| Yet she is never a Pollyanna, eager to use the amazing accomplishment of her formal acumen to distract us from what she observes. |
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| Insofar as this is self-delusion rather than outright deceit, he is a Pollyanna. |
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| My inner Pollyanna can be quite the jargon-spewing tub-thumper when she wants to be. |
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| Pollyanna was just six weeks old when she was diagnosed as having the condition. |
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| Only time will tell if I rub off on him at all with my Pollyanna ways, but I'm putting my money on good over bad! |
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| For crying out loud, the NDP, the new Pollyanna party, really needs to get real. |
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| More recently he has lurched to the other extreme and talked in Pollyanna terms about Canada snapping out of recession before anyone else. |
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| It's easy to put a Pollyanna stamp on Anne, but I think it's a generalization which does a disservice to what Lucy Maud wrote. |
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| I am not Pollyanna suggesting that there isn't an issue around money in a lot of our situations. |
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| For us to imagine, in a Pollyanna fashion, that they will go away belies the fact that they will not go away. |
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| I have rambled about the paltry, small stuff that is my life today and I still can't work out whether to be totally peed off, or nauseatingly Pollyanna about it all. |
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| Maybe, I'm just a middle-aged Pollyanna, but that isn't the world I see. |
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| And I don't want to be a Pollyanna but it's not impossible all these changes that we are now seeing in the Middle East might some day make that more possible. |
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| Perhaps I am being a Pollyanna but my impression is that the new editor of the New York Times is trying to swing the paper back closer to middle ground. |
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| Wasn't it soullessness that I must perceive in him for myself to be perceived here as other than a Pollyanna? |
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| Now you must realize that this is true or the rest of what I am saying will indeed sound like Pollyanna nonsense. |
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| As a marriage partner, one is challenged, on the one hand, with being a wet blanket to great visions, and, on the other hand, with having a Pollyanna naivete. |
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| A couple of years at the White House would turn Pollyanna into Machiavelli. |
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| Pollyanna opened wide her eyes at the remonstrative dismay in her aunt's voice. |
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| Pollyanna McIntosh, seen in the trailer in an explicit scene with McAvoy, plays Size Queen, and said working with James was great fun. |
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| I think this part of the process has a Pollyanna quality to it. |
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| There are also sections on Economics, Religion, Sexual Perversions, and a section for such terms as Murphy's Law, Pollyanna, Catch-22, and yahoo. |
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| You call her an optimist, but I call her an obnoxious Pollyanna. |
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| I'm no Pollyanna, but I do think some good will come out of this. |
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