Optimistic readers will find comfort in "Peace Through Embargo," "Viagra Saves Wildlife" and "The Hybrid That Gets 239 M.P.G".
A reporter makes a decision: will those final sentences be optimistic, leaving the reader upbeat, or the opposite?
It's also making last week's Questioningly seem a bit quaint — aware of the storm but still optimistic, we asked readers to propose the worst Halloween costumes imaginable.
Though Amtrak's new high-speed Acela rail service between Boston and New York hasn't matched optimistic expectations, several readers argued that there was a real demand for rail on regional routes like that.
In common with most of the heroes of my books for younger readers, Alfie Summerfield in Stay is honest, good-hearted, optimistic and a passionate reader.
It probably depends on how optimistic or pessimistic the reader is.
And how good an idea is a publication like Good Magazine, which has an editorial mandate to deliver — I quote the description in the triennial's catalog — only upbeat news to "young, educated readers seeking optimistic analysis of the world's problems"?
The most adventuresome, optimistic, or simply foolhardy readers of "Knock Knock" will scroll down on Ink Node to find the single word "love," and having found it will see, too, that their expectation of artistic cynicism has been frustrated by a message so achingly sincere it rightly faces the charge of being saccharine.
Sharing the bill is Eddi Reader, a more optimistic folk-rocker who has quietly been putting out one congenial album after another.
THE United States has been stalling for years on the ratification of its free-trade agreements with Colombia and Panama, but The Economist's readers are an optimistic bunch.
