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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