He plays him as a cuddly grump, a sweet-natured misanthrope, more doleful than angry. |
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The misanthrope is a harmless cuss, keeping mainly to herself and bothering no one, asking only that you not bother her. |
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Why do we mistake him for a hero, rather than seeing him as a revisionist, angsty, egotistical, misanthrope? |
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And, although this touchy-feely motion picture transforms Redford's character into a human being, he starts out as an unapologetic misanthrope. |
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I'd always thought I was a misanthrope, but maybe I'm just an introvert instead. |
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It's well written and funny, and the author is clearly a misanthrope, which is always a plus in my opinion. |
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I've been called in the past, probably with justification, a misanthrope but it isn't so much that I dislike people but that I have a physical need to be apart from them. |
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For most of the day he'd be the genial, bonhomous, fruity old wine-slurper you see on television and then at night he'd turn into a raging paranoid misanthrope. |
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This isn't easy, for Travers is a misanthrope, highly strung and fiercely protective of her books. |
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Consider both an avid cocktail party hostess with hundreds of acquaintances and a grumpy misanthrope, who may have one or two friends. |
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One myth is that he was a misanthrope, a grumbling recluse, whose work was as morose as his life. |
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You have some surface similarities to Richard Morris, the misanthrope at the center of Perforated Heart. |
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And while you could make the case that Hamlet was a misanthrope, you commit the slothful sin of identifying the author with his creation if you say the same of Shakespeare. |
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It's yet another unlikely story of a supposed misanthrope who gathers a rag-tag surrogate family around him, starting with a wide-eyed geek in need of a father figure. This central character has been spotted before. |
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One red-faced misanthrope, Edward Leigh, yesterday told Mr Cameron not to come back from Brussels waving a piece of paper like Neville Chamberlain. |
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