But it was real, that effervescence, and child-like in that it seemed based more on hope than experience, tinged with pain as hope so often is.
Attorney William L. Ransom, in a 1924 essay for the American Bar Association Journal, described the "changing profession," which had responded with innovation to the chaos of a world war, and an economy that seemed based more on aspiration than production.
Since the presidential candidates' positions on gay marriage seem based more on tactics than principle, we do not expect them to shift ground.
Unfortunately, Mr. Nagasundaram's projections seem based more on his disapproval of the Indian government's economic policy stance than a persuasive statistical analysis.
The recent designation of 15 priority security zones in high-crime areas of France, commencing in September, seems based more on hope than reason.
Goldstein ably sketches reformers past and present, asserting that the common force behind each new wave of school reforms is evangelical conviction, and that new movements often seem based more on faith than on factual evidence.
Some of the conservative criticisms of Mr. Obama's policies, the health care overhaul in particular, seem based more on emotion and perception than on fact; it is hard to sustain an argument that the program amounts to socialism when it is built around competition among corporate insurers for the business of individuals and companies.
That would further cut some Medicaid costs, but the idea seems based more on stereotypes than on potential savings.
While Mr. Kushner was deeply involved in charities involving New Jersey's Jewish community and the Holocaust Memorial, his interest in Democratic Party politics and candidates seemed to be based more on pragmatism than ideology, Mr. Giblin said.
But it was a very patchy recovery, far stronger in the south than the north, and seemed to be based more on consumer borrowing and spending than on any real increase in output, which remained sluggish as the banks continued to hoard their money like constipated misers.
He had the air of Galileo addressing a college of cardinals, although in Mr Blair's case it was he, not his inquisitors, whose conviction seemed to be based more on faith than on evidence.Even the most stalwart supporters of the war now part company with Mr Blair when he insists on the accuracy of the intelligence material that confirmed his belief in the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
