Sentences with phrase «cynical world of»

Another glimpse into the cynical world of greenhouse politics was afforded last year when a set of secret meeting notes was leaked.

The presence of Walter's trademark dark humour, however, removes these artworks from the frivolity associated with said period, catapulting the viewer back into the cynical world of the present.

«Shadow Fall sets up an open - ended tactical shooter in a cynical world of sci - fi realpolitik - and then bottles it, taking a suicide mission into empty spectacle»

It sets up an open - ended tactical shooter in a cynical world of sci - fi realpolitik - and then bottles it, taking the easy escape route of another suicide mission into empty spectacle.

Famously banned by the censors when it was first written, Harley Granville Barker's political masterpiece gathers a large ensemble to expose a cut - throat, cynical world of sex, sleaze and suicide amongst the political elite of 1920s England.

Not exact matches

For many who remember what business was like pre-Internet, millennials seem an appallingly sensitive lot, having been protected from the vagaries of the world by helicopter parents, trigger warnings and — to especially cynical critics — sheer narcissism.

«To simultaneously promote Adani's coal mine, which would be one of the world's largest, pretending to care about the world's largest Reef is an acrobatic feat only cynical politicians would attempt,» he said.

To some of the more cynical China watchers, there is a sense that the pledges Mr. Xi offered to the forum, and the world, may amount to less than they appear.

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.

For Bush's handlers, this is a cynical attempt to justify the domination of the world's oil resources.

But thanks to Ellis, the film is not at all cynical about love, while remaining truthful about today's rural South as a world of broken families and kids left more than they should be to their own devices.

We recently spoke with author Eric Metaxas (Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy; Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery) about his new book Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life and what inspired him to explore the idea of supernatural phenomenon in an increasingly cynical world.

As a psychiatrist who has practiced and taught psychodynamic psychotherapy for years, I know that this type of therapy is actually one of the last vestiges of non-deterministic treatment in the cynical, superficial world of modern mental health care.

An editorial in the New York Times says that it seems Mr. Clinton is making «a redoubled effort to plunge further and further beneath the already low expectations of his most cynical critics and most world - weary friends.»

One can easily become cynical over the ensuing compromises with «the world,» the accommodation of the Church to nearly every evil which has raged through human society, the plain perversity of this all too obviously human institution.

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.

There is a world of difference between seeing this teaching lived out with generosity and grasping the difference it makes and, for example, being told by a tired, cynical RE teacher: «Well, no one believes it anyway but we have to go through the motions of teaching this.»

In the UK we watch re-runs of an old popular series called Dads Army which pokes a cynical view at the second world war Home Guard.

I was left with the increasingly cynical feeling — an existential threat to my entire sense of myself and the world — that Christianity was just a means to an end.

Inspiration to do good things is something the world needs a whole lot more of and no matter what form that inspiration comes in all walks of life should learn to appreciate it instead of always being so cynical about things they can't wrap their own little minds around...

They have grown cynical and have despaired of this life, sometimes directing their hope to another world.

Its only a mystery to those who either from genuine ignorance or cynical pandering want to equate actually looking at the world and doing research based on evidence with what a book written thousands of years ago by pastoral tribes that claims to be divinely inspired despite being contradictory and getting numerous things wrong.

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.

Under these circumstances it is not surprising that the world system produced through neo-liberal politics should be founded on hegemony, arrogance, military intervention and the cynical manipulation of double standards.

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.

Now seems to have made the full on transition from right back to centre back, the Spanish international only seems to get better with age (albeit more cynical too) and should he eventually decide to leave Los Blancos his new employers will have one of the world's most accomplished defenders on their hands.

I awoke on Monday morning sick and angry at the realisation that the Sam Allardyce School of football had somehow found its loathsome way to the World Cup final as Holland kicked, hacked, tripped and shirt pulled their way through 120 mins of cynical attrition, laughingly described by some as football.

«Nestlé's attempt to wrap itself in the messages of World Breastfeeding Week and the First 1000 Days is terribly cynical, but is also a measure of the success of the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) in protecting breastfeeding and the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) in promoting it.

That cynical moment turned a very important human value upside down in the sense that, from that moment, as they stepped in and decided to just move into the capital and literarily destroyed so much human life and natural habitat, I told the world in one sentence that, the right of might now supersedes the might of right.

Twenty - six of the 51 members of the Council charged in the letter that the world's biggest retailer's support of local causes is a cynical ploy to enter the market here.

In a world that's so cynical and embittered, a touch of what I call everyday miracles performed by regular people makes things a little brighter, whiter, better Happiest of birthdays to your mum xoxo

«I was really cynical about joining a dating site a few months ago, but I was working in London, one of the best cities in the world with plenty of amazing people and still not finding anyone.

Coming out in the wake of a flurry of fact - inspired (if not fact - based) World War II novels, including Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, James Jones's From Here to Eternity, and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Battle Cry was highly praised by critics and was a huge seller, possibly helped by the fact that it was a much more unquestioningly patriotic work than many of those other books, most of which took a more cynical, jaundiced, and complex look at the motivations behind the men fighting the war.

We live in a cynical world, and we work in a business of tough competitors, I love you.

While the PG - 13 approach to the most brutally sustained war the world has ever known makes it suitable for mature children, some cynical adults may resent the tug of the reins.

Melissa... Raunch really creates a convincing cynical character shedding light in the world of optimism and big dreams that is gymnastics.

A timeless story about the meaning of love and desperation in a cynical world, Jeff Nichols has crafted an elegant and masterful poem about middle America and whether or not romantic notions of life still have any meaning.

In Baz - world, there's nothing illogical about mixing Jay - Z with F. Scott Fitzgerald's cynical portrait of Jazz Age values.

The developers seemingly worked by the most cynical description of an open world game without realizing it.

But «Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World,» which was financed by the cybersecurity firm NetScout, is more starry - eyed than cynical, a Herzogian gloss on a corporate promotional video.

A rather trite, unnecessarily - complicated wartime romance in which the most cynical drunk in the world is persuaded, after getting a second chance with the love of his life, to sacrifice his happiness (and hers, but that's not really relevant) for the war effort, by tricking her into returning to her anti-Nazi activist husband and continuing her loveless sham of a marriage.

He accused critics, lost between the savage tastes of the public and their own self importance, of employing a cynical triple standard, giving a free pass to virtually all the Hollywood blockbusters, championing marginalised filmmakers from around the world, while ignoring or dismissing French commercial cinema.

The film is often hilarious in its cynical depiction of human nature, but there's also something almost disturbing and eerie about the world of the film.

There, his sunny nature ride smack - dab into the cynical, exhausted real world: too concerned with real life to remember the magic of Christmas.

The other thing that struck me is his point of view of the world that was quite misanthropic and quite cynical, but at the same time, he had a heart and he had certain principles that he was struggling with.

Hatsune Miku was created to shatter the cynical will of the world's hardest curmudgeon.

How that has translated in Lucas's work into the most cynical, over-written bits of juvenilia in his prequel trilogy seems as much a mystery to Lucas as it does to the rest of the sentient world.

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.

After not one but two Great Wars the world before you is cynical, worried, and on the verge of utter collapse.

A lot of critics have praised this film highly, but while I appreciate the stunning visual evocation of the world and the unnerving atmosphere of punitive power and calculated cruelty under the carefully managed pose of piety, I find his sensibility sour and cynical, more of a horror film than a social commentary.