"an optimistic reading" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to refer to a particular interpretation of a situation or issue, especially one that is hopeful or positive. Example: While the report was generally pessimistic in its outlook, there was an optimistic reading that suggested a positive outcome if certain conditions were met.
That is an optimistic reading of Mr. Simon's situation.
It's hardly an optimistic reading but it implies that Winnie gains, rather than sheds, spiritual resilience.
But it also counselled that such pledges depend upon an optimistic reading of Britain's public finances.
But even on an optimistic reading, Ghana is unlikely to reach middle-income-country status for another 20 years.
On an optimistic reading, this means the Bosnian Serbs will see that their hopes of a military victory over the government forces are nil.
Even that might be an optimistic reading: the post-1918 frofthers oformerfOttomanttoman Empire (one of the four great thrones that did not outlast the "First" World War) are still a suppurating source of violence and embitterment.
"Kozak gave us an optimistic read-out on his April 14 meeting with President Pinochet and justice minister [Monica ] Madriagada" it said.
Those are some rather large assumptions, and an optimistic read of the next few years, I realize.
An optimistic read of the effectiveness of antidepressants would find that the most effective drugs decrease the probability of depression by only about 20 percent.
Perhaps I'm putting an overly optimistic reading on it, but the idea that even on our coldest, darkest nights, there is always a place with a warm light in the window is reassuring.
It did this largely on a wishfully optimistic reading of the result of a single byelection – Eastleigh in early 2013 – on which was constructed a defend-the-citadels strategy wholly at odds with the national opinion polls and the lessons of the 2014 EU election debacle.
