I was optimistically thinking that maybe the whole thing was just a bad rumor.

"Think optimistically, rather, of the ten hundred billion years of death that await you!"

I can recover, he thought optimistically, with a little money and time.

"I really do think that people should start thinking much more optimistically than they are," he said.

This, then, must be, he thought optimistically, the other end of the passage down which Ivlis had escaped.

But I'm going to think optimistically, and I understand that it's a factual optimism.

On the watch, there was a good chance of catching Sacred Globe, he thought optimistically.

The Mariners, thinking ahead and optimistically, wanted Rodriguez available for the post-season if they got that far.

Once he was in office, he thought optimistically, it would not do nearly as much damage.

Maybe they won't, but at this point we are thinking optimistically.