Sentences with phrase «cynical people»

And finally, Merry Christmas to the most cynical people in our midst, because they need to know most of all, what Santa Claus and Christmas are really all about.

Of course, some cynical people might suggest that national governments are also looking to get a slice of that financial pie for themselves.

See the «study» the other day, finding cynical people are more likely to get alzheimers.

Cynical people would point out that, right now, Greta Gerwig is campaigning for an Oscar.

I think cynical people just use it to describe anything artistic.

Cynical people could argue about the wolves in sheep's clothing on said sites, but we're a little more optimistic.

He's a more cynical person thanks to our dirt - poor years.

I think Arsenal007 is either the most hypocritical or most cynical person alive!

A jaded and cynical person such as myself will see the faraway look in our chief's eyes, the clenched fist held against their chest, and merely respond with an exasperated eyeroll, muttering, «He's going all Jim Hacker again».

I think I have been a little bit aware already of the practical examples given, like «feeling better» lying in the grass, «feeling better» being around a confident helpful person vs a cynical person or a dirty - minded person, and the benefits of vegetables.

That said, you might have to be a kid of the»90s or the world's least cynical person to overlook the glaring dramatic faults of this unsubtle, unbelievable tale.

I'm a cynical person.

If Chelsea Does were less turned off by the conceptual limitations of being a star vehicle with a very funny, innately cynical person at its helm, it could be either a groundbreaking examination of comedy or a very funny, innately cynical reality show that ran out of material after two episodes.

A cynical person might say that's because she's literally a checklist - black, French, female - of everything the other protagonists are not, but the strides Ubisoft has made to reflect her station and gender into the gameplay acquit her of this.

Being a cynical person, I always cringe when thinking about any MMO that states it will be free - to - play but to be fair, it's not as bad as I originally thought.

(He may also be the most cynical person I've ever interviewed; Gauthier prefers the term «realistic.»)

If I were a cynical person I might suspect that this is one of the more pointed and cynical opinions that the SCC has delivered, there being, such a person might argue, a sharp irony in the hoisting of Mr. Harper the judicial conservative by a very literal reading of the statute.

Except for the very last line, my feeling was it was just a very disillusioned, cynical person with a rant.

A less cynical person might suggest that search engines release aspirational information — suggesting where it is trying to go, as opposed to what's working today.

You are a cynical person with a massive dislike for REALTORS, we get that.

Not exact matches

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

People are cynical and rightly so, trust is built over many years and you can't have a bulletproof reputation without being trusted.

But watching many, many long shots has a way of making a person cynical.

But we shouldn't be too cynical about this: sometimes one person doing something is what makes others realize that it's a real possibility.

With the airwaves full of ostensible experts yelling at one another in cynical displays of political theatre, people were eager for a wonky stats guy who promised to cut through the bullshit.

A revolutionary suggestion often sounds stupid and you don't want people who make cynical remarks.

Richard J. Reddick, associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas, writes for Fortune that some people of color might be cynical about Starbucks» response to the crisis that was precipitated by a store manager calling the cops on two black men sitting at a table (after a mere couple of minutes of them not buying anything.)

As human resources expert Susan M. Heathfield explains, «Poor goal setting makes people cynical, wastes their time and fosters confusion about where to concentrate actions and energy.»

The shock of the downturn and anger about the abuses that drove it promise to accelerate preexisting trends toward reduced materialism, commitment to sustainability, higher expectations of corporate social responsibility, and resentment of cynical marketing that treats people as soulless and mechanical consumers.

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.

I think for us, the reason that we ultimately chose to make that decision is that we live in a very sceptical and cynical world, and we function and live in a culture and in a time when people are wary of leaders, pastors and organisations; that there's a sense of duplicity or lack of transparency.

After so many years of seeing broken people I'm cynical, I admit.

has also done a lot to make people cynical about American political life.

But it makes people more cynical than they already are» cynical about politicians, and cynical about newspapers» and cynicism corrodes the cynical, even when they have reason to be, and for that the Washington Post bears responsibility.

after I learn to control my anger, started watching people to figuring out why they do what they do — then I started studying history, and when you stand back and look at humanity and its history, a pattern emerges... and it can make one very cynical.

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.

That said, it also doesn't mean being cynical, being selfish, or condemning people based on their choices and experiences.

This is often a cynical argument, made by people who believe in religion but not in God.»

Most people who idealize the future are cynical towards the past.

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.

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

What a cynical, ignorant view of people to insist that, without God, we'd all be violent and immoral.

He says that he «discovered that most of these older people were survivors of similar community - building experiments from the 1970s» and had become jaded and cynical.

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.

For example, the depth and cynical nature of the U.S. war against the poor has been effectively hidden from the U.S. people as a whole.

«For more than twenty years I've been a reporter, a job that people say is sure to make you cynical and has somehow only left me more idealistic.»

These songs did not at all reflect how I relate to God and are what the more cynical amongst us call «Jesus is my boyfriend» songs — in other words a lot of sentimental mush where people claim a rather too human type of relationship with God

I bet every dollar I ever make that the most bored, cynical, pessimistic people are the ones with the fewest meaningful relationships.

Now and then a cynical young person tried to get by with the minimum of work.

Frankly, this blog strikes me as one of those deals where the former pastor figures out that all the other religious people are wrong, and he doesn't want to be one of those «fundie douchebags» (to quote one of your fans), and so he starts spewing cynical knee - jerk vitriol against anything that smacks of conservativism or evangelicalism or whatever.