Sentences with phrase «cynical if»

Again, call me cynical if you like.

As they are supporting brand new, expensive technologies, investor attitudes toward Kyoto committments are naturally cynical if not outright hostile.

Call me cynical if you like, but if Judith had wanted to create a measure of uncertainty and doubt in the popular mind about the BEST findings, then allowing the Daily Mail to do their worst with her comments would be a neat and deniable way of doing it, don't you think?

However, and call me cynical if you like, but I'd say Nic's motives were anything but pure.

Am I being too cynical if I suspect it's intentional?

Moody though incoherent, boldly cynical if hampered by extraordinarily poor editing (it appears as though characters are able to travel at light speed from location to location — the budget probably couldn't support transitional coverage), The Calling is so earnestly bad that I really got a kick out of it.

Call me cynical if you like, but tests like eHarmony's are mainly marketing tools.

Call me cynical if you like, many people do, but I have a sneaky suspicion that the Italian club could be trying to generate transfer interest and bump up the price of their promising player.

So, call me cynical if you want, but these are all valid reasons why Lacazette to Arsenal is still a long way from becoming a fact.

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

If you force a societal - good aspect of your growing, private business, he said, consumers will see it as a cynical marketing play.

There is a tendency to be skeptical, if not downright cynical, about a telecom company launching a new product that is designed to compete with a true technology concern.

But if Mets fans are cynical, they're also willing — eager even — to poke fun at themselves.

Andrew writes: The cynical thought that Travis would still be there if Uber was profitable is not exactly true, though money did play a key role.

Being cynical may be a benefit, at times, but if you are negative most of the time, no one will want to be around you or give you a promotion or a raise.

«If someone was cynical, you would see this is a piece of direct mail from the Conservative Party to voters,» Mr. Nanos added.

To preemptively diffuse any cynical criticism that you may encounter with respect to our request, which might claim that we are requesting a tender offer with the intention of tendering our own shares, we hereby commit not to tender any of our shares if the company consummates any form of a tender offer at any price.

Alternatively, if you're cynical, you might want to wait.

«Cynicism for me, if I didn't have belief in a God who loves me, I would be a very cynical man.

Perhaps, as some argue, Trump channels the anxieties of a class whose economic and social standing is in demonstrable decline as a cynical ploy to win popularity — this is a man who once called the poor «morons» — while winking at the «establishment,» who can take comfort in knowing that this reality - television caricature of themselves actually shares their political opportunism, if not their economic values.

Hey Colin, if you ever get off your cynical high - horse and read the Bible, you will find that God became a man, Jesus, to heal all our diseases, and destroy sin death and hell.

Perhaps even when it comes to the Gospel, most of us can't quite get over the cynical belief that if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

Campaigning for the French presidency last year, Nicolas Sarkozy ran hard against what Europeans still refer to as 1968, describing the post-1968 New Left as «immoral» and «cynical» and defining the choice before the French electorate in stark terms: «In this election, the question is whether the heritage of May «68 should be perpetuated, or if it should be liquidated.»

Have become dark and cynical despite best efforts and will hand out sandwiches to the homeless or something but only if I don't have to talk or interact with people.

Pascal's wager on eternal life gives us the practical, if somewhat cynical, aspect of a faith decision (What if eternal life exists?)

If I was cynical enough I would say you were doing it to gain self satisfaction for not achieving from the inside what you wanted to.

My father and I in particular, both very skeptical and somewhat cynical individuals, often joke about what astute atheists we would be if not for our christian faith.

In the final analysis: If God made me (or you, or my dad, or anyone else) a curious, questioning, restless, cynical, depressive agnostic (irony meter BUSTED!

And if she has simply been taken for a ride, it doesn't much matter whether it was the TV preacher's cynical greed or his naïve faith that was responsible.

If I were more cynical I might even suspect that this was the plan all along.

His approach isn't jaded or cynical — instead it's decidedly honest, even if the honesty doesn't lead to easy conclusions.

If you discount one account of history, you have to be cynical about all accounts and not believe anything.

Bravest: Matt Appling with «Honk if You Hate Social Justice» Conservative Christians: The way some of you talk about social justice makes you all look like a bunch of cynical, selfish jerks... It sounds like you find the idea of social justice more abhorrant than poverty itself.

I firmly believe that if I or anyone actually sits down and says, «What I am going to do now is write an utterly cynical exercise that I know is going to work for an audience,» failure will inevitably be the result.

That would be an incredibly cynical response on my part if I did nothing to stop the crime.

If all of this seems crass, commercial and even cynical, perhaps some awareness is needed about the many ways in which this same electronic communications technology is routinely a part of everyone's life.

(I think it would be shocking if Americans weren't cynical about the 2016 election.)

When i'd be cynical I'd say this if this trend of diluting certified coffees continues we quickly approach a «Rainforest homeopathic» label.

Even if Auburn or a team like Missouri wins big over Alabama and Ohio State has close calls against arch rival Michigan and two weeks from now's Big Ten Championship Game against Michigan State, BCS experts like CBS» Jerry Palm and ESPN's Brad Edwards believe Ohio State's stature with the computers and standing with the humans alike, even including some of the more cynical around the country, should be more than enough for the Buckeyes.

If you think that's too cynical, read the coverage of the Tigers trading for Francisco Rodriguez.

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.

If you think that's too cynical, look up any list of trade deadline blockbusters.

I've been silently watching from the doorway of the locker room, floppy reporter's notebook in hand, and I'm cynical enough to wonder if he's about to deliver a message meant for SB Nation.

If some are cynical, most are not.

I'm willing to bet if the stat boffins looked at all those 46 cards an inordinate amount would be due to «cynical» fouls after a turnover in play.

If that all seems cynical and mopey, well, it should.

Even if you can convince yourself it wasn't that dangerous there is also that fact that the tackle anywhere else on the pitch would have been a yellow on its own, but it was also cynical in nature so it's pretty much two separate yellow incidents mashed into one.

The BBC and Sky have both confirmed that we are getting close to signing the Lyon hitman, and Wenger himself has told us that Alexis will stay even if he doesn't sign an extension, but for some reason, us cynical Arsenal fans are finding it hard to accept these reports as the truth.

And yes, I know there's lots of time left in the window, be patient, blah, blah, blah, but I've seen this show before, too many times, and you'll forgive me if I'm a little cynical.

I don't want to be cynical, but if we keep Theo and The Ox, I can only view the purchase of Lacaz as a replacement for Sanchez who must definitely be going...