In optimistic accounts of environmental management, the latter is often mistaken for a description.

Andrée gave a glowingly optimistic account of the ease with which these requirements could be met.

In the book, Mr. Guilbaut attacks "traditional" historians of the period as producing "positive, heroic and optimistic" accounts.

Observers at this test produced optimistic accounts.

Critical theory offers a more optimistic account of valid knowledge through the postponed validity to be derived from emancipatory practice.

Functionalists have provided one of the more optimistic accounts of the nature of gender relations in modern society.

Appleby uses sectionalism to turn her primarily optimistic account into emerging tragedy.

This is one of science fiction's most unreservedly optimistic accounts to date of technological efforts to reshape human beings.

The flood of optimistic accounts could raise unrealistic expectations.

As Mr. Myers spoke, the information service reported on optimistic local accounts on the health of two foreign leaders.