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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
Noun
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
Adjective
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Still, Wall Street is optimistic about a bounce ahead, with the typical analyst’s price targeting reflecting potential upside of more than 30%.Alex Harring, CNBC, 24 Dec. 2024
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But no matter how much unease appears in the book, Childish Literature remains affectionate and optimistic, expansive, content at times to be corny.Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2024
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Part of that stemmed from who Swinney is — an eternal optimist.Grace Raynor, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
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To optimists, this property of mirror molecules could prove useful in the fight against chronic disease.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Less grimdark, more hopeful, more sincere, but not necessarily filled with your typical James Gunn goofiness.Erik Kain, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Ultimately, string theory remains a hopeful candidate for putting all the pieces of the cosmic puzzle together.Tom Siegfried, JSTOR Daily, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
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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
Noun
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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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Perfect for writers, dreamers, and planners, this elegantly crafted one with Coach’s signature leather beautifully captures her thoughts, ideas and memories in style.Jené Luciani Sena, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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But behind the rosy corporate spin, there were some red flags.Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
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In retrospect, the Coast Guard’s aviation planning was saddled with optimistic assumptions about Coast Guard base capabilities, base consolidation expectations and rosy operational cost projections.Craig Hooper, Forbes, 15 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 31 Dec. 2024.
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