Sentences with phrase «deeply cynical»

Speaking from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Prime Minister Meles acknowledged that, while developing nations had ultimately agreed to the climate financing goals set by the Copenhagen Accord, many remained deeply cynical about whether that money would ever be delivered.

He is thus as deeply cynical as it gets, feigning concern for a cause he inwardly knows is spectacularly dopey.

Originally posted on Pointman's: When I was a young man, a deeply cynical older person told me that all experience did was tell you what wasn't possible.

It's a plain, simple and easy to parse system, and a quite remarkable feat of development to have it all up and running so seamlessly in such a short time, but it also serves as a reminder of how truly awful Battlefront 2's progression system was beforehand; not only was it deeply cynical, but it was also an absolute mess that held the player in complete disregard, putting them at the mercy of random drops.

There is something deeply cynical about representing a person's mind with a slot machine.

The Apple vs. Amazon battle is of course a deeply cynical dispute in itself, with both companies striving to dominate (meaning, monopolize) the distribution of digital content.

Resistant to post-World War II change, deeply cynical of the United States, which has lured away so many other villagers, Hervé seems content to dig his heels into their small corner of Québec and slowly drink himself to death like the many others «whose wisdom came from suffering.»

The most impressive superpower in «Deadpool 2» is the movie's ability to be deeply cynical and consistently self - referential and meta - on - top - of - meta with all its clever quips and winking asides...

Robert Aldrich's eye was as unsparing to his stylish but meaty direction as it was to the deeply cynical social commentary he applied to various periods of Cold War nuclear fears.

Money, more than gender or even attraction, remains the ultimate aphrodisiac, and if this deeply cynical belief is slightly upended by the film's ending, as in Wilder's The Apartment, the idea is never entirely dispelled by the narrative.

It's obvious and deeply cynical.

Pathos, confusion, and deeply cynical amusement all coexist in the spectacle of watching comedian Gregg Turkington, as a real - life version of his character Neil...

Almost 10 years after Woh, the Indian version of IT, Anurag Kashyap directed a 128 - minute movie inspired by King's short story «Quitters, Inc.» Both the original material and the American horror segment from portmanteau horror Cat's Eye relied on the brevity of the story to make its deeply cynical conceit work.

What this all adds up to is a deadening and deeply cynical piece of male - focused wish fulfillment that honestly makes me want to reevaluate everything else Richard Curtis has given us (in his post-Blackadder years at least).

The other main criticism that has been directed against his films is that they are deeply cynical and bleak.

It is deeply cynical.

Poldek is amoral, filthy, conniving, and deeply cynical, but as In Darkness progresses and the threats to both him and his untermenschen become graver by the day, he finds himself wanting to help, needing to help.

These final moments prove noncommittal at best, and deeply cynical at worst — and, ultimately, the approach comes off entirely embarrassing.

To seek to present distorted science to those who will have to deal with the consequences of worsening climate change is deeply cynical.

Zephyr Teachout says the public has grown deeply cynical over the corrupt political process in Albany.

This is a deeply cynical move from a deeply ambitious politician who is using an in - out referendum as a back door to Number 10.

They are deeply cynical - but this is not something new.

Labour's former London mayor Ken Livingstone suggested the public were deeply cynical regardless, however.

The British may not have got a great deal on this, but to present an exit from the system as an act of rebellion against waste is deeply cynical.

However, a top West Ham source was deeply cynical on the statement telling Claretandhugh: «Hmm, that's a strange piece of reasoning given we still played with one striker, same formation and scored virtually no goals.

And I promise you, as someone who is deeply cynical about this stuff, it is extraordinarily satisfying to watch Bryant hit against a BP pitcher who is throwing surprise curveballs and calling his locations.

He regards lobbying by the credit - counselling industry as deeply cynical.

Not exact matches

Films we like are deeply moving whereas films we don't like are cynical and manipulative.

Embodying his own twist on the Spock role as a deeply depressed and cynical stage actor reduced to inhabiting the convention circuit for a show he didn't even enjoy shooting, Rickman dripped with disdain and disgust in every second of his screen time on

The Terrorist is a deeply human story of a man in the last years of his life, who, unexpectedly, has again found love but who is sucked back into a cynical, dangerous milieu he abhors.

Ryan brings his deeply contemplative demeanor and ability to over-intellectualize, while Brian brings his cynical humor and uncomfortable tension to the work.

You are bound to suffer at the hands of a powerful, deeply unpleasant, cynical, corrupt, mendacious enemy with the state and much of the media behind it, plus an estimated 3500 times more to spend on propaganda and hit jobs than the climate realist side can muster.