Underlying this program was Mounier's bold conception of Christian experience, an experience of "tragic optimism," colored both by the drama of Christian existence and by the certainty of eschatological victory.
Its latest designer, Esteban Cortazar, 23, is an American with French and Colombian roots and little experience but heaps of optimism.
If you can commit yourself to these steps, you will experience the kind of optimism and vitality that builds over time.
Ander could not see how her fortune could come true, but for the next few days, she experienced a kind of optimism that she had not felt in a while.
But for Rich and me and many other Notre Dame graduates, experience suggests full restraint of optimism.
That must have been a heartbreaking experience during a time of optimism about the country's future.
As Jan . 1ripples across the globe, from Sydney to San Francisco, the masses will be singing "Auld Lang Syne" in full-throated chorus, fireworks will burst over world capitals, and revelers everywhere will experience a mindless surge of optimism as awful old 2007 teeters off the stage and 2008 — the new, improved model — steps forward to a burst of applause.
Dr. Challinor brought a broad understanding of botany, evolutionary and marine biology to his role at the Smithsonian, as well as a "wealth of political experience and optimism toward solving problems of the conservation of species worldwide, in the effort to lessen human pressures" on the natural world, said John Berry, director of the National Zoological Park in Washington.
Soon after, struck down by fever probably malaria he was invalided home, and, while recovering from the consequent depression, Nelson experienced a dramatic surge of optimism.
A precious point was there to be snaffled and, having ruined their first league game under Mark Hughes with a wretched collapse against West Ham last Saturday, that unfamiliar sensation Southampton were experiencing was a surge of optimism.
