单词 | meliorist |
例句 | The utopian has a better story to tell; the meliorist leaves us with a better world. ♦ The Return of the Utopians 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z But Coates and Alexander warn against this kind of meliorist thinking. Is There a Black Silent Majority? 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z He was a meliorist in theory and practice, though he asserted that Christianity, an Oriental-born religion, has not become spiritually acclimated among Occidental peoples. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z To some of these meliorists, Europe seems almost as distant as China, but towards the peoples of both places they preserve a vague and benevolent missionary attitude. American World Policies But not Macaulay himself, the most confident of Whig meliorists, can produce any such evidence that will bear cross-examination. Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion The meliorist attitude, on the contrary, is rather to say, "Much is wrong; much painful; what can we do to improve it?" Post-Prandial Philosophy They argued, each according to his character and bent of mind, and, while the meliorists cheered each other, Mr. Baggs laughed at them and held their aspirations vain. The Spinners No question but the novelist would have welcomed as a convincing proof of her 'meliorist' doctrine the progress made in her own homeland in the century since her birth. Recent Developments in European Thought "Should I be even a meliorist—as I am—if I had?" The Dweller on the Threshold She was, rather, a meliorist who hoped for better things, though tardy to come; who believed, in her own pungent phrase, "in the slow contagion of good." Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities But Shakespeare is a meliorist even in Hamlet, and believes that the ailments of man can all be set right. The Man Shakespeare A pessimist in contemplation, he remains a meliorist in action. Little Eyolf |
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