Many states have chosen to manipulate data to provide overly optimistic appraisals of their schools' performance.

The Senator said he thought the Democratic ticket had "a real shot" at carrying Oklahoma, an optimistic appraisal according to local politicians.

And they did not budge from their optimistic appraisals of the Osprey as a safe, impressive plane.

But experts have deflated some of the early optimistic appraisals of the $5.7 billion merger.

Value Line adheres closer to the more optimistic appraisal offered by Merrill Lynch.

Given the two sides' track record with deadlines, that may be an overly optimistic appraisal.

In his opening remarks, he gave a fairly optimistic appraisal of Russian society.

However, this optimistic appraisal does not take account of two significant problems.

But there was an underlying caution in the optimistic appraisals about whether Mr. Bush's current image is the real and final one.

Sports Illustrated gave an optimistic appraisal and predicted the team would be ready to come back from the previous season's poor result.