| Consider both an avid cocktail party hostess with hundreds of acquaintances and a grumpy misanthrope, who may have one or two friends. |
| A misanthrope hates all mankind, but is kind to every individual, generally too kind. |
| And whether there were no means of inducing him to cease to be a misanthrope? |
| This isn't easy, for Travers is a misanthrope, highly strung and fiercely protective of her books. |
| It would be only a misanthrope who would assert that he has no interest in his fellows. |
| And, although this touchy-feely motion picture transforms Redford's character into a human being, he starts out as an unapologetic misanthrope. |
