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Recent Examples of Pollyanna
Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
The film also features the artist Pollyanna Johnson and Samantha McCoach, the founder of the brand Le Kilt.
—Joelle Diderich, WWD, 3 Dec. 2024
The politics of Pollyanna, brought to you by the things-have-never-been-better crowd.
—Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2024
Pope and Sarah go into catacombs beneath an old church in search of the treasure, but are forced to hide among the rats when Lightner (Rigo Sanchez) and his boss Dalia (Pollyanna McIntosh) show up and grab a mysterious scroll that is most likely a map.
—Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
Informed hope is not a Pollyanna attitude, but balancing the realities of the situation with the positive things people are doing.
—Natalie Eilbert, Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2024
Opinion: As more workers exit downtown, Louisville Mayor Greenberg needs to deal with realty and chuck his Pollyanna perspective, our Joe Gerth says in his latest column.
—Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 11 Feb. 2024
My natural state has always been one of optimism, almost to the point of being a Pollyanna.
—Ellyn Laub, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Sep. 2021
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Sunshine Cleaning gave Adams’s Pollyanna era a slight edge.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
The film also features the artist Pollyanna Johnson and Samantha McCoach, the founder of the brand Le Kilt.
—Joelle Diderich, WWD, 3 Dec. 2024
The politics of Pollyanna, brought to you by the things-have-never-been-better crowd.
—Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2024
Pope and Sarah go into catacombs beneath an old church in search of the treasure, but are forced to hide among the rats when Lightner (Rigo Sanchez) and his boss Dalia (Pollyanna McIntosh) show up and grab a mysterious scroll that is most likely a map.
—Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
Informed hope is not a Pollyanna attitude, but balancing the realities of the situation with the positive things people are doing.
—Natalie Eilbert, Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2024
Opinion: As more workers exit downtown, Louisville Mayor Greenberg needs to deal with realty and chuck his Pollyanna perspective, our Joe Gerth says in his latest column.
—Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 11 Feb. 2024
My natural state has always been one of optimism, almost to the point of being a Pollyanna.
—Ellyn Laub, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Sep. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Pollyanna
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Other Fed officials who spoke this week were more optimistic about lowering rates.Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025
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Hurts has missed two games, while Love was injured Sunday and has sounded optimistic about his availability.Jeff Howe, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Phaedra, ever the optimist, reassures her that this group is like family, and even through the mess, sisterhood is still within reach.Shelby Stewart, Essence, 6 Jan. 2025
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Swed, our resident optimist, reminded us that the formula for artistic success is straightforward, if not simple: Artists create big ideas, boards work to fund them, audiences reward the risk.Craig Nakano, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
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However, fans who entered hopeful for a win were left disappointed.Gio Alonso, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2025
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Real news can be honest, hopeful, credible, constructive.Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2025
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He’s got the twinkly eye and the sly, gregarious spiritual ease of a Micawber or a Cheeryble.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
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The smallest of the Micawber brood glides away in his baby carriage, because the bailiff is dragging the hallway carpet out from under the front door.Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2020
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Whitehead has said that Elwood and Turner represent the two parts of him, the idealist (Elwood) and the cynic (Turner), whose intertwined perspectives inform his own view of race as a Black man making sense of contemporary America.K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
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The diary belonged to Lam Ping-yu, an ambitious and patriotic idealist who was born to a well-off Chinese family in Indonesia in 1911 and eagerly joined his home country’s navy.Peter Guo, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
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In 1980, The Times noted, a report that two hefty gold nuggets had turned up in the Sierra Madre foothills sent a new generation of dreamers back into the hills.Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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On the night of March 9, the 22-year-old country music dreamer phoned his friend Kevin Hughes, who worked as the chart director at Cash Box magazine.Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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Hairdresser Lucas Wilson styled Rae’s honey blond tresses in waves, while her Pat McGrath makeup look consisted of rosy blush and a bold red lip.Hannah Malach, WWD, 18 Dec. 2024
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Contra The recent dip for Nvidia shares may be hard to digest for investors, especially in an otherwise rosy market, but the stock’s longer-term returns are still eye popping.Derek Saul, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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This attempt to coax a conventional romantic through line out of the madness doesn’t really work, partly because Reitman and co-writer Gil Kenan have otherwise done a fine job of making clear how unconventional this whole situation was.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
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However, the hopeless romantic in me is not one to say no to a wedding!Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Pollyanna.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Pollyanna. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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