Sentence examples for Pollyannaish view from inspiring English sources

Don't mistake that, however, for a Pollyannaish view of race in America.

At first blush, the sentiment may have sounded like a Pollyannaish view, yet aides said it was intended to place pressure on Republicans in a midterm election year.

Rather, these authors' books are nuanced ruminations on some of the unreckoned consequences of technological change — books that stand as insightful counterweights to early techno-utopian works like Esther Dyson's "Release 2.0" and Nicholas Negroponte's "Being Digital," which took an almost Pollyannaish view of the Web and its capacity to empower users.

Because in the end, the magic that had always endeared Star Trek to me wasn't necessarily its optimistic (some would say, Pollyannaish) view of the future, the gee-whiz and prescient peek at the technology of tomorrow (although I did dig those sliding doors and Automat-like replicathes), the cutting edge of visual-effects technology or even the great writing, directing, and scores.

His Pollyannaish views on globalization have not been borne out by events, either.

Now they are becoming increasingly gruesome, as if to prove ridiculous those who mistake his visual exuberance for a kind of twee, Pollyannaish world view.

No wonder, then, that Philip Larkin's poem Annus Mirabilis drips with sarcasm about any Pollyannaish perspective on what sex meant in 1963, on the insane idea that in that year what was once ugly and disgusting became sunshine and lollipops.

At the time, trust me, most Serious People thought that notion incredibly Pollyannaish and naïve.

"I'm not being Pollyannaish," he said.

"I hope I'm not being Pollyannaish.

He was a thoroughgoing realist, and his view of human nature -- which would decisively inform his arguments about governing -- was skeptical, even dark, and stood in sharp contrast to Jefferson's more Pollyannaish faith in progress and perfectibility.