How To Use Misanthrope In A Sentence
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Like a lot of other bedridden misanthropes, I got into the lifestyle after being stricken by illness and liked it so much I decided not to leave.
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He turned into a misanthrope and an angry negativist, into a dim cynic and a sadist, who was unable to have any feeling of compassion at the death of a sailor, and took pleasure in torturing a shark.
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I understand why so many intellectuals become misanthropes - it's easier.
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Whether you're a spy, a misanthrope, just having a bad hair day, or you're one of those worker bees who plod along day after day shackled to a monitor under neons that flicker 60 times a second, Zen Ya provides a little temporary refuge.
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For some of us - call us introverts if you like, misanthropes if you must - Mass is a precious hour of communion with God amidst relative calm (especially if your parish is fortunate enough to have a cry room).
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Smith is called a misanthrope, but maybe he's more a cynic and a secret melancholic.
The Fall online - latest Fall News
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They will endorse co-workers who are convicts, misanthropes and sociopaths, whatever, all in the name of unity.
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Where do those of us who are already part-time misanthropes go when people seem even worse than usual?
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I'd always thought I was a misanthrope, but maybe I'm just an introvert instead.
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Alcee Hastings sounds like just the kind of misanthrope the Democrats would support ..
Sound Politics: Where Do Local Democrats Stand on Alcee Hastings?
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Wilson, having advertised himself as a "misanthrope" receives a call from Vivian a mixed-up aspiring actress chick who's looking for an escape from a broken relationship and later, we learn another secret, (I don't want to divulge it in case you see the movie once it's distributed).
Tobi Elkin: New Year's Eve (It Still Sucks): In Search of a Midnight Kiss
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But the immediate need, the life-and-death need, is for the Catholic church to continue to expose and isolate the misanthropes that have been entrenched in their ranks, and to implement massive screening to prevent further incursions.
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The world of stand-up is typically portrayed as riddled with self-loathing misanthropes, barely able to contain their disgust with the world, who make a living poking fun at its most visible targets and at one another.
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For his sin of sympathetic disengagement, this particular misanthrope is cut off from social sympathy in death as well as in life.
'An Anti-Democratic Habit of Feeling': Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Toryism in O'Sullivan's Democratic Review
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Considerations such as the above serve to explain why writers and film directors since George Orwell's 1984 have depicted the future, not as paradise regained, but as a series of dystopias and cacotopias (perhaps the most memorable, after Orwell's haunting novel, was Anthony Burgess's more 'lyrical' cacotopia, "A Clockwork Orange", which found the perfect director in Stanley Kubrick, the misanthrope of the twentieth century).
The Incoherence of Progress
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Let us also pass over his sojourn at Newstead, when his sociability and gayety appear even to have been too noisy; and let us arrive at that period of his life when he began to be called a misanthrope, because he gave himself that appellation, because real sorrows had cast a shade over his life, and because, wishing to devote himself to graver things, his object was to withdraw from the society of gay, noisy companions, and then to mature his mind in distant travel.
Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English
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In the space of ten minutes in last week's episode, Whitford's Danny physically assaulted one of his employees and then publicly reprimanded an actress for being kissed by a man, and while there's obviously a story to be told about the kind of misanthrope who is only fully human around his creative partner, that's not the story the show seems to be telling.
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These days I am no longer a misanthrope; I love donating to charity and gay sex.
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And people like me who say things like this get labelled sour old misanthropes.
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The misanthrope is a harmless cuss, keeping mainly to herself and bothering no one, asking only that you not bother her.
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It's well written and funny, and the author is clearly a misanthrope, which is always a plus in my opinion.
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I've been called in the past, probably with justification, a misanthrope but it isn't so much that I dislike people (well not all of them anyway) but that I have a physical need to be apart from them.
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Since you'd rather note the weaker secondary meaning of the word, "misanthrope," I'll take that as an agreement.
"That's what happens when you interrupt the white man!"
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What surliest misanthrope would not find this world lovely, were these things done: scoundrels whitewashed; some degree of scavengering upon the gutters; and at a cheap rate, thirdly?
Latter-Day Pamphlets
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He plays him as a cuddly grump, a sweet-natured misanthrope, more doleful than angry.
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The misanthrope was the supreme failure of life because he had not the intelligence to realize, or could not reconcile himself to, the incomplete condition of human nature.
Rezánov
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Us romantic misanthropes are hard to come by, you know.
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Of course one accusation constantly leveled at animal rights activists (and vehemently denied by same) is that they care more about animals than human beings or are even outright misanthropes.
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Writer Chuck Klosterman weighed in on Grantland.com: "It sounds like what it is: an elderly misanthrope reciting paradoxical aphorisms over a collection of repetitive, adrenalized sludge licks.
A Rocky Start to a Metal Marriage
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For some of us - call us introverts if you like, misanthropes if you must - Mass is a precious hour of communion with God amidst relative calm (especially if your parish is fortunate enough to have a cry room).
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Frederick, a bisexual misanthrope in a childless, political marriage, was a lapsed Calvinist who held all religions in contempt.
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And, although this touchy-feely motion picture transforms Redford's character into a human being, he starts out as an unapologetic misanthrope.
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Why do we mistake him for a hero, rather than seeing him as a revisionist, angsty, egotistical, misanthrope?
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And yes, he was - but like all misanthropes he was only so because he believed (almost naively) in mankind, and was continually disappointed.
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I'd always thought I was a misanthrope, but maybe I'm just an introvert instead.
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My suspicion is that the reason for the generally low opinion held of the pessimist is related to his close ties to the critic, the cynic, the misanthrope, the whiner and the curmudgeon.
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And while you could make the case that Hamlet was a misanthrope, you commit the slothful sin of identifying the author with his creation if you say the same of Shakespeare.
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The only way to beat these misanthropes is to stand up and be counted.
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In Maynard's book, Salinger came across as a crank, drinking his own urine and eating macro-biotic food, a misanthrope and a hermit who had got out of the kitchen even before the heat was turned up.