Sentence examples for a trace of optimism from inspiring English sources
I retain a trace of optimism.
Ahead were the four young American women – fresh from college, bright with lip gloss and Lycra – who made up the core of Tammy's group and left a faint, effervescent trace of optimism and laughter on the mountain air.
But for his mother Eileen, it's as if every trace of optimism she has ever known is channelled into defending her son as he sits with his feet on the cab office desk, picking his nails and slagging off everything that isn't a pulsating glob of urbane sophistication.
The faintest trace of optimism for 2015 disappeared almost immediately; three days into January, the news hit that Boko Haram had slaughtered more than 2,000 people in northeast Nigeria, a tragedy followed by many more tragedies, because this Earth and that's the way things go.
The finale is a full-scale symphonic movement that uses the earlier work's theme as the basis for a musical argument that's both a hard-won symphonic prize from the three preceding movements, but which also crowns the piece with one of the rarest emotions in 20th century music: a genuinely-felt and achieved sense of heroism and optimism, with not a trace of cynicism in sight.
Ms. Blackhurst, who comes from Salt Lake City, effuses optimism and verve without a trace of Pollyanna-like cuteness.
