How To Use Pangloss In A Sentence
- Guardian International correspondent Jonathan Steele called Bush's and Blair's denial of the horrors attending the Iraq civil war "Panglossian" - referring to the ever optimistic Dr. Pangloss of Voltaire's novel Candide who, at every disaster, proclaims that ours is the best of all possible worlds. Surge to Purge: The 80% Solution in Iraq
- The mitre and sanbenito worn by Candide were painted with flames reversed and with devils that had neither tails nor claws; but Dr. Pangloss's devils had both tails and claws, and his flames were upright. Candide
- I was dreadfully shocked at the burning of the two Jews, and the honest Biscayan who married his godmother; but how great was my surprise, my consternation, and concern, when I beheld a figure so like Pangloss, dressed in a sanbenito and mitre! Candide
- Voltaire's Candide, in which Pangloss takes the place of Mentor, will parody the genre.
- Pangloss is the wildly optimistic character in Voltaire's Candide -- "Panglossian" is to say overly cheery. W.C. Varones
- Maybe this is good news in the "Panglossian" sense for Wells Fargo & Co. 24/7 Wall Street
- The novella begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his tutor, Pangloss. Archive 2009-03-01
- Pangloss, who was as inquisitive as he was disputative, asked him what was the name of the mufti who was lately strangled. Don’t Just Do Something–Stand There! | Heretical Ideas Magazine
- For years he has tried to divert our attention from the "Panglossian" strategic principles of adaptationism, and now he has stubbed his own toe on one of them: if an organism has one trick that it always uses, chances are that eventually the evolving world will catch on and expose it to counter-measures. 'Confusion Over Evolution': An Exchange
- The end result of the changes in the publishing landscape is that anyone can write but fewer people can make a living at it, and that will have consequences, no matter what Panglossian gloss you want to put on it. Matthew Yglesias » Wieseltier on the Journalistic Proletariat
