engine, then with greater force, although only an optimist would have said that dawn was near.

And yet Jules Verne is considered a Victorian optimist (those who have read him must doubt this) while the cyberpunks are often declared nihilists (by those who pick and choose in the canon).