Despite their stations, Salameh and Clark share a similar outlook, a mix of tempered optimism and low-grade anxiety that reflects the mood of California early in this election year.
The security that I felt — and maybe it was a false sense of security before this all happened — I no longer feel". Despite their stations, Salameh and Clark share a similar outlook, a mix of tempered optimism and low-grade anxiety that reflects the mood of California early in this election year.
There is a degree of tempered optimism.
But while Hansberry's play ended on a note of tempered optimism, Ms. Hall (the young author of "The Mountaintop," seen on Broadway earlier this season) suggests that, for many African-Americans, that promise of social betterment has never been fulfilled.
In a talk that tempered optimism with sober warnings about unintended consequences, Smith offered glimpses of potential for artificial intelligence to rapidly advance medicine, aid people with disabilities, slow climate change, and help feed and ensure clean water for the world's burgeoning populations.
Amid gloomy forecasts of the decline of the humanities and the death of poetry, Angus Fletcher, a wise and dedicated literary voice, sounds a note of powerful, tempered optimism.
This is a programmatically feel-good movie whose tempered optimism and insistence that it's never too late to leave your comfort zone and explore new horizons stays mostly (but not always) on the safe side of sentimentality.
Stocks slid in a broad sell-off on Tuesday as investors pummeled financials on concerns about a potential government tax on banks, while Alcoa's disappointing earnings tempered optimism about the economic recovery.
But Hansen, a former Nasa scientist considered the father of wider public understanding of climate change, tempered optimism by telling the Guardian on the eve of the deal that the talks were a "fraud" and a "fake" because they would not result in a carbon tax that would drive down fossil fuel use.
It can be devastating to realize the falseness of such tempered optimism.
