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- adjective pejorative
Unreasonably optimistic .
Etymologies
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Examples
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What is especially troubling is the failure of those who are most optimistic about these talks to recognize that the language they use and the framework they have embraced is so thoroughly tone deaf to Palestinian realities and concerns as to be "Pollyannaish," at best, or insulting, at worst.
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What is especially troubling is the failure of those who are most optimistic about these talks to recognize that the language they use and the framework they have embraced is so thoroughly tone deaf to Palestinian realities and concerns as to be "Pollyannaish," at best, or insulting, at worst.
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What is especially troubling is the failure of those who are most optimistic about these talks to recognize that the language they use and the framework they have embraced is so thoroughly tone deaf to Palestinian realities and concerns as to be "Pollyannaish," at best, or insulting, at worst.
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Before you discount his advice as being too "Pollyannaish," you should know that my friend is an enormously successful business person who has experienced the ups and downs of life including the loss of loved ones.
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In this model, nurses are trained in roughly eight weekend training sessions to become "Depression Care Managers" or, in the military's more Pollyannaish term, "Champions."
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Soldier Suicides And The Dumbing Down Of Military Mental Health Care M.D. Scott Mendelson 2010
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In this model, nurses are trained in roughly eight weekend training sessions to become "Depression Care Managers" or, in the military's more Pollyannaish term, "Champions."
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Soldier Suicides And The Dumbing Down Of Military Mental Health Care M.D. Scott Mendelson 2010
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The Roubini report says that relying on the history of low default rates in the municipal debt market is "Pollyannaish."
Muni Default Estimate: $100 Billion Michael Corkery 2011
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Our first century ancestors were probably less Pollyannaish than we are about the material world's stern refusal to fulfill our fondest desires when and where we want.
Weblogs 2009
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In this model, nurses are trained in roughly eight weekend training sessions to become "Depression Care Managers" or, in the military's more Pollyannaish term, "Champions."
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Soldier Suicides And The Dumbing Down Of Military Mental Health Care M.D. Scott Mendelson 2010
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In this model, nurses are trained in roughly eight weekend training sessions to become "Depression Care Managers" or, in the military's more Pollyannaish term, "Champions."
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Soldier Suicides And The Dumbing Down Of Military Mental Health Care M.D. Scott Mendelson 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Pollyannaish
“It’s not that I’m Pollyannaish or in any way unaware of the risks of the global economy ... It’s just it seems to me that we’ve been living through a lot of these downside risks already for several years … but the strength of domestic demand in the U.S. economy has been sufficient to overcome that.”
John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its-time-to-start-planning-for-the-next-recession/
March 7, 2016