Sentence examples for devoid of the optimism from inspiring English sources
But it was completely devoid of the optimism of previous years.
In the past week, Bana's account has become especially bleak, devoid of the optimism that had previously characterized it.
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.
The phrase is too bureaucratic, too devoid of optimism: two in three voters think it means more austerity.
This is not to suggest that Woman at Point Zero is devoid of optimism.
Instead, I sat before the empty table, which was devoid of meals, devoid of the signs of hours of preparation.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
Of course, CPAC wasn't totally devoid of the fringe.
Devoid of visitors, the park is a very different landscape.
