Sentence examples for deluded optimism from inspiring English sources

Her fate is unclear when we reach the end of this claustrophobic, anxiety-inducing book, but we fear the worst for her son (and the dog she has adopted in a fit of deluded optimism).

An argument begins to emerge about the value of a pragmatic pessimism as a corrective to the bland, deluded optimism of the contemporary happiness and wellbeing industry, with its self-help guides and training courses that urge us worriers simply to take on new, more rational beliefs and learn to deal with our anxiety, anger, depression or stress.

Evgeny Morozov, born in thug-ruled Belarus, isn't entirely wrong when he warns of deluded optimism and the danger of the Net as a tool of surveillance and oppression.

"I'm not a deluded optimist," says Dr Dimitriou.

■ Optimism.

The poor, deluded fools.

- optimism.

Poor deluded soul.

This is, Lovelock says, a deluded fantasy.

It may be a deluded state of happiness, but Seroxat is a deluded state of misery.

Optimism sprouted.