Sentences with phrase «against cynicism»

I then turn in section II to evaluating arguments put forward by McBride and others against cynicism and argue that they are unconvincing and that some of them actually support the cynical view.

Something like a surge of love through them, like a desire to heal the wounds of the same Pop Art and turn - up against the cynicism of his approach.

Since Maguire never really breaks with the money - oriented definition of success favoured by the agency that fired him, his «failure» and diatribes against cynicism are meaningless.

And it is a fight against the cynicism that is deeply held in this community, about where we are going and where our future is.

He will use his time in the pulpit to warn against cynicism the attacks may have allowed to creep in.

Working in bitcoin is an endless struggle against cynicism, negativity, regret.

«Against cynicism, trust and good faith,» Macron said.

Not exact matches

Against our own self - interest, we get bogged down by shyness, self - consciousness, cynicism, pride, competitiveness, jealousy, and arrogance.

Cynicism and moral anarchism, whether expressed in crimes against persons and property by the dispossessed or in self - interested manipulation by the better - off, are, if I read modern history right, more likely a prelude to authoritarianism if not fascism.

It does not serve them to teach them a cynicism against everything.

I railed against institutions and organizations, wouldn't darken the door of a «real» church, became fluent in fault - finding and cynicism, the word «orthodoxy» made my left eye twitch, while you tacked hard the other way, steering towards seminary, conservative denominations, structures, authorities, you longed for accountability.

We're far better off embracing difficulty instead of padding against it through cynicism, escapism or control.

But my point here is that unsatisfactory economic ideas and practices which have an impressive history of failure, which caused to founder that great nation California, which lie at the root of much of the shame and dread and division and hostility and cynicism with which our society is presently afflicted, are treated as immutable truths, not to be questioned, not to be interfered with, lest they unleash their terrible retribution, recoiling against whomever would lay a hand on the Ark of Market Economics, if that is the name under which this mighty power is currently invoked.

And I I try to live in this place between the two to try to build a life there because finding fault and feeling hopeless about improving our situation produces resignation of which cynicism is a symptom and against which it is the sort of futile self - protection mechanism.»

JM's 2004 UCL win was impressive but no miracle or triumph of innovative or exciting coaching — although anyone who saw their passage to the final against Man U, Lyon, Deportivo and Monaco will tell you this is when Mourinho's template for anti-football cynicism first came of age.

Eunice Goes suggested to me that the sneers against areas such as Hampstead and Islington are part of a wider cynicism about urban - dwelling educated people that has existed for centuries but is becoming more prevalent in our post-factual age, «there is a very long established tradition of anti-intellectualism in England that is more about posturing than reality because there are lots of excellent English intellectuals».

All pertinent issues today set against public cynicism about the role of government and the intelligence and security services.

There is reason to suppose that the public cynicism is the by - product of the President's Northernisation Agenda, as it is being carried into effect by his lopsided strategic appointments which are so manifestly skewed in favour of the North and against the South.

The statement reads in part, «Given that President Buhari was initially acclaimed, hailed and idolised by the people as an uncompromising spear - head of a crusade against corruption — taking crusade to mean, not just a war, but a war fought with great passion and zeal — it is significant that, in less than two years, the acclaim is giving way to cynicism about the President's sincerity in the prosecution of the war.

But, the governor told the paper the federal complaint against Silver adds to the public's cynicism about government.

A thank - you dinner later goes just as disastrously for Brad, but an extended conversation with an old classmate / friend of Troy's and Harvard music student, Anaya (Shazi Raja), contrasts Brad's world - weary cynicism against Anaya's youthful, exuberant idealism.

Bad Words fits a certain indie comedy formula that's likely to turn a profit, pitting cynicism against a cute kid on the way to a victory for sentiment.

I especially appreciate your twenty - five - year - long crusade against hitting schools with one damn reform after another, which breeds cynicism, induces burnout, and ultimately doesn't work.

Since then, with the exuberance of an Iowa cheerleader and the smart - alecky cynicism of a Brooklyn roller - rink queen, she'd taken him under her wing, defending him against the not infrequent fallout from his lack of social graces, pugnacity, and proclivity to take on quixotic battles for truth and justice that no one else much cared about.

Against incredible doubt and cynicism, Nicholas tries to guide the two youths away from their anger and the suffering that will follow, only to realize he can not move them.

I didn't fully see, until the cancer, how we fight every day against the creeping negatives of the world, how we struggle daily against the slow lapping of cynicism.

There is even room for constructive cynicism but it too must be balanced against idealism and realism.

However, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) which has long campaigned against the «myth» of the so - called» compensation culture», as well as trade unions, which have fought for greater protection of workers, have expressed cynicism about the review.