(n.) Hatred of, or dislike to, mankind; -- opposed to philanthropy.
Example Sentences:
(1) This anarchic spirit was often misunderstood by readers, many of whom mistook her Catholic chic, her militantly anti-humanist fictional aesthetic and her formal elegance for the rightwing misanthropy of an Evelyn Waugh.
(2) Maybe violent impulses now get pushed elsewhere, as evidenced by the apparent epidemic of teenage online bullying and the great firestorms of misanthropy that roar across Twitter.
(3) All the children presented psychological alterations, especially misanthropy and shyness.
(4) Misanthropy and pessimism (those aspects that gave me such satisfaction 40 years ago) glint through the fabric of the novel, but they signal a call to vigilance rather than defeat.
(5) How I connected with my autistic son through video games Read more Since my boy got his diagnosis, I flinch every time I hear these assumptions about someone who is a bit geeky having Asperger’s (a name for people with high-functioning autism), or about someone’s misanthropy in the workplace meaning they are “on the spectrum”, or the idea that all autistic people can reel off complicated long division or recite Qantas flight schedules like Rain Man.
(6) Walter, in particular, whose fear of global over-population is tinged with misanthropy, gives solitude his best shot.
(7) Criterion measures of loneliness, depression, anxiety, neuroticism, psychoticism, misanthropy, locus of control, tendency to dissimulate, and measures of relationship with parents, peers, and academic achievement were obtained.
(8) Ihave lived in Britain long enough to know that enthusiasm and cheerleading will never get you much credibility here – deprecation, misanthropy and a dash of inverse snobbery are the far cooler attitudes to adopt – so I apologise for the upcoming expression of total and unabashed positivity: there are so many brilliant films around at the moment.
(9) The director's misanthropy and pessimism are already baked in: "Gentlemen of the court," says Kirk Douglas, in a line that could plausibly recur in any subsequent Kubrick movie, "there are times when I'm ashamed to be a member of the human race, and this is one of them."
(10) Twain outlived his adored wife and three of his four children, which might put his supposed misanthropy and bitterness at the end of his life in perspective.
(11) "USE WELL THY FREEDOM" reads a wall engraving at Patty's daughter's university, but few people do use it well and the cost of failure is destructive: "The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage."
(12) Yanis Varoufakis describes it as “a manual for emancipation by means of the only weapon we have against orchestrated misanthropy: constructive disobedience”.
(13) This study tested the hypotheses that perceptions of childhood dissatisfaction with parents are associated with higher scores on measures of intensity and chronicity of loneliness, anxiety, neuroticism, psychoticism, misanthropy, and external locus of control and lower scores on measures of self-esteem and sociability.
Timonism
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Timon of Athens is at the National Theatre from 10 July-31 October ( nationaltheatre.org.uk ) • This article was amended on 2 July 2012.
(2) A quick graze of the internet will provide fan theories to feed any hunches you’ve long felt about the happy-go-lucky companionship of Timon and Pumbaa, and their effective adoption of baby Simba, in The Lion King – or indeed the foppish villainy of the same film’s Scar, an alpha lion who has never found a mate in the pride.
(3) The play I'm doing now, Timon of Athens , almost didn't exist.
(4) Four cases of neonatal haemophilus influenzae have been reported in Intensive Care Unite of Timone's Hospital (Marseille) during a 2 year period.
(5) A comparative study of 364 patients treated with monofractionation at the CHU Timone is underway and the preliminary results appear to be very favourable.
(6) We present a series of 27 cases of trigonocephaly operated on in the department of pediatric neurosurgery at the Hôpital des enfants La Timone in Marseille since 1975.
(7) They allow the author to support Williams' (1960) proposition to include U. fusiformis McIntosh, 1935 and U. tholonetensis Timon-David, 1955 among the synonyms of Urotocus rossitensis (Mühling, 1898).
(8) 24 cases of choroid plexus tumours (16 papillomas and 8 carcinomas) were observed in the Department of Paediatric Neurosurgery, Hôpital des Enfants de la Timone, Marseille France between 1975 and 1989.
(9) Between January 1980 and December 1985, 721 operations on the internal carotid artery were performed in the Department of Vascular Surgery, Hôpital de la Timone, Marseilles.
(10) This paper deals with life-cycle of Renicola lari J. Timon-David, 1933.
(11) A regular performer at the National since 1995, Simon Russell Beale has acted in some of theatre's most memorable roles, including the title roles in John Caird's Hamlet and Nicholas Hytner's Timon of Athens.
(12) In our Statistics, accidents in sports represent only 2,3% of the trauma cases hospitalized in the neurosurgical service of Marseille La Timone; of these cases 57% are cranio-cerebral injuries, 43% are vertebral or spinal cord injuries.