Sentences with phrase «into cynicism»

It is not only bad ethics, therefore; it is stupid to fall into cynicism because the Great War did not save the world.

For many who heard Wangari tell the story, the message of maximizing our abilities and passions for the greater good rather than descending into cynicism or despair was galvanizing.

Many of their peers have been overcome by a sense of despair and have sunk into cynicism; others have embarked on the mindless pursuit of pleasure and physical sensation; while still others exhibit unlimited and uninhibited aggression and violence in society.

Realism moves us beyond a healthy sense of sin into cynicism.

Without it, both religion and sex can become like the human will without God: they can fall into the powerlessness of drift or become hardened into 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.

Gabriel tends to go a little beyond aggression into cynicism.

For the Young British Artists, it threatens to dissolve into cynicism.

We hadn't entered into the cynicism of the 70s that continues to color our perceptions today.

For many who heard Wangari tell the story, the message of maximizing our abilities and passions for the greater good rather than descending into cynicism or despair was galvanizing.

I worry that the more hopeful the American people are now, the harder we will fall into cynicism and doubt later on.

Man can not live without ideal aims which relate his endeavor and his suffering and his joy to something more lasting and more unitary than the sum of individual activities... Without such an aim he falls into cynicism or despair, by which the will to live is indefinitely nullified.

We don't understand why people believe in myths that support these sorts of things and yes, it is easy to fall into cynicism and insult.

Healthy skepticism about others» motives slides into cynicism, which is justifying selfishness and deception because one doubts or even despises human sincerity and merit.