Often it had been Laura Lou's unquenchable optimism that had kept alive Elly's courage.

Fianosther winced uneasily, but continued in a voice of unquenchable optimism.

Rarely had Rome produced a specimen to equal him, with his height, his strongman's physique, his awesomely huge genital equipment, and his air of unquenchable optimism.

Through all these troubles, friends and advisers say Mr. Reagan has generally maintained his upbeat attitude and "unquenchable optimism," as Mr. Weinberger put it in a Rose Garden ceremony marking his departure last week.

It reflected his unquenchable optimism about the future and his belief that good planning and social justice are inseparable.

All that being true, anyone who attempts to deal with Romanticism in scholarly depth must bring to the task not only musical and historical expertise but unquenchable optimism.

But these are incidental and subordinate to the poem's unquenchable optimism.

Mr. Webb's darker, throatier delivery of lyrics that burst with an aching adolescent romanticism deepened the performance by tugging gently against Mr. Campbell's unquenchable optimism.

It was precisely the right note-her unquenchable optimism and her "little joke."

With the unquenchable optimism of one who always has the last word - and always in Yiddish - Mrs. Spaisman said that with "Double Identity," "maybe we'll reach a younger generation; people love music.