Sentences with phrase «cynicism from»

The «community» seems to be better at catching errors in one direction but not the other — which contributes to cynicism from third parties.

After a tepid marketing campaign and a lot of cynicism from the audience, Battlefield Hardline finally slogged it to the finishing line and released this week.

Joe wipes the cynicism from his eyes and takes an appreciative look at how far games have come in the last twenty years from a gameplay and storytelling point of view.

These articles express cynicism about home sellers» financial habits and cynicism from Realtors as well.

There are few movies which are able to remove cynicism from their quotient completely and wear their values on their sleeves for all to see.

«sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage» There are few movies which are able to remove cynicism from their quotient completely and wear their values on their sleeves for all to see.

Party funding is always going to generate cynicism from politicians and voters alike.

This politician accepts a certain cynicism from the public as the price of his pragmatism.

Finally, and perhaps more importantly, the much talked about free SHS, which the NPP, particularly, our 2016 presidential candidate, Nana Akufu - Addo has been associated with, has come to fruition despite all the bastardization and cynicism from our political opponents.

I'm hoping for a win, but it would be nice to get a big win, if nothing else then to stop the cynicism from the fans..

Despite his success, McMahon's visions of grandeur were often met with skepticism and cynicism from his opponents.

Despite a lack of enthusiasm that bordered on downright cynicism from my roommates, I was determined to make the holiday special.

And of course there is going to be a lot of cynicism from people emailing me saying, «Oh yeah Gary, you're really going to change people's lives by them making $ 48 a month, or $ 350 a month, or $ 1,000 a month.»

Not exact matches

Jun 25, 2013, Sam Stemler Maintain a positive attitude and voice; people get enough cynicism and negativity from their «friends,» which is a big reason why a large percentage of even apt social media users are unhappy with their networks.

He shed that cynicism after recently coming to terms with the idea that success without happiness or purpose was draining, and that empathy was a way of staying away from pessimism.

By the end of my graduate work, I dearly loved the man, sort of in a Stockholm Syndrome way (where hostages empathize with their captors) but also because despite his vibrant cynicism, he was such an incredibly encouraging person who had clearly learned something from his time in church, or perhaps in spite of it, if his memoir is to be considered.

After a papal visit that provided a welcome rest from the cynicism of our hyper - political culture, coverage of the Pope has devolved into the familiar stories of spin and political speculation.

IMO there are different groups of atheists, but there is a large group which is driven by an unhealthy brand of cynicism, which basically stems from insecurity.

The reason why I (and potentially many other non-believers) react with cynicism and hostility to stories like this is that they demonstrate how very different the actions of the church are from the claims it makes about itself: infallibility, benevolence, selflessness, and godliness.

But (and here lies the strength of Desmond's fine analysis) Cynicism is, like Platonism and Aristotelianism, a classical Greek enterprise, arising from and expanding on its preoccupation with poverty, wealth, and virtue.

Speaking with Premier, organiser Steve Cox from the Church and Media Network warned of «an era of fake news and cynicism in the media.»

Anger and cynicism shouldn't be default reactions — wisdom, that comes from listening, should.

Kayan is ironic; He projects cynicism, judges, shames, and insults to split the pure from the profane..

It was not until after my Catholic conversion, following years of religious cynicism, that I realized the heavy role the underlying Smith heresy had played in a lifelong disconnect from Christ» and could then recover from it.

Once she said to him, «You know - I'm trying to escape from ironic hell: cynicism into faith; randomness into clarity; worry into devotion.

Nowhere have the weak social foundations of American liberal institutions been more evident than in the battered and tattered nature of the welfare state, and in the cynicism with which it is viewed by nearly the entire populace — from the wealthy to the poor, for different reasons.

In turning from nondenominational civil religion to particular religious movements, the author describes contemporary «gospels» of wealth, relativism, cynicism, and partisan politics as new departures from an otherwise orthodox past.

When I comment by quoting his actual blog people almost always back down from their support of his aggressive cynicism.

I came to Jesus Christ from a place of deep skepticism and cynicism.

«1 Such word choice suggests a dash of reality or a sprinkling of cynicism is all that is required to keep Americans from having a civil religion or at least believing in it.

If the U.S., as Arthur Schlesinger Sr. once observed, has become «a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations,» how can it be saved from a cynicism that inevitably erodes people's fundamental confidence in democratic institutions?

I found I had to check so much of «who I was» at the door — my intellectual curiosity, my innate cynicism, my social concerns, my depressive temperament (all inherited from my dad)-- that no matter how hard I tried to get along, it never took hold.

That assumes a level of cynicism that may be cultivated by a Mitt Romney, but probably not many rank - and - file conservatives, who either don't know this, or suffer from such extreme cognitive dissonance that it doesn't effect their thinking.

Many Russians will never recover from the cynicism they were taught, the mistrust, the contempt for religion and the foul cult of Comrade Pavlik.

And being close to young adults from unstable families and in unstable jobs can help the rest of us move from condemnation and cynicism to solidarity.

It urges people to set aside «apathy and cynicism» and draw new inspiration from the ancient Christian virtues of «love, trust and hope».

(I realize my cynicism probably stems from past hurt and that my take is probably exaggerated.)

From blogs, to articles, to presidential elections, to sermons on Sundays, we are bombarded with critics and cynicism.

But when I looked at the Gospel for the day (John 20:19 - 31), it became very clear to me that here is a story, a story of Jesus» appearance to the disciples when they were in hiding after the Resurrection... this was a real opportunity to say something about that story and about the faith which is built around people who were fearful, were skeptical, and into the midst of them, somehow, in a way that was ultimately moving, comes the presence of Jesus through locked doors and barriers of skepticism, cynicism, and doubt, all of these things that prevent ourselves from being God's people.

Learning to detect the forms of self - flattery which grant us immunity from accountability is a vital part of ethical and spiritual growth, as is learning to detect where our cynicism about the victim language of others is justified and where, half - muffled and scarcely articulate, there are real victims on whose behalf we must extend ourselves.

In the past decade particularly, cynicism about the International Court of Justice and the UN has become so pervasive that millions of Americans are no longer aware of the crucial role that the concept behind these institutions played in their own heritage: «In the annals of forgetfulness there is nothing quite to compare with the fading from the American mind of the idea of the law of nations.»

Indeed, Erasmus in the sixteenth century called for an ethically responsible, realistic peace policy, far removed from the mediaeval fanaticism of the Counter-Reformation or the cynicism of modern real politics.13

It may be that we are too dull and businesslike today, but at least we are safe from the kind of disillusionment that occurred so disastrously before, when romantic idealism was followed by general cynicism.

Besides the garden - variety cynicism and sophistry we have come to expect from American politics, times as confusing as these are sure to produce colossal but well intentioned errors of judgment on all sides.

I've never been a skeptic, never been disillusioned with the Church or Christianity like I am now, and I've never struggled with cynicism about the Christian culture, so it all feels new and foreign and terrifying, like I don't know where this is coming from or who I am becoming in the process.

In his latest book, first published in France in 1995, Hadot surveys with care the great schools of classical thought» Platonism, Aristotelianism >, Cynicism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Skepticism» and argues that they share not only a drive to offer rational explanations of the world but also a conception of philosophy profoundly different from the way that discipline currently understands itself.

A skeptic who is prone to cynicism, and a contemplative who is prone to indulgence, I find myself sinking into a state of bitterness from time to time.

He sees them as stemming from a Western culture that has chosen to «live as though God did not exist,» exporting its ideas even as it has turned from Christianity to decadence and «intellectual cynicism.»

But how is that different from cynicism?

And yet an unflagging trust in the divine promise of social fulfillment is, even from the point of view of «practicality,» the only attitude that can adequately respond to our «impossible» dilemma of utopian naivete on the one hand or cynicism on the other.