Sentence examples for illusory optimism from inspiring English sources
Even in the first two acts, when they should radiate some illusory optimism, the three Prozorov sisters seem almost paralysed as their nouvelle riche sister-in-law Natasha slowly takes over their house and their lives.Judging by the keen response to the new production, Chekhov is striking a chord with audiences.
For instance, the cheerful study participants were less likely, on average, to live to a ripe old age than the more serious ones, in part because happy-go-lucky people are prone to "illusory optimism," meaning they underestimate health risks and are less likely to follow medical advice.
As opening pages of a new football season go, this one could be endlessly parsed for meaning and portents, but with only one conclusion: the insipid nature of Arsenal's football in recent seasons seems likely to continue, along with a regular drowning of illusory optimism in an ocean of disappointment.
Munch's most ambitious (unfinished) work, The Frieze of Life, comprised a sequence of connected panels intended to expose the illusory nature of optimism and bring to public view the painter's innermost feelings about life from birth to death (3 ).
Optimism surged following the discovery of oil at Exmouth Gulf in 1953, but this proved illusory; it was only in the 1970s that oil and natural gas were developed in commercial quantities off the northwestern coast.
Quick solutions are illusory.
The casualness is illusory.
This distinction is illusory.
Civilizations are illusory.
The difference is illusory.
