Making subtle phone calls (ever tried making that automated system understand you while you're whispering?) and running to far-flung specialist shops on deeply optimistic lunch-hour timelines.
Temporary (optimistic): Eating lunch on my own won't last forever.
A note to the judge after lunch even appeared optimistic they could reach a consensus when they asked him to "indulge us with more time".
Alain Mbock showed me the petition he was presenting to the government just after lunch and seemed optimistic about how it would be received.
Apart from the problems that were noted by Häggström (2007), the ideas in No Free Lunch suffer from a too optimistic belief in the usefulness of mathematical models in biology (see also Olofsson (2008) for a similar conclusion), and this remains true in the context of the present article.
After finding a reasonably healthy breakfast at Dunkin' Donuts, I was optimistic about what Wendy's would serve up for lunch.
Ms. Anthony is not optimistic that the students will warm to their new lunches anytime soon — not as long as they can buy Flamin' Hot Cheetos from the vending machines or brownies from the student store for lunch.
He promised to "intervene before breakfast, before lunch, before tea and before dinner" to promote British business: the sort of optimistic, activist character the coalition lacks.
And for car drivers, telematics seems to offer the proverbial free lunch, allowing faster travel without requiring individuals to change their behaviour.This hope is decidedly optimistic.
