Sentence examples for muted optimism from inspiring English sources

Behind this muted optimism is a belief that the fourth quarter will yield better-than-expected corporate profits.

Introduced with muted optimism last July, the program uses electronic sensors to monitor traffic on some of the city's busiest thoroughfares.

Edmund Blunden, for example, after detailing the devastations of war in "Report on Experience" and arguing that God has witnessed it all, concludes with muted optimism:    ..

5.47pm: Keen anticipation and muted optimism: "One English team has already come back from a deficit to progress in Europe in style, "writes Joe Deasy.

That's not easy in a story that has many of the qualities of a fairy tale and that practically demands the kind of happy ending that the film, with its tone of muted optimism, is unwilling to supply.

But the fact that Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel and Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, will be meeting, along with President Clinton and other international figures, is cause for muted optimism.

Liberians strongly hoped that the inauguration of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as president on Jan . 16 2006, meant economic reconstruction and an end to violence, but by year's end the reality of entrenched corruption and community violence had muted their optimism.

But in this recovery, optimism remains muted.

Perhaps it was fatigue, but, as she ate, her usually impregnable optimism seemed muted.

The week's declines muted some of the optimism and whispers of a rally that had followed the market's advance of more than 20percentt from its lows of Nov. 20.

The optimism today has been muted, but the smugness -- not so much.