Panglossian
Example Sentences
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Of course, there are limits to taking a Panglossian attitude and psyching ourselves up in the face of challenges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
In the other, titles sounded optimistic, almost Panglossian.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
Must we accept the Panglossian notion that the conventional slow grind of justice is the best of all possible systems?
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2022
Of all the euphemisms the Times has used for "pathological lying," "Panglossian dismissiveness" maybe the the Times-iest.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2020
He was quite disembarrassed of that Panglossian philosophy which had hitherto induced him to believe that the Earl of Fitz-pompey was the best of all possible uncles.
From The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
