Sentence examples for certain amount of optimism from inspiring English sources

And yet, last summer, there was a certain amount of optimism.

"But it was the 90s, and there was a certain amount of optimism in the publishing ecosystem – here in the US at least.

"Patience and an ability to take the long view are useful," he said, "and given the magnitude of the task, a certain amount of optimism comes in handy".

Morgan and Hales missed Friday's opening ODI against West Indies, Morgan with a bruised right knee sustained in a warm-up match earlier in the week, and Hales with a thigh strain, and while a certain amount of optimism abounds, both have an uncertain prognosis according to the one-day head coach, Ashley Giles.

You're only allowed a certain amount of optimism when it comes to metastatic breast cancer.

On both counts, there is a certain amount of cause for optimism.

Getting out of the current recession (depression?) will require a certain amount of confidence or optimism on the part of investors and consumers.

"We have to temper our optimism with a certain amount of caution," Mr. Stratton said.

It was a perplexing optimism, although it may have expressed a certain amount of anxiety that the Palestinians had squandered some reserves of American good will toward their cause.

Both societies, she points out, have a certain amount of resistance to nostalgia, Russia because of its "eternal fatalism" and the United States because of its "eternal optimism".

Shoshanna's basic optimism and naivety is so artless and winning that it makes up for a certain amount of narcissism on the part of everyone else, and I can't imagine the show without her.