optimist

• Being somewhat of an optimist, which is just a crossword puzzle way of saying idjit, I even believed that I had got them to forget about the whole nasty thing too. —  F ;SF - vol 102 issue 04 - April 2002
• I guess I'm just this much of an optimist, and while the hypothesis is not based on the Geass universe (thus subsequently weaker), there's no harm in sharing it. —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
• For the optimist, the problem is that simulation of the business domain model may, or may not, have any relevance in the system domain or in the enactment domain.
• The pessimist is therefore the gay Johnny, and the optimist is the melancholy Johnny. —  Mike Fletcher A Novel
• The hours pass amid the clash of rumours and discordant voices--optimist, pessimist, pacificist. —  Mr. Punch's History of the Great War

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