Accordingly the objection “Is not optimalism simply too Pollyanna-ish to be plausible?” can be met effectively.
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Pollyannaish
Synonyms for "pollyannaish" (4 found)
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German
1 entries- Milchmädchen adj (unreasonably optimistic)
Spanish
1 entries- demasiado optimista adj (unreasonably optimistic)
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Even long before this choice of character of the year was made, critics were complaining about the [Chinese] government’s Pollyannaish touting of mèng 梦, saying that the dreams of most people were in vain.
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If that sounds a little bit Pollyannaish, it’s because Schmidhuber’s own experience[…]must have taught him that competition can create losers as well as winners.
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On this basis, Bridle argues, it’s possible to conceive of a new kind of “guardianship” of our frazzled planet and its poisoned wells, one in which we all work together. This seems Pollyanna-ish as much as Panglossian to me […]
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