Both liked to take a misanthropic posture, but against what, Lera could never guess.

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"Das Liebesverbot" ("The Ban on Love, " 1836) translates Shakespeare's misanthropic comedy "Measure for Measure" into a kind of Teutonic bel canto.

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The book from the editors of the Exile goes some way to explain the paper's peculiarly harsh blend of misanthropic (and notably misogynistic) humour.

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Lowe's 1994 album The Impossible Bird helped launch a comeback of sorts, finding sleeper success and re-establishing him as a lovably misanthropic pop elder statesman.

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With the exception of Hugh Laurie's brilliant but misanthropic fictional doctor, House, going against the norms of the profession is not the route to success in medicine.

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It is fashionable to disdain government today, dismissing it as a maze of misanthropic bureaucracy responsible for undermining the marketplace and stripping much-needed dollars from individual citizens and the economy.

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Tyler Ben-Amotz, a producer at Hayden 5, said that the footage casts Cobb in a light that will be unfamiliar to those who know him only by his reputation as a misanthropic person and as a marvelous athlete.

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That might make me misanthropic.

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Written by John Kamps ("Zathura") and David Koepp ("Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull") and directed by Koepp, "Ghost Town" is a light comedy about a misanthropic dentist, Bertram Pincus, who develops an unwelcome sixth sense after losing his vital signs for several minutes during a routine colonoscopy.

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