Sentences with phrase «become cynical»

The social worker becomes chronically exhausted, then gain a feeling of increasing infectiveness on the job, then they become cynical and detached from their work.

I've become cynical about dating sites though.

In fact, they become cynical reading thousands of bad resumes.

Given that, it's easy to see how people can become cynical and even immune to traditional advertising.

Maybe I'm too new and I haven't become cynical enough yet, but to me that kind of behavior just lowers the profession.

Just as the public has become cynical about the value of news, many scientists have become cynical and fearful about journalism.

I have become cynical about collective ownership, but the consumption questions remain.

In New York artists and critics have become cynical, but, for better or worse, the phenomenon has expanded to other communities — particularly MFA programs around the country.

When art that has been championed as subversive nonetheless ends up in exhibitions sponsored by pharma magnates or in the collections of arms dealers — well, it's easy to become cynical.

Even in cases where a principal «s tenure extends over a period of several years, teachers may remain alienated when principal turnover is the result of a district leadership rotation policy.208 Teachers may become cynical and resistant to change because of the «revolving door syndrome» — the uncertainty and instability turnover causes, and the perception of the new leader as a «servant to the system.

When it becomes difficult to know what's real and what's fantasy, what's information and what's opinion, what's scientific and what's preferential, people become both cynical and gullible.

So, I think some intended to leave just so that they wouldn't become cynical.

It's easy to become cynical about Holland but with his daughter telling him that he's not a nice person and that he's the worst investigator ever, Holland is forced to do the right thing even when he doesn't want to.

And I haven't become cynical in my adulthood.

Beautiful Youth could easily have become a cynical movie about the difficulties of being young amid a recession but instead, it's a testament to human resilience.

The temptation to swear off dating gets stronger with every Ashley Madison hack, celebrity breakup, and creep exposed on Tinder - but according to new research from eHarmony, Americans are far from ready to throw in the towel and become cynical single curmudgeons.

If you've been single long enough, though, it's easy to become cynical and jaded about marriage and about dating in general.

It can be easy to become cynical of the search for a new partner if you are used to meeting people on nights out or at work.

«The worst thing that can happen in a democracy — as well as in an individual's life — is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

It does upset me that people have become cynical and contemptuous of the institutions of liberal democracy that, for all their flaws, have tremendously improved our lives.

Just as the public began to become cynical about Tony Blair's attempts to blame the past government, they're equally starting to lose patience with Conservative claims now - especially if the economic situation deteriorates further.

People have become cynical to politics.

We sit eating up every scrap of gossip and whilst most of us have become cynical enough NOT to believe the paper talk and journo rubbish, I would bet my house that when you, like me, read the outrageous claims that we are about to bid for Isco, or that Cavanni wants to make a transfer to Arsenal, you may not believe it but you do wish that it would happen, that anything would happen, while our rivals fans have a January period of realistic hope, all us Gooners get is tantalising titbits from the papers that never amount to anything solid.

«The worst thing that can happen in a democracy — as well as in an individual's life — is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

And while it is easy to become cynical about the money involved in college football, and the way it has impacted the game as a whole, 27 Trust me, that conversation is coming.

There are many reasons why I can so easily become cynical and hard.

I pray for those who read this article — that we do not become cynical or negative toward the Church.

We can become cynical and hard, questioning the motives and honesty of every pastor, preacher, evangelist or worship leader, choosing never to trust anyone while telling others that we are older and wiser for the experience.

It's hard not to become cynical when superpowers only seem to get involved when it becomes a matter of economics.

It was easy for me, then, to become cynical about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger of blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange new land of Christianity), I took for granted my life in the new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without Jesus.

One can easily become cynical over the ensuing compromises with «the world,» the accommodation of the Church to nearly every evil which has raged through human society, the plain perversity of this all too obviously human institution.

Amidst all the turmoil in the Church, which might tempt one to become cynical towards the institution, this is a beautiful and timely reminder for us that the Church is so much more than just an institution.

Peter Trueman, a United Church layman, and until recently anchorman for the Canadian Global TV network's two nightly news programs, offers an explanation as to why so many reporters become cynical about institutionalized religion.

They havn't had time to become cynical or to be hurt by the system.

I become cynical of everything evangelical, and I look for ways to belittle those with whom I disagree.

But it's just as easy, given how that future seems to grow more fantastical and distant with each word he utters, to become cynical.

It is easy to become cynical about the government's emphasis on public consultations.

Some people claim that too much domain experience can actually harm you because you become cynical of all the things that can't be done — you've got the scars to prove it.

In response to that feeling of insecurity and ineffectiveness, many people become cynical and abrasive.

Two — you've been subtle about your PR achievements so the VC is left with a positive impression of your press coverage rather than becoming cynical.

His superpower is helping people become more honest without becoming cynical.

The truth is the social gospel has become its own gospel... leaving out Jesus and salvation and becoming a cynical secular movement who believes the end justifies the means... including Obama's work as «community activist».

It becomes cynical, malicious.

First, the common character is naïve, retaining a certain innocence rather than becoming cynical, hard - bitten, or spoiled by the world.

Politics without awe of the holy becomes cynical and tired.

Adam, Grace can provide the strength to survive being misunderstood and persecuted without becoming cynical and bitter; but it is not yet «sufficient» until it has open up the minds and hearts of those who judge and persecute empowering them to see and appreciate the gifts of those who do not fit the common profile for normalcy.

No wonder the electorate became cynical and started to back alternative parties and politicians.

This 1991 nostalgia misfire, starring Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman, explores what happens if Peter Pan wakes up and becomes a cynical workaholic lawyer who ignores his kids, complete with floppy»90s cellphone.

It wasn't long until I became cynical like them.

But at these rates of network jamming, users are becoming cynical.