We just don¹t see enough evidence for these Pollyannaish forecasts.
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That's very simplistic and Pollyannaish sounding, but really, I noted that.
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Mustard oil is my mother's Windex, holding the same Pollyannaish quality for her.
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"The initial report about his injury was a little Pollyannaish," Mr. Shimkus said.
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Now, I don't want to come across as Pollyannaish, in either the American or the Israeli case.
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Trump also isn't Pollyannaish when he says he could go back to the original order and litigate it.
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"Not to be ideological or Pollyannaish, but you have to believe this work makes a difference," she said.
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"I'm not Pollyannaish about it, but I do think that there is still some basis for hope," Gore insisted.
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"She had this kind of joie de vivre that made her seem at times very Pollyannaish," Mr. Colacello said.
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"He saw the full arc of inter-Korean relations: naïve, Pollyannaish introduction, to deeply disenchanted antagonism at the end."
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"I don't want to be Pollyannaish about this," Miller said of the issue of possible reconciliation with the Taliban.
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"I am not Pollyannaish about the depths of the challenges we face," she said; still, she argued that change is possible.
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We need to remember that arms control is not a pollyannaish exercise, but rather a potent tool of hard national security.
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I'm not so Pollyannaish that I think that mayors can go to DC and everybody's going to put down their arms.
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It seemed to me that on the West Coast everything was diluted with a kind of Pollyannaish, utopian vision of the future.
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He's an almost Pollyannaish one at that, who argues that it's wholly in our power to stop the clock on climate catastrophe.
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He said the reactions to Brexit have varied from Pollyannaish to sky-is-falling, and the community needs to land somewhere in between.
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On the Dallas tragedy, I hope I'm not being terribly Pollyannaish to say that this might very well lower the temperature rather than raise it.
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This mindset is fundamentally pernicious as it is wrong, and it contributes to a dangerously pollyannaish and self-satisfied view of the U.S. position in the world.
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Don't you feel like you have some responsibility as a writer to present—not an optimistic, Pollyannaish vision—but something more hopeful for people to have as a takeaway?
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" Treverton said that while he thinks "the administration has done OK," President Donald Trump "by being so Pollyannaish about it, I think he hasn't prepared people for what might come.
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Dr. King's repeated exhortation to love your enemies — incidentally the thrust of that 1957 sermon — might seem Pollyannaish and quaint, but it is very much a core value of Christianity.
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He's turned toothless and pollyannaish when everyone else is gripping their armrests in fear; the information that paralyzes us flows off his back into some infinity pool in Hidden Hills.
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Even assuming a pollyannaish best-case scenario — no recession, no new global military conflicts, slow increases on federal debt interest payments – the fiscal 2900 budget will almost certainly exceed $220006 trillion.
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Only time will tell whether it will have been the gloomy bond market or the Pollyannaish stock market that was correct in its assessment of current global economic and political risks.
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It was praised in some quarters as groundbreaking and criticized in others as reductive, Pollyannaish and accommodationist — condemned, in short, for glossing over the stark realities of life that black Americans faced daily.
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Oil & Gas E&P (XOP): up 13 percent Biotech (IBB): up 10 percent Aerospace/Defense (ITA): up 7 percent Russell 2000 (IWM): up 9 percent Source: CNBC I'm not trying to be Pollyannaish.
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It was the first time I understood that despite how Pollyannaish it sounded to some, in McCray's mind, mental health was the key to how the city uses police officers, prisons, hospitals and schools.
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But his general pessimism about the world that lay in wait in the 21st century now looks remarkably prescient, at least next to the Pollyannaish forecasts of techno-optimists, democracy promoters and globalization enthusiasts.
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Combating the expansive and fast infection of the seep of disinformation into American elections isn't being "pollyannaish about blood sport in politics," said Graham Brookie, head of digital forensic research for the Atlantic Council.
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A general Pollyannaish ecosystem-wide optimism because there's no upside in being a pessimist, as the overwhelming majority of failures are ultimately simply absorbed into the winners to be spun out again as new attempts?
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To be clear, I'm not recommending a Pollyannaish optimism to people with disabilities (of whom I count myself one); at times, life is just shitty and painful, and no amount of conciliatory thinking can palliate that reality.
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Yet with President Trump openly calling for the use of waterboarding on the campaign trail, it may be harder for British spies to claim such Pollyannaish deniability about the activities of their American colleagues, especially if they end up in a European court.
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JONATHAN BARONProfessor of psychologyUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia* Reverend Robert Malthus must surely be turning in his grave at such Pollyannaish assertions as 'it is not clear that there are too many people' and 'population growth…will eventually go into reverse' ("Wanted", August 27th).
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Like much of contemporary feminism, International Women's Day has been sapped of its politics: Instead, every year, women are fed pollyannaish platitudes about their strength and courage, even as those with the power to improve the material conditions of women's lives decline to do so.
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Asked about the conservative criticism that he had been Pollyannaish in his approach to the Middle East and been taken advantage of by the Muslim sheikhs, Francis joked, "Not only the Muslims," noting that his critics felt he had been manipulated by just about everyone.
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I do fully expect, and this isn't as grounded in some Pollyannaish wishes, I have been doing a lot of reading in these last few weeks and looking at 1918, and the places hardest hit by epidemics in other parts of the world, and more recent memory.
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Asked on the plane home about conservative criticism that he had been Pollyannaish in his approach to the Middle East and been taken advantage of by the Muslim sheikhs, Francis joked, "Not only the Muslims," and noted that his critics felt he had been manipulated by just about everyone.
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The pilot contained a reasonably interesting idea — Cedric's character mistrusted the Pollyannaish newcomers because he felt they had no reason to befriend him other than his skin color — but the show is primarily invested in selling the more sentimental notion that overcoming racism is simply a question of individual good will.
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Ned Price, a former spokesman for the National Security Council for President Barack Obama, on Monday warned of what he called a "Pollyannaish approach" by Mr. Trump that could lead the United States to give Mr. Kim too much in exchange for little real progress in abandoning his nuclear weapons.
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Four million for George W. Bush curled in the fetal position, a face-down-rump-up Donald J. Trump, coquettish Amber Rose and Rihanna, a cherubic Anna Wintour and Pollyannaish Taylor Swift — a rogues' gallery including Bill Cosby, Chris Brown and Ray J, and arguably three of the most famous first-namers in modern times: Caitlyn, Kim, and Kanye.
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Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud is a book written by Philip Yancey and published by Zondervan in 1988. It is one of Yancey's early bestsellers. Library Journal reviewer Elise Chase called the book "extraordinarily empathetic and persuasive; highly recommended". Mark DeVries of The Christian Century reviewed the book and wrote that, through the book, Yancey "cuts through the pollyannaish denials that so often characterize evangelical treatment of unbelief, disappointment and unanswered prayer".
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