Word: pollyanna
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...long time ago, but when we were doing Watchmen-and not to sound too pollyanna about it-we enjoyed it so much. I mean, Alan and I had got to know each other quite well, and John who did the colors, John Higgins, was a mutual friend as well. It was this wonderful feeling of just sort of, as we would say in England, having a laugh...
...Pollyanna. There have certainly been moments when she complained to us," says her daughter Soetoro-Ng. "But she was not someone who would take the detritus of those divorces and make judgments about men in general or love or allow herself to grow pessimistic." With each failed marriage, Ann gained a child and, in one case, a country as well...
...hospitals he promised the people. The producers expressed high hopes for the film’s reception abroad. The themes and “the tension between ends and means” are universal, said Thwaites. He noted that many other countries have a “less Pollyanna view” of government than America, that they care about results—like roads and hospitals—but have less of an expectation that their politicians will be free from corruption. According to Zaillian, Carville, who is also a political analyst, once remarked, “We didn?...
...qualify for suicide medication under the law. "If they are demoralized, we should take care of them, not overdose them," says Portland psychiatrist Gregory Hamilton. But the line between clinical and situational depression often gets blurred. "One doctor told me to take two antidepressants so I could have a Pollyanna attitude," Sullivan scoffs...
...ahead, ridicule me. I’m an eternal optimist, the proverbial Pollyanna. And while the deep pit of my stomach was always worried, I saw no point in being unhappy too soon. You might argue—and many have—that this is no way to approach life. I’m sorry, I can’t help it, it’s the way I function. And maybe that’s why I made my section of the country into a new Eden, combining the down-to-earth values of the middle...