Sentence examples for trace of optimism from inspiring English sources
Ahead were the four young American women – fresh from college, bright with lip gloss and Lycra – who made up the core of Tammy's group and left a faint, effervescent trace of optimism and laughter on the mountain air.
But for his mother Eileen, it's as if every trace of optimism she has ever known is channelled into defending her son as he sits with his feet on the cab office desk, picking his nails and slagging off everything that isn't a pulsating glob of urbane sophistication.
I retain a trace of optimism.
The faintest trace of optimism I had for 2015 disappeared almost immediately.
The faintest trace of optimism for 2015 disappeared almost immediately; three days into January, the news hit that Boko Haram had slaughtered more than 2,000 people in northeast Nigeria, a tragedy followed by many more tragedies, because this Earth and that's the way things go.
There was a danger that Holland would gradually be drained of whatever traces of optimism were still left in them.
This allows for an abundance of acute observation and for traces of optimism to develop in the most stifling circumstances.
In tune with this tiny hint of optimism, Gervasi uses his film to trace the recrudescence of Anvil.
"I believe that if Brown was re-elected next spring, the last traces of hope and optimism and confidence about our national future would drain away".
Although "Comtean positivism," with its enthusiasm for the scientific study of society and its emphasis on using the results of such studies for social improvement, is still very much alive in psychology, contemporary political science shows only traces of Comte's optimism.
