Perhaps influenced by the cold war's resolution without cataclysm, Mr. Keegan is mildly optimistic.

Moreover, scientists say that an increase of five or six degrees is a mildly optimistic outlook.

A healthier Gill will return to the lineup tonight against Sacramento, mildly optimistic that the worst is behind him.

I am mildly optimistic about this device.

South Korean officials, who generally offer mildly optimistic assessments of events in North Korea, discounted assassination theories.

It even made him feel mildly optimistic.

But he felt mildly optimistic.

The author's tone is mildly optimistic.

While it was crushed like an accordian, officials said, they were mildly optimistic that useful data would be obtained.

"But they were mildly optimistic last year and the year before, and it got worse, so this year they're even more tempered."