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Noun
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Combining the optimism of Don Quixote and Candide became the guide for my main character—an absolutely surreal, absurd optimist, who believes that even things way out of his league are possible for him.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
5 Nov. 2025 -
Loosely centered on the ballet Don Quixote (which is based on the 1600s Spanish novel), Act 2 speaks to kids ages 5–8 about themes of resilience, compassion and friendship—values Copeland says shaped her early years.—
Essence,
Essence,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Pic takes place in 1970s Detroit, where a working-class romantic is framed by a ruthless gangster after falling for his girlfriend.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
30 Oct. 2025
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Throughout the 1970s, as much as Nicholson’s rebels or Beatty’s hopeless romantics, Keaton’s optimistic dreamers repeatedly collided with the realities of the times, measuring the distance between what the counterculture thought was possible and what the world would actually allow.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The path to Level 5 autonomous driving has turned out to be a much longer and bumpy one than the optimists once hoped.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Mokyr has long been known as an optimist about recent technological innovation.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
13 Oct. 2025
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