Sentence examples for pathological optimism from inspiring English sources
My father's was a case of pathological optimism.
"I also have a pathological optimism that something else will come in, and she's more skeptical," he said.
The misallocation of savings, the hidden risks, the agency problem with intermediaries, and most importantly the pathological optimism put Dubai in the same box as New York and London.
Coming here with nothing from a small town and thinking, 'Well, I could do this, why not, I can make it here.' And that's definitely how I got here, in my U-Haul with all my fabric and stuff, and I think that's how mostly people come to New York, with pathological optimism and blind ambition".
It would have taken a pathological kind of optimism to entertain the possibility that the Kremlin would allow Navalny to be registered as a candidate to campaign and to have his name appear on the ballot in March.
Roddick appears to retain a deep dislike of the corporate business world; it is perhaps the only time her 'pathological optimism' slips.
