optimisms

We want to share our hopes, our optimisms, our visions of how wethink the country should change or not change.

Dear Mr. President Obama « 2009

Only the Henty books and the Elsie books and the latest optimisms by moral female novelists and virile clergymen were in general demand, and the board themselves were interested only in old, stilted volumes.

Main Street 2004

"Doesn't matter what you say," he mumbled in response to her cheery optimisms.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

It needs salvation from its ignorance, its sin, its inefficiency, its apathy, its silly optimisms and its appalling carelessness.

Christianity and Progress Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is because, in spite of our optimisms and evasions, that fact still is here, which our fathers often appraised more truly than we, that human nature, with all its magnificent possibilities, is like the earth's soil filled with age-long seeds and roots of evil growth, and that progress in goodness, whether personal or social, must be achieved by grace of some power which can give us the victory over our evil nature.

Christianity and Progress Harry Emerson Fosdick

There are, to be sure, the mystical optimisms and pessimisms to be reckoned with, the sweeping assertions of certain schools and individuals that everything is equally good or equally bad.

Problems of Conduct Durant Drake

It is the noblest of optimisms; and, like religion, has never been without a witness in the human soul, ever inspiring the genius of prophecy and song, ever moving the great instincts of humanity.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Brass Tacks is a unique publication, so-called because Col. Hunter gets right down to "brass tacks" in advancing pointed optimisms, level-headed truths, driven-home common sense.

Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep William Crosbie Hunter

So it would seem I have been seducing myself with optimisms.

Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath Ben Hecht 1929

Inasmuch as these optimisms were widely accepted in England and France, civilian America's disappointment will be shared by the Allies, unless some hint of the truth is told as to what may be expected and what great preparations are under construction.

Out To Win The Story of America in France Coningsby Dawson 1921