| 单词 | misanthropic |
| 例句 | There was more left to explore, but suddenly it seemed like a waste of time; it was impossible that anyone could still be living here, even the most misanthropic recluse. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He was undoubtedly misanthropic, yet he was a formidable opponent of slavery and war and could be gentle and sympathetic when dealing with people in person. Review | Jonathan Swift: Not (entirely) the misanthrope you thought you knew 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z The good news, as far as politics goes, is that Markley is a misanthropic equal offender. Stephen Markley’s “Ohio”: This year’s “Hillbilly Elegy” of fiction 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z When Fleabag answers this with a misanthropic quip, Belinda knocks it down. TV's changing view of the change: The menopause conversation is getting better, finally 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z And as Newman’s song often encase misanthropic words in angelic ragtime melodies, so his listeners always had to infer the ironic abrasion between the songwriter and the views of the characters he creates. Randy Newman's Faust: The Devil Laughs and Cries 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z These erratic musings of a “misanthropic and chronically unhappy” man are interrupted one day by a mysterious encounter. Book World Joshua Ferris’s ‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’ He is the misanthropic muse whose sole pleasures in life, aside from nicotine consumption, are plaid shirts, sex and a stiff drink. The Legacy of Robert Loughlin, Artist Behind ‘The Brute’ 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Dwight’s review really got to the heart of what is so original about this book: its “misanthropic aplomb” and those serrated sentences. Times Critics Discuss the Year in Books, From Triumphs to Disappointments 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z No contest in the award for the most misanthropic character of the century: Dylan Moran wins hands down for his bile-flecked bookshop owner Bernard Black in this delightfully silly sitcom. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Standing by the gravesite is the police chief, Douglas Raymer, just a minor character in “Nobody’s Fool” but now the luckless, misanthropic hero of the new novel. ‘Everybody’s Fool’ by Richard Russo: A wry, bittersweet sequel to ‘Nobody’s Fool’ 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z On the contrary, it encourages you to luxuriate in your most negative, misanthropic feelings. | 'Marie and Bruce': There?s Room for Everyone Aboard a Marital Misery Tour 2011-04-06T03:00:05Z Perhaps it was indicative of Edward’s secretly misanthropic self. Isn’t it plain good manners to reply to my text after our first date? 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z One gleefully misanthropic monologue was built around his memories of working for a classical music publisher and gleefully subverting the wishes of callers seeking musical esoterica. Review: Joseph Keckler Shares Operatic Overtones and Tales at Pangea 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z If you expect any kind of mercy or relief, then you are misjudging the misanthropic tone of this movie. Paths of Glory: No 7 2010-10-19T10:48:00Z They are unsettling, resistant to tidy denouement and faintly misanthropic, all qualities that I generally find appealing in short fiction. Short story collections dive in to this fall He claimed to have been the namesake for Oscar the Grouch, the green, misanthropic Muppet who dwells in a garbage can. Oscar Brand, folk troubadour and radio host for seven decades, dies at 96 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z His misanthropic exterior concealed a heart of pure mush. After the deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain: Suicide is a beast for survivors, too 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Moshfegh writes with so much misanthropic aplomb, however, that she is always a deep pleasure to read. A Sleeping Beauty Hopes Hibernation Is the Answer to All Life’s Problems 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The intricacies of planning such an event, though, are a hard ask for someone who, by his own admission, is an anxiety-prone and somewhat misanthropic introvert. 'It could be huge. It could be a nightmare': attempting the largest family reunion in the world 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Even Freud at his most misanthropic never imagined that. Therapy under lockdown: 'I’m just as terrified as my patients are' 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z I always think of myself as kind of misanthropic. She makes a tiny chair, he eats a taco, she braids a lock. Every. Single. Day. 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z With nothing to lose, the anchor goes rogue and lets rip, venting misanthropic fury instead of reading the news, and threatening to blast his brains out live on air. Michelle Dockery: 'I consider myself a widow' 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z It’s not just that the central characters are misanthropes—television has long had plenty of those, from Archie Bunker to Larry David—but that the shows themselves seem essentially misanthropic. “BoJack Horseman” and the Comedy of Despair 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z The production also features two expertly carved studies in eccentricity from George Morfogen, as a threadbare, misanthropic count, and Roberta Maxwell, as a penny-pinching money lender. Theater Review: ‘Ivanov,’ With Ethan Hawke, From Classic Stage Company 2012-11-12T03:00:00Z But a movie about a foul-smelling, misanthropic, borderline hoarder? Melissa McCarthy, as you haven't seen her: Why her "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" Oscar nod is a thrill 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z I asked my somewhat misanthropic boyfriend if it was odd for me to spend so much time with the UPS man. He Delivered for Me 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z Because he was a masterful director, Kubrick could work in multiple genres and still tell stories that felt unique to his detached, misanthropic style of analyzing the human animal. Why "The Shining" is a hopeful film 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Compliance pushes the theory of ordinary folks following their foolish dreams or acceding to a stranger’s sick fantasies to its logical, misanthropic conclusion. Compliance: Sundance Torture Porn 2012-08-17T12:30:26Z Rescued by Han, a misanthropic maintenance man, Dre agrees to fight Li's punks in a tournament. 'The Karate Kid': Chan-Smith version has kick 2010-06-10T17:12:00Z But misanthropic people don't cry at films like I do. From Elephant 6 to Deerhunter: The US's new psychedelia 2011-03-10T23:00:01Z Without feeling like a paint-by-numbers kit, “Defenders” maintains the essence of the misanthropic private eye, Jones; the haunted blind vigilante, Daredevil; the bulletproof Harlem mensch, Cage; and the hippy-dippy martial artist, Iron Fist. Review: Netflix’s ‘Defenders’ Is Less Than the Sum of Its Superheroes 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Maybe McKenna came up with the ending, which makes It’s a Wonderful Life seem misanthropic by comparison. Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo is Pure Cornography 2011-12-22T16:00:34Z That character “dances above the others with his fierce intelligence” and “brandishes a misanthropic wit,” a press representative wrote, adding that “Kate and Martin have a ‘history’ together.” ArtsBeat Blog: Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater Sign Up for 'Seminar' With Alan Rickman 2011-08-15T17:13:50Z The series is a showcase for Davis to contrive and perform misanthropic antics as Emma barges through encounters with Sally’s stodgy parents, David’s widowed mother, and other recipients of grave offense. “Sally4Ever” and “The Bisexual,” Reviewed: Women in Crisis, In and Out of the Bedroom 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z When I say "misanthropic," by the way, I'm neither being judgmental nor breaking any news. Cannes: Woody Allen's "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" 2010-05-15T23:01:00Z She possesses that alluring hot-and-cold quality that can be so addictive before you know better, alternating between self-flagellating confessions and a generalized misanthropic snobbery. Review: Hulu’s ‘High Fidelity’ Is a Cool Cover, but It Misses Some Notes 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z I think that there’s more richness, more texture, to the films than one would expect if all one heard was that they were misanthropic and cruel. Todd Solondz, patron saint of pessimism 2010-07-23T19:01:00Z They strengthen the connections between quality movies and the real world that were frayed by last year’s overly solemn and misanthropic lineup. Critic?s Notebook: Film Festival Gains Life From Reality 2010-09-28T23:03:00Z An earnest, friendly lad, Aldous is worried about global warming and wants to work on solar energy — particularly artificial photosynthesis — and he tries to get the cynical and misanthropic Beard to share his concern. Books of The Times: Ian McEwan?s ?Solar? Features a Boorish Physicist 2010-03-29T21:45:00Z But I see something more than that, a dark and even misanthropic moral and intellectual vision that conceals, somewhere way deep down, the smothered hope for a better world. ?Battleship?: Dumbest military spectacle ever? 2012-05-17T00:00:00Z Called “The Lame Shall Enter First,” from a Flannery O’Connor short story, it’s to star Mr. Gleeson as a virulently misanthropic paraplegic. John Michael McDonagh Carves His Own Niche With ‘Calvary’ 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z If one says the filmmaker is cruel and misanthropic, it kind of lets one off the hook, and there’s something facile about that. Todd Solondz, patron saint of pessimism 2010-07-23T19:01:00Z Stubbs argues that the image of Swift as a “misanthropic monster” is not entirely fair, but Gulliver’s fate is instructive, nonetheless. Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Called, simply, “Mike Kelley,” the exhibition delivers a mordantly misanthropic vision of contemporary life with terrific theatrical élan. Review: Mike Kelley Uncorks Superman’s Kandor City in a Bottle 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Most imminently, there's the comedy "St. Vincent," in which he plays a misanthropic war veteran who becomes an unlikely mentor to the kid next door and learns a few lessons of his own. Bill Murray: Is he doing some of his best work off-screen? 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Two years ago, the organization created a third way for feral cats unfit for adoption because of their misanthropic tendencies. ‘These are working cats’: Meet the feral D.C. felines tasked with hunting rodents 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z But unlike Mr. LaBute, who can keep the bitterness flowing straight through to the end, Mr. Krieger puts on a misanthropic front for show. 2010-02-11T23:57:00Z Ryegold is a surgeon with a pathological disregard for his patients, a misanthropic attitude to the world and a relish for the more physically gross aspects of the operating theatre. This week's new comedy 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z These boys don’t have much going for them; their personalities range from vacant to misanthropic. The Lustful Middle School Girl Rises 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z It’s not just my favorite work in her estimable and varied oeuvre; it’s a misanthropic masterpiece of the genre. In ‘Natural Opium,’ a Tourist Attuned to Every Indignity 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z She was at times unapologetically misanthropic, tracing her distrust of others to her upbringing in Nashville. Jackie Shane, a Transgender Soul Pioneer, Re-emerges After Four Decades 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z But while the baritone Christopher Purves sounds firm, he is far too blandly affable as the misanthropic yet magnetic Disney. Music Review: ‘The Perfect American,’ by Philip Glass, at Teatro Real 2013-02-01T16:17:23Z You’ve done pretty well with critics over the years, but there is a running theme among those who see you as fundamentally cruel and misanthropic. Todd Solondz: I’m Judd Apatow’s dark side 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z Watteau is an 18th century pop artist, immersed in the styles and pleasures that a misanthropic observer might despise. Watteau at the Royal Academy: the theatre of life 2011-03-14T17:11:09Z “Harlem Shuffle” is a more personal book than his recent ones, Whitehead said, allowing him to reveal more of his caustic humor and misanthropic side. Colson Whitehead Reinvents Himself, Again 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Somewhere between Bad Teacher and Dead Poets Society, this series is set to blend the misanthropic with the earnest. Superheroes, singers and spaceships: what can we expect from TV next? 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Will the misanthropic, elitist writer Jimmy, who yells “Eject” when he wants someone else to stop talking, and the needy, clinically depressed publicist Gretchen make it to the finish line? Review: ‘You’re the Worst’ Heads Toward Happily Ever After. Maybe. 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Now that music fans are used to fluid boundaries between genres, those former misanthropic kids heard their albums with fresh ears – and they still sounded invigorating. The Blood Brothers blow up punk -- again -- at FYF Fest 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z His brand of weird is gooey and misanthropic, with an insistence that the universe is at best indifferent to human life and at worst antagonistic. Gods, Monsters and H.P. Lovecraft’s Uncanny Legacy 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z This time he plays a frighteningly misanthropic cop nearly undone by hate who leaves the city to hunt a murderer in the mountains. Robert Ryan?s Quiet Furies 2011-08-06T20:58:02Z Despite all the cast changes, Sheldon remained emphatically misanthropic, self-centered, and alienated. How “The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z The Walking Dead holds out more hope for the future of humanity than The Leftovers, but if you want your misanthropic views of the world validated, this is the show for you. After Mad Men and Breaking Bad, what’s next for The Great American Drama? 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Herron is grateful for his loyal readers, though he is slightly alarmed by how much some embrace the misanthropic Lamb and his repertoire of luridly offensive put-downs. Writer Mick Herron’s ‘Slow Horses’ are spies for our times 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Lee is sorta supposed to be a soulless, misanthropic TV guy with a string of divorces behind him and a daughter somewhere he doesn’t even know. Hollywood liberalism at its lamest: “Money Monster,” George Clooney and Jodie Foster’s financial-crisis drama, misfires spectacularly 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Part of this year’s Brits Off Broadway festival, this misanthropic comedy of disaster suggests that a life-obliterating apocalypse might be not only just, but also merciful. Review: ‘Caroline’s Kitchen’ Cooks Up an Eve of Destruction 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z But will Salinger’s appeal survive the passing of the generations that adopted him as their misanthropic saint? Perspective | J.D. Salinger at 100: Is ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ still relevant? 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z All of that to see a slight, morbid, misanthropic 2010 Woody Allen film. Cannes: Woody Allen's "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" 2010-05-15T23:01:00Z It was enough to soften the heart of the most cynical, misanthropic Grinch. Liz Callaway at 54 Below 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z But heed Luke Haines's gleefully misanthropic warning to "pale and wan" hipsters in the Auteurs' Junk Shop Clothes, which he says "will get you nowhere". Readers recommend: songs about clothes – results 2012-07-19T14:05:28Z Consider this observation, by the discreetly misanthropic Ackerley as he marvels at his new pet’s exuberance: “It seemed to me both touching and strange that she should find the world so wonderful.” | 'My Dog Tulip': A Tender Love Story Between Man and Dog 2010-08-31T22:37:00Z Speaking of wrinkles, Douglas, who is playing a misanthropic real estate agent in the film, is 69; Keaton, as a neighbor who is an aspiring singer, 68. Rob Reiner talks about making movies for grown-ups The question is posed: Are the characters waking up from their self-involved and misanthropic ways? ArtsBeat: ‘Girls’ Returns, and a New Day Begins 2014-01-13T04:00:22Z In “Jigsaw,” the second, he delivers a misanthropic riff that has since, by his count, ruined more than forty-five thousand relationships, among them a hundred and nineteen marriages. Daniel Sloss’s “X,” a Laddish Comic’s Reckoning with #MeToo 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z It’s hard not to immediately sympathize with a misanthropic robot — can’t we all understand the desire to just binge-watch TV instead of dealing with people? When the robots take over; 4 new sci-fi reads 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z But the pioneers of scathingly misanthropic material, such as Lenny Bruce and Bill Hicks, were genuinely angry about stuff, and turned that anger into inventive routines aimed mostly at the powerful elite. Is Frankie Boyle actually funny? 2010-12-19T00:06:27Z I've always found von Trier's movies pretentious and misanthropic in a self-aggrandizing way, as if he were looking down on his audience and pronouncing them unworthy as human beings. 2009-12-28T01:20:00Z Ironic, really, that a man with clear misanthropic qualities figured out how to empower his audience. Martin, Short in comedic order of sweet, sour 2011-06-20T21:27:00Z Thomas is to play the misanthropic Stuart in the six-part drama about three Leeds-based paramedics, which has just begun filming for a summer transmission on Channel 4. Rhys Thomas to star in Channel 4's Naked Apes 2011-02-11T07:30:14Z There’s nothing cute, however, about the newest breed of misanthropic, gloriously self-destructive, essentially alienated young female protagonists, exemplified by two new releases, Halle Butler’s “The New Me” and Jen Beagin’s “Vacuum in the Dark.” Two Novels for and About Lost Millennial Women 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z If you ever get the chance to see this ultra-dysfunctional domestic sitcom, then do; it's a misanthropic loser classic to rival Curb Your Enthusiasm. Offensive charm 2011-03-19T00:04:00Z Mr. Baldwin’s admission that “I find myself bitter, defensive, and more misanthropic than I care to admit” didn’t find much disagreement on Twitter. Hashtag Nation: Twitter Responds to Alec Baldwin’s New York Magazine Article 2014-02-26T23:23:36Z The book’s narrator set the pattern for all of Houellebecq’s antiheroes: depressed, misanthropic men who, precisely because they cannot achieve romantic or sexual satisfaction, believe that sex is the most important thing in life. A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It’s Arrived. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The narrator of the Medium essay displays a knack for quotidian particulars and mood-setting, but he also seems free of misanthropic grumpiness—he shakes people’s hands and expresses gratitude for “the mystery of being alive.” Beto O‘Rourke‘s Rebirth as a Knausgaardian Blogger 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z It deals with a spendthrift hero who, fawned on when his credit is good, is rejected when poor and retreats into misanthropic isolation. Timon of Athens - Review 2012-07-18T00:23:36Z Start anywhere, with any of her briny, misanthropic riffs on lust, marriage, aging, chronic illness, the art of “detachment parenting” two white stepchildren. The Wildly Funny Samantha Irby Is Back, Not a Moment Too Soon 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z On stage, Gervais relies on a comic persona that lies somewhere between the characters he plays and the way people imagine he is in real life: smug, misanthropic and a little cowardly. Golden Globes 2011: who'd be an awards show presenter? 2011-01-17T20:30:01Z She then retires, watches and connives as the story takes its misanthropic, labyrinthine, somewhat preposterous course. Confessions ? review 2011-02-20T00:05:30Z His joke, even though it is misanthropic and negative in some ways, is so comforting to me, like, yeah, the planet is going to be fine. Listening to Louis C.K.: An Interview with the Comedian Jena Friedman 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z You of course have been described as a deeply pessimistic, perhaps even misanthropic filmmaker. Todd Solondz, patron saint of pessimism 2010-07-23T19:01:00Z Certainly in the UK there is a hardcoreof germ-phobic, misanthropic, plain snooty people who find the idea of eating outside – the smells, the spillages, the nauseating sight of people chewing – wholly repulsive. Sensible idea or snobbery: is Florence right to ban eating in the streets? 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Even the cynical structure of “It’s Always Sunny” — which resets after every episode, releasing its misanthropic bar staff to pinball around the pub again — feels oddly better suited to the moment. The Only Hollywood Abuser I Want to Hear From Is a Horse 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The mock documentary will star Warwick Davis, who will play a misanthropic dwarf. AUDIO: Ricky Gervais on new BBC dwarf sitcom 2011-06-01T15:43:32Z With Fredwynn, this manifests as a misanthropic dismissive attitude, in that he assumes that he's the smartest person in the room and that his being Black leads people to underestimate him. "Dispatches From Elsewhere" stars on connecting to the show's mystery without a murder 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Will Smith’s Hancock, about a boozy, misanthropic Superman analogue, failed to take flight, while even the widely admired Dredd, acknowledged by fans as being supremely faithful to the 2000AD source material, couldn’t muster a sequel. Deadpool: ‘I don’t think my mom is going to be able to watch it’ 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z At the next, having discovered he is broke, and that his erstwhile "friends" will not help him, he has turned into a raging misanthropic hermit. Timon of Athens; Peace Camp; The Only True History of Lizzie Finn – review 2012-07-21T23:05:46Z When he was in a misanthropic mood, six to eight feet of separation wasn’t nearly enough. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z It will be the first episode of the series, in which the misanthropic comedian Larry David plays a lightly fictionalized version of himself, since the Season 8 finale in Sept. 2011. ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Announces Season 9 Return Date 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z A case in point: "Tomorrow's Going to Be a Better Day," which addresses "the misanthropic misbegotten merchants of gloom." Review: Billy Bragg blends themes big and small 2013-03-18T17:25:09Z And the remake is directed by Neil LaBute, a white director and screenwriter best known for making misanthropic and, in the view of some critics, misogynistic indie films and plays. Film: Chris Rock Gives New Life to ?Death at a Funeral? 2010-04-09T15:31:00Z And, while I want the boys to be questioning and inquisitive, I would love for them to be less of a misanthropic idiot. I was cynical about Greta Thunberg’s voyage, but she’s upsetting all the right people | Romesh Ranganathan 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z A comic novel about terrorism featuring a misanthropic hero striving to take credit for deadly bombings around the world? Books of The Times: Lionel Shriver?s ?New Republic? Has Echoes of Sept. 11 2012-03-26T22:37:24Z Fullerton's bitterly misanthropic Philip always looks like he's sniffing something rank in the room. Review: 'Mauritius' at Seattle Public Theater is a taut, twisty thriller 2010-10-07T21:32:00Z Isn’t the eponymous physician a pill-popping, misanthropic jerk with off-putting googly eyes and bedside manner as soothing as a 3am phone call from Stalin? From The Simpsons to Nurse Jackie, the most useful (and useless) TV medics 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Its attendant suffering is grudgingly ameliorated by the misanthropic Brother Melitone, a representative of the church who is entirely devoid of Christian feeling. La Forza del Destino 2010-07-28T20:29:00Z Moshfegh is a young American writer of Croatian and Iranian descent who writes with misanthropic aplomb. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z When his curmudgeonly character, Jacques, the world’s most misanthropic owner of its seediest dive, lets fly, geysers of offensive epithets erupt from his mouth like Old Faithful on double time. | 'The Good Heart': Tale of Mortality, Featuring Brian Cox and Paul Dano 2010-04-30T00:07:00Z Less defensible: a show which dilates on men’s sexual and romantic needs with female characters only present to enable them; a story of a misanthropic schlub who lands a smart, beautiful lady, just because. Review: In ‘Sideways: The Experience,’ Bros Run Amok in Wine Country 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z In Perry’s “Listen Up Philip,” which opens Friday, Jason Schwartzman stars as a similarly self-absorbed, misanthropic figure, a Philip Roth-like author who spends the entire movie verbally and emotionally abusing his friends and colleagues. Critic’s notebook: ‘Interstellar’s’ sonic soup or: How auteurs diss their audiences The story so far: If you believe Lewis Schaffer, he wasn't always such a misanthropic crank. Comedy profile: Lewis Schaffer 2010-04-27T14:26:00Z There are misanthropic doctors and bishops with gambling debts. ‘The Books of Jacob,’ a Nobel Prize Winner’s Sophisticated and Overwhelming Novel 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z The actors on “The Boys” also embrace its skeptical, misanthropic streak, and consider it well-suited to the times. ‘The Boys’ Is Back, More Relevant Than Ever 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Kendrick’s appearance invites the possibility of a romantic connection with Christian, but the movie, remaining true to its austere, ultramacho, deeply misanthropic ethos doesn’t allow it. Review: In ‘The Accountant,’ a Savant With Daddy Issues Has a Dark Secret 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z It falls to the actors to endow the director’s acute, misanthropic vision with emotional gravity and grace. Review: In ‘The Lobster,’ Colin Farrell Plays a Divorced Man in a Loner-Hating Society 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z If Ehrenreich needs an acting coach to channel Harrison Ford’s misanthropic allure, so be it. Is the Han Solo Star Wars spin-off spiralling towards disaster? 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z And I don't know what to say about the notion that I'm misanthropic. Hot seat: David Simon explains "Treme" 2011-07-04T12:05:00Z How many rhetorical poses and stylistic gags can one endure through this misanthropic critique of American culture? Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z A play that at first diverts you with its satirical portrait of upper-middle-class moral panic, not least at the discovery that the cook is an unreconstructed Nazi, eventually turns into something more biliously misanthropic. Before the Party – review 2013-03-29T17:37:17Z Seth MacFarlane, the creator of TV's Family Guy, has co-written and directed a stoner fantasy which is cynical and lethargic, sour and dour; it is misanthropic, crass, facetious, offensive, immature and very funny. Ted – review 2012-08-02T14:30:02Z Mary, the misanthropic United States Marshal played by Mary McCormack on “In Plain Sight,” is expecting a baby. ?Prime Suspect?: Returning to the Source 2011-07-14T22:20:55Z Her new book caps off her trilogy of collections of briny, splendidly misanthropic riffs on chronic illness and all the mutinies of the body, lust, aging, her two dead parents, her two white stepchildren. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z He’s flirty, cocky and a touch patronizing, a little in the mold of Dr. House, but less misanthropic and more ripped. Review: In Fox’s ‘Rosewood,’ a Cocky Crime Pathologist in Sultry Miami 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Inept and misanthropic as they may be, Allen’s recent comedies do not feature giant robots or motor-vehicle explosions. “Magic in the Moonlight”: It’s time to stop making excuses for Woody Allen 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Motives for mockery vary: they may be political, moral, aesthetic, psychological or misanthropic. Art Review: ?Infinite Jest? at the Metropolitan Museum - Review 2011-09-15T21:19:50Z It is narrow-minded, cynical and overtly misanthropic, in the truest sense of that word. GOP finally picks a speaker: But the hellish chaos of D.C. won't end anytime soon 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Lyubov Vinogradova, executive director of Russia’s Independent Psychiatric Association, called the bill “misanthropic” in a phone interview with The Associated Press before the final reading. Russian lawmakers pass a bill outlawing gender-affirming procedures to protect ‘traditional values’ 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Suzuki’s distinctly misanthropic voice enlivens these narratives of women whose mundane lives are altered — sometimes humorously, sometimes catastrophically — by science-fictional or supernatural occurrences. Review | An acidic and funny collection of misandrist stories 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Newitz appreciates that classic, but says “it’s very much not my style, because it’s so misanthropic. ‘ How sci-fi writer Annalee Newitz turned to real-life scientists to build a (better) future 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Instead, she suffuses both storylines with a misanthropic sympathy: People are terrible, but you can’t help feeling for us. Review | This winter, 4 fantasy novels portend doom — but offer delights 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z "The specter of fascism may once again be hovering over Europe. But, as in Greece, it is now fully integrated—and continues its misanthropic work—within the oligarchic European establishment." Led by Giorgia Meloni, fascists set to take power in Italy for first time since Mussolini 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z All it takes is one look at Wallace’s misanthropic scowl to know the answer. Review: ‘Funny Pages,’ a blistering, comedic portrait of a teen cartoonist, isn't a calm mix 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z And now with “Here Goes Nothing,” he’s taken his misanthropic shtick into the Great Beyond. Review | Steve Toltz’s novel about death, ‘Here Goes Nothing,’ is gravely funny 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z How do I balance a natural inclination to love being alone with the risk of becoming a misanthropic hermit? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Dad struggles with wedding toast to ‘selfish’ and ‘ungrateful’ son 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The scrutiny wreaks havoc on the misanthropic Jones, who would rather hide out at her local bar, drinking away past traumas. The 75 best TV shows on Netflix right now, according to our experts 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Is there anything more misanthropic and sociopathic in our national politics? Column: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's new order on vaccine mandates is beyond unhinged 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z It was a misanthropic screed stretching to several pages, suggesting a lifelong fascination with violence. Law Student Armed With Shotgun Kills at Least Six at a Russian University 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z It’s not an easy needle to thread, especially in an atelier as miserably misanthropic as this one. Review | Disney’s ‘Cruella’ manages to be tedious, transgressive, chaotic and inert, all at the same time 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z “I call him the king of misanthropic cinema. He would turn around and say: ‘I’m not the king of misanthropic cinema. What if the Great American Novelist Doesn’t Write Novels? 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z A misanthropic clock mocks victims of household accidents. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z The western climate movement’s rallying call to “trust the science” is vital, but I wonder if the overwhelming emphasis on it is making our solidarity more misanthropic and apolitical. People, not carbon emissions, should be at the heart of the west's climate action | Aruna Chandrasekhar 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Loud, effects-driven, relentlessly paced and perhaps even a touch misanthropic, as if driven to the edge by the heat, summer movies can be curiously cold and unlovable, as much as we love them. Has 'Back to the Future' aged well? Our critics take a closer look at a summer fave 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z And it wasn’t that the Ibrahims were pious in a misanthropic way. Two Wealthy Sri Lankan Brothers Became Suicide Bombers. But Why? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z A misanthropic adult enters a national spelling bee by way of a rules loophole and inexplicably bonds with a precocious boy whose strict father is pressuring him to win. Movies on TV this week, May 31: A Clockwork Orange and more 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z If it makes for profoundly uncomfortable listening now – “problematic” barely begins to cover the lyrical content – their music had a remarkable power, a sense of unceasing, misanthropic hostility. Dave Greenfield: putting beauty at the rotten heart of the Stranglers 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Together, they make a barely functional, astonishingly misanthropic pair that should be forbidden by law. Which FX shows should you stream on Hulu? 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z You might not think so, because I’m a misanthropic depressed person with menopause acne, whose hips are too wide for every restaurant chair in this city, but you would be wrong. I had zero experience in a writers’ room. Then I was offered my dream job in LA 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z And it demonstrated that it was not mere misanthropic ideation. Why we need worst-case thinking to prevent pandemics 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Garland also dismisses being dystopian, saying “Devs” is about compassion: “There’s nothing misanthropic about the story. It’s exactly the opposite.” Cerebral new FX series ‘Devs’ likely to blow some minds 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z A misanthropic poet takes her granddaughter across Los Angeles in search of the money she needs to terminate her unwanted pregnancy. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Feb. 9: 'Bonnie and Clyde' on TCM and Kirk Douglas in 'Lust for Life' (1956) 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Shirley Jackson is best known for her creepiest and most misanthropic work, like her novel The Haunting of Hill House and the vicious short story “The Lottery.” Shirley is a gothic drama about Shirley Jackson’s haunted life 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The room’s broody, slightly misanthropic mood fit the occasion: Over the next three days, we’d be learning how not to be buried alive. What I Learned in Avalanche School 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z If an avatar mingled in a way that bothered me, there were misanthropic measures that I could take. Taking Virtual Reality for a Test Drive 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z A New York City waitress, a gay painter and a dog help a misanthropic author reach a self-awakening. Movies on TV this week: 'GoodFellas' on AMC and more 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z He’s never denied being misanthropic, saying in one early interview, “I hate most people, and I don’t want to. It’s an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort.” Morrissey is anti-immigrant and backs a white nationalist political party. Why don't fans care? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Lloyd, a sardonic type with a misanthropic streak, approaches the assignment with reluctance and annoyance. TIFF Critics Notebook: 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,' 'Uncut Gems' shake up festival rhythms 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Unexplained illnesses fueled eight seasons of the Fox series “House,” which starred Hugh Laurie as a brilliant but misanthropic diagnostician, not to mention countless daytime talk show segments and sensational reality series on cable. Our healthcare system is broken. Can crowdsourced medical shows fill the void? 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The author writes “with such misanthropic aplomb … she is always a deep pleasure to read.” Paperback Picks: A woman-centered thriller, a true-crime Conan Doyle story and a year of sleeping 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z The two women play off each other well, whether Trish is providing a distraction so Jessica can steal police files, or coaching her misanthropic sister for a TV interview. Jessica Jones’ final season is tighter and smarter 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z It’s at its best when it strips Black Mirror’s tough social commentary of its misanthropic condescension, balancing a critique of technology with real sympathy for the people who use it. In "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too," Black Mirror does teen comedy 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z A party song about hating parties, Jed Shieber’s vaguely tropical bro-down exploits current pop’s misanthropic streak while resting easy in the knowledge that millions of radio listeners don’t pay attention to the words. Ranked! The 21st century’s best (and worst) songs of the summer 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Tech both as an industry and as a nebulous utopian idea is too often portrayed either as the savior of the human race, or as a misanthropic, self-righteous machine of capitalism. New documentary Autonomy makes the convincing case that self-driving cars will change everything 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z It is telling that the best actress category is filled with characters trapped by social expectations: Melissa McCarthy’s misanthropic and marketing-averse Lee Israel in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” Glenn Close doesn't need an Oscar, but this year she deserves one 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z In some ways, Washington, under Trump, has devolved into the feral state that Reid, in his misanthropic heart, always knew it could become under the right conditions. Harry Reid Has a Few Words for Washington 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Indifferent to the misanthropic trend prevalent in today’s cinema, Rohrwacher’s beautiful, painful movie alerts us to the maladies of our time while also providing us with the emotional tools to defeat them.” Indie Focus: Around the world with 'Happy As Lazzaro,' 'Mirai' and 'Never Look Away' 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Eligia, meanwhile, remains something of an enigma throughout the book, more mysterious than her misanthropic husband. How Jorge Barón Biza Turned His Family Tragedy Into Fiction 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Jones’ 1975 adaptation of a post-apocalyptic story by the late Harlan Ellison has both a misogynist streak and a separate misanthropic streak, but it’s certainly a different kind of look at the apocalypse from most. 10 subversive, dark American futures to stream on July 4th 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z His contemporaries found Heraclitus—a misanthropic aristocrat, an insufferable elitist by modern standards—difficult to understand: They called him “the dark” or “the obscure.” Did an Ancient Greek Anticipate Trump? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z At the same time, it strikes him as the best thing he’s done for the world: “a terrible thing to say,” he laughs, “but I don’t mean it misanthropically – just pragmatically.” Richard Powers: ‘It was like a religious conversion. I realised the natural world isn’t ours’ 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Salvini is secretly salivating at the thought of another election – one that he will fight not as the misanthropic, divisive populist that he is, but as the defender of democracy against the Deep Establishment. With his choice of prime minister, Italy’s president has gifted the far right | Yanis Varoufakis 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z On the contrary, instead of becoming misanthropic and evil, Sheila becomes more outgoing and energetic, dispensing optimistic life advice to neighbors, and leaning in at her job. In Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet, zombies are the political activists America needs 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z But the Black Museum is the largest single indicator that Black Mirror constitutes a coherent timeline of high-tech disasters, like the world’s most misanthropic cinematic universe. Black Mirror’s Black Museum episode is packed with Easter eggs 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z First and foremost, there are those lingering, literarily minded, misanthropic anarchists who always dug the Dan's bad attitude. The 1993 interview when Walter Becker opened up about Steely Dan's subversive intentions 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Among sub-literary genres, perhaps only the traditional detective story has a reliable moral arc, even if it will give our robot an utterly misanthropic view of human behaviour. We need robots to have morals. Could Shakespeare and Austen help? | John Mullan 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z He also wrote the screenplay for the manically misanthropic “Wilson,” adapting his 2010 bestseller. 'Wilson's' Daniel Clowes, patron saint of misfits and curmudgeons 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Hurt’s voice doesn’t just support these pictures; it speaks for them, nailing Von Trier's misanthropic tone with ruthless accuracy. John Hurt on film: A voice of wit, mischief and wily humanity 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z The bottom line for extraterrestrial intelligence is that it is probably rarer than previously imagined, a conclusion called the misanthropic principle. Humanity is cosmically special. Here’s how we know. 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Audiences in search of bright colors, easy jokes and family-friendly vibes will find sweet relief here from the drunken, misanthropic high jinks of “Bad Santa 2.” Disney's gorgeous animated fantasy 'Moana' sails into charmingly familiar waters 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The notion of a man that misanthropic singing a song of such vulnerability makes it all the better. The six best Bob Dylan moments on film 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The premise seems to be that those who wish to lower fertility rates must be misanthropic, or fail to see the value of humans. Why we should have fewer children: to save the planet | Travis N Rieder 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z If all this bashing of tall people and fidgeters sounds misanthropic, think of it this way: You wouldn’t want extra people hanging around when you’re on a first date. The Underrated Joy of Sitting in the Front Row at the Movies 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The former stance, to its critics, is arrogant; the latter is misanthropic. There’s No Such Thing as Pristine Nature 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z But there’s new reason to hope that this misanthropic creation of Dodd-Frank may not reach adulthood. Consumer Financial Protection Racket 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z The editorial continued, “That offensive style of bird is either kept by misanthropic old ladies or by malignant persons with a special grudge against their neighbors.” Parrots: The Highlight Reel 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z But when it comes to social media, she flings off the mask and exposes her hateful, misanthropic personality. Roseanne Barr’s bizarre evolution from comic sensation to racist Twitter troll 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z New Yorkers are typically a misanthropic lot, but Uber is finding success in convincing a growing number to share rides with complete strangers. Even cynical New Yorkers don’t mind sharing Uber rides with strangers 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z It is a modern-day lesson in the danger of environmental fears and the misanthropic solutions they typically inspire. The Tyranny of a Big Idea 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z He particularly enjoyed a recent assertion by the filmmaker Errol Morris, writing in The Paris Review, that Mr. Wiseman was “the undisputed king of misanthropic cinema.” Jackson Heights Through the Eyes of Frederick Wiseman 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Hank and Karen’s path was a tormented one throughout the dark comedy, with several attempts to get mend fences only to be torn apart again — often due to Hank’s misanthropic, self-centered behavior. David Duchovny tours debut album ‘Hell or Highwater,’ discusses ‘X-Files’ revival 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Our narratives are the same: a character is misanthropic, falls for somebody and starts to melt. Titus Andronicus: 'You can’t blaze a path of destruction throughout your life' 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The Ku Klux Klan is a racist and misanthropic organization. Nationalists in Finland Hurl Rocks at Iraqis Seeking Asylum 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z And I’m talking about knee-jerk, misanthropic ill will, no possible redemption whatever. Hummingbirds are beautiful, but their personalities are for the birds 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z As with Colbert and Stewart, the satire of "Key & Peele" is humanist rather than misanthropic, but the fact that there are two men provides one sort of tension while diffusing another. Here's why the outrageously important 'Key & Peele' is comedy's jam 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Franzen is pained and baffled when he hears himself described as misanthropic. Jonathan Franzen interview: ‘There is no way to make myself not male' 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Related: Jonathan Franzen on his misanthropic reputation: 'We live in a world of cant' “There’s a certain degree of glee in putting that stuff in the book,” Franzen told the Guardian. Jonathan Franzen 'considered adopting Iraqi orphan to figure out young people' 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Tomlin, 75, also stars in the soon-to-be-released film "Grandma," about a misanthropic poet whose granddaughter shows up at her door in need. Lily Tomlin's 'Grace and Frankie' Emmy nod adds to notable year 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The first episode alone attracted almost two million views by serving up a slice of black life not often available on-screen — a quirky, misanthropic main character, like Liz Lemon but with more melanin. The Misadventures of Issa Rae 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z In my most misanthropic, narcissistic moments, how I would look around a room of people and feel that way about myself. Why the creator of BoJack Horseman embraces sadness 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z The family was isolated from its neighbors because of Mr. Rodham’s sour, demeaning nature and his misanthropic tendencies, said Carl Bernstein, who wrote a 2007 biography of Hillary Clinton, “A Woman in Charge.” Hillary Clinton Draws Scrappy Determination From a Tough, Combative Father 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z It is not a sprightly upstart on the international fashion calendar — a misanthropic trade event with good intentions but not much sparkle. New York Fashion Week: Men’s has all the trappings of success. But can the designers deliver? 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z With a tone both friendly and hurt, he asked Miller, “Really, misanthropic?” Jonathan Franzen talks up, and around, his new novel 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Everything else about the show was a witty, entertaining merry-go-round full of memorable one-liners and misanthropic observational humor that has long since been absorbed into the cultural lexicon. 'Seinfeld' Is Nice, But Is It Bingeworthy? Hulu Seems To Think So 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z He can be angered by misanthropic individuals, as I can, but in confrontation with them he will attack their intellectual pretensions rather than the individuals themselves. My Friend Yanis, The Greek Minister Of Finance 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z The film’s patina of richly textured grime lends the film a gloomy, claustrophobic beauty that serves its mood, as well as its satisfyingly misanthropic message: Greed isn’t good, and most people aren’t either. ‘Black Sea’ movie review: Finding a buried treasure with Jude Law 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Lily Tomlin is a misanthropic granny in the closing night’s drama, “Grandma.” What to watch for at the Sundance Film Festival 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z She cites with pleasure, as well, a misanthropic piece by Bruce Nauman: an empty room in which his recorded voice growls, “Get out of this room. Get out of my mind.” The Timely Sculpture of Rachel Harrison | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z “Even Hitler, given all his misanthropic ideas, failed in his attempts to destroy Russia and push us beyond the Ural Mountains,” Putin concluded. Putin insists Crimea is historically part of Russia 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The left, by contrast, is divided between genuinely compassionate people who want to lift up the poor and the misanthropic “mean greens” whose ideological abhorrence of affluence arrays them against the poor. Class Warfare One More Time: The Left-Wing And The Right-Wing Versions 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Ferris’s “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour,” tells the story of a misanthropic New York dentist who is impersonated online by members of a shady religious group. Richard Flanagan Wins Man Booker Prize for Tale of World War II P.O.W. 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s not exactly a movie-ready story, given that it’s about a mildly misanthropic woman marching for miles, day after day, under the scorching sun. ‘Tracks’ movie review: Robyn Davidson takes on the Australian desert Also, I cannot avoid to see a little bit of misanthropic "Brave New World" type of attitude in the writer. Should We All Take a Bit of Lithium? 2014-09-13T04:00:00Z The cast ably pulls off the low-key drama and the script’s periodic witticisms, especially Aubrey Plaza as Sarah, the overworked tax attorney, and Max Greenfield as misanthropic PhD student Josh. ‘About Alex’ movie review: ‘The Big Chill’ gets a status update At the outset, the Internet looked like a panacea for misanthropic germaphobes. Why We Live in a Sharing Economy and Other Fascinating News on the Web 2014-04-23T19:32:29Z You go home, disgusted with town, and mankind, and yourself, and long to be alone for awhile in a desert, until your misanthropic feelings are consoled and cured. Heat-Struck, July 1852 2013-07-26T22:54:39Z She, like Kefka in Final Fantasy VI, is a malevolent regal presence, manipulating all, hating everything, misanthropic to the core. Pride and Prejudice at 200: is it time for a video game? 2013-01-28T16:25:07Z Curiously, despite coming across as deeply unpleasant, misanthropic, troubled, anti-social and boorish, the Fiver enjoys similar levels of public antipathy. The Fiver 2012-08-30T15:35:46Z Do you still feel as angry, as misanthropic? Metal bands: Ignored but still angry 2012-06-08T20:31:01Z Charles, called by his brothers and sisters, "Timon", on account of his misanthropic views and bitter sayings, was not a whit behind Rupert in learning, and far his superior in social accomplishments. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z Since then he had spent a solitary and misanthropic life, grinding his tenants, amassing a quantity of unusual walking-sticks and bad modern pictures, and collecting what he called antiques. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z If it is to overcome its opponent, misanthropic, fleshless spiritualism, and that on the latter's own ground, materialism has to chastise its own flesh and turn ascetic. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z O ye, who consider or declare me to be hostile, obstinate, or misanthropic, what injustice ye do me!—ye know not the secret causes of that which to you wears such an appearance. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z In the movie Swimming with Sharks, the cowering assistant to misanthropic film executive Kevin Spacey reaches his breaking point. Paper May Be the Unkindest Cut 2012-03-01T13:15:00.200Z Taciturn and misanthropic among equals, he liked to disguise himself in a pea-jacket and visit the low haunts of his shipmates. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z One may easily grow misanthropic and pessimistic by dwelling upon the misfits. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z He appears, dear sister Agatha, to have experienced much misfortune, which has made him distrustful and misanthropic. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z He seems, my dear Agatha, to have endured much suffering, which has rendered him distrustful and misanthropic; he avoids all society, his only exceptions are Leopold and myself. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z The sacrifices, too, and manner of life he arranged unlike those of other people; owing to their own banishment, he introduced among them a misanthropic and inhospitable life. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z He was scarcely ever absent from home, yet there was nothing misanthropic in his character. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z His resolution, superficially harsh and misanthropic, is a masked, or inverted, expression of desire. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Josse, who had been simple and kind in his youth, having suffered various wrongs, became crotchety and malicious, his blood turned to bile in his veins, he became misanthropic and lived solitary and alone. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z It was unthinkable that a man of intelligence should be misanthropic from choice and without cause. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z Doubtless it was the influence of Van Bleit that eventually drew him from his misanthropic habits and plunged him, somewhat reluctantly, into the vortex of Cape Town society. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z New Year's Day favoured my purpose, bringing with it clear frost and iron roads, a day when even the misanthropic soul of a bicycle awakens into sympathy and geniality. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z The last time the Oakland Raiders made the playoffs, YouTube didn’t exist, the housing market was on fire, and Mark Zuckerberg was just another misanthropic Harvard genius. Defending the Raiders (seriously) 2011-10-24T21:07:25Z But the misanthropic under-lip certainly protruded, even more then than in his portraits. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Hallam was no less misanthropic than before his marriage; but his life was happier and full of interest. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z The writer dreads to put in print his estimate of such a political monster as Thad Stevens, the misanthropic genius of reconstruction, the Robespierre of America. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z Castle Borky was originally only a shooting-box of the Baranowskis, but the last occupant had been a misanthropic bachelor who had added considerably to the building, converting it into a residence. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z For such a banquet would be one of rustic stupidity; and adapted to the most misanthropic of proverbs— Friends who far off do live are never friends. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z He was in danger of becoming morbid and misanthropic. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z The mock documentary by The Office writers will star Warwick Davis as a misanthropic dwarf. BBC Two plan Shirley Bassey drama 2011-06-22T11:51:38Z From which comprehensive remark we can clearly see that Mr. Jones is turning misanthropic. Rachel Gray 2011-05-20T02:00:39.547Z "They are only fit to burn," was his misanthropic reply. Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z He looked gloomy, misanthropic, and painted with the air of an angry lover, who has fallen out with his mistress. Daisy Burns (Volume 2) 2011-05-20T02:00:30.427Z And the brooding months had waxed into riotous winter tempests and had dragged in endless, eternal deluges of ice and snow, adding cold agony to Buddy's already misanthropic heart. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z It was in this way people came to consider him as misanthropic and regardless of the proprieties. White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z Men illustrious in poetry, arts, and statesmanship are often insane, like Ajax, or misanthropic like Bellerophon. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The corrosive satire that some readers find hilarious strikes others as repellently misanthropic. 2011 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts 2011-04-18T19:53:00Z Now, mind, I do not say this in any spirit of misanthropic invective. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z This intelligence jarred Buddy's hard, tight-lipped mouth ajar and fired his cold, misanthropic heart with a vibrant yearning. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z On frosty days he often tried to climb into the upper air, but he was to be preferred to the misanthropic Satan, who had fallen to the sad fate of hauling a grocer's wagon. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z Given over in his youth to the ghostly influence of priestly tutors, he had led a melancholy, misanthropic existence. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z He was so worried by these pitiless jokes that he became misanthropic, and finally refused to associate with any of the passengers. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z ‘George Ault and 1940s America’ at the American Art Museum An exhibit on the misanthropic painter’s work opened Friday and will remain on display until Sept. NCAA basketball: Virginia Tech beats Florida State, 52-51 2011-03-12T18:04:00Z Gallery: ‘George Ault and 1940s America’ at the American Art Museum : An exhibit on the misanthropic painter’s work opened Friday and will remain on display until Sept. ?To Make a World,? as glimpsed by painter George Ault 2011-03-14T23:36:58Z I have no objection to peasant huts, particularly when their thatched roofs are overgrown with green moss, and misanthropic widows are seldom in one's way. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z You 'd fancy, from what I say, that he must be a cold, misanthropic, suspectful fellow, with an ill-natured temper, and a gloomy view of everybody and everything. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z Afterwards, when he was alone, he thought, a little misanthropically, it did not matter. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:19.937Z Byron's dog, Boatswain—commemorated in the well-known misanthropic epitaph— "To mark a friend's remains these stones arise, I never knew but one, and here he lies"— is shown, in effigy, at the poet's feet. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z They call me 'misanthropic,' those wise folk who have never had their illusions rudely dispelled--who have never met despair face to face. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z A cantankerous and sometimes misanthropic genius, Brahe worked at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II at a time when Prague was an imperial city. After 400 Years, Still Hot on the Trail 2010-11-19T22:52:00Z And yet he was nonetheless driven to enter politics with a 1990 run for president in Peru — in no small part by a certain misanthropic distrust harbored by every chronicler of the continent's travails. How Vargas Llosa's Journey Mirrored Latin America's Evolution 2010-10-08T22:40:00Z This misanthropic theory may provide emotional satisfaction for some, but it's clearly too unverifiable to have real analytical value. The Big Money: Maybe it's job retraining that needs to be retooled 2010-08-01T04:00:00Z The charity called the ban a “disgrace” and “misanthropic” and said it would challenge it in court. Sponsor of Flotilla Tied to Elite of Turkey 2010-07-16T03:47:00Z If the latter happens, it will feed the mildly misanthropic pessimism of gurus like James Lovelock, who advocated the Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a self-regulating system. 80 months and counting ... | Andrew Simms 2010-04-01T09:00:00Z Angie was as obtuse; the old hermit, misanthropic and verging into dotage, was certainly oblivious, and so no ripples of interest disturbed these workers. The Girl From Tim's Place He ought to come out of his misanthropic shell, they declared. The Undying Past Although from a kind of misanthropic feeling he wore clothes which were extremely shabby, yet there was in his entire appearance something so calm and dignified as to inspire general respect. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 In times of great religious zeal, they bore a wild misanthropic aspect; but in days when the people were engrossed with worldly pleasures, they assumed a more comic and harmless form. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. I did not do so from any caprice, still less from that misanthropic affectation the counsel was ungenerous enough to ascribe to me. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) Here he was, in a way, utterly alone so far as age means companionship, and worse than that, one of his two companions was morose and misanthropic. The Girl From Tim's Place She has awakened," thought he, "and is standing alone, or sitting beside her misanthropic father, on the balcony of the mountain castle. On the Heights A Novel He was glad to be able to include Ginger, whose misanthropic outlook upon life was a source of intense interest to him. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle Dear Old Guy,—If you will bury yourself like a misanthropic badger, you can't expect to be written to by every post. Plashers Mead A Novel Being an Englishman he would, of course, horsewhip the fellow, divorce Rachel and lead a misanthropic but sensual existence for the rest of his days. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary The outcome was that Amzi, somewhat misanthropic over the death of his wife, and of peculiar make-up, deserted his home and little daughter Angeline, and vanished. The Girl From Tim's Place To others he seemed a cold, impassive, almost misanthropic being, without a tie to bind him to his fellow-man; while not a few even ascribed to his influences all the harshness of the "Grinder." Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience The more beer he absorbed the more misanthropic he seemed to become. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle There were always mounted contingents proceeding to the seat of war or returning thence, the latter quicker that they went, as the misanthropic Emerson cynically, but we believe libellously, put it. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance They seemed to be what she knew Lucy never meant them for—a sort of rebuke to the affectation which would formally pose itself as misanthropic. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. A great change has come over him since the Ravensten expedition, and he has daily become more and more seriously misanthropic. Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna The steward, who had lost little time in putting out a fishline, leaned over the rail in meditation, not knowing that his misanthropic look was being almost to a line caught by Bicker behind him. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday He had seated himself, and had settled down into a misanthropic quiet, when a little stubby man, with one eye—the very ideal of a Washington market butcher—happened to enter. The History and Records of the Elephant Club The conduct of the misanthropic Swammer was too strange for Alina not to listen at the door, and peep a little through the keyhole. Specimens of German Romance; Vol. II. Master Flea Selected and Translated from Various Authors The Black Dwarf's grave is at Manor Kirk, and the cottage associated with his misanthropic career is also pointed out. In the Border Country Her life seems to have been blighted by early griefs, and she has grown cynical and misanthropic. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part He has looked at the evil of the world alone, and seeing how much "the time is out of joint" has become misanthropic, and turns his back alike on the evil and the good. Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems I fear my philosophy has broken away and I am misanthropic. An Ocean Tramp The ancient Mr. Swammer, at other times a shrivelled, misanthropic, grumbling man, seemed suddenly to have become twenty years younger. Specimens of German Romance; Vol. II. Master Flea Selected and Translated from Various Authors He has no tendency to the misanthropic or cynical view which induces men of morbid or affected minds to profess a love of savage scenery simply because it is savage. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) He left Elsie at school and went away to Europe, wandering about for years, and growing more saddened and misanthropic all the while. A Noble Woman The novel contains much of that seductive sentiment, half romantic, half misanthropic, which is the characteristic of Bulwer's works, and it is expressed with his usual beauty and brilliancy of style. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 But even apart from this, the old celibate easily becomes shy, affected, misanthropic or misogynistic, at least if some energetic friend does not induce him to utilize his power of work in some useful sphere. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study For instance, I know a man who has become misanthropic, but who should hate himself instead of the whole race. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Neither is it the misanthropic egotism of Byron, which, through all its affectation, implies a certain aristocratic contempt of the world and its laws. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) I made up my mind, of course, that the box and contents would never get farther north than the studio of my misanthropic friend in Chambers Street, New York. Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories You are the most unenlightened, contumacious, litigious, petulant, opprobrious, proditorious, misanthropic mortal I ever confabulated a colloquy with; by the dignity of my profession you are. The Politician Out-Witted Edna came down to the carriage looking quite bright and pretty; she was no longer in a misanthropic mood, the mere exertion of dressing to please her mother had done her a world of good. Our Bessie The woodcock is a melancholy bird, and somewhat misanthropic. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches As to Uncle Columbus—he sat on a sort of island of chairs in one corner, studying a book, and looking on misanthropically at the preparations. Soap-Bubble Stories For Children She is now fifty-two years old, and though her life has been a constant battle with wrongs, she has not become misanthropic nor despondent. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I In temperament he was misanthropic and peevish, owing in part, doubtless, to ill health brought on by overwork and worry. History of Education Some of his children died, and others “went wrong,” and he fell into misanthropic ways, and for several years before his death he was seldom seen in the village. David Fleming's Forgiveness This man had a quarrel with my misanthropic guardian. Seek and Find or The Adventures of a Smart Boy O ye who consider or declare me to be hostile, obstinate, or misanthropic, what injustice ye do me! Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 This effusion is not excessively flattering to our "great globe," and "all which it inherit"; and we surmise that the author was in a misanthropic mood when it was written. Moon Lore Possible purchasers were frightened away, and Creed grew more and more solitary and misanthropic. Humorous Ghost Stories Some very wicked people—mutineers, in fact—have retired, misanthropically, into an unfrequented part of the country, and there find themselves safe, indeed, but extremely thirsty. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing Even his powerful mind sank occasionally into misanthropic gloom, from the pressure of long-continued nervous headaches, and repeated disappointments in his hopes of success in life. James Watt Her experience of the friendship of Flush is well told in the following lines, so different from Lord Byron's misanthropic verses on his dog:— To Flush, my Dog. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. And yet he was possessed of warm affections, was by no means misanthropic in his nature, and would, in truth, have given much to be able to be free and jocund as are other men. Ralph the Heir Still, looking back to that period, from where I stand now, I cannot say they were misanthropic. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 Still he beheld, nor mingled with the throng; But viewed them not with misanthropic hate: Fain would he now have joined the dance, the song; But who may smile that sinks beneath his fate? The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 It is so much easier to go through life requiring nothing but food, friends, and a bank balance, than always to hide misanthropic tendencies behind a social smile. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends He began to compose it in February 1866, during one of those misanthropic fits to which he was subject at periodical intervals, and which either paralyzed altogether, or quickened into fever, his creative faculties. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 He was all right when no girls were around; when they were he retired within himself like a misanthropic oyster, and was about as interesting. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 Some misanthropic relation left us the house we live in, which saves rent. St. Winifred's, or The World of School They would regard us as not only unsocial, but selfish; and not only selfish, but proud or misanthropic. The Young Man's Guide The door flew open, and two young persons, with all the disabilities of youth upon their heads, came rustling in upon the old bachelor's misanthropic reverie. A Venetian June Will you have fortitude to endure, or will you become sour, vindictive, misanthropic, envious? The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance That hermit-like but not exactly misanthropic sailor was leaning over the gate moodily. Chance A Tale in Two Parts Since that wretched hour in which he had heard himself described by the judge as too stupid to be held of any account by the jury he had become a melancholy, misanthropic man. Orley Farm He was gloomy and misanthropic; he never went to church himself, though he always compelled me to go, and also to attend the Sunday school. Breaking Away or The Fortunes of a Student With them, fault-finding and penalties abound, until the children are either hardened into indifference of feeling, and obtuseness of conscience, or else become excessively irritable, or misanthropic. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School It inclines one to hide, to sulk, to shut oneself away and become misanthropic. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Ah, did you but know it, how much pleasanter to puff at this philanthropic pipe, than still to keep fumbling at that misanthropic rifle. The Confidence-Man She walked on, rather in a misanthropic mood, a circumstance to her not rare. Agatha's Husband A Novel Rocks—cold, hard, misanthropic rocks—grin from beneath volumes of snow; and the few stunted black-looking pines that dot the banks here and there only tend to render the scene more desolate. Hudson Bay "Matthew died years after, a soured and misanthropic man; but few legends are better known in his native district than the story of Matthew Collins's ghost." Adrift in the Ice-Fields Austin became more morose and misanthropic every day, and at last would permit no one to come near him but his valet and his wife. The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook In order to overcome misanthropic, fleshless spiritualism on the latter's own ground, materialism must mortify its own flesh and turn ascetic. Selected Essays I was at this period in a misanthropic state of mind, hating myself and everyone about me. Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer I must not have my boys thought to be misanthropic.” The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea Some very wicked people—mutineers, in fact—have retired, misanthropically, into an unfrequented part of the country, and there find themselves safe indeed, but extremely thirsty. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature Towards his own race he seemed often to be misanthropic. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Nature has taken to lecturing, but she only became frankly revolutionary with Rousseau and misanthropic with Byron. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century Be sure that no one knows so little of his fellow-men as the cynical, misanthropic man, who walks in darkness because he hates his brother. Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife If she had known this story before, she would have understood, and instead of thinking him unkind and misanthropic she would have tried to be a better daughter to him. The Jolliest School of All A stream of electric fire tingles in that misanthropic breast, at the sight. The Drummer Boy One of the chief instigators of the young Count, in this quarrel with his high-spirited wife, was his own father, who, in the retirement of a chateau near Paris, grew daily more morose and misanthropic. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy We can only regard with respectful compassion the outbreaks of misanthropic spleen which often disfigure his correspondence from this period of deepening twilight, relieved by a brief interval of brightness. Essays on Scandinavian Literature To his misfortunes, not to his faults, must be attributed the obstinacy, the hostility, or the misanthropic attitude which he has shown towards those whom he loves, and by whom he is loved in return. Story-Lives of Great Musicians This curious fact would seem incidentally to show that our misanthropic philosopher must have moved exclusively in the best circles. The Joyful Heart He possessed also a vein of genuine humour, resembling that of Swift, though it has rather lost its savour, perhaps, because it was not salted by the Dean's misanthropic bitterness. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Her rare graces, and her generous goodness to Madame Desbordes-Valmore, disarmed the prejudices and won the heart of the gifted but misanthropic Latouche. The Friendships of Women I perceive, however, that I grow exceedingly misanthropic and sour. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Be sure that no one knows so little of his fellow-men, as the cynical, misanthropic man, who walks in darkness, because he hates his brother. Westminster Sermons with a Preface This creature, however, is much more rare than the misanthropic Schopenhauer imagined. The Joyful Heart He seemed a thoroughly disillusioned man, and we left him at last, with an involuntary burden of misanthropic ideas, though he addressed me persistently as galubtchik,--"dear little dove," literally translated. Russian Rambles Her luncheons were indeed sufficient to cheer the most despondent and misanthropic. Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton You think me cynical and misanthropic, but, dear, I believe I am only clear-eyed at last. Infelice Yet for all that, argue as one may, the fact remained that this dry and rather misanthropic scientist was affected in an astonishing manner by Frank's personality. None Other Gods O ye, who consider or declare me to be hostile, obstinate, or misanthropic, what injustice ye do me! The Great German Composers We believe it to be anti-Christian in its character, and misanthropic in its pretended sympathies. The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States His manners were austere, and somewhat misanthropic, but his book-knowledge was extensive, and, though naturally taciturn, he could, when he pleased, converse well upon any subject. Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers Mrs. Hemans's poetry is smooth and graceful, frequently tinged with a shade of melancholy, but never despairing, cynical, or misanthropic. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader For this beautiful girl of fifteen was somewhat bitter and misanthropic, a condition perhaps due to the uncongenial atmosphere in which she had been reared. Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad Could the duel between this misanthropic old man and this vigorous, energetic, ruthless climber end in any other way than with the defeat of the former? The Women of the Caesars A supercilious, spoiled beauty—a beauty now doubly spoiled and presumedly bad tempered—was hardly an ideal companion for the misanthropic Mead. New Faces In spite of his blunt speech and misanthropic manners, the young heir of Oak Hall, at that period, was not wholly destitute of the art of pleasing. Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers In a somewhat misanthropic frame of mind he had retired to this hermitage, after the failure of his love affair, since, lacking the society of Agnes, there was nothing left for him to desire. Red Money Swift, misanthropic, miserable, bitter; Addison, happy, loving mankind, admired alike by ally and opponent, Swift, dying mad; Addison, calm, conscious, employing his last moments to ask pardon of one he had offended. A History of English Prose Fiction Not adverse fate itself could show a more misanthropic aspect than the empty overcast waste around us. London River And Mead, flippant, hard, and misanthropic in the state of nature, softened wonderfully as he sat in the gloom of the tablecover, in silent possession of those two slim fingers. New Faces Curly seated himself on the ground near by and addressed his misanthropic steed in tones of easy familiarity. Heart's Desire And Diderot, who went near to having something of the deep quality of those sovereign spirits, did not escape, any more than they, the visitation of the misanthropic spectre. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) We must cultivate conscience until we have too much of it, and become monkish, savage and misanthropic. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal The education of these children was the only joy his home afforded; but even this to his misanthropic mind could not compensate for his matrimonial disappointment. Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue And at some time later still, it must have been presented to Miss Perry, for the misanthropic Mead—no longer misanthropic—now boasts a massive and handsome wife whom he calls his Little Kitty. New Faces Pinto, misanthropic as he was, did not abuse the confidence reposed in him. Heart's Desire Their whole bearing indicates that they are languid, morbid, misanthropic, and nerveless. The Reconstructed School "But what about the rest oh the bunch?" croaked Happy Jack, true to his misanthropic nature, but exceeding husky as to voice. The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories By his side sat the misanthropic physician, who seemed to have learned a lesson of the dealing of the Creator with the creature such as he had never before acquired. Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue His atrabiliar temperament rendered his attitude towards humanity rather misanthropic than otherwise. Septimus We can imagine that one who was so entirely the opposite of misanthropic would wish to lie like this within sound of passing conversation. George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians Still the old misanthropic modes of expressing himself obtruded themselves at times. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time This exaggerated praise from a man so misanthropic as Andrew excited his curiosity. The End of the World A Love Story His misanthropic character was the origin of some part of it. Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue They represented the net result of her misanthropic travels. Septimus And so in love with his Timonean solitude was Rozoko, that it needed many bribes and bland persuasions, to induce him to desert his mossy, hillside, misanthropic cave, for the distracting tumult of a court. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II If it did, we must by parity of reasoning discard the discoveries of a misanthropic inventor and the theories of a bigamous chemist. Cambridge Essays on Education Even an anchorite could not help feeling a pleasure at such a speech from such a young woman, and this shaggy, solitary, misanthropic but tender-hearted man felt a sudden rush of pleasure. The End of the World A Love Story About five years previous to the time of our story, the solemn quiet of Dr. Vaudelier's dwelling was disturbed by the arrival of a young French gentleman, bearing letters of introduction to the misanthropic physician. Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Byron noted, with his own misanthropic moral, that we think more of Nero the monster who killed his mother than of Nero the noble Roman who defeated Hannibal. The New Jerusalem These girls, bright, cheery and wholesome as they were, penetrated the boy's reserve and drew him out of his misanthropic moods. Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work I am not misanthropic: I have learned to bear my superiority with philosophy. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 These last words were spoken in a tone of misanthropic bitterness common to Andrew. The End of the World A Love Story The sinner who humbles himself in prayer is more acceptable than the devotee who is puffed up with pride:—The courteous and kind-hearted soldier of fortune is better than the misanthropic and learned divine. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 I was at this period in a misanthropic state of mind, hating myself and every one about me. Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer Those amusements in circus or amphitheatre he hated, and therefore appeared misanthropic. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul Occasionally, too, Swift's misanthropic habits break out even from the pulpit; nor is he altogether able to suppress his disdain of those fellow mortals, on whose behalf was accomplished the great work of redemption. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 One felt alive based upon the vibrations gained from being knocked around; and as eremitic and misanthropic as she was, Gabriele was a girl who liked her fun. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Yet, his severity proceeded not from the superstition and bigotry of a weak mind or misanthropic feeling. The Vale of Cedars He is a rough-tempered, eccentric man; misanthropic, but clever; kind enough, and generous enough, in his own strange way. In the Days of My Youth Young girls are not apt to complain of being burdens, or to take such misanthropic views of life. Round the Block He was no misanthropic cynic to exclaim, "What has posterity ever done for us that we should concern ourselves for posterity?" George Washington: Farmer And if their society should be unpleasing?—if their habits, their mode of life, their persons, should become objects of antipathy to the misanthropic Selkirk, as it is but natural to fear? The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe Under her misanthropic exultation, Sylvia felt again and again the stab of her immense admiration for him, her deep affinity for his way of conducting life. The Bent Twig I left home, timid, ignorant of the world and its ways, reserved, silent, almost misanthropic. In the Days of My Youth Patching was misanthropically reviewing his career, and exulting in future triumphs over his professional enemies. Round the Block Judging from his isolated habits, some persons supposed him misanthropic. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 It begins in silly and selfish expectations of the impossible, and ends in spiteful disappointment, sour grievance, cynicism, and misanthropic resistance to any attempt to better a hopeless world. Treatise on Parents and Children Reuben, a moody man, and misanthropic because unhappy, strode onward with his usual stern brow and downcast eye, feeling few regrets and disdaining to acknowledge any. Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories On the first occasion it was at my charterers, where he came in misanthropically to get paid for towing out a French barque the day before. Falk A Reminiscence Such ruminations naturally produced a streak of misanthropic bitterness. Middlemarch Now be became morose and misanthropic, and his heart, bereaved of its legitimate objects of affection, henceforth was fixed upon gold, which he began to love with a passionate energy. Brave and Bold The Fortunes of Robert Rushton In the midst of society, Alfieri buried himself in misanthropic solitude; and the shock, which awakened him from the dreams of enthusiasm, darkened and shortened his days. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 Those misshapen organs had an important agency in making him a misanthropic, morbidly sensitive, unhappy, desperate man. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays On arrival he would shake Hermann's hand with a mutter, bow to the women, and take up his careless and misanthropic attitude by our side. Falk A Reminiscence The character of Hassan, "my misanthropic negro," as Lewis called him, was said by the critics of the day to have been borrowed from Zanga in Young's 'Revenge'. Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 He wandered through the streets of Edinburgh, indulging himself alternately in misanthropic reflections and benevolent projects. Tales and Novels — Volume 01 How unlike the wretched misanthropic print we have seen! The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 Almost without society, leading a dull misanthropic life, he did not remember that sobriety in all respects was essential to his health and that over-indulgence at table was not consistent with his forced seclusion. Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People It is true they finally became narrow-minded, intolerant, and almost misanthropic, as always happens when a small minority are fatally enclosed within an unfriendly community; but they were not so in the beginning. Sketches from Concord and Appledore Bitter, misanthropic, solitary; burning the midnight lamp, instead of moving among his fellows in the sunshine, he yet possessed hardy virtues and a high pride of gentleman. Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee Besides, he was misanthropic, absorbed by his fearful moods, his egoistic preoccupations, his concern about his health—he was indifferent to everything which had formerly excited his enthusiasm or hatred. Jean-Christophe, Volume I When I see them at too close quarters, I become misanthropic. Jean-Christophe Journey's End To the most misanthropic female there sometimes comes a time when she must own that Man has his uses. Blind Love The long search for his lost daughter had made him misanthropic. Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks Piero di Cosimo, odd and misanthropic as he was, had yet a true appreciation of talent, and showed an earnest interest in his pupil, giving him—with plenty of queer treatment—a thorough training. Fra Bartolommeo If he was sympathetic towards Christophe it was because he thought that the misanthropic boy found life as evil as he did himself, and that he was not a genius. Jean-Christophe, Volume I Though early impressed with melancholy, it was not of a misanthropic nature; and while despair and disappointment were preying on his heart, he was all sweetness and docility to others. The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas "I must have some object to embrace," said he misanthropically. Life of George Washington — Volume 01 At last he became tired of his misanthropic solitude, a sort of reconciliation ensued between himself and Cleopatra, and he went back again to the city. Cleopatra But a distinction may be made between the melancholy of the heart, and the melancholy of the mind: while the latter is sceptical, sour, and misanthropic, the former is passionate, tender, and religious. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes Mirth such as theirs was debarred him for ever, and he had now become gloomy and misanthropic. The House of Whispers The "Confessions" are only a revelation of that sensibility, excessive and morbid, which reminds us of Byron and his misanthropic poetry,--showing a man defiant, proud, vain, unreasonable, unsatisfied, supremely worldly and egotistic. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam With which misanthropic words Mr. Rushton nodded in a surly way to the smiling Squire, and took his way down the road toward Winchester. The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier It was not astonishing that he had become a trifle misanthropic. The Wolf's Long Howl I'm awfully sorry to break your heart, Skim, dear, and ruin your future life, and make you misanthropic and cynical, and spoil your mother's investment and make her mad as a hornet. Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville Machination, macrocosm, magisterial, magniloquent, maladroit, malfeasance, malignity, malleable, mandate, matutinal, medieval, mephitic, mercenary, mercurial, meretricious, metamorphose, meticulous, microcosm, misanthropic, misogyny, misprision, mitigate, monitor, mortuary, mundane, mutable. The Century Vocabulary Builder You wondered, in your misanthropic moments, whether there ever was or could be any one whom English lodgings would exactly fit. Hawthorne and His Circle Sometimes, in the darkness, in default of other misanthropic visions, the wickedness of this cavalry, their mechancete, causes me to laugh immoderately. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater With them, fault-finding and penalties abound, until the children are either hardened into indifference of feeling, and obtuseness of conscience, or else become excessively irritable or misanthropic. American Woman's Home I am not misanthropic, nor in the least soured. Our Friend John Burroughs "That is just the kind men like," sneered Bel, misanthropically. From Jest to Earnest He grew very misanthropic, and was quite as bitter against himself as against others. Opening a Chestnut Burr From a lonely, somewhat misanthropic old man, you young people have turned me into a real human being! Two Little Women on a Holiday Any one who has read the misanthropic wailings of Lord Byron has seen the necessary result of great and noble powers bereft of their appropriate exercise, and, in consequence, becoming sources of the keenest suffering. American Woman's Home For the rest he lived solitary, but not misanthropic, with his books and his collection, classing and arranging specimens, corresponding with entomologists in Europe, writing up a descriptive catalogue of his treasures. Lord Jim There was in Holbach's household for a long time an old Scotch surgeon, a homeless, misanthropic old fellow by the name of Hope, of whom Diderot gives a most interesting account. Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Even this was enough to explain why Adam had become so reserved, misanthropic and silent a man, though even in his youth he certainly had not been what is termed a gay fellow. A Word, Only a Word — Complete Even this was enough to explain why Adam had become so reserved, misanthropic and silent a man, though even in his youth lie certainly had not been what is termed a gay fellow. A Word, Only a Word — Volume 01 Reginald Morton was hardly regarded as a young man, and was supposed to be gloomy, misanthropic, and bookish. The American Senator He was eager to find friendships if he could, for his reserve was anything but misanthropic. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 He was badly bruised; he felt angry and misanthropic. The Fiend's Delight The corner was often filled with dark, misanthropic works inspired by the miseries of adolescence. Underground They were at variance with the misanthropic ideas he had imbibed at the north. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter I cannot think that is either true or good philosophy," said the Cardinal, "It is merely the utterance of a disappointed man in a misanthropic mood. The Master-Christian "You seem to have looked on human nature through misanthropic lenses." Beulah Miss Frettlby, being neither misanthropic nor dumb, began to long for some one to talk to, and, ringing the bell, ordered Sal to be sent in. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab They wanted to meet people like themselves—bright but geeky or misanthropic people who shared an interest in the finer technical points of computers. Underground As for the goats, occasionally you come across a black, misanthropic ram, nibbling the scant herbage of some height inaccessible to man, in preference to the sweet grasses of the valley below. Omoo The author has succeeded better in copying the melody and misanthropic sentiments of Childe Harold, than the nervous and impetuous diction in which his noble biographer has embodied them. Rejected Addresses He felt misanthropic, and went for a long walk; and when he had passed the last tree-market, where poor buyers were bargaining for the poor trees that were left, he met only isolated stragglers. Maurice Guest It was not quite the sort of abode she would have associated with the grim, misanthropic type of man she judged her host to be. The Hermit of Far End Was it wonderful that I was misanthropic and sullen? She And I became conscious of Miss Tevkin's presence by my side Conversation with the poet's daughter was practically monopolized by the misanthropic photographer. The Rise of David Levinsky Seldom did a smile cross the oval, demure face of his wife—she was always thinking of something foreign to life, and in her calm blue eyes something dark and misanthropic was flashing at times. The Man Who Was Afraid They passed him by, shadelike and misanthropic, and seemed to steal down the opposite side, to avoid his too pertinent gaze. Maurice Guest Under such circumstances, a darkling, misanthropic tinge, no doubt, is cast upon the paper. Roundabout Papers During all those times I'd thought he was convalescing in the grip of some misanthropic fit, was he instead far away from the ship, involved in some secret activity whose nature still eluded me? Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Were I misanthropic," he said, "such a locale would suit me. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Evil do I call it and misanthropic: all that teaching about the one, and the plenum, and the unmoved, and the sufficient, and the imperishable! Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none This ingenuous answer threw the young man into a state of misanthropic gloom. The Brotherhood of Consolation Had she been of a gloomy temper, disgust at the coarse plots and manoeuvres, so easily unravelled by a clear-sighted person, might have made her a prey to suspicion, and all but misanthropic. Elinor Wyllys, Volume 2 Miss Conroy replied misanthropically that if there were they would be sure to find them. Rowdy of the Cross L A prejudice is a private thing, and even its tolerance is misanthropic. What's Wrong with the World That hermit-like but not exactly misanthropic sailor was leaning over the gate moodily. Chance A Tale in Two Parts The moral is everywhere misanthropic and antisocial; it disgusts men with life and with society; and tends only to encourage hermitism and celibacy. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature The state of the periodical press, that great organ of political instruction—the unruly tongue of liberty, strikingly confirms the justice of this misanthropic remark. The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family It seemed like a new misanthropic belief which had fallen on human beings, carrying with it the negation of all hope. Lair of the White Worm He looked like some grizzly old ruffian grown gray in blood and violence, and scowling on all the world from his misanthropic seclusion. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life It was but a grim old bull, roaming the prairie by himself in misanthropic seclusion; but there might be more behind the hills. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life Fatal doctrines and gloomy and misanthropic systems of religion arose, which painted their gods, like their despots, wicked and envious. 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