Sentence examples for timid optimism from inspiring English sources

Dear Mr. Trump, I write to you from Mexico, where your victory has been greeted with surprise, fear, dismay and timid optimism.

So it was a real thrill to sit down last week with Stewart at The Economist's excellent Innovation event in Berkeley to talk about the origins of the gift economy, what the hippies got wrong (sex, the family & optimism), why the US and Europe have become so timid and how all the innovation is now coming from the south.

■ Optimism.

Nor timid.

He was timid, shy.

I was very timid.

That sounds too timid.

Yet bosses remain timid.

Nana had been timid.

"My optimism?

That's too timid.