Not everyone, though, shared this optimistic assessment.
This optimistic assessment could well be correct.
The most optimistic assessment — somewhat surrealistic, given his past — contends that Kim has shifted strategy.
And many others involved in tackling climate change think that this is an optimistic assessment.
Word spread in Luxor that Ballard concurred with Watanabe's more optimistic assessment.
Two diamonds announced full opening values, a slightly optimistic assessment, and Jacobus bid the game.
It was the most positive and optimistic assessment in a long while.
But it offered a slightly more optimistic assessment of economic activity than it had in December.
In broadcast interviews on Thursday night, Cameron gave an optimistic assessment of the prospects for British business.
But if Mr. Rove agreed with that optimistic assessment, he gave no public sense of that today.
Echoing his optimistic assessment, many bishops quickly issued statements putting a positive spin on the Vatican's response.
