Democratic leaders promised another attempt on Wednesday to get the legislation back on track, but while they expressed official optimism, their prospects for success were uncertain.
In the end, unable to assert himself, official optimism won the day.
Details were scarce, and so was official optimism.
The official optimism cannot hide challenges.
But this official optimism is increasingly surreal.
But official optimism remains as bright as the sun symbol on New Mexico license plates.
In poetry, his themes include official optimism, peaceful labor, heroism, and struggle for peace of the Soviet people.
Bunin bitterly ridiculed this "lump of official optimism which had been added to his novel by a fascist regime's translator".
'Then you aren't impressed by the official optimism?'
But Mr. Zvonov found it difficult to go along with the official optimism.