misanthrope

• “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

• “Smith is called a misanthrope, but maybe he's more a cynic and a secret melancholic.”

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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

• “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

• “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

• “Alcee Hastings sounds like just the kind of misanthrope the Democrats would support ..”

  Sound Politics: Where Do Local Democrats Stand on Alcee Hastings?

• “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!"

• “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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• “On the back of her pink backpack was the word "misanthrope" written in white out.”

  My family puts the FUN in dysfunctional!

• “I had to look up "misanthrope" though (someone who hates mankind ...)!”

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