Word: pollyannaishly
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...with typical candor in a recent Senate hearing: "Our criminal-justice system is a failure. We are not preventing crime, we are not apprehending and convicting enough offenders, we are not rehabilitating enough convicts." Until significant progress is made in each of these areas, Wilson believes, it is Pollyannaish to expect a decrease in the crime rate. In fact, the only realistic outlook is for an increase...
...forever yours devotedly. I take no interest in mere females, but I love all artists." To prove it, Shaw wrote Major Barbara for her. At the top of her profession, the 30-year-old actress married 57-year-old Banker-Philanthropist-Sportsman August Belmont after making a Pollyannaish farewell appearance as Glad in Frances Hodgson (Little Lord Fauntleroy) Burnett's Dawn of a Tomorrow. Actress Robson's last stage line: "I'm going to be tuk care...
...Silver Whistle is all the same a pleasantly unusual one. There may be nothing new about the theme (which is simply that people crave illusions, that while there's hope there's life), but the particulars are often fresh and lively. Mildly Saroyanesque throughout and a trifle Pollyannaish at the end, in its best scenes The Silver Whistle is genuinely funny, whether from the hobo's taradiddles or from dodderers who, with one foot in the grave, suddenly kick up commotion with the other...
...history count at all, is bound to be swept into power as the party out of office in a time of depression. While it is manifestly unfair to hold the Republican party responsible for the depression, that party has done incalculable harm, through its chief executive, by his Pollyannaish attitude or inability to admit the state of affairs throughout. And within the Democratic stronghold, no candidate is more impregnable. Roosevelt will be handicapped neither by the religious or dripping wet sentiments which ruined his predecessor. Owen D. Young is a symbol of that ogre, "Corporation," which is usually delirium tremens...
Doran-Farrar. The Bookman since 1921 has been amiable, even pollyannaish. Ladies' literary clubs like it. Mr. Doran, long a friend to young novelists, found a kindly young disciple in Editor Farrar, redheaded, chipper, who could gently pat the backs of hopeful literati. To many, Critic Farrar is a promising second edition of Critic William Lyon Phelps. Mr. Farrar will continue to function as editorial director of the Doran book business, will also contribute to the Rascoefied Bookman "a department somewhat like Dr. Phelps's in Scribner's-only different...