But it is not all a Pollyannaish world, she added.

"I tend to be Pollyannaish about things," she said.

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

Executives in Hollywood, however, are not Pollyannaish about the future.

I may be Pollyannaish, but to me, that's an invitation that is hard to ignore."

This Pollyannaish sentiment was getting huge nods of approval.

"Now, I don't want to be Pollyannaish about this; that really isn't realistic.

The Hungarians are not Pollyannaish about how America treated them.

'There's a tendency,' he says, 'to be very Pollyannaish when you're getting million-dollar offers for five weeks of work.

"And Adele was regarded by a lot of the faculty as being too Pollyannaish.

Mr. Gingrich's Pollyannaish optimism, however, is not confined to technology.

"We have to build this bridge to the Middle East in a hopeful, not Pollyannaish way.

And I'm not being Pollyannaish here.

Democrats who question these Pollyannaish projections are almost instantly slapped down as unpatriotic underminers of military morale.

It's one thing to disagree about priorities, it's another to have a pollyannaish amnesia about what made America great.

And for many Palestinians, the enduring conflict made the idea of coexistence seem increasingly Pollyannaish, if not disloyal.

"Morale here is at a low level, and we did not try to be Pollyannaish," Mr. Fisher told reporters.

He was sore at the man's Pollyannaish advice that echoed Ben Franklin's homilies.

Their boss, Gary Koenigsberg, was less Pollyannaish.

"I'd have to be Pollyannaish to say it's stopped altogether, but we've made it extremely hard and risky for them," General Sattler said.

At the risk of sounding revoltingly Pollyannaish, right now I have a perfect job, a perfect child and a perfect husband.

Mr. Walter added, "There was something about the way she loves life and the world, without being Pollyannaish, that I just wanted to be around."

I'm not overly Pollyannaish about the public's right to know, but I meant every word I said to Waterbury.

Speaking of Anthony's time at Syracuse, Boeheim said it went so perfectly that it was "almost Pollyannaish."

It seems priggish or Pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers.