On the contrary optimism means acknowledging problems first and then painting a picture of a positive outcome.
Fact is, an increasing body of literature is painting a picture of our brains as stingy things.
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Chinese commentators fear the effect on public order, painting a picture of bands of testosterone-crazed youths roaming the countryside, raising hell.
Apple in fact needs to being painting a picture of itself as the post-device company, as Google might well do with Project Glass.
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"It means painting a picture of a better, more dynamic society and offering Scotland a radical and inspirational choice about our future, " he said.
But the Obama campaign's hatchet men are much vaguer and more sweeping, painting a picture of Mr Romney as a callous asset-stripper a claim for which there is little evidence.
Given this, the weak retail sales seen this year were painting a dark picture.
No, painting a mysterious picture of financial fairies and monetary monsters will likely do more harm than good.
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Politicians are painting a dire picture of schools being shut down and hospitals closing whilst ways are found to tax electronic commerce.
The backdrop is Nottingham's Clifton Estate, once the biggest council housing estate in Europe, and Bugg doesn't flinch from painting a bleak picture of the area.
Until the last few weeks it seemed that was the case but most recently another sector tied directly to global growth and the so-called world-wide recovery is painting a different picture.
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But Alhaji Unisa Alim Sesay, who was at the meeting with Kabbah, claimed that Thompson is not painting a true picture of what transpired during last week's meeting with the country's president.
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The chief executive of Centrica, Sam Laidlaw, says I am painting a misleading picture - that I failed to point out that British Gas's residential supply business had an unusually weak first half last year, and that profits were therefore returning to nearer the norm.
The 50 and 200 day Simple Moving Averages have just completed a bullish crossover painting a strong technical picture.
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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has not yet published its figures for retail sales in November, but for some time it has been painting a more reassuring picture than the BRC (see chart).
His complaint accuses Mr. Davis, former Dewey executives Stephen DiCarmine and Joel Sanders, as well as former partners Jeffrey Kessler and James Woods, of painting a misleadingly rosy picture of Dewey's finances, and failing to disclose it owed its partners millions in deferred compensation.
Very few are talking about the very bullish action of the market internals, which are painting a much more attractive picture.
State television showed one supporter toting a handmade sign with a picture of Chavez next to a painting of Jesus.
Still way off the social exclusion units target, but the picture you are painting is actually quite a positive one?
"I think changing a picture's frame is an ownership thing, a territorial way to put your mark on a painting, " says Eli Wilner, a New York dealer widely credited with raising the American frame market's consciousness (not to mention prices).
Painters can think all this want about painting, but until they pick up a brush, there is no picture.
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Mr Wright later uploaded a picture to Twitter which showed five or six words on the bottom-right corner of the painting with black streaks of paint running down from the daubed writing.
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