Such an arrangement encourages an analyst to be overly positive to keep investment banking fees coming in.

This can result in overly positive evaluation of the source and change promoted by the actor (Burgoon, 1995).

In April 2009, he proposed his own version of "We belong together", who got an overly positive response from critics and fans alike.

Finally, even people with positive self-views appear to be uncomfortable with overly positive evaluations.

Portraying ethnic groups as overly positive, however, may be similarly misleading.

The company has been accused in the past of making statements that were overly positive about the drug's standing with the F.D.A.

They were concerned that the results were presented in an overly positive way in the journal, for which I take full responsibility.

The overly positive spin that the U.S. military had been attempting to achieve for years came crashing down.

Early reviews for either format were not overly positive.

Following a setback or failure, all is still not lost, as people's overly positive beliefs may be used again in a new undertaking.