Sentence examples for Absurd optimism from inspiring English sources

It was bold, even absurd optimism.

I did promise you absurd optimism.

That's not – Evans tries a sliced backhand return of slightly absurd optimism, it misses and he whacks his racket.

If he was not excoriated for his absurd optimism, then surely he would be lampooned for the extravagance of his flip-floppery, performing a rubber-burning, tyre-screeching U-turn on tax credits, saving them so soon after he had solemnly declared that they'd have to go.

Seemingly absurd optimism by one investor at the June 9.0 strike price came in the form of 5,000 calls purchased for 8 cents each.

But if the French accept that a final decision should be made by that time, then the difference between their view and the American position is only two weeks, because Mr Bush wants a decision after Mr Blix's third report on February 28th.Such optimism may seem absurd in view of the diplomatic and popular anti-Americanism of the past week.

"It is optimism at its most absurd -- no more indigestion, no more floating kidneys, no more unrequited love".

Westbaum in High School follows the exploits of title character Thomas Westbaum, a jazz-loving intellectual who struggles to retain his optimism in a darkly absurd senior year.

Her obtuse optimism at times took on absurd casts: "It can't happen to me; not a war, not to me," she was still telling herself in 1939, as she walked through Provence.

With avid curiosity and a light touch, Mr. Taanila examines a time of technological innocence and optimism that now seems distant and vaguely absurd.

As the results came in, and the optimism melted away, that hopeful white came to seem absurd and naïve, even obscene.