Sentence examples for lacks optimism from inspiring English sources

She lacks optimism and humor, two of Reagan's strongest traits.

If a person is unhappy or lacks optimism, research shows that he is less productive, efficient and creative in all areas of his life, including work.

Never lacking optimism, the Nets believe tonight's victory proves that they are indeed a playoff team, one that can beat anyone in the Eastern Conference.

What sells the Jackson 5 version is exactly what Gaynor's take lacked: innocence, optimism and the purity of his 11-year-old voice.

Given that expectations toward earnings appear to be lacking excessive optimism, any upside surprises should provide room for the market to move higher and for the Dow to set more records.

Author John Luerssen contrasted it to the rest of the band's catalogue, saying "Unlike most of the songs U2 had written up to this point, 'Exit' lacked any optimism".

The final section of "Odysseus Abroad" is ironically entitled "Ithaca," and lacks Cavafy's optimism, though it is not without solace of its own.

But it lacks the willy-waving optimism of the Conservatives' long-term economic plan, powered by new roads and rail and overseen by ministers in hard hats.

There is an optimism lacking last season under Bernd Schuster.

Yet the crowd, which the police estimated at 15,000, lacked the giddy optimism that had pervaded earlier rallies.

I believe his last years lacked the engaging optimism of his youth, but his journals, kept before he married, evoke every detail of his early days and show him to be unique in his appetite for life and his fascinated honesty in recording it.