Sentences with phrase «cynicism on»

It may be too much cynicism on my part in regards to this field, and I'll admit my perspective may have been polluted by my time working this particular field.

I'll put my inate cynicism on hold and cross my fingers.

«I can think of no other artist whose paintings exude the joy and pleasure of being an artist with more intensity than Karl Benjamin's, nor any other artist whose long teaching career has left no blemish of cynicism on his practice,» critic Dave Hickey wrote in the catalog of a 2007 survey of Benjamin's paintings at Louis Stern Fine Arts.

And even if gacha (and preorder for that matter) won't be one of the greatest fights in humankind's history, that will ever have been fought for, there's nothing courageous about just hiding behind cynicism on those topics.

And so off he goes, incognito (no one must know that he is the famous Wei Ling Soo), to the charming mansion in which Sophie has so comfortably settled, senses and cynicism on full alert, prepared to destroy the young lady.

It is the film that 10 Things I Hate About You claimed, but failed, to be — a dark, wickedly entertaining romp that wears its cynicism on its sleeve and sees no reason wash any of it off.

The result, «House of Games» is a wholly Mamet - ian affair, a dark, surreal, twisty - turny story of deceit and duplicity in which no one's motives are pure and no one gets a particularly happy ending, but the hard - edged intelligence and cynicism on display exerts a delicious pull all its own.

Its characteristics are unmistakable: rapid - fire dialogue with quips flying as often as bullets, a cadre of contemporary character actors playing gangster, and a deep well of edgy cynicism on which to hang these affectations.

Cameron was right to say that Labour doesn't have a leg to stand on but the cynicism on display here is staggering.

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.

But are the only alternatives religious zeal and ideological fanaticism on the one hand, and the absence of moral considerations and political cynicism on the other.

Not exact matches

The dissonance invited cynicism, no matter which side of the counter you were on.

In the marketing community, the plague of cynicism sometimes seems on the verge of epidemic.

He called on every American to «fill the reservoir of the American Dream back up not with cynicism, but with optimism.

Schultz then went a bit contemplative on the raptly - attentive crowd, sharing with the audience his belief that individual citizens, not just politicians and political parties, need to increase civility and improve the discourse level in the country, not only every four years but ever day, in the face of what Schultz sees as increased partisanship, polarization and cynicism.

«If we're only focused on profits, or ratings, or polls,» Obama said, «then we're contributing to the cynicism that so many people feel right now.»

«Your response has to be to reject cynicism and reject pessimism and push forward, with a certain infectious and relentless optimism,» Obama said on stage at the event.

In this week's Trader Poll, tell us how you are trading oil - are you buying on rumor, selling on cynicism or looking for value elsewhere.

But something much more interesting struck me about many of my peers» choices: There seemed to be an overwhelming consensus on shorting bitcoin and, as a contrarian, this uniform cynicism obviously piqued my interest.

-- Cicero On Mar 24, 2015 Jim Prentice sent Albertans a message of such heartless cynicism that only the most naïve amongst us would fail to understand.

It is a vivid account of the culture, or lack of it, on the bond trading floor, and the cynicism with which the firm's customers were treated.

The problem was that the realness of his love for his immediate family highlighted his cynicism and phoniness on everything else.

What Lasch described in 1972 as «the familiar materials of popular discontent, quietly persisting through three decades of «affluence,»» are once again on the rise: «distrust of officials and official pronouncements; cynicism about the good faith of those in positions of great power; resentment of the rich; a conviction that most things in life are «fixed.

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.

Cynicism is the earliest of the great Hellenistic schools, a major influence on those that follow, but can we call Cynicism a Hellenistic philosophy?

Once you fully let go of that delusion and see us for what we are, just another specie vying for survival and dominance based on instincts that evolved before we had the ability to inflict widespread death, suffering, and destruction on other people, there is less cause for cynicism.

Unlike many great modern TV comedies that rely on cynicism and irony, the show is super funny without ever being cynical or mean - spirited.

Well, that is the cynicism your cartoon inflicted on me this morning.

The reason why your «belief» is so abhorrent is that it is based on absolute cynicism which, these days, most people have grown very weary of — since cynicism abounds.

The truth is that both this cynicism and the naive faith it shatters are based on ignorance about public matters that a healthy republic can hardly afford.

Determinedly secular commentators, those who want to believe that we are living in post-Christian America, apply a skepticism, even a cynicism, to findings about religion that they do not apply to research data on other subjects.

The tone of these remarks so far may appear to be realistic almost to the point of cynicism and exaggerated almost to the point of caricature; and I freely admit, on points like this, a certain initial predilection for excess.

There is on the one hand breastbeating and cynicism: nothing important in store for «74; on the other an inexplicable resolution: we shall not be moved — in the status quo.

Your cynicism is just as valuable as every theology book on my shelves.)

You know, this author wrote a thoughtful, balanced article, but many of the «comments» I have read so far are short on substance and heavy on cynicism.

Or how it's when you're down to the essence of yourself that you realize even cynicism is for the well - rested and undesperate, and how God deals so gently with us, more gently than we can suspicion, and I feel like I could lay down on the floor and just rest in the love I feel so strongly while I'm here in this daily luminous life, and then I think I should just quit and tell everybody to go read Brennan Manning or Madeleine L'Engle because this is absolutely ridiculous.

On Sunday morning in contemporary America, modern disciples come straggling through the church door weighed down by cynicism, stress, pretense, power.

I had become so dependent on my cynicism, on my know - it - all tendencies, on my «yeah - but...» when it came to everything that I was missing so much of life and goodness and hope and possibility.

Derek says the themes on the album include battling cynicism («Everything Will Change»), coming to terms with who God made you to be («Eye of the Hurricane»), Jesus» nearness to those who are disenfranchised («Closer Than You Think»), unity among the divisions of the church («A Place at Your Table»), the hard work of marriage («The Vow»), and God's great love («Love Part 3»).

While her research on the cynicism of the food industry and complacency of the government is alarming, her rhetoric is predictable.

Cynicism is the enemy of civility: it suggests a deep distrust of the motives of our fellow passengers, a distrust that ruins any project that rests, as civility does, on trusting others even when there is risk.

A good picture of the general squalor, cynicism, and despair in Soviet life was provided by a documentary film Tak Zhit Nel» zya (roughly «We can't go on living like this»), which was released into movie theaters in the summer of 1990.

An attitude which avoids both sentimentality and cynicism must obviously be grounded in a Christian view of human nature which is schooled by the Gospel not to take the pretensions of men at their face value, on the one hand, and, on the other, not to deny the residual capacity for justice among even sinful men.14

I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.

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

Just now, for example, many folk are so impatient over the failure of the ideal hopes which we associated with the fighting and winning of the war that on every side they are collapsing into cynicism.

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.

One response to them is a despair that insists on the finality of the ordinary and gives into cynicism.

If one could definitively measure long - term effects, which is a virtual impossibility, a case might be made that such open and obvious untruths have a harmful impact on the health of the republic, increasing permanently the levels of distrust and cynicism.

While I found hope on the other side of my cynicism and kept moving forward, many of my friends were not so lucky.