They may be over-optimistic, incompetent or deluded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should opponents call Gordon Brown a liar?] Reference

I'm afraid I think you're being over-optimistic, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogging vs Internet Journalism?] Reference

Madagascar, could render even this prediction over-optimistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Viewed objectively, though, this assumption is over-optimistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regime Change in Tehran? Don't Bet on It -- Yet] Reference

But that, perhaps, is an over-optimistic view of the value of fakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talking About Fakes] Reference

‘I think you are over-optimistic, Laura mia,’ he told her drily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Count's Blackmail Bargain]

"We were over-optimistic in how little work we could do," said Mr. Graham.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moroccan-Inspired Chelsea Loft] Reference

However the ministry does not agree, and says the trust is being over-optimistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It all sounds a little over-optimistic to me, but we can hope the author is right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia Breaks IKEA] Reference

Historically, their "intermediate" assumptions have been as a rule over-optimistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Future of Social Security: An Exchange] Reference

With this, I reiterate that we do not fool ourselves and we are not over-optimistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [PRAISES LATIN AMERICAN FILMS] Reference

However, his prediction is now regarded as over-optimistic by many independent experts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference

Let's face it, I couldn't do much worse than the current bunch of over-optimistic fools.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iraqi Constitution] Reference

That was a decision on what one wanted to achieve and that may have been over-optimistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2006] Reference

The over-optimistic idiots who planned this fiasco expected a major payback from Iraqi oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloody Iraq] Reference

It turned out that the financial models for mortgage-backed securities were over-optimistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stress-Testing the Planet] Reference

My point was only that self-congratulatory, over-optimistic polling isn't what the Dems need.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dem Polling Firm: Younger Voters Set To Realign American Politics] Reference

The opposition parties were over-optimistic but Labour's results in the city were dissappointing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference

Yet, "we aren't over-optimistic" about the economy, a ministry official said at a briefing for reporters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan's MOF Ups Economy View] Reference

In his response to Unite members, Woodley described the BA statement as "misleading and over-optimistic".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cabin crew may strike again as BA rejects demands] Reference

Surely you must be concerned that some of those over-optimistic predictions to the United States were simply wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2003] Reference

In general, I have a tendency to make over-optimistic predictions about plot and character arcs on Battlestar Galactica.    From Wordnik.com.  [This is Not the Post You're Looking For and Other "Maelstrom" Thoughts] Reference

It would be over-optimistic to assume that Iran will lose interest in nuclear weapons with the departure of Ahmedinejad.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

However, this expectation of linkage between schools and firms seems to be somewhat over-optimistic in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference

"We were over-optimistic on our budget last year," Sir Martin said Friday, predicting organic revenue to be flat for 2010.    From Wordnik.com.  [WPP's 2009 Results Marked By Recession] Reference

He thinks the company's promise of restoring a dividend to shareholders in 2011 "could prove premature or over-optimistic.".    From Wordnik.com.  [GE Sheds Its Last 'Sell' Rating] Reference

It's a nice post, though I think that Experimental Turk's analysis is over-optimistic, for reasons that I'll explain below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-07-01] Reference

In wearing it, one identifies with the downtrodden, and avoids looking like some over-optimistic twit who's riding for a fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The cap crusaders] Reference

The mothers may have been over-optimistic, too, in their belief that one day they would be in a position to reclaim their baby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Threads of feeling] Reference

Even on the government's historically over-optimistic forecasts, public borrowing will rise to an eye-watering 8% of GDP by 2010.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.K. Unveils Jolt-Free Stimulus] Reference

Am sure In View will go after all carriers, make up nice charts about increased ARPU and over-optimistic forecasts on user-demand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presto: Because Computers Scare Old People] Reference

"It is important to note there are people sounding caution on our being over-optimistic about a biofuels strategy," Hendricks said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Q But was the original 18 months simply over-optimistic, or was it reasonable, but factors on the ground interfered with the process?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nsa Briefing On Bosnia] Reference

Like most other over-optimistic free lances, we invaded New York with an expeditionary force which was in a woeful state of unpreparedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [If You Don't Write Fiction] Reference

Their calls have been little help to battered shareholders, mostly filled with over-optimistic sunshine rather than helpful portents of doom.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.K. banks may wish they had] Reference

I blame the head-in-the-sand politicians in Congress, the over-optimistic forecasters, the half-educated press, and the power of the financial lobby.    From Wordnik.com.  [James K. Galbraith: Old Mistakes Die Hard] Reference

Although many of these states have been taking measures to close their budget gaps, the current projections are likely to wind up being over-optimistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Weisbrot: Internet Purchases Shouldn't Be Subsidized] Reference

At the risk of being over-optimistic, he said, he welcomed the good rains as a reminder of his childhood when the rivers were full and there was plenty of food.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference