(a.) Of or pertaining to optimism; tending, or conforming, to the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.
(a.) Hopeful; sanguine; as, an optimistic view.
Example Sentences:
(1) Johnson and Campion are optimistic that marriage equality will win out, and soon.
(2) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
(3) Even under the most optimistic scenarios, shale gas is projected to meet just 10% of European gas demand by 2030.
(4) I have the optimist's world view of America as a tolerant place, where anyone can grow up to be the President.
(5) He says there are many optimistic tales to tell – migrant families, he says, are helping to drive up standards in local schools – but such stories tend to get lost in an online world that has precious little interest in them.
(6) All I wanted to know was that this was not a hereditary disease – partly, I suppose, because I was so young and carefree and optimistic.
(7) I was optimistic that I could leave behind my reputation as the nerdy one of my friends.
(8) The new Poles are generally optimistic and open-minded, believing their destiny to be in their own hands, that Poland shouldn't be prisoner to its past and that the future waxes bright for their country.
(9) The Bank of England has a record of being over-optimistic about Britain's prospects and in its latest assessment of the economy once again cut its growth forecast.
(10) Excessively optimistic judgements of driving competency and accident risk have often been implicated in the disproportionate involvement of young males in traffic crashes.
(11) I would urge her to follow the example of Elizabeth I, who, on appointing as her chief minister Sir William Cecil, said of him: “This opinion I have of you: that whatever you know my personal opinion to be, you will give me advice that is best for the realm.” Valerie Crews Beckenham, Kent • Another immensely qualified person loses their job for not being optimistic enough about Brexit.
(12) English speakers are the least optimistic about the chances of avoiding dangerous climate change Out of more than 6,000 self-selecting respondents, many expressed dismay at the slow pace of political action on climate change.
(13) Both brothers had been in optimistic mood earlier in the day.
(14) Arsène Wenger said he hopes the midfielder will return in four weeks and, “if all goes well, three”, but the estimate is believed to be optimistic.
(15) The optimists, not the least of whom are the British, believe that the summit is a starting point on which to build.
(16) "We'd have preferred that, in addition to these increases, we had seen our market share grow overall this quarter but we are optimistic that some of the sector's major rebranding campaigns and marketing initiatives will start taking effect in results this year."
(17) The most optimistic of them sees a fall by 2030, but this would require huge investments in renewable energy as well as financial and technical support from overseas.
(18) Jints fans, suddenly optimistic about their postseason chances, forgot how bad their team was over the fortnight - today they are being reminded.
(19) Reagan's youthful hero was FDR – another optimist, albeit a far steelier one – who turned the federal government into the agent of recovery from the Great Depression and of victory in World War II.
(20) A recent National Audit Office study pinpointed these precisely: the DWP’s approach, it finds, is too rigid; its policy assumptions tend to be untested and over-optimistic; strategically, it fails to anticipate uncertainty (specifically, the possibility of failure); it neglects to monitor progress, so does not notice when things go wrong until far too late.
Receptive
Definition:
(a.) Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a receptive mind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
(2) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
(3) VS had a crude topography, and receptive fields of neurons in VS were relatively large.
(4) The use of UEBP-deficient female rat liver cytosol revealed that the afore-mentioned steroids are ineffective with respect to estrogen reception.
(5) Both face and paw receptive fields are unions of a certain set of skin areas called compartments.
(6) They thus have 2 receptive fields: one on the hindleg whose motor neurons they control and one on the ipsilateral middle leg, provided by inputs from the mesothoracic intersegmental interneurons.
(7) Thus cross-orientation suppression originates from within the receptive field.
(8) Medical treatment has several objectives: the action of water on the metabolism, action on the behaviour of the labyrinthine capillaries and the biology of neurosensorial cells, action on vestibular information and the receptivity of the nerve centres and finally on the patients' lifestyle.
(9) The contrast threshold for line orientation was studied using two lines with the same orientation under three different experimental conditions (series): (1) the two lines were presented in the same part of the receptive field; (2) they were along the same straight line and separated by 14' visual angle; (3) they were parallel and displaced at 4' of visual angle.
(10) Once you've invested many years in a career, figuring out how to take time out and then return to a role that's comparable to the one you left (or as comparable as you want it to be) requires more than confidence and enthusiasm - employers need to actively acknowledge the benefits of such breaks and be more receptive to those seeking to return”.
(11) "I never expected to get 100 caps and have the reception I did," said the Chelsea defender.
(12) Administration of the progestins, progesterone and dihydroprogesterone (DHP), and of the hypothalamic decapeptide, LH-RH, 6 hr prior to testing restored receptivity to varying degrees in these E2B + DHT treated mice.
(13) The regional difference in the prevalence of beta AR404-immunoreactive astrocytes suggests that these receptive sites may either: (i) be preferentially activated by catecholamines released from terminals rather than circulating catecholamines; or (ii) be down-regulated in AP due to blood-born substances, such as catecholamines.
(14) Neurons with receptive fields confined to the maxillary division of the trigeminal innervation field are found within a ring of cortex which a) completely surrounds the representation of the ophthalmic field, and b) includes parts of cytoarchitectural area 2, 1, 3, and 3a.
(15) Both tympanic and nontympanic pathways of sound reception are utilized by anuran amphibians.
(16) The characteristics of pattern and flicker (movement) detection are compared to electrophysiological studies on X (sustained) and Y (transient) neurones respectively, and correlations are described for studies of temporal frequency response, non-linearity, width of receptive field, strength of the inhibitory surround and motion sensitivity.
(17) Three groups of facts are compared in this study: the significant adaptive and adaptational modification of the receptive fields of neurons of the visual cortex of the cat, the conditioned, selective, subsensory change in the threshold of perception (detection and recognition) by an individual of a letter in relation to two control letters, and the role of spatially-specialized cortical inhibition in the formation and adaptive modifications of the receptive fields and detector properties of neurons of the visual cortex.
(18) After an hour or so, a car appeared, and another Isis man drove Abu Ali to a reception house not far away.
(19) Well one of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon … which means we’ve got to step up.” In the backrooms of the G20 meeting, Australia was continuing to resist language in the official communique encouraging countries to make pledges to the Green Climate Fund , but to a rousing reception at a local university, Obama announced the $3bn US commitment.
(20) It is concluded that chronic peripheral nerve section affects the anatomical and physiological mechanisms underlying the formation of light touch receptive fields of dorsal horn neurons in the lumbosacral cord of the adult cat, but that the resulting reorganization of receptive fields is spatially restricted.