Example Sentences
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The utopian has a better story to tell; the meliorist leaves us with a better world. ♦
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2016
But Coates and Alexander warn against this kind of meliorist thinking.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 14, 2015
He is a self-acknowledged meliorist, one who believes that change is for the better and people can accelerate the beneficial process.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Shakespeare is a meliorist even in Hamlet, and believes that the ailments of man can all be set right.
From The Man Shakespeare by Harris, Frank
A pessimist in contemplation, he remains a meliorist in action.
From Little Eyolf by Archer, William
