(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.
Philanthropy
Definition:
(n.) Love to mankind; benevolence toward the whole human family; universal good will; desire and readiness to do good to all men; -- opposed to misanthropy.
Example Sentences:
(1) One, known as the Institute for Philanthropy , runs classes for wealthy individuals, which it describes as an 'MBA' in philanthropy.
(2) I had written about philanthropy, but had never worked in a foundation before.
(3) About £60m in public funds, for example, is to be spent on an ornamental footbridge across the Thames, the Garden Bridge , which was originally to have been built from the philanthropy of private enterprise until the estimates of its cost rose by £115m to £175m, at which point the London mayor Boris Johnson pledged £30m from Transport for London, with another £30m promised from George Osborne at the Treasury.
(4) This article offers an historical analysis of the changing role of philanthropy and nonprofit hospitals in the structure and operation of the U.S. health care system throughout the 20th century and the implications for current policymaking.
(5) There's another cavil about the Moritz gift, and that is the anxiety that the dawning of a new age of philanthropy heralds a further withdrawal of the state from the funding of English universities.
(6) All four philanthropies are moving away from funding projects involving tertiary care.
(7) It has sneered at the 1906 reforms of Lloyd George , who recognised that 19th-century philanthropy (which was always pretty judgmental and selective) was no longer adequate for a modern industrial country.
(8) Jeremy Hunt's speech at the RSA unfortunately contained a misleading figure for our costs ( Tories want US-style philanthropy for arts , 15 January).
(9) Pertinent themes in the history of responses to epidemic disease in the United States in the past two hundred years include an initial underestimation of the severity of the epidemic; the prevalence of fear and anxiety; flight, denial, and scape-goating as a result of fear; efforts to quarantine and isolate carriers and the sick; the assertion of rational policies by coalitions of business, government, and medical leaders; the recruitment of a special cadre of physicians to treat the sick; the similarity of responses to both epidemic and endemic infectious diseases; and the high cost of epidemics, which is shared by government, philanthropy, and private individuals.
(10) Entrepreneurs bring business methods and disciplines to philanthropy – they don't like wasting money and like to be focussed and planned and their charitable partners to be vetted.
(11) I’d also like to see a new government look at ways of making philanthropy more attractive – that’s really important to North American universities, for instance.
(12) Parker, who holidayed with Cameron in South Africa in 2008, is given a knighthood for services to business, charitable giving and philanthropy.
(13) His pervasive influence within the field of philanthropy stems more than anything from his treatise on 'wealth' , known as 'The Gospel of Wealth' , where he concludes: "the problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and the poor in harmonious relationship."
(14) Iqbal Wahhab recently argued that philanthropy is dead and the charity sector needs to adopt commercial principles .
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest But neither this, nor Danny Boyle’s Michael Fassbender-starring Steve Jobs biopic due next month, is likely to win the approval of Jobs’ family or Apple’s executives, since both films dwell on the contradictions in Jobs’ character – the adopted child who initially denied paternity of his own daughter; the creator of the world’s most valuable company who considered philanthropy a waste of time; the Zen seeker who short-changed colleagues, and oversaw an executive culture of backdated stock options and tax avoidance schemes.
(16) From Russia to Colombia, Haiti to India and the Congo, the couple has repeatedly blurred the lines between private endeavor, public service, philanthropy and friendship – exposing themselves to blatant conflicts of interest, the book alleges.
(17) Cheryl Chapman is the director of City Philanthropy , which will be hosting two events on Giving Tuesday.
(18) From a Marxian perspective, the proliferation of CCUs and similar innovations is a complex historical process that includes initiatives by industrial corporations, cooperation by clinical investigators at academic medical centers, support by private philanthropies linked to corporate interests, intervention by state agencies, and changes in the health care labor force.
(19) While it's good to hear that lottery funding for the arts will eventually increase to 20%, the faith in (and encouragement to rely on) income from philanthropy is potentially very worrying, especially given the gradual disintegration of individual giving in the US.
(20) David Verey, a banker who ran Lazard Brothers when it donated tens of thousands of pounds to the Conservatives in the 1990s, has also been knighted, for his contribution to arts philanthropy.