Isn't the eponymous physician a pill-popping, misanthropic jerk with off-putting googly eyes and bedside manner as soothing as a 3am phone call from Stalin?
Allin delighted the American hardcore rock'n'roll scene of the late 80s and early 90s by performing naked, having swallowed vast amounts of laxatives, before bellowing violently misanthropic lyrics, maiming himself, defecating on stage, throwing his excrement into the crowd, and inflicting often actionable degrees of physical damage on audience members.
The obsessed and misanthropic Plainview makes more money than he can spend while others are ruined.A growing slick of worriesThese days the oil critics have an embarrassment of riches to work with.
Similarly, he makes little mention of the new Islamist awareness among African Muslims.Sir Vidia's refusal to see the suppleness of Africa its musicality, violence and virility may strengthen the hand of critics who argue that his non-fiction (as opposed to his marvellous fiction) is misanthropic and out of touch.
Today, as before, everything is getting better and worse at the same time.One contemporary result of this old contradiction is the bitterness felt between Moscow's financiers, whose incomes depend on selling Russia, and its foreign correspondents, who, by and large, are not buying.The bankers regard the hacks as misanthropic sensationalists.
To prove his point, he has delved into the boyhood and early manhood of the Great Terrorist, hoping to show that he was dangerously unhinged and deeply misanthropic throughout his life.The author cannot be faulted for industry.
Everyone keeps trying to calm his misanthropic fury: his wife, Mr Blair, even Mr Clinton.
It is to her that Beckett's humour there in his plays, under it all finally surfaces, even if it is a certain type of misanthropic comedy: "I've been reading in your grand Baudelaire and the Holy Bible the story of the Flood and wishing the Almighty had never had a soft spot for Noah .It is a fault of this volume that this side of Beckett is not more widely seen.
(That she departs from the route of sympathetic semi-autobiography used by most first-time novelists is itself worthy of praise).In this section The killing fields Arvind v Arvind Nation-building for dummies Bowled out, not over Love the one you're with Bits and pieces Potential turbulence ReprintsLeo Liebenstein, her awkward, misanthropic, middle-aged hero, is a delicious character.
He threw in a sideswipe at Mr Amis's misanthropic father, Kingsley.
He was paranoid, self-obsessed and misanthropic.
