He signed up to an optimistic delivery date of 10 months and, because his writing cell wasn't quite ascetic enough, decamped to Berlin to write in complete isolation.
That's an admittedly optimistic shipping date, but hey, can't we all use a little optimism in our lives today?
Early estimates had given an optimistic completion date of July 2003, which contributed to the sculpture gaining the nickname G of the Bang.
He acknowledged that he has "been optimistic about dates" but says that "I've never once set a date knowing that date is impossible".
Perhaps this nu-metal brood read "The Secret" — "Break the Spell" is its most relentlessly optimistic disc to date.
Dirt Road may well be his most optimistic dramatisation to date of the possibilities of political and personal enfranchisement.
Windows 10 has garnered generally optimistic reviews to date in its life, despite being only partially available, in the feature sense.
The query elicited scores of responses: Some lamented how hard times have hurt the chance for romance, while others offered a more optimistic view that dating these days simply requires a little more creativity.
It's impossible to say, however, how long Apple has been developing and testing the new notebooks, so to call the dates optimistic or otherwise would be fruitless.
