Sentence examples for like hopeful from inspiring English sources

These days at the newly renamed Cadillac Palace, the Broadway-bound musical "The Producers" is being set on its feet before sold-out houses -- alas, no critical peeking allowed -- and in fact the whole once-benighted district has taken on the aspect of a forest restoring itself after a fire, with green shoots of commercial life springing up and tourists poking their heads in like hopeful deer.

It amused Glass that everyone here dressed the part, like hopeful extras waiting for the camera crew to arrive.

On lovely but little trafficked Dal Lake, rows of forlorn houseboats wear "to let" signs like hopeful wallflowers.

Then, after several of his dumb, awful, not-that-old tweets were discovered and publicized, our game apprehension turned to something like hopeful dread.

In the Kleinfeld showroom, the gowns wait like hopeful wallflowers for the roughly 12,000 brides who come in each year.

Those already living in the US would be able to stay but, if the agreement isn't extended, those living in the Marshall Islands will be treated like hopeful migrants from any other country.

I'd definitely recommend this novel to anyone who likes hopeful romantic books (or anyone who'd like to end up crying when the book finishes...pfft… that totally wasn't me).

The Heartwarming story slips along perfectly successfully, and I liked the hopeful "escape" ending — a welcome corrective, incidentally, to the miserable and culpable defeatism that finishes off Billy Liar.

"I would like to be hopeful about the end of subsidies, but I'm not," said Dennis Coates, who teaches sports economics at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County.

Jackson said she'd like to remain hopeful, but does not feel the country has learned much from its past mistakes.  .

As you approach the city, there is what looks like a hopeful sign for Afghanistan's future.