Miserabilism

Word MISERABILISM
Character 12
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈmɪzɹəbəlɪz(ə)m/

Definitions and meanings of "Miserabilism"

What do we mean by miserabilism?

A tendency to take a miserable or pessimistic view on life; a consistently miserable outlook, negativity.

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The word "miserabilism" in example sentences

The miserabilism is not a conclusion but a premise: What is, is. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

It is instead simply the shallow self-sustaining logic of a depressive and defeatist miserabilism. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

Monty Python – troubadour of British despondency – once mocked such miserabilism in song. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Because by 'the rest of us' you mean 'Guardian readers and the rest of this country's socially, intellectually and morally diseased holders of diplomas in advanced miserabilism'. ❋ Lucy Mangan (2010)

Another example of wallowing in lower class miserabilism without the tact, beauty and poignancy of this years Samson and Delilah or the horror and ferocity of Rowan Woods' The Boys. ❋ Glenn Dunks (2009)

It was a novelty seeing Jon Hamm on the Letterman show last week, smiling, laughing, and oozing relaxation, all of the traits denied him in his role as TV's foremost manwich of miserabilism, Don Draper. ❋ Wolcott, James (2009)

"What gives [Aki] Kaurismäki's films their delightful tension is the tug-of-war between this apparent miserabilism and the surges of hope that disrupt the dour surface," writes Ryan Gilbey in the New Statesman. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So I suspect if readers are looking for "happy endings" it may be less about a desire for infantile solace as a dismissal of the sort of bourgeois miserabilism which wrongly equates "serious" and "solemn". ❋ TEV (2006)

It would go great with the purple pants with a slight waxed effect, or the twill-like grayish blue denim that suggests the long-awaited union of German miserabilism and the American Southwest. ❋ By JON CARAMANICA (2011)

Among this year's offerings were the British movie "Shame," Steve McQueen's meticulous slice of miserabilism about a sex addict played by the frequently naked, justifiably self-assured Michael Fassbender, and the English-language French gorefest "The Incident," about workers locked in an asylum for the criminally insane, many with impressive knife skills. ❋ By MANOHLA DARGIS (2011)

Super Furry Animals' erstwhile lead singer takes the biscuit for Yuletide miserabilism, particularly on the Leonard Cohen-esque Slashed Wrists This Christmas. ❋ Thomas H Green (2011)

Murray, when the mood takes him, cuts a neat line in tartan miserabilism. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ironically, or sardonically, or surreally, the group who invented Mancunian miserabilism chose to illustrate the sensation with a video featuring bizarrely costumed men slapping each other's faces. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'm not familiar with the Smiths work - their affected miserabilism never appealed to me - so could somebody please tip me off if Richard or anyone else is just making up song titles? ❋ Minute-by-minute Report (2010)

Kaurism�ki's usual deadpan humor, treads closer to miserabilism than his other recent films, with a sad sack protagonist who's used and abused so relentlessly that he might as well be in a Mike D'Angelo at Nerve. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Kaurismäki's films their delightful tension is the tug-of-war between this apparent miserabilism and the surges of hope that disrupt the dour surface, "writes Lights in the Dusk is like the emotional equivalent of an optical illusion: the glass that appears to be half empty is shown, by the end of the picture, to be overflowing with the milk, or rather the vodka, of human kindness." ❋ Unknown (2009)

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