Sentence examples for exactly optimistic from inspiring English sources

Fox is not exactly optimistic about Senator McCain's chances, however.

And, in the short term at least, some are not exactly optimistic.

A statement on Thursday from a department spokeswoman was not exactly optimistic: "We are currently waiting for the owners' engineer to submit their assessment of the failed slop and the adjacent buildings' stability.

Officials reject the suggestion in the Daily Telegraph (see my earlier post) that their vote is down to 8% - "nonsense", they say – but they are not exactly optimistic either.

That'll do! SM Read the match report: Sweden 2-3 Portugal (2-4 agg) Ibrahimovic: World Cup without me not worth watching The pre-match polls weren't exactly optimistic – 61% didn't think France could do it; of those asked "Do you continue to support Les Bleus in spite of everything?" 84% said 'Non'.

But given the vibe emanating from his old colleagues, he's not exactly optimistic about meaningful reform getting through the legislature.

Sure, it's messy and problematic in parts (Dorthea's fate isn't exactly an optimistic one), but even the curmudgeonly Martin Amis has called it the greatest novel of the English language.

As Michelle Kung of The Wall Street Journal wrote, "The first season of The Walking Dead doesn't exactly end on an optimistic note, but our heroes are left driving into the unknown after escaping certain death at the CDC".

Three months into Trump's Presidency, many people seem prepared to offer a mildly, marginally optimistic, if not exactly comforting, view of where we stand between those two terms: mostly, they say, it's been sickening, but, with the horrifying kept at bay, the horrifying looking for the moment like the zombies who can't, yet, get over the big high wall in a zombie movie.

Cautiously optimistic about what, exactly?

But it's about an optimistic, 18th-century United States, not exactly the most fashionable of subjects beyond America's own subjects.