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- adjective Alternative form of
Hobbesian .
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Examples
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Henry Skrimshander is a skinny 17-year-old hayseed who can't get around on a high fastball, but he is a Roy Hobbsian natural with the glove.
Call Me Safe, Ishmael Sam Sacks 2011
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Take a look around though, life is rather more Hobbsian than your wonderful, pretty Pollyanna views would suggest.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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What else could have been expected in a market designed by Greenspan and others to operate a kind of derivative-driven Hobbsian "state of nature" where there is "no justice and no injustice because there are no laws"?
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They were Hobbsian and utilitarian in ethical philosophy and interpersonally manipulative and deceptive.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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They were Hobbsian and utilitarian in ethical philosophy and interpersonally manipulative and deceptive.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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The (upper-middle class) bathos reads as honesty; it's an embarrassing statement to make, but we'd all surely embarrass ourselves similarly if we let go and truly tapped into the kind of pure, pants-wetting Hobbsian undercurrent that courses beneath The Road (and the rest of McCarthy).
Gerry Canavan 2007
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We can imagine a Hobbsian creature, a body with a brain, entering into group arrangements that emphasize the development of communication and the coordination of behavior.
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The question which one is compelled to ask is: Are we in industrialized nations condemned to make a Hobbsian choice between, on the one hand, more jobs which don't pay well, or better jobs, but fewer of them.
Press Briefing On By Richard Riley And Robert Reich ITY National Archives 1994
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In the 1988 Series, how could anyone forget seeing the A's hopes essentially dashed when ailing Dodger Kirk Gibson hit that Roy Hobbsian homer that still is shown in highlight spots?
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Leba Hertz 2011
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Arguments for belief in science are arguments for Hobbsian societies.
The Guardian World News Julian Baggini 2010
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