Sentence examples for devoid of optimism from inspiring English sources
This is not to suggest that Woman at Point Zero is devoid of optimism.
The phrase is too bureaucratic, too devoid of optimism: two in three voters think it means more austerity.
The Republican National Committee issued a statement calling the comment "a sad development but not surprising from the leader of a party devoid of optimism, ideas or solutions". Reid's aides said his Nevada offices were flooded with complaints, as a result of the GOP aggressiveness.
In the past week, Bana's account has become especially bleak, devoid of the optimism that had previously characterized it.
Her letters are suffused with an inexorable optimism, devoid of any tinge of writerly melancholy or self-pity.
Last week Ryan Shorthouse, head of the pro-modernisation thinktank Bright Blue, argued that the Conservatives had become locked into a strategy devoid of the big picture optimism which helped Cameron to win the leadership in 2005.
As a result, this year's green Hay sessions have an ever-so-slightly tortured kind of atmosphere, translatable as "What are we going to do now?", and are largely devoid of the spurts of tentative optimism that preceded Copenhagen.
Optimism fills their lives, though there are degrees of optimism.
Many carried messages of optimism.
