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- adjective pejorative
irrepressibly orexcessively optimistic ; capable of seeing good in anyone
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Examples
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And lastly -- and this will seem kind of Pollyannish, I suppose -- but we need balance in our psyche about this.
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On the flip side, replying with only positives can sound Pollyannish.
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Lest I be accused of being too Pollyannish Pollyannaish? here, it's obvious that whatever deal gets struck is going to have some things contained within it which are going to upset some Democrats.
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Lest I be accused of being too Pollyannish Pollyannaish? here, it's obvious that whatever deal gets struck is going to have some things contained within it which are going to upset some Democrats.
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Even though Dianne Rehm admonished Moore for his anti-science outbursts, he continued to pollute the airwaves with Pollyannish complacency ...
Wonk Room » Global Warming Denier Stephen Moore: Climate Change Is ‘Climate Improvement’
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"We're not Pollyannish, but based on our experience so far, they are off to a good start, both in word and deed," Mr. Cretz said.
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Upon seeing incontrovertible evidence of these negative trade agreement results, economists continue with Pollyannish blather.
The P-I-E Model, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Her 1950's Pollyannish approach to problems will undoubtedly fail.
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The villain of the piece is an ultraconservative border-patrol officer (John Doman) whose long-estranged biracial son (Amari Cheatom) has come home for a visit, in the course of which he beds his Pollyannish stepmother (Elizabeth Marvel, who is, as always, astonishingly good).
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The villain of the piece is an ultraconservative border-patrol officer (John Doman) whose long-estranged biracial son (Amari Cheatom) has come home for a visit, in the course of which he beds his Pollyannish stepmother (Elizabeth Marvel, who is, as always, astonishingly good).
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