Sentences with phrase «just cynical»

I'm not saying this was all just a cynical ploy to glom onto the tragedy at Stoneman Douglas and use it for his political ends, but hey, in politics, when you can do some good while doing well, it's a win - win.

Is this just cynical paranoia?

Are you that stupid or are you just cynical?

Or am I just a cynical bastard?»

Though one could argue that Hotline Miami is all / mostly licensed tracks, and therefore just cynical artlessness.

Anything that comes out offering 10 % and promising 90 % is just a cynical cash grab.

I guess I'm just cynical.

Does the Countryman work, or is it just cynical marketing?

What about the likes of Weingarten and Mulgrew, who are just cynical politicians who don't really want reform at all?

If social learning is to become more than a just a cynical attempt to sell more tools or platforms and is to become an embedded aspect of modern learning businesses, employers do need to reexamine their relationships with their employees and how they want to engage with new knowledge and information.

So is Run All Night just a cynical effort to repackage the tired tropes of the Taken franchise?

A household name, the character of Bond has enough cultural heft and influence that he warrants interpretations from independent sources besides, and given that Sean Connery was lured out of a twelve - year retirement from the character — hence the title, Never Say Never Again — as well as the room for improvement left by the original Thunderball, the film had the potential to be more than just a cynical cash - in.

It wasn't just a cynical ploy, but an embrace of voters with different motivations for voting, shorn of the critical language with which so many still describe Conservatives.

But it's not a party at all — it's just a cynical attempt to knock out a huge piece of the progressive infrastructure by stealing votes away from the WFP.»

Just cynical noises off from Westminster insiders, irrelevant to most peoples» lives.

In fairness to Ford, his statement may be more than just a cynical observation about the irrelevance of constitutional scholarship to D.C. Realpolitik.

I'm just cynical enough to suggest that Turner is holding out hope Mike Long might consider switching sides if he manages to defeat Wendy Long on June 26.

His statements seem just cynical.

We all know it is just another cynical ploy for the TV networks to get another live game on the screens, but Theo Walcott thinks that the novelty could work in Arsenal favour as we look to go top of the table before everyone else plays over the weekend.

He goes on to say that the whole passage seems to him just a cynical pose, a piece of showing off.

If it wants its actions to be more than just a cynical marketing slogan, then here is a golden opportunity to be genuine.

Not exact matches

That rings true, especially in an era in which just about everyone is cynical about corporate motives.

So while it may be cynical to view this latest statement as a political ploy, it may be just as cynical not to.

But it's just as easy, given how that future seems to grow more fantastical and distant with each word he utters, to become cynical.

I am not being contrarian or cynical, it is just how markets work — they DISCOUNT.

One cynical way of looking at this is that it is just the Democrats playing hardball.

There are things that warrant disengagement, accountability and justice, but just because you've had your personal feelings hurt by less egregious (unintentional) acts, doesn't mean you should be cynical.

I started my first blog on Xanga when I was just twenty - five years old: I was a burned out, over-churched, cynical Gen - X kid with a lot of doubts and questions.

And in all candor, I'm willing to bet it doesn't «make you cynical», it just ticks you off.

By «play» I do not mean just idle enjoyment, and certainly do not mean the cynical exploitation of sex which constitutes much of what passes for humour about it.

Shows you just how cynical & corrupt they really are.

This is just another cost of Romney's wretchedly cynical convention speech.

The cynical side of me says that Obama was put into office just to make Romney seem tolerable to the American public, but either candidate is a disaster for this country.

Truth be told... others would call me critical, and negative and cynical, but my heart bursts for the church, I just wish leaders would realize how mistaken we have been to treat the church so much like an organization and a business rather than allowing it to grow and be nurtured as we would a child!

You are so cynical, can't you for just one moment get past your prejudices and try to see some good in this?

Amidst all the turmoil in the Church, which might tempt one to become cynical towards the institution, this is a beautiful and timely reminder for us that the Church is so much more than just an institution.

Conversely, from a more detached or perhaps more cynical perspective, the Justices» pronouncements might be merely a source of mirth, as when the family's four - year - old emphatically declares that «I've decided we're all going to Disneyland today,» and that the way to pay for the trip is to «just write a check.»

and when we do, just maybe the world, that has every right to be cynical in their assessment of the church's response on this topic, will be surprised to see that we are really known for our love for one another.

A survey out today of kids ages 13 to 17 by the Associated Press» NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that, when it comes to politics, teens are just about as pessimistic and cynical of politics as their parents.

Indeed, Hartshorne's catalogue of ills that afflict those who have lost faith in nature and God as friends is a frightful list: «men are likely to grow bitter, or depressed and fearful, or genially cynical and selfish, or mad with megalomaniac ambition, or slavishly worshipful of power or wealth — or just dull and apathetic and unimaginative, like a number of agnostics I have known.

I don't know about your country, but in mine, that particular word — «socialism» — was transformed long ago into just an ordinary truncheon used by certain cynical, parvenu bureaucrats to bludgeon their liberal - minded fellow citizens from morning until night, labeling them «enemies of socialism» and «antisocialist forces.

He knows the answer, he is just to cynical to recognize it.

I was left with the increasingly cynical feeling — an existential threat to my entire sense of myself and the world — that Christianity was just a means to an end.

I think that greed is very human, not just very American, and sadly, we must be cynical about whom we trust.

Much like sunny Kimmy and cynical Titus, the two had very different opinions on just about everything.

Maybe I'm just being cynical, but the old saying goes that you always get what you pay for, and although that's somewhat debatable at the moment, in that we always pay the top price and end up somewhere around fourth, that certainly wasn't the case with the much touted # 10 top price for Capital One cup tickets, I mean you couldn't even go to the cinema for that price.

Maybe I am just being cynical here, but when I hear people that have previously taken great delight in tormenting Arsenal and our manager change their tune and start to say nice things about Arsene Wenger and the club I can not help but question their motives.

The more cynical might suspect that Gold and Sullivan — by piling stylistic and philosophical concerns onto the traditional target of a minimum league placing — are just trying to persuade fans to renew their season tickets.

Albeit it would be a huge step in the right direction, I am very cynical of Wenger coming out of his defensive mentality and totally revamping Arsenal's style that, despite bringing them just 1 trophy in nine long years, has served them reasonably well.

Even the most hardened and cynical Arsenal fan must feel just a little bit of that «cohesion» AW speaks about when you watch this.