Sentences with phrase «cynical way»

Then there's the more cynical way of looking at potential destinations, based on where the Mexican would make the biggest commercial impression.

The independence campaign is playing on those fears in a very cynical way.»

«A less cynical way to look at it is that New York is one of the biggest states, the biggest tents, that has people with an enormous range of views.

Viewed, in that admittedly rather cynical way, it's unsurprising that so few of these creations ever make their way into production.

The game takes place in a New York City ravaged by a virus that's spread in the most cynical way possible: attached to currency during the shopping orgy that is Black Friday.

«We have to work in strange ways, but not cynical ways.

One cynical way of looking at this is that it is just the Democrats playing hardball.

The screenplay by Garrett Lerner and Eric Garcia (based on his novel) gives Remy's story from his own words, typed as an exposé to the company's ruthless ways while he's on the run with fellow delinquent buyer Beth (Alice Braga), and it's a voice - over without much to say but a very cynical way to do so (not to mention a definite misunderstanding of the point of Schrödinger's cat).

A less cynical way to understand this onslaught of ads is that the Fire tablet is a cheap way to take advantage of the Amazon services I already pay for, specifically, Amazon Prime Instant Video.

«In a cynical way, they're banking on the idea that employers are going to throw up their hands and put everyone under the new plan,» Mr. Freedman said.

Will it be seen by current investors as a cynical way to get them to take a discount?

It's a clever and cynical way to reduce our provincial social programs but have the provinces bear the blame.

The roman satyrs co-opted the symbol of «Yegdrassil» to form the perverse torture devise called the «cross» and used it as a cynical way to kill muses of the old ways.

It's too pessimistic and cynical a way to live.

If they're missing out on players, that's just a cynical way to look at the efforts of a 95 - win team trying to improve.

«I just think the IDC has become a cynical way of manipulating power in Albany.

It's typical of the cynical way the government has pursued this reform: Instead of simply scrapping judicial review, they have made it financially ruinous.

Former Council Speaker Christine Quinn celebrated the Women's Equality Party likely gaining a spot on the ballot for the next four years, just a couple of days after her old allies at the Working Families Party slammed the effort as a cynical way to undermine their left - wing party.

If he acts in a cynical way he will, without any doubt, simply harm himself by doing so.

It is cynical way to spend public money.

She also narrates the film, in a naive but cynical way.

Hugh Bonneville is perfect as the uptight father, bumbling his cynical way through the absurd adventure with a straight face and spouting ridiculous statistics about health and safety («7 per cent of childhood accidents start with jumping»).

The cabinet decision of July 1st, 2014, which serves as the basis of the current bills, thus represents not only an attack on constitutionalism, but also a most undemocratic and cynical way of gutting the peace constitution of postwar Japan of its substance.

The Harold Radford - modified Bentley Mk VI shooting brake might look glamorous today, but it was designed as a cynical way of dodging Purchase Tax.

It's a cynical way for me to go into this, sure, but I have high hopes for something really fun, inspiring and well drawn.

Not in a dark, mean, cynical way, because that's way too easy.

I guess a cynical way to look at it is that they are trying to curry favor with us... more >

The cynical way to look at Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is that it allows Nintendo to fill their release calendar with «new» games without actually releasing a «new» game.

It'll be interesting to see whether this overtly controversial and mature content actually makes for a better game rather than a cynical way of netting shock sales.

Well, that's the cynical way to look at it.

An exploration of the medium at its best and worst, poking fun at the cynical ways in which many games try to sucker you in, a commentary on the fact that videogames never give us any real decisions to make.

I only discovered them because the final one unlocks after the credits and features you playing as the human Wonder Boy (or, optionally, Wonder Girl, which changes nothing but allows the game to be listed under the «female protagonist» tag on Steam, a tag which in no way feels like it's mostly used as a cynical way of monetizing political correctness and equality.

Starcraft II: Wings Of Liberty — So the sequel to one of the most popular games of all time (especially in Korea) is dropping in three parts — is this a genius move on Blizzard's part, a cynical way to milk more money out of the devoted fans, or perhaps both?

Regular readers will know of the special reserve of bile I harbour for one Damien Hirst: the businessman peddling «art» in a beyond - cynical way that would make Warhol choke on or at the very least regurgitate a little his oft quoted adage «good business is the best art».

«She is trying to give love a concrete reality in her art, and not at all in a cynical way,» says Clearwater.

is a reminder that those things that make the «summer group show» a dreaded entity — e.g., overwrought theses imposed on work pulled from a gallery's inventory or the secondary market — are ultimately unnecessary, cynical ways to use the vacation season to offload market leftovers.

Back to the Shack is a reminder that those things that make the «summer group show» a dreaded entity — e.g., overwrought theses imposed on work pulled from a gallery's inventory or the secondary market — are ultimately unnecessary, cynical ways to use the vacation season to offload market leftovers.

«In a very cynical way, it's a triumph for science because at last we have stabilized something --- namely the estimates for the carrying capacity of the planet, namely below 1 billion people,» said Dr. Schellnhuber, who has advised German Chancellor Angela Merkel on climate policy and is a visiting professor at Oxford.