Sentences with phrase «cynicism toward»

You'll find none of the hostility or cynicism toward your clients here that you may encounter elsewhere.

Yet, I feel strongly that cynicism toward politicians is a cope out for inaction.

Some educators harbor worrisome values: moral relativism, atheism, doubts about the superiority of democracy, undue deference to the «pluribus» at the expense of the «unum,» discomfort with patriotism, cynicism toward established cultural conventions and civic institutions.

For 15 years as a college president, I watched each incoming freshman class exhibit less civic engagement and more cynicism toward political processes.

It's the stuff that routinely calcifies one's cynicism toward pop filmmaking, but Johnson sets these facets into motion with such a deft and intricate sense of storytelling, such a bold, robust emotional palette, that one is rather reminded of what made these tiresome tropes so successful in the first place.

A real tone of desperation... Pubs are great at fomenting cynicism toward government.

The majority of individuals I know have adopted a cynicism toward where our values and standards as a society...

This most commonly takes the form of what one might call a naive cynicism toward the behavior of those in power.

Public cynicism toward religion, and toward the Religious Right in particular, is exacerbated when an organization such as the Christian Coalition claims to be nonpartisan.

Though, in fairness, there's also a danger in cynicism toward mission work and projects that are legitimately making an difference in the world.

Not exact matches

Our culture can often predispose us toward cynicism.

To establishment lawyers, the immigrants» irreverence toward the law and its minions looked more like cynicism than a way of keeping the things of the world in their proper place.

The untamed cynicism shared by both Hauerwas and Lemert toward the idea that Christians have a stake in the American version of democracy helped bring that era to an end.

The negativities of human potencies is wrought with cynicisms of blackened projections bemusing toward milking mankind's herds of their monetary indignations.

Deprived of an understanding of reason that transcends science, people are tempted by purely subjectivist attitudes toward their deepest moral and political commitments, leaving them vulnerable to manipulation and cynicism.

Its follies go far toward explaining why the grandeur of politics has faded, to be replaced by a weary cynicism that often masquerades as sophistication.

(And today, on the brink of potential nuclear annihilation, such cynicism may even seem to be the most realistic attitude to take toward our social and political existence).

We don't claim that there's some kind of invisible mass swing toward the left; indeed, the hollow results of Obama's promises have produced widespread cynicism about the possibilities of positive change.

At least they got the title right for this aggressively unpleasant redemption story that follows Owen (Adrian Grenier), whose rampant cynicism and abusive attitude toward his girlfriend (Angela Timbur) is traced to a tragedy within his own family and particularly to his sadistic grandmother (Fionnula Flanagan), to whom they pay a visit in a misguided attempt at healing.

In the case of Inside Llewyn Davis, this consistent pull toward bad luck gives the film a rare sort of melancholy, one that avoids sentimentality and pity, as well as outright cynicism, to find a strange, unmistakable truth about the emotional bruises and physical suffering of life as a human or, even worse, an artist.

So many voices in the indie community tend to skew toward cynicism.

The escalating military overreach abroad, the corruption of political and financial elites at home, and the market - driven culture of mass distractions on the internet, TV, and radio push toward an inescapable imperial meltdown, in which chauvinistic nationalism, plutocratic policies and spectatorial cynicism run amok.