Sentence examples for were overly optimistic from inspiring English sources

"Clearly, we were overly optimistic".

O.K., maybe we were overly optimistic.

Several, including New York, California and Massachusetts, were overly optimistic.

Projections were overly optimistic, technical challenges were underestimated, designs were faulty, and workmanship was poor.

But such pronouncements were overly optimistic, for homesickness continued to plague many who migrated.

Estimates of savings in Medicare and Medicaid were overly optimistic, he said.

But even then, suppliers of the pink-hued fish were overly optimistic about our appetites at Christmas.

"Companies like to categorize prior accounting assumptions that were overly optimistic as nonrecurring write-offs," he said.

"That appeared to be overly optimistic".

Lincoln was, for once, being overly optimistic.

That timetable may be overly optimistic.