But whatever Shorten does, it must be with an open, optimistic, generous tone.
Suspicious minds might quibble with his more laddish material, but I can't help falling in love with this open, optimistic show.
For now, though, what it reveals is how much many foreigners, after all the acrimony of the Bush years, still hunger for the "idea of America" — this open, optimistic, and, indeed, revolutionary, place so radically different from their own societies.
But there are enough backward-looking ones to cast doubt on whether America still is the open, optimistic country of yore.Perpetuum mobileMost accounts of America's arguments about itself concentrate on divisions within the country: red v blue states, religious v secular voters, the 50-50 nation.
Nothing is easier than judging other peoples' parenting, but there is a side of contemporary American culture — fearful, litigious, controlling — that we do not brag about but that we reveal in our child rearing, and that runs contrary to our self-image as an open, optimistic nation.
Or you can let this shared experience of time make you more open, optimistic, and healed.
"That's very crude but it's kind of a working-level definition of what we are". Other words Poole used to describe Reason included "open," "optimistic" and "pro-technology". A glance through the magazine and other foundation materials seems to support Poole's contention.
Do not adjust your set: Walking Dead opened on an optimistic note.
The program opened with his optimistic and visceral "Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector," composed in 1980 for the Kronos Quartet, a longtime collaborator of Mr. Riley's.
Since this year's Kuwaiti fair opened, publishers have been optimistic.
