Yoshida, as foreign minister, was notorious for his relatively optimistic view of the world.

But in this instance the relatively optimistic official projections jibe with economic intuition.

The novel ends on a relatively optimistic note.

In some ways, that's a relatively optimistic forecast.

For the moment, therefore, we continue to be relatively optimistic about developments in this field.

The agreement has enabled a relatively optimistic climate to be created for 2006, which will be a crucial year.

"We're relatively optimistic that this will turn out to be viable," he said.

"I'm relatively optimistic," he said, "because even if the yen went to 95 or so to the dollar, it wouldn't be a surprise."

"They've eased up economic policy enough that in some ways things are pretty much back to where they were," a relatively optimistic Chinese executive said.

Thus many Chinese are quite pessimistic, while some foreign economists are relatively optimistic.