Sentence examples similar to Not wholly optimistic from inspiring English sources
Even so, the eventual champion did not sound wholly optimistic: "It's hard to say.
He had not wholly abandoned his optimistic opinion that a liberal education in the moral philosophy of antiquity could incline a person toward moral virtue.
In several of his later publications, including De sarcienda, his 1532 revisions of his Paraphrase on Romans, and one of his very last short tracts, De puritate tabernaculi, he seems to have moderated, but not wholly abandoned, the optimistic strain that typified his earlier work, including his earlier confidence in the power of education to make people morally better.
Not wholly uninteresting.
Not wholly positive, then.
To date, their analysis has been insightful and incisive -- if not, for good reason, wholly optimistic.
The second show in a continuing program of soul-searching at the museum called "Defining Craft," it offers an optimistic if not wholly convincing vision of the craftsman's relationship to design and to modern life.
"It's time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease," Stewart said.* That statement, while overly optimistic, was not wholly without justification.
Proposing an optimistic if not wholly convincing vision of the craftsman's relationship to design and to modern life, this ambitious exhibition focuses not on artisans who make things that people might buy at less than fine-art prices and actually use in their homes.
