But the phrases that come through often curdle sunny optimism with paranoia.

Well, sure, but what self-respecting soap opera is going to be content with nothing but sunny optimism.

Edwards: "No need to change the bulb - I'll just light up the room with my sunny optimism!"

The moods range from sunny optimism to melanchoilia, claustrophobia and terror.

Since then, one newspaper reports that "talk around town about whether the young mayor will succeed ranges from skepticism to sunny optimism."

So the candidates are trying to outdo one another in expressions of sunny optimism.

Our vice-presidential candidate was picked for his sunny optimism.

A realist when it came to assessing human nature, he did not share Jefferson's sunny optimism about democracy and human reason.

Playing Annie, with her sunny optimism, became a universal dream.

He makes the brightest of his days with sunny optimism and a flair for being fearless.