"What voters want is a message of optimism — an upbeat, positive message that tells them, to use the words of a past candidate: Americans, better days are ahead," said G. Terry Madonna, a veteran pollster in Pennsylvania, a state targeted by Trump this fall but reliably Democratic for two decades.
But it insists also on an upbeat message of life-affirming hope and even euphoria, a glorious tribute to penguin-y spunk and vim.
There has been speculation in recent months that Hilton, who wants to focus on an upbeat message of the future, had been overshadowed by the communications chief, Andy Coulson, who wanted to give the Conservative campaign a harder edge.
A lot of upbeat, happy music.
Instead it issued a stream of upbeat statements.
This sounds like a cynical message for an upbeat programme, and, of course, I prefer it when there's a happy ending, but there needs to be the possibility that it will not come, or else this is a paint-by-numbers format.
Not to put too fine a point on it, Barack Obama won his impressive victory in Iowa with a sunny, upbeat message of change.
There are a couple of nice performances, the occasional laugh-out-loud one-liner and a strangely sunny cinematography that reflects the ultimately upbeat message of the movie.
At any other time, it would seem a long shot, in that it lacks the upbeat message of his previous books.
He predicted Mr. Edwards's upbeat message of "hope and optimism" would find skeptical ears in the city.
