Lewinsky's latest call for compassion seemed to me a slice of classic TED optimism, packaged to go down easy — soft sentiment where there should be unrepentant ferocity.
You've just got to use the happy moments to get the energy and optimism to keep going, and think, 'Yeah.
For young scientists going back to Canada after working in the U.S. or Europe, I would suggest that they temper their optimism and desire to go home with a clear understanding of the potential limitations they will likely face.
For the cinema-owners themselves, optimism and extreme anxiety seem to go hand in hand.
"I do not have great optimism that this is going to go beyond today," Justice Obus told the courtroom, after receiving the jury's note that the deliberations were "irreparably compromised".
Of course, if the recent proposals of the Council of the European Union on a European and European Union Patents Court are anything to go by, optimism about the commitment of the European Union to cultural diversity might be misplaced.
Their youthful idol slain, so too would the kids' sparkling optimism be eviscerated when told to go off and die in a south-east Asian war, started on a lie.
The Chanukah story has always held great power for me, especially the interpretation that highlights the borderline foolish optimism that allowed the Hasmoneans to go for broke and use the week's oil ration on the first night, trusting and believing that scarcity would somehow be trumped by plenty.
Yet they are not about to go away altogether, and optimism over the prospects for the biggest market for much of Asia's exports is still remote.
"If you want to see optimism, you just go to Dubai airport at about 8am," Adam Smith, a lawyer focused on international trade compliance, told the Atlantic Council thinktank in Washington recently.
