But that kind of optimism persisted throughout the day on Thursday and did not end in a vote.
The optimism persisted even as markets sagged somewhat and investors locked in gains made as they rebounded on Monday.
Whether the optimism can persist may depend on whether the soft economic statistics of the summer and fall can grow more robust as the weather gets colder.
However, participants also relayed positive outcomes stemming from their shared experiences during and after the disaster, including strong feelings of social cohesion and optimism that persisted well beyond the short-term "honeymoon phase" predicted by the literature.
"The students who persisted in college were not necessarily the ones who had excelled academically at KIPP; they were the ones with exceptional character strengths, like optimism and persistence and social intelligence.
Re "Downtown Is Slower to Embrace Optimism; Uneasiness and Worries Persist for Many Residents and Workers" (news article, Dec. 23): Even though life goes on, those of us uptown, too, still feel the pain.
In those years America still possessed a faith in its own future, and the optimism of Capra's movies persisted as a powerful image of that faith.
"The Nose Knows" labored hard, however, to establish connections between the big-nosed Durante's perennial optimism and the need to persist in difficult life situations today.
Yet the great majority persist in their optimism, magnifying the positive data and minimizing the layoffs, the rising unemployment rate, the outright refusal of business to invest, the numbing indebtedness of millions of Americans.
Fisher persisted in his optimism for months after the crash, as the economy (and his reputation) spiraled downwards (Friedman 2014, 82 83).
But I persisted in my optimism.
