Person with Positive Outlook Crossword

Person with positive outlook crossword clue. A daily crossword in The Press newspaper on Saturday, 29 July 2017. 8 letters

Answer: OPTIMIST

He had been sufficiently an optimist to believe in the triumph of the liberal but non-republican institutions dear to him under the restoration, under Louis Philippe and Louis Napoleon successively.

Till Amos (with the solitary exception of Micaiah ben Imlah, in i Kings xxii.) prophecy was optimist – even Elijah, if he denounced the destruction of a dynasty and the annihilation of all who had bowed the knee to Baal, never doubted of the future of the nation when only the faithful remained; but the new prophecy is pessimist – it knows that Israel is rotten to the core, and that the whole fabric of society must be dissolved before reconstruction is possible.