Sentence examples for Unfounded optimism from inspiring English sources

But the circle of people that share his unfounded optimism seems to be tightening.

That this group of hopefuls still represents untapped potential rather than unfounded optimism.

"When expansion is fueled by unfounded optimism, you get a balloon that doesn't exist in reality".

It is easy to trace disasters, in retrospect, to the bursts of unfounded optimism that gave rise to them.

That faith was never warranted, but the past month effectively revealed the difference between unfounded optimism and an outright delusion.

Few commentators allowed that she might be motivated by something as human as pride or as simple as unfounded optimism.

Cusk was "looking from the window at a Hopper-esque landscape of freight trains and telegraph poles and feeling an entirely unfounded sense of optimism!" she e-mailed me gaily.

But their optimism proved unfounded.

Again, the optimism was unfounded.

Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter's bullish Internet analyst, predicted that revenues in 2000 would reach $129m.Such optimism proved unfounded.

Following initial attempts at ankle replacement in the 1970s, early optimism proved unfounded as the procedure suffered from an unacceptable complication rate and poor prosthetic longevity.