Sentence examples for confident optimism from inspiring English sources

For them, confident optimism that Jesus simply saves everyone is evasive at best, and heretical at worst.

The serial shootings of unarmed black men by law enforcement; the Justice Department report on police abuse and corruption in Ferguson, Missouri; the gutting of a Voting Rights Act provision that was one key consequence of the Selma marches — these and other dispiriting headlines have perhaps rendered the confident optimism of Cooke's masterpiece difficult to sing along to without seeming naïve.

The serial shootings of unarmed black men by law enforcement; the Justice Department report on police abuse and corruption in Ferguson, Missouri; the gutting of a Voting Rights Act provision that was one key consequence of the Selma marches these and other dispiriting headlines have perhaps rendered the confident optimism of Cooke's masterpiece difficult to sing along to without seeming naïve.

Ed: I've always thought Abby was really optimistic, which draws me to people... There's that fine line between what I call a "confident optimism" and "arrogance".

In the 20th century, either full of self-confident optimism or pessimistically envious of the tangible achievements of science, artists sought to claim for art the seeming verities of science or even its "rules": Vladimir Tatlin with Constructivism, or Arnold Schoenberg with his 12-tone system of musical composition.

Williams found him to be "a passionate advocate of a priestly ministry that was slow-burning, compassionate [and] detached from results and success", a man who "in a society of confident marketised optimism... was a passionate advocate of the people who carry the cost".

"From Australia we come with confidence and optimism," he said, adding that Australia was confident the conference would "secure our future" because of our "great optimism and faith in humanity's genius for invention".

BUSINESS CONFIDENCE  Mexico's businessmen are among the world's most confident, but their optimism is beginning to wane.

They will consider the reality that Chelsea must retrieve a deficit as cause for optimism, confident they will be able to wound on the counter where Lucas Moura and Ángel Dí María will be ever eager to spring upfield at pace.

Brady exuded optimism today, confident that both the offense and the Patriots would bounce back.

So the Jets find themselves saddled with the greatest of expectations, brimming with optimism, so confident in their Super Bowl aspirations that they allowed HBO to film training camp.