optimistic

Whenever we go through personal challenges — and I think challenges as a nation — I think we have to hold on to what makes us optimistic.

In January, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf addressed the country optimistically.

You listen to song after song—attentively, open-mindedly, optimistically.

Bringing back Urban and Lopez and hiring Connick, at least optimistically, hints that the show is refocusing on those contestants.

"After the Cold War, we optimistically assumed we'd be collecting a dividend of peace," Gen. Iwasaki said.

So I have what could most optimistically be called a love/hate relationship with Christmas carols and songs.

Mr. Traill went up to the lodge for the keys, saying, optimistically, that a sexton might unwittingly have locked Bobby in.

O—— had been the town at which, a little more than a month ago, we had arrived so eagerly, so optimistically.

Hold them where they are, and well win it yet, declared Jack optimistically.

Oh, I dont judge there will really be any trouble, said Rodney optimistically.

"But we'll get more," observed Ruth, optimistically, who had never been a girl of deep friendships.