Some have speculated, optimistically, that this may humanize the Tiger.
Ukip, after all, are in the midst of a seemingly endless political summer, while senior Conservative politicians such as Boris Johnson talk optimistically about life outside the clutches of Brussels.
Mystery at Witchend tells how the young members of the Lone Pine Club bring to justice a gang of saboteurs hoping, perhaps optimistically, to cripple the Allied war effort by blowing up a dam in the Shropshire hills.
Lahiri is way too witty to be an actual ditz (see her failed romance with a skater bro, guest star Timothy Olyphant: "My body is very attracted to your body but when you speak, my brain gets angry"), and too optimistically hopeful to be truly loathsome.
The race has nothing to do with running with the Rolling Stones, as one friend optimistically thought.
If you really insist on being energetic you can take what is optimistically called a safari round the island.
Perhaps optimistically, he told Uefa delegates that he was confident of securing at least 60 votes outside Europe, and Platini said he could deliver at least 45 votes from Europe.
It is called rather optimistically "Only One Candidate".
Some Muslims, such as Haroon Moghul of New York University's Islamic centre, optimistically greeted Mullen's statement as a remarkable sign of change: "It shows a military that is critically thinking, and empowered to do so by a White House that seeks to develop effective strategies, not ideological categories and uncritical postures".
He optimistically predicted that Ukip could be the north-east's biggest party by 2020.
The crisis, fundamentally, is linked to our dependence on fossil fuels; but the reality is that whichever way one looks at it, optimistically or pessimistically, this century signals the end of the age of fossil fuels.
