To end on an optimistic note, remember there is some good in everyone.

The year 2003 ended on a much more optimistic note than 1983.

Others, even during the 1950s, adopted a more optimistic note.

The decade could hardly have ended on a more optimistic note.

The book ends at the close of that fourth year, on a rather optimistic note.

But on a more optimistic note, he added, "I think all of those issues are past."

I should like to end on an optimistic note.

I should like to end on two more optimistic notes.

Better to leave on an optimistic note, he decided.

Not that most marriages don't begin on an optimistic note.