An optimist, I'm anything but that.

Now I don't mean to be Pollyannaish about this.

Others are less optimistic.

The paragraph should be neither overly optimistic nor overly pessimistic.

The pendulum swings from optimism to pessimism and then back again.

No, it's not. It's completely baked.

Well, I'm not an optimist, neither am I a pessimist.

But some are not that optimistic.

However, the complainant was not very hopeful with regard to the outcome of such a petition.

I returned an optimist, but without illusions.

Things are brightening up already, aren't they?

Marcus Aurelius, our Caesar... does not look well.

Ben, this whole idea sounds pretty halfbaked.

I may be an optimist, but I believe diplomats should be optimists rather than pessimists.

Your health hasn't been good lately.

I am by turns an optimist and a pessimist.

I never called myself Mr. Uplift.

This assessment, unfortunately, is far too optimistic.

The sense in which I can be uplifting and inspiring I mean, there's always been a kind of a certain grim dimension to the way I try to uplift, so if grim inspiration if grim inspiration is not a contradiction in terms, that is, I'm afraid, the most you can hope for. OK, today that's if I succeed.

He said, Be happy.

67. Mr. THÉVOZ (Observer for Switzerland) said that the political prospects in the Middle East were not encouraging.

Man, eternally optimistic, kept trying.

No, at this time. Can't be too optimistic.

DL We're going to play a tune and Natalie's going to accompany me on the piano.

That notwithstanding, the level of foreign investment inflows had not been encouraging.

I've just been talking to Keith. He's low enough about it.

I'm optimistic.

How dare we be optimistic?

You know Viennese audiences usually don't interfere with the music.

I am optimistic, but I cannot give the Commission any guarantees.

Of course there is nothing wrong with Utopianism.

This film shows the real life. It's not optimistic.

We're getting no place. Every one of these trenches is a separate dogfight.

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I think she'd cheer.

I'm afraid I was too optimistic about the whole thing.

How can that not make you optimistic?

Thank you for the tour. Your club is very nice.

It is something to be greatly optimistic about.

You're an optimist.

But tuttle was very encouraged.

Maybe I'm an optimist

In a monthly context, however, the trends are not entirely positive.

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