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my mom was very much like that when i was growing up. we used to joke and call her pollyanna, because she never fails to find something fun and amusing no matter what the situation. i don't have kids yet, so i'm not sure what she'll be like as a grandmother, but i hope very much that i can maintain the type of cheerful outlook she was always in possession of.
All About My Mother 2009
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Hilary acknowledges that the President has a delicate balancing act -- not to seem an out-of-touch pollyanna yet sticking to his smart approach of investing in education, infrastructure and energy for long-term growth.
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now: Economy vs. Obama? GOP Goldwaterized? Afghan Porridge Right? HuffPost Radio 2011
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Your pollyanna version of mature homosexuality is just not consistent with the facts – homosexuality IS arrested development.
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Your pollyanna version of mature homosexuality is just not consistent with thefacts
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Its a giant pollyanna feedback loop that actually exists.
Sustainability, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Hilary acknowledges that the President has a delicate balancing act -- not to seem an out-of-touch pollyanna yet sticking to his smart approach of investing in education, infrastructure and energy for long-term growth.
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now: Economy vs. Obama? GOP Goldwaterized? Afghan Porridge Right? HuffPost Radio 2011
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Hilary acknowledges that the President has a delicate balancing act -- not to seem an out-of-touch pollyanna yet sticking to his smart approach of investing in education, infrastructure and energy for long-term growth.
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now: Economy vs. Obama? GOP Goldwaterized? Afghan Porridge Right? HuffPost Radio 2011
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Hilary acknowledges that the President has a delicate balancing act -- not to seem an out-of-touch pollyanna yet sticking to his smart approach of investing in education, infrastructure and energy for long-term growth.
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now: Economy vs. Obama? GOP Goldwaterized? Afghan Porridge Right? HuffPost Radio 2011
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Hilary acknowledges that the President has a delicate balancing act -- not to seem an out-of-touch pollyanna yet sticking to his smart approach of investing in education, infrastructure and energy for long-term growth.
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now: Economy vs. Obama? GOP Goldwaterized? Afghan Porridge Right? HuffPost Radio 2011
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Hilary acknowledges that the President has a delicate balancing act -- not to seem an out-of-touch pollyanna yet sticking to his smart approach of investing in education, infrastructure and energy for long-term growth.
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now: Economy vs. Obama? GOP Goldwaterized? Afghan Porridge Right? HuffPost Radio 2011
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from Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Etymology: Pollyanna, heroine of the novel Pollyanna (1913) by Eleanor Porter died 1920 American fiction writer
Date: 1921
(n):a person characterized by irrepressible optimism and a tendency to find good in everything
January 25, 2008