misanthrope
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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.
a person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society.
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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.
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.
It's well written and funny, and the author is clearly a 'misanthrope' , which is always a plus in my opinion.
I'd always thought I was a 'misanthrope' , but maybe I'm just an introvert instead.
Scrooge wasn't the mean-spirited 'misanthrope' most of us believe him to be
Since everything had been taken from him from teenager to young adult, Adrian had now become a pessimist, a cynic… Your standard 'misanthropist' .
I think I'm just a 'misanthropist' , and that's why I get angry about TV - if there's more real people on it, there's more for me to hate.
I understand why so many intellectuals become 'misanthropes' - it's easier.
They will endorse co-workers who are convicts, 'misanthropes' and sociopaths, whatever, all in the name of unity.
He was too busy eating hot dogs, his face distorted by the meat, his dark feral eyes gleaming 'misanthropically' into the field of play.
And yes, he was - but like all 'misanthropes' he was only so because he believed (almost naively) in mankind, and was continually disappointed.
Kubrick, of course, is eternally categorised as cold, unemotional, 'misanthropic' , somehow inhuman.
The only way to beat these 'misanthropes' is to stand up and be counted.
In any event, the conclusion of Solaris has an unpleasant, 'misanthropic' quality.
And people like me who say things like this get labelled sour old 'misanthropes' .
Like a lot of other bedridden 'misanthropes' , I got into the lifestyle after being stricken by illness and liked it so much I decided not to leave.
Where do those of us who are already part-time 'misanthropes' go when people seem even worse than usual?
In 1957, Orson Welles finished filming his last American film, a lurid and 'misanthropical' thriller, Touch of Evil.
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.
The administration is thus using the civilian courts to try only the low-level conspirators; the ‘passive supporters,’ the folks who don't quite rise to the level of terrorist - most of whom are just losers and 'misanthropes' .
Previously in this space, I rather 'misanthropically' grumbled about the usual preponderance of retro rock tours scheduled for this summer.
Us romantic 'misanthropes' are hard to come by, you know.
It is possible that you are antisocial, 'misanthropic' , or in need of a good shrink.
Another character who is 'misanthropically' withdrawn finds redemption in slow stages, progressing from ordinary decency to true heroism.
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.
With him, we may fear, it was a source of 'misanthropical' bitterness, poisoning all the springs of happiness.
Martin, the hero, is the grandson of old Martin Chuzzlewit, a wealthy gentleman made 'misanthropical' by the greed of his family.
What features were seen were stern and 'misanthropical' .
For some of us - call us introverts if you like, 'misanthropes' if you must - Mass is a precious hour of communion with God amidst relative calm (especially if your parish is fortunate enough to have a cry room).
Of course one accusation constantly leveled at animal rights activists (and vehemently denied by same) is that they care more about animals than human beings or are even outright 'misanthropes' .
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