Sprinkle a few drops of optimism to give the impression of a happy ending.
The survey's gauge of optimism over the next five months dropped for a second month, and an index of current conditions rose.
But as he continued to work in Hollywood, his experiences wore down his outer shell of optimism, and his first agent dropped him after just six months.
A poll of households by MORI showed a sharp drop in optimism in June, when a net balance of 19% said they thought the economy would get worse over the next 12 months rather than better.
The latest bit of optimism on Wall Street came from a drop in weekly claims for jobless benefits to a three-and-a-half-year low.
The latest monthly health-check of household sentiment found a sharp drop in optimism in July followed by a rapid recovery in August.
At the same time, overall cultivation was expected to drop for the second year in a row, despite rising prices, a sign of optimism for counternarcotics officials.
The defeat dropped the Knicks to 15-37 andenieded them even a remote sense of optimism at the break.
Similarly, the rise in the number of people looking for work is normally considered a sign of optimism, but, on closer inspection, it appears to be simply the reversal of a drop in job-seekers in April.
But if Lido beach is a clear indication of the growing sense of optimism in Mogadishu, this is not a city in which one can, or should, drop one's guard for long.
