His mood swung wildly from optimism to total despair.

Moods range from optimism to caution on Wall Street in the wake of the stock market rebound last week.

The reactions ran from optimism about the future to complaints about the company's board to ideas for a possible successor.

The last twenty years of Erasmus's life, during which he saw the religious war-clouds assemble, were a progression from optimism to fear.

Mr. Florio said he had reason to cross over from cautious optimism to outright confidence.

The reason is simple: they make their money from optimism.

The lenders, after all, are part of a system that can swing too easily from optimism to pessimism.

I believe that this report suffers from excessive optimism.

Forecasts about the course of democracy tend to swing from optimism to despair with alarming speed.

The long bond was benefiting from optimism among market participants that the central bank will remain vigilant about inflation.