Sentences with phrase «cynical here»

I might be cynical here but can you afford to risk that?

Now, am I just being Mr Cynical here but why would a rabidly Marxist Socialist organisation like Greenpeace allow it's papers to be cited in a hallowed (or should that read hollowed) UN IPCC document report?

I don't want to sound horribly cynical here — but, after so many comments I'm not sure that is really possible — but wouldn't it be easier and better value for your readers if you were to say what * you * think rather than reheating other people's metaphors?

I don't want to appear cynical here, but Eric and Gavin's statements seem confused.

Again, a cynical mind might see that as Ancel stringing fans along (and maybe Ubisoft stringing Ancel along) so everyone thinks that they'll get what they want eventually and maybe buy more Ubisoft games along the way, but we're not cynical here.

Yes, I am being a tad cynical here because not only is Rocksteady not involved, neither is writer Paul Dini, (nor Mark Hamill as the Joker, but what can you do?)

I'm not being cynical here — most financial advisers are lovely people — but their bias is built in.

DVD Extras An audio commentary, five deleted scenes, some background bumf you have to read off the screen (am I just being cynical here, or is nobody EVER going to read all that stuff?)

(Nintendo's profligate branding might be just a touch cynical here.)

Lets not be cynical here.

Maybe I am just being cynical here, but when I hear people that have previously taken great delight in tormenting Arsenal and our manager change their tune and start to say nice things about Arsene Wenger and the club I can not help but question their motives.

Jeremy, I think you are being far too cynical here.

Not exact matches

If it wants its actions to be more than just a cynical marketing slogan, then here is a golden opportunity to be genuine.

The cynical conversion here, the sort of denominational and theological change for political purposes is... where exactly?

More important, the rebellious instinct which elsewhere expresses itself so often in sour withdrawal, cynical nihilism and disruption is here more often than not both affirmative and constructive, thanks in considerable measure to the chaplain's influence.»

Here is Smith's final total of the top 100 most - mentioned Lenten sacrifices (both serious and cynical) in 2016.

Seeing the posts of hypocrites like HS, Chard, George, and the rest of the f * xkwits here has made me more cynical than ever.

«Physician heal yourself» (Lk 4, 23) quoted here is no more than a cynical attempt to manipulate the local carpenter for the sake of civic pride.

Haven't seen Anderson — without being cynical is the Lazio «hot streak» having an effect here and getting people talking about him?

If you went by every overly cynical fan around here, the entire team would only consist of Hazard, Kante, Azpi, AC, and Giroud's beard.

The fact is that you are guaranteed a yellow for cynical play in a counter attack, but the difference here is that normally cynical play is not dangerous at all because it's a pullback or simply pushing but in this case he actually tackles with the intent of kicking Barrow's legs; that can easily be construed as dangerous play.

Here is what he said after Manchester United were knocked out of the FA Cup by a Portsmouth team that included the Fletcher - like Lassana Diarra: «He [Lassana Diarra] doesn't get a booking [for a cynical obstruction of Ronaldo in United's first attack],» said Ferguson.

Now here's where I get all cynical on you: unless you have a large coalition of parents, it's going to be challenging for you to make an impression on the district level.

I do not think there is some cynical authoritarian motive at play here.

[Two articles can be read here: http://neilstockley.blogspot.com/2010/05/lightsabre-passes-to-new-generation-of.html and http://www.epolitix.com/latestnews/article-detail/newsarticle/generation-jones-arrives-at-no-10] I suppose it's not surprising that Jonesers have this collective personality trait, given that they came along between the ideological idealism of the Boomers, and the cynical alienation of the GenXers.

Its release date in the UK — just three days after the polls close across the Atlantic — suggest the distributers are being somewhat more cynical in their approach over here.

«How cynical, George Demos can't point to a single job he's created; but, it's a fact Randy Altschuler is a proven job creator who has created over 700 jobs across America, with 250 of those jobs right here in New York.

Twenty - six of the 51 members of the Council charged in the letter that the world's biggest retailer's support of local causes is a cynical ploy to enter the market here.

Here's a (sort of sad and cynical) way to tell if a food item is «clean:» If you can find it in the coupons section of your Sunday newspaper, it's probably not clean.

I know I'm just preaching to the choir, but in addition to the most cynical comments here with which I totally agree, the real problem is that most non-WFPB folks out there can not see past the tips of their tongues.

Coming out in the wake of a flurry of fact - inspired (if not fact - based) World War II novels, including Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, James Jones's From Here to Eternity, and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Battle Cry was highly praised by critics and was a huge seller, possibly helped by the fact that it was a much more unquestioningly patriotic work than many of those other books, most of which took a more cynical, jaundiced, and complex look at the motivations behind the men fighting the war.

You'd have to love F.E.A.R. in a way that blinds you to the cynical but no doubt cost - effective repetition on offer here.

He's on a merry - go - round that won't stop, and Crowe, whose previous films, Say Anything... (1989) and Singles (1992), gazed with affection upon the romantic yearnings of a newly cooled - out generation, here zigzags into denser, faster, more cynical terrain.

There is an important mirror here, where the sincerity of the individual films is surrounded by cynical economic intent.

Yes, I do agree with some of the cynical ideas that he puts forth here (one person once made note that I should call my column «Cynical Cinema»), but none of it runs smoothly into a half interestingcynical ideas that he puts forth here (one person once made note that I should call my column «Cynical Cinema»), but none of it runs smoothly into a half interestingCynical Cinema»), but none of it runs smoothly into a half interesting story.

He was the combination space ranger and forest ranger in the splendid, underrated «Silent Running,» and the basketball coach in «Drive, He Said,» and now here he is at his best role: a little mean, a little lazy, sadistic on occasion, cynical, tough and the perfect counterfoil for Matthau.

She taps into a darkness here that we are not used to seeing from her, playing a character that is cynical in ways that she most certainly is not.

See a cynical view of the expensive rescue effort here: http://www.highnorth.no/Library/MediaWatch/fr-th-wh.htm

Minnie Driver is the sharpest here, playing Nat's cynical sister, Naomi.

There isn't a lot of room here for personality development, but Washington and Pine provide convincing characters, the veteran driven by love of his job, the new guy more cynical.

Violence is cynical in Lynn Ramsey's down and dirty arthouse thriller You Were Never Really Here.

Allen's screen character (and here's where his undisputed verbal talents undermine him) is too much, too often, and too selfconsciously the cynical verbal sophisticate to credibly commit itself to the naïve physicality that slapstick and prop comedy demand: a mouth full of bons mots and a body full of anarchy have problems coexisting organically in a single comic presence.

One half of the most cynical screenwriting duo to ever smear their shit across the silver screen, rangeless Tom Lennon smarms it up in three allegedly funny, entirely putrid interview segments — «I'm Doing a Puff Piece Over Here» (2 mins., HD), «I Hate Drugs» (1 min., HD), and «F#» @ You Charles Dickens» (2 mins., HD)-- filed under the umbrella heading «Through the Haze with Tom Lennon,» while «Bringing Harold and Kumar Claymation to Life» (4 mins., HD) is 10 % soundbites / 90 % splitscreen storyboard - to - animation comparison.

There's a couple of plot holes here and there, a really long storyline that you could take out of the movie altogether without affecting hardly anything, and an ending which — depending on how cynical you want to be — arguably comes like a corporate mission statement.

I like to think I'm pretty bitter and cynical when it comes to these sappy love stories, but here's one that's insanely well - done.

Each episode is richly imaginative, directed with seat - edge - gripping tension, and peopled with strikingly strong performers (Chaplin, Spall, and Benedict Wong, as a cynical tour - spaceship operator, are standouts, but there's not really any significant dead space here).

To the cynical reader, this might look like a case of «look, we won't / can't do a petrol Disco Sport right now, but before you go off and buy an X3 or whatever, here's what you could've won if you'd been a bit more patient»

Mabe I have simply become too cynical to live in a world that has people in it, but............ I see a much more nefarious possibility lurking here.

Here is my main advice: you need to be skeptical, but not cynical.

And just to be a little cynical & sinister here, actual prosecutions remind me of security theatre — in this instance, let's call it litigation theatre, a diversion of the suckers» taxpayers» attention away from the really criminal insider trading.