And that financial assessment is probably on the optimistic side.

"I'm getting to the optimistic side, and I was not there before."

The optimistic side was saying: Right, I'll just go to prison now.

Couldn't you argue that the reverse is true, looking on the optimistic side?

Still, analysts say those assumptions are on the optimistic side.

I should like to say to the Spanish Presidency: show your bright, optimistic side.

She has an optimistic side as well but it appears very rarely.

"In some instances," he added, "that would be a little on the optimistic side."

I happen to feel sort of on the optimistic side.

"The Federation tends to be on the optimistic side of things."