Both sides gave optimistic assessments, with Israel's chief negotiator saying that even their disagreements were "in a positive spirit."

Note: this article presents a more optimistic assessment of recent economic trends in northeastern Thailand, based on government data from the 1980s through mid-2000s.

Will described the optimistic assessments delivered from the Bush administration as the "rhetoric of unreality."

Nonetheless, it offered a somewhat more optimistic assessment than in the past.

He called the study's conclusions "a very optimistic assessment."

She smiled at his optimistic assessment of his usual manner.

It gives me grounds to voice such an optimistic assessment.

According to optimistic assessments eight thousand million people will inhabit this planet in 2050.

To the last minute, the White House had not wavered from the president's optimistic assessment.

But even the most optimistic assessment calls for that process to be complete in 2010.