Sentence examples for rather hopeful from inspiring English sources

Zimbabwe, by contrast, has for 20 of the past 22 years looked rather hopeful.

"How do we carry on this rather hopeful, optimistic sense?" asked one volunteer.

A limited US release in December ensured the film would qualify for a rather hopeful tilt at the Oscars.

Cameron's long ball for Johansson is rather hopeful, then Shea sends a better ball for Altidore, who can't control it.

By E. B. White The New Yorker, May 20 , 1933P. 13 Rather hopeful signs have been noticed lately.

Batty's first ball almost provides him with a caught-and-bowled chance, but Pathan just works the ball wide of his despairing - and rather hopeful - dive.

It is also apparent that Obama was in the room with Wright at times when Wright said other things, which Obama did not deem objectionable-slash-crazy-ass, but rather hopeful-slash-optimistic, and those things, said at that time, may have formed the backbone of certain principles that inspired Obama's political life.

In quite different ways, all of the collection deals with Bosnia, or with the Yugoslavia that dominated Hemon's childhood, back when Bosnia was rather a hopeful place (not yet having been elevated into a tragedy).

I prefer to think in terms of light and dark, rather than hopeful and hopeless.

In other words, because, as a Jew, Aronofsky will not be saved, therefore his film is bleak and nostalgic rather than hopeful and forward-looking.

It's another element of what is actually a rather sweet, hopeful message in the direct connection that Dewey-Hagborg makes between DNA sequencing and image: we all share an incredibly close biological foundation.