0 a state of mind in which one always hopes or expects that something good will happen -- optimismus
Nevertheless, there are good reasons for optimism in writing an overview of research on teaching reading.
After this scene, all optimism vanished, leaving the members thoroughly despondent.
Similarly, the effect of the economic variables is differentiated so that optimism or pessimism on them does not always provoke the same policy preference.
The downward trend characterized much of the first half of the 1930s, although there were some moments of optimism.
The optimism was at least partly borne out.
Subsequent events did not bear out his optimism.
To the extent these arguments engage, we will have some indirect support for my optimism.
In fact, a general optimism seemed to have prevailed in the 1950s and 1960s.
