Pollyannaish

pollyannaish Pollyanna-ish English Alternative forms with the first element Pollyanna pollyanna-ish, Pollyanna-ish, pollyannaish, Pollyannaish with the first element Pollyann pollyannish, Pollyannish Etymology en :af Pollyanna -ish + 1 Adjective en pejorative Unreasonably optimistic. en 2000 June w:Nicholas Rescher Optimalism and Axiological Metaphysics The Review of Metaphysics LIII, № 4, § iii, page 819 Accordingly the objection “Is not optimalism simply too Pollyanna-ish to be plausible?” can be met effectively. en December 25 2012 Victor Mair Chinese character of the year: mèng 梦 (‘dream’) http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4388 Language Log 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260521194818/https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4388 21 May 2026 en Philip Oltermann Jürgen Schmidhuber on the robot future​: ‘They will pay as much attention to us as we do to ants' The Guardian 2017-04-18 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/18/robot-man-artificial-intelligence-computer-milky-way 0261-3077 If that sounds a little bit Pollyannaish, it’s because Schmidhuber’s own experience—the initial rejection of LSTM and his pervading distrust of “cut-throat” Silicon Valley—must have taught him that competition can create losers as well as winners. https://web.archive.org/web/20261013045559/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/18/robot-man-artificial-intelligence-computer-milky-way 13 October 2026 en 2018-06-30 New Dark Age by James Bridle review – technology and the end of the future Will Self The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/30/new-dark-age-by-james-bridle-review-technology-and-the-end-of-the-future 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 –I’m more struck by Nicholas Carr’s observation, in his takedown of the coming era of self-driving cars, The Glass Cage, that our inability to grasp the emergent techno realm may be a function of our having devised tools that do away with our need to use tools. https://web.archive.org/web/20261013045526/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/30/new-dark-age-by-james-bridle-review-technology-and-the-end-of-the-future 13 October 2026 Synonyms en Panglossian Derived terms en Pollyannaishly Translations unreasonably optimistic German: de Milchmädchen- Spanish: es demasiado optimista en eponyms en Personality