Sentence examples for foolish optimism from inspiring English sources

Yesterday's foolish optimism has become today's protective pessimism.

Booms become busts because justifiable confidence becomes foolish optimism.

Foolish optimism led to the financial crisis and recession by assuming things would work out for the best.

At the same time, in their knowing manipulation of cliches, they spoof what can seem in retrospect a foolish optimism.

It is only the McInerneys, for whom Manhattan is a tinkle of restaurants, who are suddenly surrounded by the broken glass of their foolish optimism.

The father, Bob, who has no arms or legs, bounces around with a pipe constantly stuck in his mouth and an endless store of foolish optimism.

In the fall of 2012, still riding that renewed, always foolish wave of optimism brought on by the gold medal, I made a bet with the Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra over whose team would go farther in the 2014 World Cup.

But when confidence collapsed, that optimism proved foolish.

And, there are milestones in Detroit's history -- the People Mover and the election of Kwame Kilpatrick -- that, in retrospect, make us feel foolish for our misplaced optimism.

But a certain measure of optimism isn't foolish.

Too optimistic a world view results in foolish risk-taking, but moderate optimism gives you a strong selective advantage.