Sentences with phrase «cynical when»

But it also means I'm REALLY cynical when celebrities «reportedly» do stuff, especially when it doesn't rate a mention on the more reputable websites.

I'm extremely cynical when it comes to honesty by government leaders in general, and this applies to the whole spectrum.

It's hard, after all, to stay cynical when you're surrounded by so much excitement and enthusiasm — even if the weather is miserable — and that, certainly, is what the Earth Day Network was providing.

It pulls you in, or the space pulls you in — and keeps you out equally... So I wondered if there was an element of being cynical when you got rid of the grid.

These technically accomplished works become subtly cynical when references to popular culture meet art - historical precedents.

Though they are pitching the product at a wide potential user base, forgive me for sounding cynical when I say that this is Nintendo's biggest effort yet to penetrate the female market.

Given all of that, I personally understand why most Nintendo fans are initially suspicious or cynical when it comes to third party support.

Even though I had never visited, I was one of those who was cynical when the city of Hull (full name Kingston upon Hull) was crowned UK Capital of Culture 2017.

Yes, the press is getting more and more cynical when it comes to these numbers.

If you build platform only as a means to an end, it generally fails, and that's why I tend to get cynical when authors try to do it only in service of securing a book deal.

I like to think I'm pretty bitter and cynical when it comes to these sappy love stories, but here's one that's insanely well - done.

Billy Wilder was at his most cynical when he made this film.

2 doesn't come off as cynical when it commits moments of sequel-itis - returning verbatim to and trying to outdo fan - favorite beats from the first film.

I will be the first to admit I am actually quite cynical when it comes to relationships, but I do not believe chivalry is dead.

I'm always a little cynical when it comes to celebrating New Year's, some years I do, some I don't and, especially when it comes to outfits, I'd rather keep it simple.

«While we know that some viewers may be savvy enough to skeptically view music videos or advertisements portraying intoxication as fun, those same viewers may be less cynical when viewing user - generated YouTube videos portraying humorous and socially rewarding escapades of a group of intoxicated peers.»

MLB's announcement to the world that Wahoo was going away was also an announcement that, hey, you have to buy while you still can, and slapping a Jackie Robinson Day patch on a hat with Wahoo is just further proof that we're not really being cynical when the league goes out of their way to prove us right.

Chelsea are also more cynical when it comes to player recruitment and development, farming out youngsters on an industrial scale, operating questionable and occasionally illegal tactics to attain promising youngsters, and generally buying players for their immediate impact as opposed to what they might develop into, hence the fact that you could make a team of ex-Chelsea players that's probably better than Chelsea.

It's hard not to become cynical when superpowers only seem to get involved when it becomes a matter of economics.

There is, after all, a tendency by the media to be overly cynical when looking at the future in general and technology specifically.

Not exact matches

It's very easy for this kind of thinking to be reduced to cynical tactics that cover up old business practices with new, friendlier terminology, but when it's done right, it's obvious.

Years of cultivating that reputation meant that when WestJet stepped up efforts to assist with evacuations from Fort McMurray, Alberta during its devastating 2016 wildfire, it felt like a natural step for the company, not a cynical public relations maneuver.

But what did we really think would happen when the worst aspects of Silicon Valley, a cynical Etonian establishment, reactionary Anglo - American nationalism and hedge - fund capital found each other?

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.

Don rightly scoffs at this idea («Don't be so cynical») when Sally parrots it on the phone — and we are reminded of his recoiling, in Season Five, from Lane Pryce's anti-spending slogan: «Pennies make pounds.

Don, Observer, do you understand what snide, cynical, sarcastic little children atheists sound like when they respond as you do?

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.

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.

Instead of getting cynical, know when to step back.

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.

I started my first blog on Xanga when I was just twenty - five years old: I was a burned out, over-churched, cynical Gen - X kid with a lot of doubts and questions.

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.»

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.

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.

Perhaps the laughter of Abraham, which turned from cynical to celebratory when his son Isaac was born (the name means «He [God] laughs») would prove a more fruitful source for a biblical theology of play (Gen. 21).

When we are drifting through life, or being cynical, the question arises: Can we simply will to change our ways?

Our rampant desire to reduce knotty particularities to spongy generalities has led a cynical friend to confess that he grabs first for his wife and then for his wallet when he hears this gnostic word «spirituality.»

Lady Susan, a cynical story about a predatory widow's romantic scheming, dates from the mid-1790s, when Austen was approaching twenty; Love and Freindship, a madcap satire of the sentimental novel, was written a few years earlier, when she was a formidably accomplished fourteen - year - old.

When you think of Hollywood, you might imagine the glamor and glitz, but maybe you imagine something far more negative and cynical.

Some years ago, when I was teaching at a theological seminary in South Africa, I had a very peculiar experience; as with the bear in James Thurber's «bear that could take it or leave it alone,» the experience was somewhat more frightening to my colleagues than is my normal, somewhat cynical self.

Conversely, from a more detached or perhaps more cynical perspective, the Justices» pronouncements might be merely a source of mirth, as when the family's four - year - old emphatically declares that «I've decided we're all going to Disneyland today,» and that the way to pay for the trip is to «just write a check.»

and when we do, just maybe the world, that has every right to be cynical in their assessment of the church's response on this topic, will be surprised to see that we are really known for our love for one another.

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.

A survey out today of kids ages 13 to 17 by the Associated Press» NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that, when it comes to politics, teens are just about as pessimistic and cynical of politics as their parents.

Don't be cynical regarding your knowledge Mrs P. I too have knowledgable discrepencies and am always flexing my mind thru my writings which sometimes are even hard for me to rightly understand when I re and ever re read them.

They become apparent when Theo talks about his mother's «visitation» to him in dreams, when Hobie speaks affectionately of the Catholic Church and the Jesuit priest who protected him as a youth, when the otherwise cynical Boris admits to being moved to tears by Biblical stories, and again when Theo opens up to the higher purpose in life, despite all its difficulties and insanities, toward the end of the novel.

I remember when I went through my seminary training and became very cynical and critical of the church and Christianity and couldn't find a church anywhere that I was happy with or comfortable in.

And since my Oma taught me to keep my mouth shut when I've got nothing nice to say (typical old lady advice), I'm going to keep my cynical thoughts to myself and let those of you who do enjoy your boxes of heart shaped chocolates and dozen red roses, enjoy them without some vitriolic, negative Nancy adding her two cents about the greed - driven hijacking of what was once a pretty badass holiday.

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

Tackles at the end of a game are more likely to be cynical and to the player who has received niggles throughout the game a severe injury is more likely to happen when he's tired.