He had long extolled the virtues of his Corn Flakes as an anti-masturbation aid for young boys (he believed, optimistically, that their blandness might keep horniness locked up till at least lunchtime).
But people still fall in love, they still get married, believing optimistically that their marriage will be one of the ones to survive.
"I mean he believed, optimistically, that the world would stop for Martin Luther King once a year… He was like the Mr. Smith that went to Washington that stayed in Washington for 52 years".
Journalists, believing optimistically that political campaigns, and their distorted coverage of them, do matter, focus excessively on the horse race of who's coming on and who's fading rather than on the issues or the underlying forces driving an election.
Each time we repeat the cycle, we believe optimistically our response will work.
We believed, optimistically and perhaps naively, that the same philosophy would be taken up in chemical disciplines.
But Mr Bush argues (optimistically) that projected surpluses mean you can have both tax cuts and active government.
To the extent that readers optimistically believe that cooperation between foreign governments, big business, and everyday citizens can yield collective prosperity, the growing power of the communitarian Democratic is a welcome change.
He recognises that international law is opaque and largely undemocratic, but believes, perhaps too optimistically, that the processes and institutions are being opened up, albeit slowly.
Put differently, if post-m discussions are indeed aimed at undercutting support for pro-diversity policies, then IC supporters are mistaken, and undermine their own position if they optimistically believe that these discussions inaugurate an IC era.
