In general, analysts were not terribly optimistic about G.E.'s fund prospects.

"You'd better hope you don't, but I'm not terribly optimistic, Port Chief."

I'm not going to say that every day I feel terribly optimistic.

Cannato adds that he is "not terribly optimistic" about the next mayor's prospects.

I'm not terribly optimistic about stopping Iran from making a bomb.

"I am not terribly optimistic after yesterday that we can get a charge together by agreement," he said Saturday.

Watson conceded yesterday that the Yankees would definitely discuss the 26-year-old Martinez, but he did not sound terribly optimistic about making a deal.

I find it increasingly difficult to be terribly optimistic on that point.

"I am not terribly optimistic," one union lawyer said before the meeting.

It occurred to him that she had not been terribly optimistic about his chances of locating the second exit.