Sentences with phrase «cynical political»

Observa may have a point on the cynical political response to GW, but the denialist rhetoric is best ignored.

It feels like someone younger, someone more likely to take the cynical political knife - fighting statements of someone like Glieck (e.g. skeptics are anti-science) and convert them literally (and blindly) to supposed Heartland agenda items like trying to discourage science teaching.

I will not allow our hard work to be rolled out in a manner that has no chance of success... Moving forward on immigration — in this hurried, panicked manner — is nothing more than a cynical political ploy.»

«Olivia Pope herself couldn't have devised a more cynical political campaign than the one at the center of the new ANNIE...» — Inkoo Kang, The Wrap

David Gordon Green's films of late have run the gamut from broad slapstick (Your Highness) to understated drama (Joe), so seeing where a cynical political dramedy falls on the spectrum should be a draw in and of itself.

In September, it was revealed that Yassky was seeking to fill the state Senate seat vacated by Daniel Squadron, who abruptly resigned over the rampant corruption and «cynical political deals» infesting state government.

In the state Senate, for example, Democrats have repeatedly been denied control of the chamber by cynical political deals, despite winning an electoral majority — including in 2016.

Now let's investigate whether 911 was or wasn't misused, and millions in public time and resources weren't manipulated in the ultimate and shameful act of cynical political exploitation.

Either they know they are misleading the public and do it for cynical political advantage.

Three things have brought us to this place: cynical political strategy, rampant nationalism and post-truth politics.

These three elements - cynical political manipulation, nationalism and post-truth politics - are doing something dangerous to this country.

Some really cynical political junkies are saying that Obama and his campaign have cornered the GOP.

The only rationale I can discern for the bailout is as a cynical political manoeuvre by Chris Grayling, a hard - right Brexiteer, to avoid following my 2009 precedent when National Express defaulted on its obligations to the state for the same East Coast franchise because it too had overbid for the contract.

What better way to talk directly to the people without having to spend millions on advertising, without having to play games with a cynical political press corps?

Cynical political motives masked in the language of civil rights — you got ta love politics...

But a government tending to its legitimacy can not simply be dismissed as engaged in a cynical political ploy.

Genuinely qualified journalists who would have done this hugely important job seriously are seeing it snatched away in a blatant, cynical political move.

Not exact matches

In domestic politics, her signature political method has been an expression of that cynical assessment.

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.

So while it may be cynical to view this latest statement as a political ploy, it may be just as cynical not to.

Topics covered include: - How Booker's parents used a sting operation to desegregate a neighborhood, and why they did it - Why Ezra doesn't eat breakfast - Booker's disagreements with Ta - Nehisi Coates - How a 10 - day fast led to a (temporary) peace with Booker's worst political enemy - How spirituality informs Booker's approach to politics - The lessons Booker took from his early losses in with elections and city council fights - What it's like to be the only vegan in Congress - Why Booker hates penguins - Whether it's cynical or simply realistic to doubt America's political institutions - Which books have influenced Booker mostAnd much, much more.

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

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

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.

This liberalism — again, liberal in a religious and not a political sense — isn't a cynical attempt to hollow out and destroy the Church, as many of us are tempted to think.

And among those troubles is the cynical manipulation of religion for political gain - the use of God as a pawn in our political projects.

In general, the cynical leaders of the backlash» as distinguished from the true believers at the grass roots who really do care about issues like abortion, religion, homosexual marriage, and the rest» are often moderate cultural modernists themselves, but they are perfectly happy to reap the benefits that accrue to them from red - state Americans losing sight of the material issues that ought to dominate their political imaginations.

Much like Murdoch herself, they wish to retain the liberal tradition's belief in the worth of individual moral action, yet find it difficult to do so in an age in which the enlightened individual is threatened on one side by cynical despair and on the other by the totalitarian excesses of political hope.

«And among those troubles is the cynical manipulation of religion for political gain — the use of God as a pawn in our political projects.»

Also political imperialism and cynical power - seeking help to explain it; but there is something even more sinister, the turning of man against himself.

I am more cynical myself and think Perry is a fake who uses faith to further a political career on behalf of the hidden manipulators of extreme wealth and power.

Many of those responsible for shaping these policies are tough - minded neoconservatives who share with political philosopher Leo Strauss a cynical view of religion as unfit for elites, but useful in swaying the masses.

For example, the similarity of today's collapse of traditional values to the challenge which the «front generation» of the 1920's (veterans of the trenches of World War I) made to all the traditions of state and culture that had held Europe together for so many years; or the comparison between Hitler's anti-semitism and the cynical use of racism for political purposes in the political campaigns of George Wallace and others; or the similarity between American actions in Indo - China and European imperialism in Africa at the turn - of.

He reduces it to a cynical mystification, to a new secular priestcraft, a political anesthetizing of the masses with the morphine of heaven.

For example, you might think that Premier League in a cynical exercise in separating English football from its core congregation and repacking it as a globalised machine for the printing of money, and you might think that Manchester City's sudden rise to the top of the league is nothing more than an equally cynical exercise in soft political power by the ruling family of Abu Dhabi.

The NHS budget has actually been ring fenced (don't give them too much credit for this, it's a cynical way of seeming to «protect» more popular or «sexy» areas of spending while providing political cover for the overall austerity programme).

I'm talking about something more fundamental: YouCut is dishonest, the cynical act of a leadership that's put the scoring of short - term political points ahead of developing a coherent plan to govern.

Sometimes contradictory positions like this are a cynical fudge, a desperate obfuscation borne of political necessity.

If I sound cynical about the redistricting process, I have a right: my first substantive political experience was working for a member of the Texas House of Representatives during a special session devoted to redrawing those precious political lines in 1992, during which at one point I quite literally walked into a smoke - filled room.

«And also... there may be political playwrights who want to be more aggressive than I am, but I really believe strongly that the easiest thing to do is just to be incredibly cynical.

But we should not be too cynical: the Nuclear Summit was indeed a success for some participating states as it fell prey to political manipulation political manipulation by states seeking a platform to prove either their eligibility and need for nuclear trade (as Pakistan did); or to prove that they are responsible nuclear states (as India, South Korea and many others did); or that they can provide adequate nuclear security in order to uphold the rights of all nations to peaceful nuclear trade (as the P5 and recognized nuclear weapon states seemed to have done).

Forget attacks about cynical blogs, the positive contribution of internet debate outside formal political institutions needs to be celebrated more.

If I was being extremely cynical I might argue that this is one of the main reasons why actors are so keen to play real life political figures.

«Cummings» decision to hire data experts instead of the usual politicos, combined with a cynical understanding that it did not matter if what the campaign said was factually correct, made Vote Leave unlike any other political operation,» stated a review of the tome by the FT.

Instead, the gold standard was Roger Stone, a gleefully nihilistic, nakedly cynical operator who helped Trump pretend to explore a presidential bid in 2000 on the Reform Party ticket, and who remains one of the candidate's closest political confidantes.

If Johnson believes that a Manhattan ten - term congressman isn't a political insider, then he is most likely stupid or cynical.

There have been some cynical whispers about de Blasio's refusal to endorse Hillary Clinton, given his historic closeness to both her and her husband, with some wondering if it's all political theater, a bit of pro-wrestling-style manufactured heat in which de Blasio will gamely play the heel for a few months before giving Clinton his blessing, thus inoculating more troublesome pressures from the likes of Elizabeth Warren.

It vastly oversimplifies the issue; it chooses an out - of - date political target; it casts an annoying white guy as a savior for hopeless Africa; the organization gets money from the radical right and has a militaristic slant; and, lastly, the naiveté of the campaign makes your average 6 - year - old look cynical.

As Hunter points out: «Unless those currently in that age group (18 to 24) are convinced of the integrity of their political leaders, we risk them remaining cynical and disenfranchised.»

So on one hand we have an incredibly detailed litany of rehashed innuendo regarding the minutiae of canvassing operations and supposed irregularities at the level of timesheets, with the implication that someone is cheating; while on the other hand we have a blithely cynical sketch of how two billionaires own a political party, with one of them forthrightly buying its ballot line for himself.