1.   But not all of us feel so optimistic about the prospect of aloneness.

2.   Forty-six-year-old Sandy Koicuba is not so optimistic.

3.   I did not feel so optimistic.

4.   But James Millar, chief executive of the Dundee-based supermarket chain, Wm Low, was not so optimistic.

5.   Although wages have been rising of late, consumers were not so optimistic about increases in family income during the first half of the new year.

6.   And Peterson is not quite so optimistic about the certainty of high returns from investments.

7.   Annan has subsequently expressed regret about having been so optimistic.

8.   A former member of the Attleboro sect was not so optimistic.

9.   A visiting European dignitary was not so optimistic.

10.   After all that has happened, is Mayfield still so optimistic?