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Example sentences for: hopeful

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It's easy to understand why McCain has been anointed the media's favorite presidential hopeful.
So as I said, the story of the baby-sitting co-op helps me remain hopeful in times of depression.
I give the New York Times headline; you give a one-sentence summary of the story: "Presidential Hopeful Displays Humanity."
From now until mid-September, Time, Newsweek , the New York Times , and half the other magazines and newspapers in the country will participate in that odd journalistic ritual whereby critics abandon the skepticism we demand of them the rest of the year and emit hopeful bubbles of enthusiasm--a gush that turns to bile when the plays or movies or art shows in question prove as disappointing as one sort of suspected they would be.
(The review caught my eye because some of it matched word for word a recent speech by House Minority Leader and presidential hopeful Richard Gephardt.)