How to pronounce “pollyanna” in English

I'm not Pollyanna and saying, like, oh, now that we're doing that, it's all going to be easy.

And we performed as Pollyanna Frank in London in some very nice venues.

We just released a Pollyanna Frank album here with me and Frank Ilfman.

Not to get all Pollyanna about things, but it is healthy to remember that in the long view of history, 1914 to 1989 is probably

Was he a Pollyanna?

Or habitually smiley Pollyanna types you sometimes run into.

He's not a Pollyanna, you know, he's not, he's not like an idealist.

Cynics versus Pollyannas-- which comes up a lot when we talk about the concept of Hieroglyph, by the way.

And that's how actually the classic Pollyanna Frank lineup got together.

And because I don't have this Pollyanna-ish view of any community, every community has bad people in fighting murderers, drug dealers,

My point is not to be Pollyanna.

It's not to become some Pollyanna.

And I was a very naive and Pollyanna and maybe "dumb" is just a good word, in the sense that I sort

Now I'm not a Pollyanna.

And so even if we were Pollyannas, you wouldn't have to worry about things changing immediately.

And I don't think it's pollyannaish, I don't think it's a case of, "Oh, no matter what we do, you know, it's sort of doomed."

I don't know if that was just me being a Pollyanna in the moment, but I felt like, OK, maybe we can get things together, maybe.

So no, I'm not interested in Pollyanna.

And that does sound a Pollyanna-ish.

You don't want to be like you don't necessarily want to be some Pollyanna avatar who only posts great things about her life, or maybe you do.

When you start talking about hope some people think it’s immediately a kind of Pollyanna-ish thing.

So I do think that, and maybe I'm being a little Pollyanna here, but I think as more women move up the ranks,

And this idea that power is infinite, I don't mean it in a Pollyanna way, which is, I don't mean to say that anybody at any time

- The optimism that I'm talking about is less of an emotional sentiment, kind of a "Pollyanna" outlook,

Now, but the kind of optimism that is important is not Pollyanna optimism, optimism that doesn't fully take into account the challenge that

Tell us a little bit more about that, about Pollyanna Frank.

'03, '04, '05, the next reincarnation of Pollyanna Frank as a duo with me and Frank Ilfman,

You are a practitioner of Whig history, a naive optimist, a Pollyanna, and of course, a Pangloss alluding to the Voltaire character who declared

And in between all the breaks, he was like pushing me on the goodness of people and he thought it was very Pollyanna about it,

This, though, of course, isn't just a Pollyanna pursuit.

'Cause you have to at least imagine that in order for it to happen.So I guess I hear you that I am not Pollyanna in my sense of like "Oh the internet is going to save the world."

Well, I don't want to seem too Pollyanna-ish here, but I think being a physician is one