hopefulness

Example Sentences

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Hopefulness and regret are calibrated to perfection in a revival that ought to be filmed before it closes July 7.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024

Hopefulness or a lack of it is really not the issue here.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2014

Hopefulness is contagious, and how could any one resist such confidence as Sylvius Hogg displayed?

From Ticket No. "9672" by Kendall, Laura E.

Hopefulness, thankfulness and success are as near akin as light, heat and motion—the same force underlies, makes up the first trio, as it does the second.

From Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Brisbane, Arthur

Hopefulness has a pleasure in making a throw of any kind, because the prospect of success is certain; and only a more generous pleasure in offering as many as possible a share in the stake.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George