On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Pangloss. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as character and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Pangloss meaning
A naively or unreasonably optimistic person.
Synonyms of Pangloss
Using Pangloss
- The main meaning on this page is: A naively or unreasonably optimistic person.
- Useful related words include: fictional character, fictitious character, character.
- In the example corpus, pangloss often appears in combinations such as: pangloss is, pangloss and.
Context around Pangloss
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pangloss
- In this selection, "pangloss" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, character, tutor, ignores, reveals and reiterates stand out and add context to how "pangloss" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include candide finds pangloss and cunégonde and candide ignores pangloss s insistence. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pangloss" sits close to words such as aat, abhorrence and abms, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pangloss
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Whatever their horrendous fortune, Pangloss reiterates "all is for the best" (Fr. (12 words)
Candide is surprised: Pangloss had told him that Cunégonde had been raped and disemboweled. (14 words)
Ridicule of Pangloss's theories thus ridicules Leibniz himself, and Pangloss's reasoning is silly at best. (17 words)
Critical Survey of Short Fiction (2001) It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply "optimism") by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. (37 words)
Pangloss reveals he was infected with this disease by Paquette and shocks Candide by relating how Castle Thunder-ten-Tronckh was destroyed by Bulgars, and that Cunégonde and her whole family were killed. (33 words)
Returning to their farm, Candide, Pangloss, and Martin meet a Turk whose philosophy is to devote his life only to simple work and not concern himself with external affairs. (29 words)
Example sentences (14)
Ridicule of Pangloss's theories thus ridicules Leibniz himself, and Pangloss's reasoning is silly at best.
The term Panglossian originates from Voltaire’s satire Candide, in which the character, Pangloss, is always overly optimistic.
As a result, the PANGLOSS MT system was able to make use of this knowledge base, mainly in its generation element.
Bottiglia (1951), p. 720 Fundamental to Voltaire's attack is Candide's tutor Pangloss, a self-proclaimed follower of Leibniz and a teacher of his doctrine.
Candide ignores Pangloss's insistence that all turned out for the best by necessity, instead telling him "we must cultivate our garden".
Candide is surprised: Pangloss had told him that Cunégonde had been raped and disemboweled.
Candide, the impressionable and incompetent student of Pangloss, often tries to justify evil, fails, invokes his mentor and eventually despairs.
Critical Survey of Short Fiction (2001) It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply "optimism") by his mentor, Professor Pangloss.
On the way to rescue her, Candide finds Pangloss and Cunégonde's brother rowing in the galley.
Pangloss reveals he was infected with this disease by Paquette and shocks Candide by relating how Castle Thunder-ten-Tronckh was destroyed by Bulgars, and that Cunégonde and her whole family were killed.
Returning to their farm, Candide, Pangloss, and Martin meet a Turk whose philosophy is to devote his life only to simple work and not concern himself with external affairs.
The dervish responds by asking rhetorically why Pangloss is concerned about the existence of evil and good.
The sailor leaves in order to loot the rubble while Candide, injured and begging for help, is lectured on the optimistic view of the situation by Pangloss.
Whatever their horrendous fortune, Pangloss reiterates "all is for the best" (Fr.
Common combinations with pangloss
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pangloss is 2×
- pangloss and 2×