panglossian

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And in this case we've had so much rhetoric that has been wide of the mark, you know, far more optimistic, very panglossian, if I may use that term, and it's left people sort of saying they don't know who to believe anymore.

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  • And in this case we've had so much rhetoric that has been wide of the mark, you know, far more optimistic, very panglossian, if I may use that term, and it's left people sort of saying they don't know who to believe anymore. —  CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2006
  • At the same time the decades of talk about "globalisation" are now been revealed as a panglossian deception. —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
  • Updated: First he only only irritated me, as a panglossian cheerleader for American imperialism —  Liblogs.ca latest blog entries
  • Battling through eight rounds, he correctly spelled such words as panglossian, a word describing someone who is extremely optimistic when facing great hardship.
  • So basically Eagleton (and Fish) are arguing against a hyper-panglossian rationalist-atheist liberalism that is, by hypothesis, decisively refuted by 'all we read in the newspaper'. —  Crooked Timber
 

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