Sentence examples for an optimist for from inspiring English sources

I remain an optimist for one simple reason: Europe's university sector is much older than the UK's membership of the EU and predates the EU by many centuries.

"Her inherent nature was to be a peacemaker and an optimist for people," said her mother's best friend, Sharon McGovern Wolbert.

I do hope all this happens, but perhaps I've been an optimist for too long.

Yes, I'm an optimist for sure.

Where, at the end of the twentieth century, could an optimist turn for reassurance about the foundations of human nature?

Or at least that he is an optimist, hoping for a world more orderly, and less murderous, than the one around us.

Describing herself as "an optimist looking for solutions", the chief executive of the charity 4Children says emphatically that she won't allow public sector cuts to take the wind out of her sails – especially when it comes to protecting "really very important things like Sure Start".

Put aside her personal failings, she was a militant optimist for a country slipping unconsciously toward defeatism.

In his despairing moments, Wells sometimes envisioned the human race as doomed, but between his periodic bouts of melancholy he was an irrepressible optimist, for whom any show of life was a show of hope.

We can do this, I am an enormous optimist for my species; but it will require the elites, from London to Harvard, from Cambridge to Hollywood, to learn the lessons of the past year.

But as snow fell around him, he was smiling, a guarded optimist for this year's planting.