Sentence examples for a pragmatic optimist from inspiring English sources

Frederick might best be described as a pragmatic optimist.

By Jelani Cobb Wayne Frederick, the president of Howard University since 2014, might best be described as a pragmatic optimist.

Cameron is by instinct a pragmatic optimist, a moderate sceptical of excessive enthusiasm for the latest whizz-bang cure-all that ideologues – of whatever sort – say will put the world to rights.

As a pragmatic optimist Rodman would likely have found a forecast of this nature hard to swallow.

Chinmay, who describes himself on Facebook as "a pragmatic optimist", refuses to accept that his video essay about society's prejudice towards certain breeds of dogs is anything but passable.

But, like any pragmatic optimist with a betting account, he would rather wager on the future than rue the past.

Jefferson was the idealist, the romantic, the pragmatic optimist.

But a durable line of pragmatic optimists from science, business and environmental groups, for now, holds center stage.

Optimists had hoped at best for a period of calm as a pragmatic Hamas consolidates and a pragmatic Israel makes another unilateral withdrawal.

But a realistic optimist.

"Ayman is a classic optimist.