pollyanna

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He need not be pollyanna, but a positive word here or there could assure folks he's certain the future will be better than the past.

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  • People who think that legalizing these drugs are living in a pollyanna world. —  LJWorld.com stories: News
  • I live in hope that he's following the now-infamous Kim Campbell line "an election is no time to talk about policy", but that might be just me being pollyanna. —  Progressive Bloggers
  • He need not be pollyanna, but a positive word here or there could assure folks he's certain the future will be better than the past. —  AugustaChronicle.com: Top News and Blogs
  • Call me a pollyanna, but I hope that this is not true. —  Latest Articles
  • However, they had already been not taking appropriate marks on them, so the suspension of MtM didn't show the benefit that one would expect had they been marking the assets down to true market value and not some pollyanna model when no one 30\% under-water would defaults. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
 

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