After defeating England, this side will probably muster sufficient optimism to think another upset is possible.
SEATTLE — When The Seattle Times became this city's only surviving daily newspaper in March, even The Times itself could not muster much optimism about its chances.
Jan Mysak is 15 years her junior, passionate and sincere but also nearer in age to her daughter, and Kristyna cannot muster the optimism that would allow her to commit.
It is easy enough for most people to muster a semblance of optimism that is not really there, to feign good cheer, to stare at a cluster of clouds and pick out only the silver linings.
The workforce of H&R Block, the country's largest mass-market tax-advice firm, surges from 5,000 to more than 100,000 "associates".Block's army of consultants has mustered this year with renewed optimism.
Facing the most daunting diplomatic challenge of his career, Secretary Powell will need all the optimism he can muster.
Speaking days after it was announced that 263,000 jobs had been lost in September -- vaulting the unemployment rate to a 26-year high of 9.8percentt -- Greenspan was able to muster a bit of cautious optimism about the economy.
However difficult it is to muster it at this moment, optimism is something that has always characterized this country, and will continue to serve it well in the foreseeable future -- and is something exuded by President Obama, as it was by Presidents Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton and other American icons... You're absolutely right, Clint.
Among the protesters were those who had placed their trust in the reform movement, which had promised evolutionary change through legal means; these people were already bitterly disappointed by the end of the Khatami years, in 2005, and had, with some difficulty, mustered the will and the optimism to participate in the electoral process once again.
"Hopefully," was as much optimism as Kidd could muster.
