optimistic **

"We believe the business community is optimistic for next year."

She is more optimistic about the political process than others in the administration.

Still, some Washington groups continue to meet and are optimistic.

But I think we are all optimistic about what the defense can do.

I'm going to be optimistic and do the best I can.

For the first time, both mother and daughter are optimistic about the future.

We want to try and be optimistic about the situation.

With both the market and the Series, we were not very optimistic.

We have every reason to be optimistic about the future.

So I feel optimistic about the future of the book.

He tried to find something to be optimistic about and finally did.

What we were trying to do was just be optimistic.

But I'm going to be a little bit optimistic here.

Then being optimistic, like something good was about to happen.

I happen to feel sort of on the optimistic side.

Time will tell whether I am again being too optimistic.

Looked at in another light, however, the photograph is more optimistic.

I am optimistic about the second half of the year, however.

I'm still optimistic and trying hard to get where I want to be.

Some of us can be optimistic for just so long.

"The police have told us to be optimistic because no car has turned up yet."

Even with these optimistic results in recent years, the market is still down some 18 million cases from 1982.

He also began to think he'd been too optimistic about how long his men could hold out.

But I did try, as now, to be optimistic about the days to come.

I think Bill is more optimistic now about getting there.