There are artists who seem to harbor a strain of cockeyed optimism.

His own judgment was that Churchill kept the cockeyed optimism which he'd demonstrated in defying Hitler after British forces were booted out of Europe in 1940.

"So much for cockeyed optimism," Gold muttered.

This certainty leads to feats of cockeyed optimism.

Talk about cockeyed optimism.

The audience came to Lincoln Center for a sentimental nostalgia trip back to that idyllic America of cockeyed optimism.

Ms. Close, lean and more mature, hints that a touch of desperation lies in Nellie's cockeyed optimism.

Need a little cockeyed optimism?

Such cockeyed optimism should raise suspicions.

The superb new Paper Mill Playhouse production is no sugary tale of cockeyed optimism.