Kareen was wonderfully expressive; she'd even managed to rub some of those human skills off on him, he thought in his more optimistic moments.

"In my optimistic moments," he added, "I think we've changed the agenda of the national conversation about secondary schools."

In her optimistic moments she convinced herself that he would indeed keep his word and release her.

There were optimistic moments.

Even in its most optimistic moments, the Bush Administration was careful not to promise an easy war.

The announcement was loaded with the kind of optimistic moments that the Mets have filled off-seasons with for two years.

Those are the only optimistic moments in this portrayal of a profoundly divided land.

In her most optimistic moments Magrat would not have compared herself to a gazelle, timid or otherwise.

I had hoped for, requested, and even now (in optimistic moments) still expect a new high-performance metadata-enabled file system from Apple.

In optimistic moments, he liked to think the forest itself was concerned for him and keeping him alive.