But 30 minutes of football later, after a 24-20 come-from-behind victoverover the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday afternoon, fans wore smiles and players evoked optimism.
The rationale for the three proposed operational names, CENTCOM explained, was aimed at evoking "optimism in those participating in the operation, including Iraqi and US personnel".
It can evoke the optimism that initially greeted the Obama presidency but that now can seem hard to sustain.
The goal is to evoke the optimism of the 1950's through what he calls "upbeat, smooth, uncluttered and warm" shapes.
When the historians of the future look back on our time, the buildings they'll remember will be the ones that express the way we live today by reflecting the speed and complexity of the world around us, just as Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, Mies' Seagram Building and Kahn's Salk Institute evoke the optimism and certainty of their eras.
Both she and her husband evoke an optimism about the country's present and future that is missing in the thundering campaigns of Sanders and Trump.
The two ambassadors should overcome these earthly conflicts and elevate society to the upper shelf that symbolizes a stable heavenly order, represented by tools of the science of astronomy, evoking the optimism of the Renaissance era.
Built between the wars, these ornate apartments evoke the heady optimism of Latvia's last 20 years of liberty, from 1920 to 1940.
The titles alone evoke the freewheeling optimism of an America being transformed by its big cities, loosening morals, new immigrants and new machines: "Keep Away From the Fellow Who Owns an Automobile," "Jake!
