President Obama's pollyanish comments coupled with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs 'outburst against "the professional left" reveal just how out of touch the Obama Administration is with the tens of millions of everyday Americans who are engulfed by the jobs crisis. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I second GayProf: I go traipsing around my life with a pollyanish belief in the better aspects of human nature, but rarely do I get a chance to see it confirmed. ❋ Tenured Radical (2009)
I'll excuse your pollyanish new-Canadian optimism about this: rather sweet, really. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It is pollyanish to think that all we have to do is pull our troops out of Iraq and the middle east and everything will be fine. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It does fairly display the debate we had on the Charter Review Commission, though I personally thought the con side's argument was always a bit of pollyanish idealism rather than any sort of reality as to how annual or biannual budgets work. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Perhaps all very optimistic, positive thinking risks sounding pollyanish. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I know it is pollyanish of me, but I like taking the higher road. ❋ Tim Carmody (2010)
I don't want to pretend to be pollyanish about the prospects for free speech and democracy in China. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As Michael Moore would say, "I want my country back," but I'm not so pollyanish as to think I can get it back in the current environment … very sad. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I think Kirk for example, though I have enjoyed reading his blog for a few months now, is far more pollyanish on the proliferation question than I am comfortable with. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It’s pollyanish to think this group that also likes to fight with itself, other men, steal cars, and otherwise act abominably will listen to alternative PSAs about how wrong it is to rape or assume a woman wants sex because she’s drunk and in your bed and naked. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Gaelic Ireland is clearly out; Joseph Peden’s writing on it in the April 1971 issue of the Libertarian Forum is overly pollyanish, to say the least although his later article, Property Rights in Celtic Irish Law, makes a more nuanced case, and in any case it’s a less perfect example than Iceland. ❋ Unknown (2008)
While I agree that the hockey stick has decayed, I am somewhat stunned by Von Storch and Zorita’s new found pollyanish view of paleoclimate science culture. ❋ Unknown (2007)
