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"Oh, yes, I think I will, Marilla," returned Anne optimistically. A good cry, indulged in the grateful solitude of the east gable, had soothed her nerves and restored her to her wonted cheerfulness.

Nietzsche is able to think cheerfully and optimistically of the possibility of life in this world recurring again and again, when he has once cast the dwarf from his shoulders, and he announces his doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence of all things great and small to his arch-enemy and in defiance of him.

He proceeded on his embassy with a mixture of excitement and embarrassment which caused him to turn aside with his hand on the curtain, and to examine intently for several moments the portrait of a lady, optimistically said by Mrs.

"So I'm looking at the fact that my hair's fallen out optimistically.

Therefore, we'll target her fairly optimistically between now and then."

In 1958 the Brussels Atomium optimistically heralded in the then emerging atomic industries.

"These matches aregames we are capable of winning and we set out optimistically to win our group and progress to the quarter-finals," he said.

``I have spent more than half a year already recovering, I missed a lot of matches and training but optimistically I will go back into full training in two or three weeks' time.

'I think it'll make us better people at the end of it, and hopefully I'll walk away with a few friends as well,' says Bruce, optimistically. Likewise, Mike has a good feeling about the experiment.

Jean-Claude Chermann, a codiscoverer of HIV, strolls with a retinue of white lab rats (Wizard, 1994); or a Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving is marred because the presentation turkey has turned into a platter of pills, syringes, and vials (Freedom to Share, 1994); or, more optimistically, a hospital bed floats in a wide sea, the patient hooked up to an IV, while a lighthouse sends out a radiant beam of genetic code (Beacon, 2001).

His prize is a pounds 100 first scorer's bet and his money is optimistically on Paul Lovering to net the opener in tomorrow's CIS Cup Final between Ayr and Rangers.

Pallasmaa's arguments for hapticity and slowness might seem optimistically at variance with the fast, superficial way most buildings are made these days, but they do strike a much-needed, elemental chord.