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

Of all the euphemisms the Times has used for "pathological lying," "Panglossian dismissiveness" maybe the the Times-iest.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2020

In the gloom of the Great Depression — the unemployment rate was 25 percent as Roosevelt took office — the 32nd president was reassuring but far from Panglossian.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2020

The fire that leveled the wooden business district of our pioneer town — although it caused no fatalities aside from a Panglossian “million rats” — also was featured in newspapers across the country.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2019

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