His style is graceful, his rhetoric inspiring, his optimism appealing.
Its chronicle of drug addiction is often horribly funny, and Brand presents it with an appealing intelligence and optimism.
To many non-Democrats, politicians such as Rubio, Paul, and Walker, for all their quirks and limitations, have an appealing freshness and optimism about them.
In many ways Patchett's optimism is appealing.
If at times his use of language betrays his belonging to the same generation as Greene and Clarke, Visitors is a determinedly 21st-century novel, dealing directly with the current crisis in politics and economics with an appealing mix of realism and optimism.
I think the phrase that's appealing to me is "tough-minded optimism".
There's an appealing combination of steely survival and breathless optimism throughout – Make Them Gold and Clearest Blue look towards a better future, with the latter updating Depeche Mode's Just Can't Get Enough for the BBC Radio 1 A-list.
The official explanation, according to the group's press release, is that it is a "grounded hue of optimism," which is likely to prove appealing at a time when "frivolous is out" and "upbeat and realism are in".
While his record may give Democrats a juicier target than Mr. Wilson or Mr. Deukmejian, Mr. Lungren's advantage is that he has a public ease and an optimism that seem genuine and that voters, Republicans at least, find appealing.
This optimism was, one felt, instinctive rather than merely strategic, and it was an appealing aspect of Bloomberg's candidacy.
