Despite a scattered script and tonal irregularities among the actors, the show is sustained by its momentum, agreeable quirkiness and winning optimism (1 05).
So this is just natural for me to think I'm gonna win!" Optimism is central to the candidate's platform.
Her latest LP, "Blessed" (Lost Highway), reflects a bit of newfound (and hard-won) optimism.
But like anyone whose life has been tragically transformed, LaChanze finds that her hard-won optimism is often tempered by anger.
The opening description of the tiny space in which the author writes is memorable, and the piece's ending — in which Mr. McCann discusses "radical empathy" and the possibility of hard-won optimism in the face of darkness — is moving.
Although it has been ten years since "Angels" was produced in New York, Kushner's play hasn't become dated; the offstage, real-life world has turned many times since 1993, but there are enough rough equivalents to the issues the play raises that its ironies still seem sharp and its over-all power — its harshness, its hard-won optimism — is undiminished.
Herbie - your optimism, winning personality and generosity to all will live in our hearts forever.
Casting a blind eye on the past is not new, least of all in America, where optimism wins elections.
They capture — with a winning mixture of optimism and melancholy, with a generosity of spirit tempered by a punitive sense of right and wrong — something essential in the experience of youth.
When talking about President Obama, Ibrahim says: "When he won, I shared in the optimism expressed by many that his presidency would usher in a new chapter in relations between America and the Muslim world.
Finally, some stocks deserve the optimism they have won.
