| Environmental groups like the Center for Native Ecosystems, by contrast, have already criticized the USFWS's population estimate as Pollyannaish. |
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| I do not want to sound Pollyannaish, but unless we have peace-building from the ground up, then this will be a perpetual conflict. |
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| It may seem Pollyannaish to find anything positive about the current political landscape, but this could be seen as a moment of opportunity for progressives. |
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| Does this mean that active learning is, as Mattson characterizes it, an idealistic sham perpetuated by Pollyannaish administrators and workshop facilitators? |
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| It is quite another situation to be sort of Pollyannaish about it and believe that everything is right with the world if we just smile and think good things about it. |
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| At first blush, the sentiment may have sounded like a Pollyannaish view, yet aides said it was intended to place pressure on Republicans in a midterm election year. |
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| That way is not the Pollyannaish approach to foreign policy and defence espoused by the NDP, which suggests that the Taliban may not really be evil at heart and we just do not understand them. |
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| This compendium of activities is not meant to paint a Pollyannaish picture of a largely defunct process or to gloss over fundamental political problems and tensions within the working group. |
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| Depending on an Iraqi army or the police or government to lessen the disaster is wishful thinking of the most pollyannaish kind. |
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