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“my mom was very much like that when i was growing up. we used to joke and call her pollyanna, because she never fails to find something fun and amusing no matter what the situation. i don't have kids yet, so i'm not sure what she'll be like as a grandmother, but i hope very much that i can maintain the type of cheerful outlook she was always in possession of.”
“Hilary acknowledges that the President has a delicate balancing act -- not to seem an out-of-touch pollyanna yet sticking to his smart approach of investing in education, infrastructure and energy for long-term growth.”
“Its a giant pollyanna feedback loop that actually exists.”
Sustainability, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Your pollyanna version of mature homosexuality is just not consistent with the facts – homosexuality IS arrested development.”
“Your pollyanna version of mature homosexuality is just not consistent with thefacts”
“Call me pollyanna, but I think all this "socialist" and "fascist" name calling is just doing nothing but harm, and depriving us of opporunities to actually CHANGE our country for the better.”
“I'm not a pollyanna -- I get that the world is rife with horrors.”
The Huffington Post: Josh Radnor: Why I Chose "happythankyoumoreplease" Over "sadscrewyougetlost"
“By comparison to people on both the left and the right who would like the government to do something, libertarians can seem either ostrich-like, pollyanna-ish, or both.”
The Consequences of Pessimistic Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“I'm a pollyanna pessimist, and frankly the damage done by George Bush and company is in general so breathtaking I would have voted for damn near anybody to repudiate those self serving liars.”
Why Are The Ammo Shelves Empty? What, Exactly, Are People Afraid Of?
“You might say that since they don't know what we in the space advocate community does that they can have a pollyanna view but the response of a friend of mine that built a silicon valley style company in Huntsville Alabama is pertinent.”
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Familiar
Just a list of words
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Outlawed words and books, like this.
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bywords
The height of fame, or infamy, is when your name becomes a byword for something. I'm not 100 percent sure about the technical name for this trope, but it seems to be antonomasia. Suggestions are mo...
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Zoom'om'om; inspiration, vitality, solemness, and sunrays...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (P)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
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davkow's list
mea culpa, proletariat, hubris, docile, pollyanna, rhetoric, inexorable, incendiary, ephemeral, hedonism, denouement, portend and 15 more...
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schadenfreude, incorrigible, gestalt, kipple, ansible, frangible, zimboe, runcible, tab sweep, git, invocation, hegelian and 34 more...
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Words to learn
Disctionary
behoove, vivacious, eradicate, parsed, ignominous, affable, aplomb, audacity, auspicious, capricious, cerebral, colloquial and 54 more...
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treeseed from Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Etymology: Pollyanna, heroine of the novel Pollyanna (1913) by Eleanor Porter died 1920 American fiction writer
Date: 1921
(n):a person characterized by irrepressible optimism and a tendency to find good in everything Jan 25, 2008