Word: pollyannish
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...broad festival of life, not the mind-altering prerequisite for a good time. The French don't wink like the English do at double-fisted drinking; they scorn people who lose control and get drunk in public. It's a neat argument. But it sounds a little Pollyannish now that France itself is grappling with widespread binge-drinking among its youth...
...troops dead were quickly eliminated after 100 hours of ground fighting.) It may be that the Bin Laden network can be crushed with relative haste. Indeed, other terror groups have been crushed before. Heard about the Red Brigades lately? The Bader Meinhof gang? It'd be foolish to be pollyannish about the coming war but it would be just as myopic to assume the worst...
...part, Dreben says, "I know at times I have been criticized for perhaps showing bias. But--and I don't want to sound Pollyannish--all of us engaged in the process try very hard to get as strong an independent committee...
...voted into the United Nations. Before the end of the decade, the United States had added its formal recognition and American officials were busy at work clearing up the various entanglements of frozen assets to confer most-favored-nation status on China. For Americans the initial exoticism and Pollyannish reporting began to fade after several years as thousands of American traveled to China each year, including several hundred scholars who would remain beyond a quick tourist trip, and several hundred businessmen who hoped for opportunities from one billion potential customers...
...your article on the Crescent of Crisis [Jan. 15] you quote Zbigniew Brzezinski as saying, "I'd have to be blind or Pollyannish not to recognize that there are dark clouds on the horizon." On the horizon." It is clear that those clouds are already formed-right over our heads. To say otherwise is at best Pollyannish, and at worst irresponsibly myopic...