On the economy, a stubborn optimism also rings through despite the downturn.

The Knicks maintain a stubborn optimism.

A stubborn optimism flows through the Knicks' locker room most nights, no matter the location or the opponent.

Today, business leaders in the United States expressed an almost stubborn optimism that China would remain on its current course of economic modernization.

Such stubborn optimism prevails enough to drive Seal's songs, and it keeps the world's dance floors busy, too.

But the Federation had thrived for more than a century on stubborn optimism and unbridled faith in the future.

The stubborn optimism has finally begun to fade.

Harry's patriotism - reflexive and sometimes complacent - was, like Updike's, the expression of an embattled, stubborn optimism.

Faulkner leaves another timely legacy: a stubborn optimism.

Kes admired his stubborn optimism, but found herself unable to let the matter go so easily.