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Definition of Pangloss in English: Panglossnoun ˈpaŋɡlɒsˈpanɡlôs A person who is optimistic regardless of the circumstances. as factories moved out of the US in the 1970s, the Panglosses of the day called it progress Example sentencesExamples - The President is ineligible for a Panglossotherwise he'd win it every time.
- Brad Setser and Nouriel Roubini portray us as modern-day Panglosses for expecting an orderly adjustment of global economic imbalances and sustained U.S. hegemony.
- One needn't be a Pangloss to dismiss the notion that the world can ever get ‘better.’
- By the novel's end Pawkie, like a Scottish Pangloss, is announcing that reform is in the air and that the world is becoming better and better.
- This is all part of a Pangloss view.
Derivatives adjective The film suggests that US rehabilitation involves lots of hugs, tears, group chants, and saccharine effusions of Panglossian optimism. Example sentencesExamples - Like Hammond, Athanasiou argues that the various modes of Panglossian optimism that envisage only win-win scenarios obscure the fact that humanity now faces some tough choices and problems.
- It's a pleasant vision of the future, but maybe just a touch Panglossian.
- The Panglossian optimism underpinning such remarks obscures other more serious flaws: To offset the shortfall in domestic savings, the US private sector has been borrowing from abroad.
- In this Panglossian vision, the unfettered market economy is the best of all possible worlds.
Origin Late 18th century: from the name of the tutor and philosopher in Voltaire's Candide (1759). Definition of Pangloss in US English: Panglossnounˈpanɡlôs A person who is optimistic regardless of the circumstances. as factories moved out of the US in the 1970s, the Panglosses of the day called it progress Example sentencesExamples - By the novel's end Pawkie, like a Scottish Pangloss, is announcing that reform is in the air and that the world is becoming better and better.
- This is all part of a Pangloss view.
- The President is ineligible for a Panglossotherwise he'd win it every time.
- One needn't be a Pangloss to dismiss the notion that the world can ever get ‘better.’
- Brad Setser and Nouriel Roubini portray us as modern-day Panglosses for expecting an orderly adjustment of global economic imbalances and sustained U.S. hegemony.
Origin Late 18th century: from the name of the tutor and philosopher in Voltaire's Candide (1759). |