Her witty misanthropy is here to ward off mental scurvy.
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Holden is Patient Zero for generations infected by his misanthropy.
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But you can say that about everything—misanthropy, Satanism, basically anything.
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The series' reversal of zombie misanthropy is cheerful, adorable, and entirely conscious.
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His default mode is a kind of prickly joviality, a gregarious misanthropy.
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Usually, teen-girl misanthropy and anxiety figure prominently into Ms. Abbott's novels.
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He also became increasingly known for his misanthropy, misogyny, and problematic humor.
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Most importantly, Belinda tells her to knock it off with the misanthropy already.
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Sometimes I wake up and am gripped by an intense feeling of misanthropy.
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" He "lived in a kind of haughty misanthropy, behind a rampart of irony.
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The misanthropy is sometimes sharp and funny, but more often tired and sour.
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Her earnest, altruistic impulses coexist with a deep misanthropy she can't quite suppress.
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Secular students object: How can so much arrogant misanthropy pass itself off as piety?
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Empathizing with others is one way we can work against this racism and misanthropy.
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An abandoned child, his natural state is isolation, his faith a kind of misanthropy.
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Not so unlike Mr. McLemore, many of us have bouts of misery and misanthropy.
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By doing so, he's perpetuating a defeatist attitude, and even a certain degree of misanthropy.
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There is also a welcome whisper of misanthropy, indispensable equipment for the nonconforming serious humorist.
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It was Gervais at his boorish worst, blundering across the line that separates misanthropy and vanity.
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I have my moments of misanthropy but I think this is normal for a lot of people.
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I would call him a friend, even if his trademark misanthropy prevents him from returning the sentiment.
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Or as an old Onion headline put it: "Corporate Philanthropy-Misanthropy Ratio Holding Steady" (at 1:1,770).
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Her misanthropy is tempered somewhat by her employees, played wonderfully by David H. Holmes and Da'Vine Joy Randolph.
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At Café Roma, Alice Milligan Webster and Judge Lorna Kelly Cole are sharing a convivial moment of misanthropy.
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It's one thing to derive comedy from BoJack's misanthropy, but allowing it to go unchallenged sets a dangerous precedent.
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Meditating for too long on the unsavory specimens of the human race can be a fruitless exercise in misanthropy.
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He also gets points for being a longtime animal rights advocate without descending into Morrissey-style borderline racist misanthropy.
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As if it's a kind of misanthropy to not spend most of my time on the side of the popular.
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Faldbakken has written three other novels, known collectively as the Scandinavian Misanthropy Trilogy, which have not been published in English.
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Or so we are asked to consider in "Timon of Athens," Shakespeare's split-personality comic-tragedy about money and misanthropy.
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Cruella's misanthropy is so ubiquitous that Roger can't help breaking into song to describe it (or perhaps to deflect his fear).
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Zama's officiousness is matched by his misanthropy, and he gives less thought to the fates of slaves than to his chattel.
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But on "Seinfeld," the city and the characters' righteous belief in their own norms spurred them on to increasingly lunatic misanthropy.
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At this point in my life, I'm ready to say goodbye to the crippling anxiety, constant state of exhaustion, and general misanthropy.
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Why don't you join in on their politicized misanthropy by adding Your Own Blood-Curtling Screams Into the Void to the mix?
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In seeking direction, Koller hit up peers at extreme music labels he looked up to like Misanthropy, Avantgarde Music, and Cold Meat Industry.
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There have been dark wells of hate online since the Usenet era, but back then, misanthropy was distributed across thousands of different platforms.
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But Nazi symbolism, semi-ironic misogyny, and nihilistic misanthropy are no longer meaningfully transgressive; in fact, they've been in perennial rotation for decades.
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Smartwatches are still uncommon enough that whenever I see somebody wearing one, I fight my inherent misanthropy and ask how they like it.
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But lately death-obsessed modern hipsters have reclaimed the term as a badge of their everyday misanthropy and love of black sun hats.
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So it's a relief that After Life wears its misanthropy lightly, its protagonist's foul-mouthed nihilism providing the show's material but not its message.
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"You would laugh about it if you didn't know these guys are serious, but you could cry about this level of misanthropy," he said.
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Hughes on "Downton Abbey," plays this Texas-born malcontent with a sustained misanthropy next to which Calum Finlay's peppy Edward seems a bit dim.
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"Suntan" has an undertone of resigned misanthropy, but mostly, this isn't a movie about what the filmmaker thinks of the characters and their milieu.
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I walk around the city in a slow-cooker of scorn and misanthropy, deriding and criticizing what I see as stupid or, at best, deluded.
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Rancid riffs and infernal grooves collide, while vocalist Kevin Baker's foul bark further projects the sort of misanthropy and nihilism inherent in their overall sound.
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Belichick is an unpleasant perfectionist whose cultivated public misanthropy and "look at me, a slob" outfits often seem like an irritating sort of performance art.
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"That sense of hope in the midst of seemingly insurmountable cynicism and misanthropy is basically just my perception of the world in a nutshell," he says.
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It stars Adam Scott, Lizzy Caplan, Martin Starr and Ken Marino as L.A. cater-waiters, and is arguably TV's best and funniest portrait of collective misanthropy.
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Still, for all this misanthropy and unremitting bleakness, BoJack retains our sympathy, especially as we see him wrestle with the damage inflicted by his twisted childhood.
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Books of The Times The Irish writer Claire-Louise Bennett's first novel, "Pond," dabbles in a black art we don't get enough of in summertime: misanthropy.
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On "House," the doctor's misanthropy was as much a strength as a liability — his suspicion ("Everybody lies") and lack of sentiment led him to ingenious diagnoses.
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De Decker's call to go Amish and return to darkness has not gone down well; combating climate change surely does not require a descent into misanthropy.
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Gervais' comedy generally thrives on a brand of misanthropy, pushing to the edge of that bleak assessment of human nature before stepping back from the abyss.
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Ginsburg, like or it not, falls into one of the web's favorite tropes: "sassy" elderly folks who display just the right amount of misanthropy and poise.
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In this bit, an 11-year-old boy with a prominent mullet asks prying, hideous questions of strangers—mostly women, of course—that belie a general misanthropy.
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Varoufakis has travelled across Europe with an agenda he said "can tackle climate extinction and create good quality jobs - the best antidote to misanthropy and orchestrated xenophobia".
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There is a vein of misanthropy that runs through a lot of criticism of social media, as if people aren't as nice as they used to be.
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Comparisons to Danny Boyle's opening ceremony—which managed, for a fortnight at least, to peel the protective film of cynicism and misanthropy from this nation—are inevitable.
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Rewind Putting a sardonic spin on a modern classic of misanthropy, the movie "Hyenas" transposes a dark comedy by the Swiss dramatist Friedrich Durrenmatt to rural Senegal.
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When Sepuya chooses to cover the camera with fabric or photo fragments, his work becomes extremely intimate and sensuous, freeing himself from the burden of photography's misanthropy.
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Obviously, you can't go into work today and start flipping over conference tables every time you're frustrated or begin hiding under your desk when you're gripped by misanthropy.
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"Racial discrimination and misanthropy are serious maladies inherent to the social system of the U.S., and they have been aggravated since Trump took office," the North Korean paper said.
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It's a show that makes viewers care about its screwed-up, unlikable leads, and it depicts teenage misanthropy and being on the cusp of adulthood in a thought-provoking way.
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One of the marvels of the modern day gift market is the way that its journals, magnets, and coffee mugs swing wildly between smiling beneficence and saucy declarations of misanthropy.
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And you're reminded that when you're feeling down on your destructive fellow humans (and who isn't these days?), there's nothing like a flagon of sparkling misanthropy to raise the spirits.
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This and the plot's stillness — days pile up, but many of the novel's "events" are Shmuel's realizations — make reading "Judas" feel a bit like reading Thomas Bernhard without the misanthropy.
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Misanthropy, paranoia, and loathing have been central to the modern zombie genre since George Romero first gleefully showed humans leaping for each other's throats, even before they got turned into zombies.
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See below for developments on that... Roiland calls as his animated persona Rick Sanchez, minus the belching, obscenity, and contempt for humanity that normally characterises Rick's unique brand of lovable misanthropy.
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If you're bailing on someone you don't feel comfortable talking to about your attack of anxiety, period pain, or all-consuming misanthropy rendering you unfit for human interaction, you can lie.
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In the Korean war the US imperialists, who had long been trained on misanthropy and racism, revealed their barbarity and brutality to the whole world, far exceeding those of the preceding imperialists.
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Because like Johnny, the human vortex of misanthropy at the heart of this scathing, haunting film from Mike Leigh, "Naked" arrives unexpectedly and does enough psychic damage to mark you for life.
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He will be seeking a seat as leader of his DiEM25 movement, a group that says it wants to halt the "rise of misanthropy, xenophobia and toxic nationalism" and stop the EU disintegrating.
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Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner's rapid-fire jokes and carefree misanthropy aren't the sort of thing everybody can stomach, but if you love this sort of thing, you'll almost certainly love this unconditionally.
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Eventually, the play becomes something dark and upsetting, as the WhatsApp messages start to ape the violent, posturing misanthropy of the Islamic extremists whose social media accounts Mr. Alipoor trawled researching the show.
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Thanks to a mishmash of outdated but enduring gender roles, the gradual erosion of free time all adults experience, and a dash of misanthropy, I've seen my circle of friends shrink massively over time.
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Millennials get shamed nonstop no matter what, but having pizza and wine delivered via some apps instead of going out to a fancy restaurant or a bar can have explanations beyond laziness and misanthropy.
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The title track—a tongue-in-cheek ode to misanthropy that repeated the title phrase ad infinitum over a crushing riff—is pretty much the last word in uncomfortably- drawn-out-way-too-long Wizard.
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"Racial discrimination and misanthropy are serious maladies inherent to the social system of the U.S., and they have been aggravated since Trump took office," the document, issued by the country's Institute of International Studies, reads.
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Brands like Ford, Twix, Dr. Pepper and others can reach out to the company with a prospective campaign to reach a particular audience (like bitter, 40ish reporters who would like to wallow in their cynical misanthropy).
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So even the songs that we've been playing for a number of years, "Funeral Thirst" and "Elder Misanthropy," I really love how those have shaped up, and the rest of the songs are doing the same.
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The Economist: Using your methods, won't empathy simply develop in those who are prone to be empathetic anyway—leaving the most vile people unaffected and the world unimproved: a snowflake of kindness amid a blizzard of misanthropy?
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When he mounts certain hobbyhorses — the putative excesses of the contemporary left, say, or what he sees as its emphasis on cultural over economic issues — he slips into a flattening, apolitical misanthropy that is more performative than analytical.
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When he mounts certain hobbyhorses — the putative excesses of the contemporary left, say, or what he sees as its emphasis on cultural over economic issues — he slips into a flattening, apolitical misanthropy that is more performative than analytical.
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Speaking of misanthropy, Armed Judas have recently arrived on the scene in Taiwan as one of the leading purveyors of pure fucking black metal, taking up the mantle from which many in the old guard seem ready to descend.
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His grief curdled into misanthropy, he decides to use his weariness of life as a "superpower": He'll do whatever he wants and tell everyone exactly what he thinks, and when he gets tired of it all, he'll kill himself.
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What's more, antagonizing people for trying to build a movement for a cause you know damn well is worthwhile is an exercise in a sort of supervillain-esque misanthropy which demands that your entire species join you in suicide.
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Likewise, any press preview of Frieze will invariably involve the same core components of misanthropy: resentment of the art market, lack of specificity in the curation of gallery booths, and the mystifying omnipresence of Hans-Ulrich Obrist at every corner.
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Music about self-loathing can be relatable and effective, but there are instances when he seems close to crossing over into misanthropy; Young felt too weighted, and probably too smart, to enjoy the limousine lifestyle presented to him by fame.
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There is now what we might call a "jihadi state of mind," in which some mixture of social disengagement, moral dissolution, unleavened misanthropy and inchoate rage drives some to see the most abhorrent expressions of violence as a kind of revolt.
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In Stephen Sondheim's 1979 mid-career masterpiece, "Sweeney Todd" (a Tooting Arts Club production, at the Barrow Street, under the direction of Bill Buckhurst), the title character's misanthropy drives some of the plot, but it is not a cynical work.
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Despite its sometimes more cautionary aspects, Plainview's narrative arc now doubles as a motivational training session, a testament to what you too can achieve with a combination of rugged individualism, a relentlessly competitive nature, and an internal reservoir of skillfully concealed misanthropy.
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It's similar to how The Sopranos never seemed like it should be as popular as it was and is, how its deepening misanthropy was constantly at odds with its high viewership, its audience never as critical of the characters as the writers were.
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The Cowboy (not to be confused with The Cowboys, who also released a fine album in 2017), take the riffy and yelly sounds of acts found on Am Rep Records in the 90s and then smear on an extra layer of misanthropy.
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And then, a couple of years later in "The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)," he's the successful sibling, a financial adviser based in L.A., struggling to keep his misanthropy in check and dealing with the narcissism of his father, played by Dustin Hoffman.
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This is exactly the premise behind the Philbrook Museum of Art's new #MeTimeMonday initiative in Tulsa, Oklahoma — except without the obvious misanthropy — which gives one different person each month a chance to wander the museum all by themselves for a whole Monday.
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Soph's scripts, which she says she writes with a collaborator, are familiar: a mix of hatred toward Muslims, anti-black racism, Byzantine fearmongering about pedophilia, tissue-thin incel evolutionary psychology, and reflexive misanthropy that could have been copied and pasted from a thousand different 4chan posts.
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Miss King's other nonfiction books include "He: An Irreverent Look at the American Male" (1978); "Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye" (1989); "Lump It or Leave It" (1990), whose jacket shows her cheerfully wielding a handgun; and "With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy" (1992).
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In Cyborg Manifesto, Haraway envisions a utopian post-gender future created by every member of the human species; but in Staying With the Trouble, Haraway calls for a dramatic reduction of the population in order to reduce humanity's effects on the climate—a cynical turn toward misanthropy, Lewis wrote.
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Just over a decade later, the Coens' portrait of grasping fools and self-important Beltway nitwits trying to behave like characters in a John le Carré novel seems less like misanthropy and more like prophecy — a vision of amoral political buffoonery that's arguably the most realistic depiction of Trumpiness to date.
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Google's "Don't be evil" motto and the holier-than-thou stance adopted by many new technology companies was intended to set them apart from the old guard: the infamous misanthropy of Steve Jobs at Apple, the aggressive monopolism of Bill Gates at Microsoft and the self-aggrandisement of Larry Ellison at Oracle.
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Joker, which traces the origin of the famous Batman villain, has also stirred controversy since hitting theaters in early October: While its box office broke records and Phoenix drew raves for his lead performance, the film's violence and extreme misanthropy led many critics to revisit discussions on how movies might influence their audience.
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D. Curtis co-translated "Doppelgänger" with Hawkesworth.) Drndic is often described as a blend of Beckett (for the bleakness and rhythms), W.G. Sebald (the reliance on photographs and interest in historical amnesia) and Thomas Bernhard (first-rate misanthropy), but these sorts of comparisons do nothing to convey the singular experience of reading her work.
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Eventually I decided it couldn't matter, and that in fact the true subject might be my conflicted and complicated feelings about the 'Ladyland' image and the real women it showed, about women and womanhood, being gazed upon, being a gazer oneself, and maybe some misanthropy too — thinking about women's culpability, and women of our time who have helped set us all back decades, like the Kardashians.
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