Sentence examples for hopeful mode from inspiring English sources
Bostrom, in his most hopeful mode, imagines emulations not only as reproductions of the original intellect "with memory and personality intact" — a soul in the machine — but as minds expandable in countless ways.
Ever hopeful, ever alert, the gay man in cruising mode is relentless in pursuit of cock: the usual social rules go right out of the window.
Spending at Visa and MasterCard in the United States was up a combined 8.3 percent for the fourth quarter, Mr. Strasser noted, "a hopeful sign that big-ticket spending is in recovery mode for 2011".
The Mexican axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) is considered a hopeful monster because it exhibits an adaptive and derived mode of development - paedomorphosis - that has evolved rapidly and independently among tiger salamanders.
During the cocktail hour, Ben Stiller, a hopeful for "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," was in aw-shucks mode.
He insisted that the show is not now in pre-Broadway mode, but many connected to it, including Mr. Hwang, seem hopeful of moving to New York next year.
The family is in a kind of crisis mode, coming apart at the seams, but we're always hopeful for the positive outcome, the way we smile into our cameras.
And by their restraint the members of Solidarity have added a hopeful new chapter to the story of nonviolence, for this is the first time that this mode of action has been used to telling effect against a totalitarian adversary.
A good example here might be Bobby Baker's Diary Drawings, which chronicles the UK performance artist's relentless but ultimately hopeful struggle with mental illness and show how diary can be used as a flexible, creative, and therapeutic mode.
