I say this not out of any kind of Panglossian complacency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biennial Sir Arthur Tange Lecture in Australian Diplomacy] Reference

Bonus points to Dr. Chen for getting the word "Panglossian" into a news article.    From Wordnik.com.  [April 13th, 2009] Reference

If it's not immediately clear, the headline writer uses "Panglossian" to say the opposite of what it means.    From Wordnik.com.  [W.C. Varones] Reference

Pangloss is the wildly optimistic character in Voltaire's Candide -- "Panglossian" is to say overly cheery.    From Wordnik.com.  [W.C. Varones] Reference

I have to admit I find your conclusion Panglossian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health Care Waste, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

What could the Panglossian optimists offer in response?.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Feffer: The Goldilocks Apocalypse] Reference

Secondly, I harbor no Panglossian illusions about the contemporary world.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Alternative Future: An Exchange] Reference

Instead they offer Panglossian assumptions about their cool new companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joel Klein, Entrepreneur] Reference

Mr. Zakaria makes his case with eloquence but without Panglossian simplicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twilight of Supremacy] Reference

Am I being hopelessly Panglossian, or does this appear to be a real possibility?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bristlecones, Foxtails and Temperature « Climate Audit] Reference

No deviation from the norm can be found in Dr. Mollinger's Panglossian apologetics.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Tide] Reference

But even the villains play a constructive role in Mr. Brill's Panglossian universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brill's Multi-Pronged Narrative Posits 9/11 Improved Our World] Reference

This Panglossian approach has the disadvantage of explaining everything, and therefore nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Movement Among Us] Reference

It is becoming clearer by the daythat the Budget was built on a set of Panglossian predictions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another blow to the Budget's credibility] Reference

One requires Panglossian optimism to believe that these negotiations can one day be resurrected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noah Efron: "Palestine Papers" Offer Hope, Not Despair] Reference

That is: you claimed ‘alarmist’, so where are the Panglossian projections to back your claim?.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Post Today « Climate Audit] Reference

It is now obvious enough that even the recalcitrant Panglossian crowd is starting to raise an eyebrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Venezuelan autocracy: building it up (part 1: rulers and ruling methods)] Reference

Greenspan offered up a Panglossian analysis in today's Wall Street Journal that goes something like this.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Fiderer: How Dumb Does Alan Greenspan Think We Are? Very] Reference

But that Panglossian sentiment does not hold, not with chess matches, and not with the march of technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garry Sings The Blues] Reference

Lewontin 1979 The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Yet now the margin target is again looking Panglossian, analysts expect the company to make a downwards revision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cadbury's Stitzer Hoping For Oil Price Crash] Reference

We knew you were going to write this, and we budgeted the costs of Panglossian obstructionism into our reform plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pangloss was Right: Reform is Always Bad] Reference

As I am not feeling Panglossian, I have to say that I would like to but do not think it is likely to actually happen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway] Reference

Via the always interesting side-bar of reading at Panglossian Notes, I came across this Atlantic article by Andrew Bacevich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

It reinforced her basic Panglossian faith that things ultimately do work out for the best in this best of all possible worlds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Neiman: The Tenacity of Fear...] Reference

I've been thinking about how so much of marketing involves this Panglossian focus -- especially when it comes to book signings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Il Faut Cultiver Votre Jardin] Reference

Most of the time you have to go with the least worst choice, knowing that in an ideal, Panglossian world, things would be different.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say What You Will About Cynthia McKinney… « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference

Dawkins never lost his fascination with vehicular adaptations, a fascination that his critics denigrate as Panglossian adaptationism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Replication] Reference

We need to hold on to some of our Panglossian world views -- our faith in the rightness of outcomes -- to continue writing for audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [August 2007] Reference

This sense that the global economy is something less -- possibly a lot less than today's Panglossian world view -- favors the U.S. dollar.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHY I'M A DOLLAR BULL] Reference

I would not try to frighten anyone, but at the same time I would not paint over an increasingly darkening reality with a Panglossian brush.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dealings] Reference

The Chicken Littles who predicted dramatic catastrophe were just as far from the mark as the Panglossian utopians who predicted dramatic change for the better.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Feffer: The Goldilocks Apocalypse] Reference

Such views appear Panglossian to the gloom-mongers of the continent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

The essay is not Panglossian; it is a useful corrective to pessimism and decline.    From Wordnik.com.  [COLD SPRING SHOPS.] Reference

I prefer to communicate through the ether with the assistance of Panglossian archangels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balloon Juice] Reference

This Panglossian appeal to look on the bright side is completely delusional in a recession where the silver lining is a jobless recovery.    From Wordnik.com.  [ARN News]