Sentence examples for looked too optimistic from inspiring English sources

The news came as little surprise to industry analysts, who have been warning for months that even downwardly revised forecasts from PC suppliers like Intel looked too optimistic in the current climate.

That looks too optimistic.

This is starting to look too optimistic.

Yet South Africa's forecast of 2.8% GDP growth for 2013 already looks too optimistic.

The first Test against South Africa starts on Boxing Day and that is looking too optimistic.

That now looks too optimistic, since average productivity growth in the six years since 1995 has been revised downwards, to about 2.5%.

Even that may soon look too optimistic; the Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company of The Economist, expects 0.7% (see "The world in figures").

At the moment, things don't look too optimistic," said Wu Jun-hong, a Taipei Fire Department official who was coordinating the rescue, according to the Associated Press.

John Butler, chief UK economist at HSBC, says that despite the embarrassing climbdown of December's pre-Budget report, when Brown was forced to halve his forecasts for economic growth last year, the Treasury's forecasts for next year still look too optimistic.

We also note our second quarter estimates are below consensus largely due to lower PD royalties, where we forecast a 14% sequential decline (from fall off of strong Apple and other smartphone chip builds in the third and fourth quarter), whereas consensus looks too optimistic with just a 3% sequential decline.

"The outlook seems to largely depend on whether Germany can continue to expand and offset the weakness in France, Italy and Spain – which seems a tall order – meaning hopes of a return to growth for the region by mid-2013 are now looking too optimistic".