England in the mid-19th century was a hyperactive place, a place of appetite, invention, avarice and, as it turned out, unwarranted optimism.

"I am blinded," said Arkady N. Murashev, an opposition deputy usually incorrigible with unwarranted optimism.

"The problem arising from lofty predictions is not just that they spread unwarranted optimism," he said.

People close to Cisco have said the company's original internal target of moving Monterey's products into the market this spring was a result of unwarranted optimism within the Monterey team.

A natural experiment reveals the prevalence of one kind of unwarranted optimism.

His view is that just as the markets became overly pessimistic about the economy early in the year, they now seem to reflect unwarranted optimism about 1996 growth.

That showed an unwarranted optimism about the future.

Finally, Mr Caudron's last point: the Commission displays unwarranted optimism in its report.

Present practice gives cause for unwarranted optimism and unwarranted pessimism, which can be hard to understand for the public at large.

She was gone with this statement of what I considered unwarranted optimism.