How To Use Misanthropy In A Sentence
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I can also detect in my writing my essential misanthropy rearing its ugly head.
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His philosophy is a peculiar and wholly subjective patchwork of frustrated sexual fantasies, zany misanthropy, and 1960s hippy-dippy iconoclasm.
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‘We're all entitled to a bit of misanthropy now and again,’ he harrumphs when I ask about this, ‘considering the complete craziness of a lot of people in the world.’
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By Bukowski's own admission, he was always the hero of his stories, which are shot through with black humour, misogyny, misanthropy, narcissism, wishful thinking, and inconsolable loneliness.
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It's a work fuelled by revulsion, by misanthropy in general, not specifically by homophobia.
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Within these pages, she will once again regale you with her unique vision, her misanthropy, and her general intolerance of slack-jawed, drooling dunces.
Roseanne Archy
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Illicit experiences may have been so disillusioning, owing to the disaffecting nature of the consorts, that an attitude of pessimism and misanthropy or misogyny is built up.
Applied Eugenics
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But the misogyny gives way later in the series to a more general misanthropy.
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In film after film, Kubrick's misanthropy - the magisterial technique that reduced the actors in his films to stick figures carrying out his bidding - represented the triumph of the mechanical over the human.
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Some find their natural optimism about human nature corrected by the doctrine of the Fall; some find their natural misanthropy corrected by the commandments to love our neighbor and our enemy.
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In film after film, the director's misanthropy - the magisterial technique that reduced the actors in his films to stick figures carrying out his bidding - represented the triumph of the mechanical over the human.
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The snowball of doubt he lobbed in ‘Strong’ has now accumulated into a burgeoning avalanche of misanthropy.
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Indeed, a lot of the performances from the early 1990s give a misleading image of an arrogant American with a hefty streak of misanthropy.
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I laugh sardonically at the news broadcasts for their dreadful misanthropy.
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He carries in him the salutary misanthropy of a man who has occasionally found himself unpleasant company - an intuition that can act as a restraint and that has nothing in common with the swagger of assured innocence.
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Reading Cat's Eye in my early twenties was a kind of auto-psychoanalysis, a way out of the legacy of misanthropy, suppressed rage and cosmic sense of inadequacy that had been the legacy of my teenage years.
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It dooms me to a life of skepticism, indecision, disgust, and often misanthropy.
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Rational Review
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The speculations have ranged from Joan Baez in particular to his audience in general, with more than a shmear of misogyny in the former case, misanthropy in the latter.
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There was not a single indication of self-criticism, not a word to explain how things could get to a stage where young persons aged 16 know just hatred and misanthropy.
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The misanthropy that many of them nonetheless express, verges on the criminal.
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In the novel, Henry's rugged individualism and disdain for society are stylizations of his father's misanthropy.
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But there are only so many times you can hear people say ‘Ooh, lovely’ right next to your ear before the words lose what little meaning they have and you're bubbling with misanthropy.
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Even in the depths of my misanthropy, I must admit to being upset by the situations that some people actually have to survive in.
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Along with ‘cynicism and misanthropy,’ he detects Catholic guilt and ‘deep-seated problems with women.’
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A phantom of air, an abstraction of the dawn and of vesper sun-lights, a bodiless sylph on the one hand; on the other a gross carnal monster, like the Miltonic Asmodai, "the fleshliest incubus" among the fiends, and yet so far ennobled into interest by his intellectual power, and by the grandeur of misanthropy!
Biographical Essays
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A prominent streak of misanthropy and shyness in his nature resulted in his concert career being sporadic.
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His vision of America and of life was tough, irreverent, astringent almost to the point of misanthropy.
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What would that cynic who used to delight us on TV in the eighties with his elegant misanthropy have made of it all?
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They almost teach us a response to status anxiety that you could almost call intelligent misanthropy.
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But lilting Irish brogues and ebullient ribaldry are not enough to temper O'Casey's disgusted misanthropy.
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Timon changes from benevolence to sour misanthropy with a many inartistic abruptness, many readers feel.
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