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Pollyanna
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Pollyanna
the “glad child,” extraordinarily optimistic. [Children’s Lit.: Pollyanna]

Pollyanna
always finds something to be glad about. [Am. Lit.: Pollyanna; Am. Cinema: Pollyanna in Disney Films, 170–172]
See : Optimism


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Which makes it hard to understand how so many hardliners in the world of energy could pay so little attention to the fact that control over the framing of our nation's industrial strategy has been captured by a group of radical and deeply Pollyannaish internationalists whose beliefs about how nations interact politically can make Norman Angell look like Alfred Thayer Mahan.
I know that feels Pollyannaish or soft, but they are the most important thing, and if the students are safe, then the parents feel safe.
``We do not see doom and gloom nor are we being Pollyannaish.
 
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