Sentence examples for wise optimism from inspiring English sources

The great thing was that among the professionals and local politicians in the room, and among the audience, there was profound understanding of the cocktail of problems that conspired to cause such mayhem, and a good deal of wise optimism regarding how to tackle it, often offered from local people who had been active in youth work for many years.

And that confidence could be the first step toward finding an older and wiser form of optimism.

In this, like his kindly mentors and the newspaper he works for, he has the fundamental optimism of the biblical wise man who built his house upon the rock.

But especially in the "Love" section, which moves from optimism through obsession to sadder-but-wiser reflection, it became an intense journey in which the emotional cost of passion, expressed in a song like "Loving You," is steep.

Mitt Romney did see this, I think, in the way any ragingly surreal, typically American fraud occasionally senses his own emptiness before someone wise and strong enough to be shouldering the burden of tragic optimism.

Her optimism and idealism offer an alternative to the wise-cracking tweens relentlessly depicted on the Disney Channel.

Mr. Heaney was world-weary and wise, tinctured with an existential sadness, though he managed a strong underlying optimism.

But one of the wisest Arabists I know gave a cynic's justification for cautious optimism, in Egypt as in Libya.

Limiting time spent with negative people as best you can is a wise idea if their pessimism rubs off on you, but remember that your optimism may just inspire someone to shift his grumpy outlook a bit.

Both Liverpool's top scorer this season, Luis Suarez, and skipper Steven Gerrard were given the night off and as wise it may have appeared to omit the pair, the wholesale changes checked any optimism surrounding the club.

In Thailand she warned against "reckless optimism" about the changes in Myanmar, and advised investors to maintain a "healthy scepticism .Those are wise words perhaps, but at odds with the message of many in the government.