What's the difference between misanthrope and philanthrope?

Misanthrope


Definition:

  • (n.) A hater of mankind; a misanthropist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maybe there was a wish to go for these stronger story formulations, more extreme situations to try to get the energy up to comfortably blow the lid off.” Miller pointed out to Franzen that he has developed something of a reputation as a misanthrope.
  • (2) This misanthropic masterpiece says it all for them.
  • (3) Williams's Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, with its all-black cast, won best revival, beating strong competition that included The Misanthrope and A View From the Bridge.
  • (4) I am not a misanthrope (or not entirely) but I like my experience of nature to be unmediated by the presence of other members of my species, and so I stay away from the venues where the tourists gather en masse.
  • (5) Jonathan Franzen on his misanthropic reputation: 'We live in a world of cant' Read more While the novelist blamed himself for the incident, he admitted he also blamed Winfrey.
  • (6) The West End debut of Keira Knightley will irresistibly get all the headlines and shift a lot of the tickets, though the rest of the cast of The Misanthrope – including Damian Lewis, Dominic Rowan and Tara Fitzgerald – are not exactly duffers.
  • (7) "I was busy being misanthropic and miserable, as most 13-year-olds are.
  • (8) Scalia was, as usual, the episode's garish, garrulous villain, the kind of lusty misanthrope the word "harrumph" erupts from.
  • (9) People think I'm crabby having seen the new movie, (1) but I'm not this misanthrope who sits in a dark room, smoking, writing comments under YouTube clips.
  • (10) They leave the zoo, and close the door and we are left ... " He trails off, the professional churl and pretend misanthrope.
  • (11) Let's make Alceste fall in love with Jennifer, an American film star, whose shameless manipulation of her powerful friends, strategic sexual provocation and delight in malicious chatter makes her, like The Misanthrope's Célimène, represent everything he most hates.
  • (12) Her quiet lifestyle, gamine looks and infrequent personal appearances have fuelled her reputation as a misanthropic genius.
  • (13) To critics who consider Rand's philosophy that " of the psychopath, a misanthropic fantasy of cruelty, revenge and greed ", her posthumous success is alarming.
  • (14) Known for having starred as child actors in the communist-era film The Two Who Stole the Moon, theirs was a symbiotic political dynamic, with the more softly spoken and personable Lech softening the image of the vitriolic and misanthropic Jarosław.
  • (15) Amazing – but at the same time worrying: how can his play The Misanthrope have any purchase on a world of such egalitarian transparency?
  • (16) I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem.
  • (17) This isn't easy, for Travers is a misanthrope, highly strung and fiercely protective of her books.
  • (18) I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better.
  • (19) "I have heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that without the Bible as a moral compass people would show no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem.
  • (20) When I put it to him that, like Brooker, there's a liberal heart beating behind the misanthropic exterior (he's fiercely pro-choice and pro-drugs), he disagrees.

Philanthrope


Definition:

  • (n.) A philanthropist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A spokesperson for Lim emphasised his involvement with Salford is “philanthropic”, motivated by his interest in developing young players and has nothing to do with Valencia, Mendes or TPO.
  • (2) The big society bank is not philanthropic, and the chances are few charities will be able to afford its interest rate.
  • (3) The charity said it had struggled financially because philanthropic and public donations had shrunk at a time when it had to meet the practical and emotional needs of an increasing number of high-risk vulnerable children who are not being supported by the statutory system.
  • (4) For the billions of the poorest people around the world who rely on philanthropic aid to meet even basic needs, as the saying goes, “beggars can’t be choosers”.
  • (5) That means we must keep the pressure on our political, business and philanthropic leaders to generate the resources to finish the job.
  • (6) When it's then revealed he works with special-needs kids for a living, the audience applauds again, even though victory on The Voice would presumably lead to him ending that philanthropic career in favour of one involving stadium gigs and blowjobs on yachts.
  • (7) Luckily we have great collections, a great programme so we do our best … we are on a hamster wheel.” Blavatnik will join philanthropic names at the V&A such as Weston (the Weston Cast Court), Sackler (the Sackler Centre for Arts Education) and Porter (the Porter Gallery, which houses temporary displays).
  • (8) Famously philanthropic, the company is putting $175m into five research projects including plans to produce lower-cost renewable energy and non-petrol powered cars.
  • (9) Google is also developing driverless cars and its philanthropic arm, Google.org, has invested in green energy projects.
  • (10) Residents’ representatives are now seeing cases of working families cutting back on essentials, or having to visit food banks, in order to pay the rents charged by this apparently philanthropic organisation.
  • (11) The health clinic run in Kalirandu, Indonesia, by Foster Parents Plan, a private philanthropic welfare organization is described.
  • (12) The event is being co-hosted by the Brazilian government and the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, an independent philanthropic organisation.
  • (13) If you bring the low income consumer into the core activity of a regular business rather than as an add-on, philanthropic programme, it means that ultimately those [consumers] will be taken seriously and their needs responded to.” Read more stories like this: Ebola is a product of a destructive and exploitative global economic system Developing nations lose $100bn in tax revenue each year - will G20 reforms help?
  • (14) The theatre, which will run entirely on a commercial basis with no subsidies or philanthropic grants, was described by Hynter as a supplement to the West End .
  • (15) Whatever the cause, the war of words is a disaster for Madonna's complicated relationship with the southern African country , which she first visited in 2006, and renews questions about the wisdom of western celebrities on philanthropic missions to the developing world.
  • (16) Epstein financed the science fair through his philanthropic foundation, which he has also used to donate to universities.
  • (17) But hospitals are competing with a host of other worthy causes for philanthropic dollars.
  • (18) At this point, venture capitalists are drooling over bitcoin and its possibilities,” says Roger Ver, a bitcoin investor and evangelist whose philanthropic donations earned him the nickname “ Bitcoin Jesus ”.
  • (19) He’s defending those who he feels, whose voice he feels, doesn’t get sufficient attention in the national political debate,” said Lenkowsky, a professor of public affairs and philanthropic studies at Indiana University.
  • (20) There may be some raised eyebrows at a billionaire seeking philanthropic support, but the not-for-profit model itself has had a measure of success in the US, and next month the Bureau of Investigative Journalism – a not-for-profit journalistic venture – is due to be launched in the UK.

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