Sentences with phrase «cynical eye»
The phrase "cynical eye" refers to a way of observing or looking at things with a doubt or lack of trust. It means being skeptical and not easily believing or accepting what you see or hear. Full definition
Maybe Puel too could be exploited by companies with cynical eyes, such as Sun Bets.
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«Publishers would become profitable in short order if entrenched agents and editors weren't allowed to have veto power over innovative proposals, running their jaded, cynical eyes over every hint of freshness, trained in being subservient lapdogs to master strategists holding the keys to the riches,» Shavani argued in the post, pointing out what indie presses and self - published authors alike have experienced: the gatekeeper mentality.
There's no reason that one can't turn a very cynical eye to the government as a monopolistic, force - endowed agent forcing charity at gunpoint while still recognizing one's moral obligation to one's fellow man.
You could, through cynical eyes, see this as a mere palette swap, the pink and green that are at the forefront of this sequel taking the place of the orange and blue of the original, but there's more to it than that.
It's a sign of how shallow our party has become that none of the leaders can offer anything more than these cynical eye - catching pitches in which they convince us that they wouldn't have lost «the last war» quite as badly as Brown did.
Shem has over analysed the dating scene to the Nth degree occasionally with a cynical eye, and tries to use her experience to offer constructive and motivational high fives to fellow singletons!
The movie has been assembled with a cynical eye toward the Sex and the City crowd: female friendship, weddings, fashion, and a blatant lack of concern about real - life issues like bankrolling this sort of ceremony.
I can't help but cast a cynical eye on his trajectory so far because there's no reason why he shouldn't be called in for the same parts that actors such as Logan Lerman, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort and co. are being offered.
Watch «Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit» with a cynical eye, and you'll glimpse evidence that studio confidence might have waned.
The opening sets us firmly in the Thatcher era, with college student Mark Renton joining a union protest, thinking he'll score some street cred; in the bloody melee that follows, he acquires both a cynical eye and a nagging back complaint.
However, the Daily Mail did indulge in what Boyce describes as a «here we go again moment» when it cast a cynical eye over his litter bin in October.
Forgive me for my cynical eye, but when I see large corporations touting new green products, I am suspicious of greenwashing.