(1) I'd always thought I was a misanthrope , but maybe I'm just an introvert instead.(2) Scrooge wasn't the mean-spirited misanthrope most of us believe him to be(3) It's well written and funny, and the author is clearly a misanthrope , which is always a plus in my opinion.(4) My suspicion is that the reason for the generally low opinion held of the pessimist is related to his close ties to the critic, the cynic, the misanthrope , the whiner and the curmudgeon.(5) I've been called in the past, probably with justification, a misanthrope but it isn't so much that I dislike people (well not all of them anyway) but that I have a physical need to be apart from them.(6) Previously in this space, I rather misanthropically grumbled about the usual preponderance of retro rock tours scheduled for this summer.(7) We meet a bisexual poet who sets up a test of beauty between a beautiful young man and a beautiful young woman, a man who wins the love of a misanthropist through the power of art, and the tales of his two labourers.(8) In 1957, Orson Welles finished filming his last American film, a lurid and misanthropical thriller, Touch of Evil.(9) But the immediate need, the life-and-death need, is for the Catholic church to continue to expose and isolate the misanthropes that have been entrenched in their ranks, and to implement massive screening to prevent further incursions.(10) The administration is thus using the civilian courts to try only the low-level conspirators; the ÔÇÿpassive supporters,ÔÇÖ the folks who don't quite rise to the level of terrorist - most of whom are just losers and misanthropes .(11) The world of stand-up is typically portrayed as riddled with self-loathing misanthropes , barely able to contain their disgust with the world, who make a living poking fun at its most visible targets and at one another.(12) The sudden stop is as misanthropically cynical and arbitrary as the track's brutal beginning and will either summon hangman's smiles from the listener or sighs of exasperation.(13) If a common man were to dare to be as moody, as contemptuous, and as misanthropical , the world would laugh at him.(14) Since everything had been taken from him from teenager to young adult, Adrian had now become a pessimist, a cynicÔǪ Your standard misanthropist .(15) I understand why so many intellectuals become misanthropes - it's easier.(16) In any event, the conclusion of Solaris has an unpleasant, misanthropic quality.
