No one, no matter his or her political beliefs, could label either one of them as a whiner, a malcontent or in the least
misanthropic. And they may have been the last two presidential candidates in the last 50 years who people actually wanted to vote for.
There's a gloomy,
misanthropic bloke with a ponytail whose name no one can remember, a greying, bearded professor who wears tropical shirts and spits in his coffee, and a wacky, dappy Brummie who powers her calculator with lemons and has a habit of confusing song lyrics and tunes.
298) refers to Lonesome George, the Galapagos tortoise, as "
misanthropic"--meaning a hater of people.
Janeway, agreeably
misanthropic as always, complements a cast of complex, fascinating characters, local color, and solid dialogue.
It read like the work of a
misanthropic, trench-coat-wearing tenth-grader, not of the literary editor at one of the best magazines in print.
His A PARROT IN THE PEPPER TREE (095352275X) provides a sequel, continuing the story of his farm life as they clash with a
misanthropic parrot who immerses himself in their life--and faces a threat to their valley from a proposed dam project.
He's been identified as a "
misanthropic. ex-seminarian, lapsed Buddhist, agnostic for Jesus," a quote he says is mostly true, except for the "
misanthropic" part.
But there seems to be a humanistic challenge behind the
misanthropic complaint.
If there is a common theme in this random assortment of biting comments and raunchy observations, it is general cynicism about the human race, and especially the poet's own kind, the Irish: "Heartbeat / The heartbeat of a lethal Irish joy; / I mock I mock till I destroy." Not every Irishman is as
misanthropic as Kennelly, thank heaven, or the best Irish literature would not have attracted the world audience which it deservedly enjoys--to which, sadly, Kennelly has contributed little.
In the very first chapter of every Harlequin, a hero is introduced, usually a
misanthropic but secretly kindhearted man who is himself suffering from some kind of emotional wound.
Melancholic rather than
misanthropic, Davies has never had a romantic relationship and is resigned to that fact, if reluctantly.