Rosy-eyed

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Optimistic; idealistic.

    "A rosy-eyed optimist"

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"Heubeck concludes: "It's not because of some rosy-eyed view of what railways used to be like, and we are only wanting to reopen it because there used to be one. It's because the railway would make a practical difference to the prospects of people not yet born and young people here today in this fantastic part of the country.""

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