Word: optimistically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite such a record, super-optimist Caillaux blandly informed the conference at Nice that he had more schemes up his sleeve for converting or consolidating France's internal debts and juggling with her allied obligations. He declared that he could not "divulge" his plans, vowed that Germany had tried a capital levy three times unsuccessfully, swore that he would resign rather than introduce it, and apparently expected the conference to express confidence in his famed "Wizardry," now wearing rather thin. The upshot of the matter was that M. Herriot, after imploring M. Caillaux tearfully to throw...
...there another side to the question? Surely there must be. You will accuse me of being an altogether blinded optimist if I can show no signs of retrogression whatever. I think perhaps there are such signs. To begin with, there are the eating habits of the students. In our time, almost everybody ate at a club table. The wealthier men ate at their clubs or at various boarding houses. The majority of the men ate at Memorial Hall, almost all at regular club tables with a definite body of friends: the poorer men went to Foxcroft. To show the extent...
Positive Elements: Graceful, dignified, modest, gentle, cultured, efficient speaker (pleasing, clear, mellow voice), refined language, jolly, sociable, congenial, cooperative, loyal, teachable, forgiving, hearty eater, thrifty, careful in business matters, optimist, religious, reverent, prayerful, devout, spiritual, pure-minded, faithful in religious observance, Bible student, good moral and religious influence, patriotic...
...feel, for with them matters are quite otherwise. With these unfortunates what's done is not done. And worse still, the ghost of what's undone rattles its bones and joins forces with the specter of what's yet to do. It Robert Browning had been the true optimist and friend of mankind he is reputed to be, he would have written...
JOHNNY: What is an optimist...