Sentence examples for shrinking optimism from inspiring English sources

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Perhaps the 'wrongness' is a sort of oblique challenge to the shrinking optimism in the zeitgeist, as if these oddball dancefloor curveballs somehow suggest history –— neoliberalism, surveillance, cynicism — isn't a vast and overwhelmingly linear inevitability to which we must remain passive.

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Believing the optimism, you blow $5,000 on a summer vacation and come home to find your job eliminated in a shrinking economy.

Shrinking violet?

Shrinking fastest?

Shrinking population?

Shrinking Capital Market.

Shrinking bladder?

Kevin Daly of Goldman Sachs thinks there are modest grounds for optimism: the sectors that shrank most this time, such as oil and gas, are notoriously volatile, whereas those that grew, such as services, may be seeing sustainable improvement.

Yet when elections were held last month for the Shura Council, a feeble upper house of parliament that many Egyptians would prefer to abolish, turnout shrank to a dismal 6.5%.Much of the post-revolutionary optimism of 2011 has been shamefully squandered.

They have certainly been struggling: sales of recorded music shrank by a fifth between 1999 and 2003.Today, there is more optimism.

The grounds for cautious optimism are that President Bush really cannot afford to shrink back now that he has made his commitment; and that the opportunity for change provided by the victory in Iraq will not last forever.

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