But supporters of the gardens, including Council members and South Bronx gardeners, expressed optimism about saving the gardens when the issue comes before the Finance Committee and the City Council on Tuesday.
Through it all, the engineers profess optimism that they are catching and saving what is most useful.
His saving grace was the ability to embrace both optimism and realism concurrently -- something Collins named "the Stockdale Paradox".
But as temperatures rise, wedding vendors and couples are beginning to look toward that once-frosty patch between November and March with all the optimism once saved for spring.
Maytree's support was clearly crucial in saving Robinson's life: listening without judgment, challenging negative assumptions and helping to create optimism for the future.
Posting on another forum, a traveller offers tips for saving plastic: 'When flying, bring an empty plastic bottle.' So perhaps that famous Sierra Leonean optimism is well placed.
Few believe them, so nobody is saving the stuff.Officials insist that for the first time in many months, there are some reasons for optimism.
There was optimism earlier this week to save the season when some owners met with a group of players without Fehr or other union staff members present.
Then again, as the professor writes in his Two-Minute Case for Optimism, which has saved so many Chipotle customers from despair since appearing on its take-out bags, one should always put these discouraging developments in perspective.
If only they'd be more positive, expectations would level off and rise, and a double-dip would be averted.But as much as I'd love to think that by focusing on positives I could touch off a wave of optimism that would save the recovery, this is simply beyond what I or any other journalist can do.
