Sentences with phrase «cynical one»

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

The cynical side of me says that Obama was put into office just to make Romney seem tolerable to the American public, but either candidate is a disaster for this country.

Yes, Jesus was sarcastic, perhaps even cynical at times — such as when he instruct us to pluck out the wandering eyeball or cut off the offending hand — making light of the belief that sin might be removed surgically.

It is common to be cynical about dumbed - down popular culture, American education comes in for its share of critiques, and biblical and theological illiteracy is a real problem.

Your prediction of what this supposed loss of morals will cause in 5 - 10 years is cynical and founded in religious dogma.

Since neither cynical liberal supporters of Clinton, nor idealistic liberal supporters of Sanders see much prospect of general election defeat, they are both willing to take more risks (both ethical and ideological) in order to get more of what they want after the 2016 election.

Neither cynical nor saccharine, it is a vision built on both penitence and celebration before God, beckoning pagan and pilgrim alike.

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

Percy's early freshness of perception may simply have been replaced by something alternately cynical and maudlin.

This is just another cost of Romney's wretchedly cynical convention speech.

He's right, I thought, even as a more cynical thought nudged its way in: an «operation»?

At Vox Nova, Kelly Wilson has published an extended examination of the dilemma posed to those who find themselves struggling with Church teaching, whether because they authentically lack conviction or understanding or deal doubt from a more cynical place, as in the case of ideologically - driven op - ed columnists.

The cynical fools are taking America down with them

So I've got all of these competing voices in my head, telling me at one moment to be giddy, at another to be cautious, and at another to be cynical.

It was to be undeceived without being cynical.

Mike Gallagher, who was the Roman Catholic producer for NBC - Catholic programs, criticized the lack of seriousness which characterized the network attitude to religious programs: «I have a rather cynical attitude towards the networks.

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

A cynical response would be to categorize all conservative evangelicals as ignorant fundamentalist and completely close myself off to their input and ideas.

For years, it has been among Benedict's most cynical media foes, questioning every aspect of his pontificate.

We must admit to the hypocrisy of condemning divorce while at the same time condoning as «marriage» a relationship that is little more than a cynical armistice, a mutual state of boredom, an arrangement of legalized prostitution, or an excuse for the continued subjugation of women.

I am not trying to be cynical or to undermine the relevance and importance of our meeting.

True, it can be a part of a cynical conspiracy to save professorial jobs, but the phenomenon has roots in nobler motives.

We get to talking about all the ways in which we've been disappointed and ostracized, and the next thing you know, we've slipped right into a contagiously cynical church - bashing session, the kind that can leave those who have had beautiful, affirming, and life - giving experiences in church feeling like the odd ones out.

You are lost, cynical and obviously a non-believer.

Even my dark, cynical little heart is buoyed by this.

I am not very unlike you, very cynical of the modern culture of the «church», but I have found, for me, that to fixate on the problems of the church does not seem to build the Lingdom of God.

Religionis4Dolts: Maybe it's a little bit cynical but I think all species will get away with what they can.

Oates was used as a weapon by the cynical Whig party, led by the first earl of Shaftesbury, whose personal secretary was John Locke.

Shows you just how cynical & corrupt they really are.

Boy, do I ever sound cynical and sarcastic, eh?

However, most of his comments are cynical as attached to his art.

gods... I must be in a cynical mood this morning... I better go fry up some bacon and eggs... thank the Lord for the food, and declare that I am on the cutting edge of Christianity....

Usually I'm more cynical than I was, and this time I wasn't.

Emergent Church 2000's: has become utterly cynical, displaced, and incoherent; surrounded by thousands of competing denominations and cults has watched the degeneration of the Christian West building speed; knows the ship is sinking.

Call me cynical, but it seems to me pro-life advocates only care about the child's life until it is born.

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

By «play» I do not mean just idle enjoyment, and certainly do not mean the cynical exploitation of sex which constitutes much of what passes for humour about it.

(Isaiah 5:16) Then, in contrast with this view, having described the loose and cynical ways in which popular thought referred to «the Holy One of Israel,» (Isaiah 5:18 - 19) he went on to announce with vehement earnestness the real meanings of holiness in terms of personal morals and social righteousness.

The politics of gesture and cheap affiliation carried the day — right up to the point where they met the politics of cynical preparation.

Cynical in the face of bourgeois hypocrisy, it aimed to destroy the traditional moral system and to create a virile community; to repudiate paternalism, exalt stern self - control and willingness to meet death, and establish equality at whatever cost in pain and suffering.

I'm not cynical enough to believe this applies to everyone or every church.

Sexuality turned into cruelty, cynical exploitation, and destruction of others is certainly evil, and sexual behaviour which leads to mutual regard and loving growth can so far be called good.

Trouble and weeping and fear and ruin come when the people forget the promises of God that bind us inextricably to each other — the hungry to the overfed, the city to the suburb, the innocent to the cynical, the triumphant to the brokenhearted.

To that «cynical end» she had «set out to terrify dying patients and their relatives».

We have our low hours — sullen, disillusioned, discouraged, skeptical, cynical — but we have inspired hours too when, as Emerson put it, «we wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.»

Romney chose a «humanizing» strategy that was more cynical than the truth and it appears viewers noticed.

Williams quotes Tolstoy's appallingly cynical The Kreutzer Sonata — «but then, excuse me, why do they go to bed together?»

Such egocentric and, I suspect, ultimately cynical beliefs run roughshod over the ethical.

The variety of voices is heightened by the different dialogue styles Paton uses: the lyric, almost biblical way he renders the Zulu dialect; the cliché - ridden language of the commercially oriented, English - speaking community; the chanting rhythms and repetition of the native «chorus»; the clear, logical, terse style of the educated black priest who helps Kumalo find Absalom; the cynical, humorous tone of chapter 23, a satire on justice.

In a world where non-ironic plastic nativities scenes can be purchased at Wal - Mart, a cynical one like this (it costs $ 129!)