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  • Imagine an undead Denis Leary, complete with acid wit, misanthropism, and a love for ice hockey.

    Released: Staked by JF Lewis « Urban Fantasy Land 2008

  • Studious in their laconicism, adroit in misanthropism.

    Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: February 2006 Archives 2006

  • Studious in their laconicism, adroit in misanthropism.

    Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Writing 2006

  • "Compassionate misanthropism" is the best summary I have ever heard of left-liberal thought, which indeed results in processes by which "everyone else would disappear".

    Archive 2007-07-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • The worship of the new Moloch goes well with the dark misanthropism of Hobbes: but in Rousseau, the believer in the perfect goodness of unrestrained humanity, it is about the most glaring of his many inconsistencies.

    Moral Philosophy Joseph Rickaby 1888

  • There's even a hint of the same sort of skepticism about the world outside and a surprisingly deep sense of misanthropism that feeds through into Fight Club:

    Irish Blogs 2010

  • 1. ZPS gives here the best example of Hillary's compassionate misanthropism I have seen in awhile.

    It's the coffee! Ann Althouse 2008

  • The memoirs of Mrs. Clarke and of her darling prince, and the book emphatically so called, because it is the Biblia Sacra Deorum et Dearum sub-coelestium, the Prince Regent, his Princess and the minor deities of his sphere, form a worthy sequel to the memoirs of Bareuth; instead of the vulgarity and penury of the court of Berlin, giving us the vulgarity and profusion of that of London, and the gross stupidity and profligacy of the latter, in lieu of the genius and misanthropism of the former.

    Letters 1760

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