Crossword-Solution: PANGLOSS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Candide's mentor. | 1 answer |
| Candide's optimistic tutor. | 1 answer |
| Candide's tutor. | 1 answer |
| Character in "Candide." | 1 answer |
| Optimist in "Candide" | 1 answer |
| Philosopher in "Candide" | 1 answer |
| Voltaire's optimist. | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PANGLOSS (5)
The gospel according to Whitman, even if it be not so logical, has this advantage over the gospel according to Pangloss, that it does not utterly disregard the existence of temporal evil.
Pangloss, smarting under one of the worst things that ever was supposed to come from America, consoled himself with the reflection that it was the price we have to pay for cochineal.
They would not have strength of constitution to do it.’ ‘Reckless and improvident dogs, then,’ said Pangloss.
The awful thinness of the fallen cheeks, the awful brightness of the deep set eyes, the lips of lead, the hands of ivory, the recumbent human images lying in the shadow of death with a kind of solemn twilight on them, like the sixty who had died aboard the ship and were lying at the bottom of the sea, O Pangloss, GOD forgive you! In one bed, lay a man whose life had been saved (as it was hoped) by deep incisions in the feet and legs.
Prefacing it with the observation that, of course, I knew beforehand that there was not the faintest desire, anywhere, to hush up any part of this dreadful business, and that the Inquest was the fairest of all possible Inquests, I besought four things of Pangloss.
Quotes with PANGLOSS (2)
Satire is the antidote to Pollyanna and Dr. Pangloss. It focuses our gaze sharply upon the the contrast between things as they are and as they should be.
For Paley, a watch is purposeful and thus must have been created by a being with a purpose. A watch needs a watchmaker, just as a world needs a world-maker — God. Yet both Wallace and Paley might have heeded the lesson from Voltaire's Candide (1759), in which Dr. Pangloss, a professor of "metaphysico-theology-cosmolonigology," through reason, logic, and analogy "proved" that this is the best of all possible worlds: '"Tis demonstrated that things cannot be otherwise; for, sinc…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1945–2004).