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optimism 1. the doctrine of the ultimate triumph of good over evil 2. the philosophical doctrine that this is the best of all possible worlds Optimism See also Hope. Bontemps, Roger personification of cheery contentment. [Fr. Lit.: “Roger Bontemps” in Walsh Modern, 66] beset by inconceivable misfortunes, hero indifferently shrugs them off. [Fr. Lit.: Candide] sanguine gentleman, constantly “waiting for something to turn up.” [Br. Lit.: David Copperfield Candide’s incurably optimistic tutor. [Fr. Lit.: Candide] always finds something to be glad about. [Am. Lit.: Pollyanna; Am. Cinema: Pollyanna in Disney Films, 170–172]
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It is about time that the real estate industry removes the rose-tinted glasses and takes a realistic assessment of what is happening. Collings presents himself as the guy who is going to give you the real deal, minus the lather of intellectual pretensions, plus the odd personal detail about the main players: Someone who long ago discarded the rose-tinted glasses of smiling stupid belief characteristic of many high-minded novices. After the collapse of an industry plan to use an avalanche of new berries to give red M&M candies their crimson color, some growers began thinking they might have been looking at the world through rose-tinted glasses. |
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