Those three things would kill it sir altogether and two already are looking very optimistic.

"Our estimate of $300 billion for fiscal 2003 looks somewhat optimistic."

"But even that twice-downgraded figure of 2.1 per cent in 2011 is now looking pretty optimistic."

As you can see, he still looks pretty optimistic (kind of).

But it looks optimistic mainly because people think of zero as the threshold.

It doesn't look very optimistic right now, so obviously it's going to take this kind of effort from everybody on a consistent basis.

So it's not looking very optimistic for the mining industry.

By now we had been there several hours and things weren't looking very optimistic.

Many parts of the world have burgeoning and healthy job markets, with the future looking quite optimistic.

No doubt the latest predictions will also look hopelessly optimistic in 6 months time.