But heading into the election, those who want to get reelected are going to do all they can to make things look good, heading into the election.
Many well-known academics, experts including some former and current high officials in the U.S. Government continue to say that things look good in Latin America without realizing or taking into consideration some of the more ominous developments there.
Looking at the pictures in our sample gallery, you'll be hard pressed to pick out any softness, because they've been shrunken down to a mere 800 x 600 pixels in size, a situation that's mirrored when viewing pictures on the phone, so you can definitely see HTC's motivation for optimizing its software to make things look good at lower resolutions.
In Sweden, we love things that look good, but which serve their purpose too.
Combined with a worry wall that just got higher, things look pretty good.
If you're an investor or a business, looking at the real economy in the US, things look pretty good right now (at least if you're at the top, and don't have to worry about declining real wages, or unemployment).
Right now, things do not look good for the technology sector.
Things didn't look good for the Devils when the Panthers scored twice in the opening 7:05.
Things did not look nearly as good in the middle of the week.
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While the overall numbers went up rapidly, things didn't look so good for the foreign manufacturers when you break it down.
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Things also don't look good for the many young people who - although not classed as narcissists - have a disproportionately positive self-view.
Being human, he recognised that things can be valued because they look good to eat and that people can be valued because you love them or admire them.
Last December, Congress pushed through a whole set of changes meant to make them look good on Election Day things easier for taxpayers.
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"One of the good things about Davos is people are able to look beyond the immediate, " he said.
That can look good to celebrities worried about bad press over things like relatives on the payroll, financial improprieties and high fundraising expenses (FORBES, March 20).
Moore says that strict mark-to-market accounting tends to make balance sheets look overly rosy in good times, when the market overvalues things.
"This is what Apple has done: Each release has had one or two things that you will look at and say 'that's a pretty good feature, '" DeMichillie says.
But the things I see in the store are not something that I think I would look good in if I went out.
"We thought at home that we will use our savings to look for something abroad, not in Spain, because things are not very good there and we don't think they're going to be better in the next few years, " he said.
But my goal is simply to see things clearly, so that we can get a good view of what the future will look like, and profit from it.
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Now, the good news is that you can stop actually doing the things that make you look and feel like an idiot, despite the fact that you really want to do them, if you use the right strategy.
And challenge yourself: Take a closer look at things that originally triggered disappointment, or any other negative feeling, and try find something good in them.
Even if the fundamentals look good for a slack market on paper, market sentiment is still extremely nervous about which way things could go.
Although things look pretty grim for our preferred DVR platform, we're optimistic that things are actually about to get really good in the next year thanks to Windows 7 and some unannounced features and products.
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