How To Use Pangloss In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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Voltaire's Candide, in which Pangloss takes the place of Mentor, will parody the genre.
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Pangloss is the wildly optimistic character in Voltaire's Candide -- "Panglossian" is to say overly cheery.
W.C. Varones
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Maybe this is good news in the "Panglossian" sense for Wells Fargo & Co.
24/7 Wall Street
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Such a survey would show, I think, that Professor Galbraith is very sensitive to the moods of the moment, moving with but little resistance and even less acknowledgment from a kind of Panglossian optimism in American Capitalism (and the same year's famous New York Times Magazine article 'We Can Prosper Without War Orders'), through increasing skepticism in the middle books (The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State), to something which now displays what is at times ill-concealed alarm.
Galbraith's Utopia
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Rick Gershman ...but an intense interest in all tacos? pangloss have you SEEN zach and miri make a porno? kevin smith is not a good writer, he got lucky with clerks. i am done with his films.
Kevin Smith Wants to Make Hockey Movie - Hit Somebody | /Film
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Franklin was never a Pangloss, and his bald statement of what such a belief would entail is the equal of Voltaire's.
Free and Easy
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Sadly, such Panglossian self-delusion is not confined merely to the Lab-liar front bench but has seeped into the self-delusory tone of much CiF comment which has reacted splenetically to having been caught with their hands in the cookie jar, the lid of which has now been firmly smacked shut.
The 'big society' is collapsing under its inherent absurdity | Catherine Bennett
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After having been so heartily kicked, flogged, and bastinadoed; after having been in an earthquake; having seen Doctor Pangloss once hanged, and very lately burned; after having been outraged by
Candide
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Bonus points to Dr. Chen for getting the word "Panglossian" into a news article.
April 13th, 2009
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If it's not immediately clear, the headline writer uses "Panglossian" to say the opposite of what it means.
W.C. Varones
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Yet feminism is regarded by all parties as a philosophy based on Panglossian fortune-cookie dictums.
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His appointment, along with ex-Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii as a top lieutenant, underscores Mr. Kan's apparent push to put unpalatable policies in front of voters, after years of Panglossian political platforms by both his party and the other guys.
Japan's New Deficit Hawk, Deflation Dove
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I say this not out of any kind of Panglossian complacency.
Biennial Sir Arthur Tange Lecture in Australian Diplomacy
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With the exception of Pangloss, the three other heretics are burned at the stake.
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The book is a curious mixture of the Panglossian - the US as a kindly elephant, centre of the global ecosystem - and the hard-headedly critical.
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But Pangloss says this will only happen if he has money because being bled and having an enema require payment.
