Sentences with phrase «little cynical»

«This may sound a little cynical, but we live in an era where the goal isn't to create a lasting product.

Maybe we're all a little cynical after such a bitter election cycle but the courts should be able decide just how much negativity in attack ads is too much.

Innovation is the trending topic du jour around the industry; having worked in law firms for 10 years, I've grown more than a little cynical about a few things, innovation in law among them.

The current trend in commercial online content is a million miles from authentic, and it has no interest in long - term anything: it is short - term, disinterested, exploitative, and more than a little cynical.

effect is high, and while I couldn't help but feel a little cynical about the over-simplification of the awesomeness of electric cars (how can they be zero - emissions if the most of the energy that powers them comes from coal?

As for the money, sorry if I am a little cynical, but could we have the IRS verify that?

Perhaps you are a little cynical?

For give me for appearing to be a little cynical, but I do not think Jones is being entirely honest with what he is doing.

I might seem a little cynical, but I wonder if a few hundred billion here and there might be spent on things such as teachers, nurses, doctors, police, emergency workers and so, without affecting society detrimentally.

Granted, I'm being harsh upfront (it's hard for a TreeHugger not to get a little cynical at CES), but the majority of booths in this zone center around a solar powered something or other.

«But doesn't that sound just a little cynical?»

I'm old, grumpy and more than just a little cynical.

I went into Undertale unswayed by hype, feeling a little cynical and expecting an «ok» little indie RPG.

Patches can be wonderful things and are arguably one of the greatest tools to be placed in the hands of developers since the dawn of the industry, but call me old - fashioned and a little cynical I firmly believe that the product I buy at launch should be as problem free as humanly possible.

And just to be a little cynical & sinister here, actual prosecutions remind me of security theatre — in this instance, let's call it litigation theatre, a diversion of the suckers» taxpayers» attention away from the really criminal insider trading.

She's friendly, if a little cynical due to her family situation, and has no trouble talking to people.

DUORO VALLEY, PORTUGAL — When I was first given the assignment to attend the Audi A6 press launch, I was feeling more than a little cynical, paradisiacal location notwithstanding.

It's also hard not to be a little cynical about the obvious corporate machinations of «Civil War,» such as the introduction of Spider - Man (Tom Holland) and Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman)- two characters who we already know are getting their own movies.

When the words «Chris Farley in Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation» first appeared on our screen, we were a little cynical.

I'm looking for a creative, intelligent woman, who is maybe just a little cynical, but not hopeless, spaced out but not gone, and who at least USED to like bookstores (not many left anymore).

I'm always a little cynical when it comes to celebrating New Year's, some years I do, some I don't and, especially when it comes to outfits, I'd rather keep it simple.

Do I sound a little cynical?

I'm a little cynical that the threat to (eliminate) the department was aimed at getting other town employees to make sacrifices (in order to keep the department).

«I looked at it and I wished I could say I was surprised, but after being in politics awhile you get a little cynical,» he said.

I was a little cynical about that — did it really work, or do people treat it just the same?

Although the inclusion of Manchester United youngster Scott McTominay was applauded as a forward step, slotting him in alongside Fulham defensive midfielder Kevin McDonald seemed a little cynical for what was a friendly that Scotland should have dominated from the very first whistle.

And yes, I know there's lots of time left in the window, be patient, blah, blah, blah, but I've seen this show before, too many times, and you'll forgive me if I'm a little cynical.

I am a little cynical about books on prayer.

Not exact matches

Don, Observer, do you understand what snide, cynical, sarcastic little children atheists sound like when they respond as you do?

Religionis4Dolts: Maybe it's a little bit cynical but I think all species will get away with what they can.

Even my dark, cynical little heart is buoyed by this.

We must admit to the hypocrisy of condemning divorce while at the same time condoning as «marriage» a relationship that is little more than a cynical armistice, a mutual state of boredom, an arrangement of legalized prostitution, or an excuse for the continued subjugation of women.

I do get a little bit cynical at times.

Somewhere in the book, I admit, a clever conceit lies buried: that behind so many of the deranged conspiracy theories that arose during a particularly volatile period in modern European history, and that in countless ways contributed to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century, lurks a single malevolent figure» cruel, cynical, a little psychotic, a liar who delights in the destruction his lies cause.

Inspiration to do good things is something the world needs a whole lot more of and no matter what form that inspiration comes in all walks of life should learn to appreciate it instead of always being so cynical about things they can't wrap their own little minds around...

Until then, the Yankees got better, and we're all a little more cynical.

We are cynical BECAUSE HE TREATS US AS LITTLE CHILDREN AND FOOLS, WHICH WE ARE NOT.

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

I must admit that I was worried that Arsenal had made a big mistake by not selling Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez in the summer, and I was a bit cynical about Ozil's commitment and even about his little publicized injury which kept him out for a while.

The government is charged vociferously with paying too much attention to faith groups (accused by left - liberal secularists of an unprincipled timidity on faith schools, being too open to faith engagement in third sector; and of being generally rather socially conservative; and, alternatively, by the right having a cynical multiculturalist approach to minority faiths as electoral blocs) and also of too little attention to faith (with some «competitive grievance» claims that Muslims are getting too much attention, by some claiming to speak for some other minority faiths and by some Christian voices; and traditionalists who think there is a secret project to do in every institution).

A lot of Americans on both sides have a very cynical and distrustful view of politicians, seeing them as detached elites with little - to - no real experience

A little online advertising should provide just the antidote — no collaborative culture required, only a cynical desire to manipulate the public for your own ends.

Andrew Pierce of LBC had the same message a little later, in even more despairingly cynical terms.

So, sorry, whilst I don't as a matter of unconditional principal, deny that sometimes «devolution» can be inevitable (eg, Wales and Scotland), even desirable, but as with the very cynical, divide and rule, and destroy, motivation behind the regionalisation of the NHS, and the current «Northern Powerhouse» structures which draw Labour politicians into Austerity collaboration at an intimate local level, there is very little to be said in the favour of most «devolutionary» developments today from a radical socialist perspective.

This was little more than a cynical attempt to disguise the true nature of a policy which will penalise marginalised people.

From chatting to Tristram Hunt for the first time a little while back, I don't think he's cynical at all.

Faso voted yes on a bill that would strip the rights of overtime workers to receive immediate pay, another cynical bill that would allow employers to demand overtime work, with delayed pay, letting workers «bank» the pay, but doing little to guarantee they'd receive it.

This isn't at all for cynical reasons; well, maybe just a little.

I think I have been a little bit aware already of the practical examples given, like «feeling better» lying in the grass, «feeling better» being around a confident helpful person vs a cynical person or a dirty - minded person, and the benefits of vegetables.

As cynical as it may sound, there is little profit in getting people well, but plenty of profit in managing their sickness with drugs or dietary supplements.