Adjective : some pollyanna notions about world peace.    From Dictionary.com. 

In my usual burst of optimism, and at the risk of being termed pollyannaish (optimistic), I will bet against the nay-sayers, says From getting a birth certificate to opening a business venture, India's record in clearing red tape continues to be poor, hurting the country's progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference

I am not pollyannaish about what government DOES do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friedman's Law, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

I find the rhetoric about "career change" to be a bit pollyannaish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Credentialism Trap?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

I'm not totally pollyannaish, but I haven't encountered it personally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gay scene in San Miguel de Allende] Reference

Some fell for it, out of pollyannaish optimism as much as anything else.    From Wordnik.com.  [The cost of blunder and folly] Reference

Call me pollyannaish, but perhaps one day we'll have no need for guys like Davis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Attack Ads John McCain Never Ran - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference

Hoping for the best from those new electees might be pollyannaish, as you suggest.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Diary: Post Election Open Thread-- add your thoughts here-- what it means, where we're going, the future] Reference

And frankly, the idea that things tend to get better over time is a pollyannaish delusion peculiar to Democrats that pains me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oh, why don't you just admit it?] Reference

And you know, it's a good idea I think for the press to try to be realistic and not be pollyannaish about everything that's happening.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2001] Reference

Although I have written entries here aimed at focusing solely on the positive before "1000 Words About Things I Love", for example, I tend to bristle at the idea of imposing anything remotely pollyannaish on myself as a regular practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference

The Charter thus also punctures the pollyannaish vision of the restored Chinese Nationalist Party Kuomintang government of President Ma Ying-jeou that rapid integration through "deregulation" with the PRC economy and slavish appeasement with the CCP regime will lead to "peace and prosperity" for Taiwan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference

While admirable advice, this also seams pollyannaish.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

I'm disagreeable to hornlike to rest pollyannaish most emGhostbusters 3 / em.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Malaysia] Reference

In the BlackAvengers world things are more pollyannaish, if I may make up a new word.    From Wordnik.com.  [TCPalm Stories] Reference

Under a lesser storyteller, this would have been a pollyannaish manga instead of simply upbeat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comics Worth Reading] Reference

Those of us saying that science is self-correcting don't sit pollyannaish waiting for a miracle to happen.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

While I would agree it is becoming sort of a calling, touting it the best job there is, well thats sort of pollyannaish.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

From that space you may be thinking there is nothing to be grateful for and that I should take my pollyannaish post and go pound sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [BlogHer] Reference

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If every went substantially you probable wager a significance of relief, at peace, calm, more joyful, freer, more relaxed, more energized, more present, and more pollyannaish most what the forthcoming haw alter you.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

I have no desire to be pollyannaish on the subject it would not suit my carefully acquired reputation but I cannot help feeling that a well researched and targeted effort is more likely to produce some result than endless largesse from the reluctant taxpayer through NGOs including the grandest of them all the UN, all of whom will take off a huge slice and will ensure that certain political dues are paid before anyone can benefit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose money is it, anyway?] Reference

Kuroda’s optimism struck me as naive and maybe even a bit pollyannaish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sexy Voice and Robo » Manga Worth Reading] Reference

That may sound altruistic or pollyannaish, but I hope the people I deal with understand that. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [IdahoStatesman.com News Updates] Reference

Year in Culture "package - in which they spontaneously decide that" hope "is the word of the year - this position really isn't as pollyannaish at it might at first seem.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

Some will seem naive or pollyannaish.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

It's not pollyannaish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century] Reference