" He falls in love with a female fish he names Ladyfish, and makes friends with a misanthropic hermit crab named Crusty.

He suggests at some points that the pagan deities are based on humans, but at others that they are misanthropic demons, and he cites several classical sources in support of this second hypothesis.

The book contains passages that almost border on being misanthropic with some very powerful passages concerning war and Man's inhumanity to man.

But don't miss the last pages, in which he theorizes -- mirroring right-wing pamphleteers of the Birch persuasion -- that the media reflexively follow the dictates of a powerful cabal of conservative activists and misanthropic millionaires ..."

Throughout the course of the novel, Bukowski develops his misanthropic anti-hero character that is seen in his other works like Post Office and Hollywood.

Volatile, contentious, cynical, sarcastic, contradictory, iconoclastic, misanthropic, curmudgeonly, controversial, and sardonically funny.

Initially a synonym for " Satanic metal ", black metal has often been met with hostility from mainstream culture, mainly due to the misanthropic and anti-Christian views of many artists.

In the 1997 Oscar winning film As Good as It Gets, the misanthropic character played by Jack Nicholson sings " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " as evidence of the character's change in attitude.

However, whereas Henson's Muppets characterise the positivity, naïve folly, and innocence in humanity, the Feebles present negativity, vice, and other misanthropic characteristics.

Many critics see his worldview as a misanthropic, Hobbesian view of nature as essentially evil and savage.

Their early music was also characterised by the growling vocals and sometimes misanthropic lyrics of both Jean-Jacques Burnel and Hugh Cornwell.

" On the face of it, this looks deeply misanthropic, but actually Sartre was making an observation about the tendency of human beings to lack self-knowledge.

The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, on the other hand, was as famously misanthropic as his reputation.

In early and pre-Islamic philosophy, certain thinkers such as Ibn al-Rawandi, a skeptic of Islam, and Muhammad ibn Zakariya ar-Razi often expressed misanthropic views.

He was characterized as an " old curmudgeon " by the novelist George Moore, and he deliberately cultivated his reputation as a misanthropic bachelor.

She reported later, “ I guess I never met a more misanthropic, grumpy individual in my life .” Hopper grumbled throughout the project and never again accepted a commission.

" The Grouch " aptly describes his misanthropic interaction with the other characters.

The series focuses on Daria Morgendorffer, a smart, acerbic, and somewhat misanthropic teenage girl who observes the world around her.

It also conflicts with the misanthropic views of many artists – this is because Nazism demands a great respect for the " white race ", rather than disdain for all humanity.

Paul Verhoeven himself and many other people have stated that the reason why the film failed at the box office was because audiences were alienated by the film's misanthropic attitude not only toward its characters and subject matter, but of the general human existence.

The cynical, misanthropic, misogynistic fiction of Jules Barbey d ' Aurevilly is sometimes considered symbolist, as well.

Thomas Gore, whom the town is named after, is claimed to have been an atheist with a strong misanthropic streak-" a populist who didn't like people ", as expressed by his grandson, author Gore Vidal.

It stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic, obsessive-compulsive novelist, Helen Hunt as a single mother with an asthmatic son, and Greg Kinnear as a gay artist.

Beery left an impression of being misanthropic and difficult to work with on many of his colleagues.

It is devoted to morbid curiosities, primarily pictures of violent acts, deformities, autopsy or forensic photographs, depictions of perverse sex acts, and historical curios that are disturbing or misanthropic in nature.

Fields was known for his comic persona as a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children and women.

Vasquez's writing often conveys misanthropic and pessimistic themes, often used for the purposes of parody and satire.

* W. C. Fields nurtured a character that was not far from himself in real life, being misanthropic, misogynistic, and a hard drinker, as well as lovingly massaging the English language through the utterly unique bellow of his voice and his famous bulbous nose.

Her sexual frustration leads her into an affair with the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors.

The relationship between Carpenter and Merrill was the template for the relationship between Maurice Hall and Alec Scudder, the gamekeeper in Forster's novel.

Also his friendly attitude towards the aborigines was sorely tested when they killed his gamekeeper, and he was not able to assert a clear policy about them.

Despite Phillip's earlier order that Aboriginal Australians must never be slain, and his insistence that no retaliation be taken to avenge his own non-fatal spearing, Phillip's stance toward Aboriginals changed markedly after the death of his gamekeeper, John MacIntyre.

Steiner's father, Johann ( es ) Steiner ( 23 June 1829, Geras or Trabenreith, Irnfritz-Messern and lived Geras Abbey, Waldviertel – 1910, Horn ), left a position as a gamekeeper in the service of Count Hoyos in Geras, northeast Lower Austria to marry one of the Hoyos family's housemaids, Franziska Blie ( 8 May 1834, Horn, Waldviertel – 1918, Horn ), a marriage for which the Count had refused his permission.

He acted as retriever when his elder brother gamekeeper shot magpies, owls, rats and curlews, growing up surrounded by the harsh realities of working farms in the valleys and on the moors.

He added ‘ There was an air of the country gentleman about him, at times he reminded one of an immaculate gamekeeper with large pockets .’ He was a very focused individual with no wasted actions or speech.

He was influenced in particular by the gamekeeper Seamus Hart and the wife of his friend, Mrs. Connolly.

In fact he did it at the instigation of Black George, Allworthy's gamekeeper, but he refuses to tell Mr Allworthy who his partner-in-crime was.

Lisette has been married to Schumacher, the gamekeeper at the country estate, for two years, but she is more devoted to Madame Christine.

* Guy of Gisbourne ( Robert Addie ) Steward over the abbot's lands and " gamekeeper " of Sherwood, he is the chief military commander in the area.

Originating in the mid-19th century in England, the Flat-Coated Retriever gained popularity as a gamekeeper ’ s dog.

Living in the village was a gamekeeper and a farm bailiff, both in the employ of the Duke of Rutland, and a surgeon medical officer who was public vaccinator for the Denton district and Grantham Union.

Born near Rambouillet, Île-de-France, France, Robert Benoist was the son of Baron Henri de Rothschild's gamekeeper.

The Northumberland bird was shot at Killingworth on 5 October by a gamekeeper, and the specimen purchased by John Hancock.

Jones was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, to Peter Jones ( a gamekeeper ) and Glenda Harris Jones.

Lambert's paternal uncle — like his father — also worked with animals, but as a professional gamekeeper ; his maternal grandfather was a breeder of champion fighting cocks.

The term was applied to senior foresters and gamekeepers in the German civil service, while the topmost gamekeeper was Reichsjägermeister Hermann Göring.

A possible free translation might be gamekeeper or game warden.

Hilarion, a gamekeeper, is also in love with Giselle and warns the girl against trusting the stranger, but Giselle refuses to listen.

When it seems that the gamekeeper — who is now their friend — will be blamed for robbery, the children must beg the Psammead for a complex series of wishes to set things right.

A peasant, Mabey, is shot by the gamekeeper of the Marquis de la Tour d ' Azyr, on the Marquis's instructions, for poaching.

Korky is in a barrel and being chased by a policeman and a gamekeeper.

Born in Bathelémont-lès-Bauzemont ( Meurthe-et-Moselle ), the son of a miller, he was for long a private in the Swiss Guard, and afterwards gamekeeper to the comte de Colbert-Maulévrier, he joined the Vendéans when they rose against the Revolution to defend Roman Catholicism and Royalist principles.