Of all the family, she is the most like her father, voluble, energetic, extroverted, optimistic -- a natural politician.
If you hang around lots of them for long enough, their pessimism may even rub off somewhat, so it's important to be alert to that happening and to swiftly reroute your behavior back to its natural optimistic approach.
Imagining evil of this magnitude simply does not come naturally to the American character, which is why, even after we are repeatedly confronted with it, we keep reverting to our natural, naïvely optimistic selves.
Here is another area where Leibniz is offering a theory and is optimistic that the relevant natural factors determining the threshold will be discovered in the science of pneumatology (and, indeed, cognitive science has made some progress in this direction).
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward was nominated because the characters remain optimistic during an impending natural disaster.
If the 'lost' patients were in a better clinical state than those seen in clinics, we might have a more optimistic view of the natural history of pulmonary regurgitation and delay surgery.
In general, the participants did not experience identification of depression as particularly problematic, held an optimistic view of its natural course and treatability, and felt relatively at ease in managing it.
I feel optimistic about Gordon Brown - his natural dourness makes him unsuitable for the Little Ant and Little Dec treatment - and quite hopeful, too, about the next generation of Conservative leaders.
"One could say men have this gift of being more optimistic, that it's a natural tendency," Dr. Tiemeier said.
Waffle, waffle, waffle, don't waste your time trying this... .. Perhaps I'm being overly optimistic, but surely it's natural for trees to produce offspring in this way?
