Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.
No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.
We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do.
We're Americans - in times of crisis, we step up.
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.
I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
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