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

We're much too different from each other. #pollyanna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Question of the Day: Why Are There So Few Female Filmmakers? | /Film] Reference

Or is this also too naive and pollyanna thing to hope?.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Adviser Among Many, Under Lights Over Israel - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

I can see why the pollyanna act would seem patronizing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last november post and five reasons not to be my home care worker] Reference

Its a giant pollyanna feedback loop that actually exists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sustainability, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

The skeptics will regard these arguments as pollyanna-ish nonsense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Clothier: Survival Of The Selfless?] Reference

No one can stomach pollyanna when things really are in the crapper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Stranger and Happier: A Positive Science Fiction Platform] Reference

One of my little pollyanna dreams, no more gitmo, and justice for all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Word of the Day: PILECRAP] Reference

I am unable to be a pollyanna despite my love of Mexico and its people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Page 2] Reference

Steffi has a hard time when reality conflicts with his pollyanna ideals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The incoherent and ignorant M. Dion] Reference

If there's a word I would choose that least describes Allan, it's pollyanna.    From Wordnik.com.  ["if obama wins, will you return to the u.s.?"] Reference

This pollyanna nonsense about being fooled is for the drooling couch potatos.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iraq War Vote Test] Reference

Only a pollyanna would think that money doesn't corrupt the political process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jay Mandle: Congressional Fair Elections Act 2009] Reference

Maybe I'm just a pollyanna and I don't know what's happening around the office.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2009] Reference

Incidentally, my inner pollyanna thinks that last idea could be quite lucrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I box, why I blog, and why I don't give a fuck if you think I am "useful"] Reference

Certainly it would be pollyanna-ish to imagine that no such strategizing goes on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Clinton] Reference

You all in the pollyanna (yes yes) group just haven't given us much to go on yet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's Most Progressive Act Yet; Solidarity With the Chicago Factory Worker Sit-in] Reference

I am blessed and those around me cursed with my overabundance of pollyanna genes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walt Kelly is dead. Long live Walt Kelly.] Reference

Your pollyanna version of mature homosexuality is just not consistent with thefacts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England] Reference

I for one am not such a pollyanna that I think it should be or ever would be off limits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Los Desaparecidos:] Reference

Those of us that have been in this for while had the pollyanna blush rubbed off awhile ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Sunday Roundup] Reference

I assure you I know the history of American politics, the ways of D.C. and am no pollyanna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Election Central Saturday Roundup] Reference

Give me a couple more days to work it out of my system and I'll be a pollyanna, too, I promise.    From Wordnik.com.  [did somebody step on a duck] Reference

I challenge anyone, anywhere to take deep look at themselves, will they pass the pollyanna test?.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings] Reference

With that view, you could give pollyanna lessons in optimism and putting a happy face on things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newfoundland Nationalist orthodoxy] Reference

Perhaps he has rid you of the last residue of pollyanna liberalism and for that you can thank him.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Not in some pollyanna-ish way, like "Today is the first day of the rest of your life" or similar feel-goodisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Geary: There Is An Aphorism for Everything] Reference

Robert Arend, I am no pollyanna about political ethics by Margaret Bassett on Wednesday, Sep 24, 2008 at 6: 45: 16 PM.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Diary: Just What is Up With the McCain Debate Gambit, OEN MEMBERS?] Reference

You know, nothing wrong with being cynical and blue -- it beats the blissed-out, pollyanna-esque 'tudes of prime time America.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Am a Joy Fraud] Reference

Your pollyanna version of mature homosexuality is just not consistent with the facts –homosexuality IS arrested development.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England] Reference

Trouble is, the narcissist Obama needs to be surrounded by mindless drones to confirm his omnipotence and pollyanna world view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet Napolitano Making Her Predecessors Look Competent « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference

A lot of people tend to hear those words and think that I am being, even by my usual addled standards, a complete idealistic pollyanna.    From Wordnik.com.  [DialogNow - Anil Dash] Reference

Call me a pollyanna, but I hope that this is not true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Pessimistic doomer or pollyanna optimist, we didn't give up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive Bloggers] Reference

If you can hear me through your pollyanna bias I'll eat my hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

Or maybe, in our most pollyanna moment, we imagine moving beyond binary politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [digital digs] Reference

That said, there is a middle-ground between suicidal transparency close-minded pollyanna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liblogs.ca latest blog entries] Reference

"She's not pollyanna-ish about the world," he said, and could be effective in promoting U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference