Sentences with phrase «make cynical»

But, as a third put it, forums can also make you cynical about marriage.

There are going to be those who cynically claim — make cynical claims that contradict the overwhelming scientific evidence when it comes to climate change, claims whose only purpose is to defeat or delay the change that we know is necessary.

One bad service trip not only wastes your time and money, it can make you cynical of the «good guys,» the worthwhile charities with the good intentions and compelling solutions.

Does that make me cynical bastard?

«For more than twenty years I've been a reporter, a job that people say is sure to make you cynical and has somehow only left me more idealistic.»

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

A revolutionary suggestion often sounds stupid and you don't want people who make cynical remarks.

First, replies to a couple of specific individuals, and then a more general reflection: @Still Cynical: You know what makes ME cynical?

The Education Secretary said: «Ed Miliband made a cynical calculation to put his political interests ahead of national security and humanitarian intervention.

I made me cynical, bitter, and ultimately unhappy with my original experience.

In addition, having been to Glacier National Park in the 1990s and having read in the National Park Service Brochure that there weren't any glaciers in this area during the Medieval Warming Period and then reading Alarmist stories about how these glaciers «will be lost forever» made me cynical about their claims.

Ivor Catt makes the cynical - sounding but all too true observation that groupthink science is very easily corrupted, because scientists don't live on air.

The Karl change of SST based on canvas and wood buckets and wide error bands vs buoy thermocouples makes one cynical of the bias and integrity of the CAGW crowd.

But the editor of the magazine, owned by Mondadori France, made a cynical calculation that the likely penalties were going to be much less than the financial rewards.

Not exact matches

But watching many, many long shots has a way of making a person cynical.

Nor has Occupy made any noticeable moves in the realm of electoral politics; and however cynical you want to be about that system, it is still a crucial part of getting things done.

But we shouldn't be too cynical about this: sometimes one person doing something is what makes others realize that it's a real possibility.

Post has been working on cultured meat since 2008, now through his company MosaMeat, and his experiences over the past nine years have made him somewhat cynical about the hurdles to scaling.

As human resources expert Susan M. Heathfield explains, «Poor goal setting makes people cynical, wastes their time and fosters confusion about where to concentrate actions and energy.»

Gen Zers, in contrast, were raised by more cynical gen Xers, which has made them more skeptical, especially about the workplace.

It's the title, too, of a particularly cynical BoJack Horseman episode about mass shootings, in which beleaguered film producers find themselves rolling their eyes while they trot out the phrase, again and again, in response to real events as they try to get back to the «actually pressing business of making sure the movie gets made.»

I think for us, the reason that we ultimately chose to make that decision is that we live in a very sceptical and cynical world, and we function and live in a culture and in a time when people are wary of leaders, pastors and organisations; that there's a sense of duplicity or lack of transparency.

A bigger problem is that cynical pols like Romney (and Michelle Bachmann on this issue) end up feeding into this self - defeating narrative because it seems easier than making a real argument about health care or taxes or what have you.

nakedpastor said, on February 5th, 2010 at 5:22 pm fishon: «perhaps it makes for good traffic»... That's a rather cynical view of my motives.

Don rightly scoffs at this idea («Don't be so cynical») when Sally parrots it on the phone — and we are reminded of his recoiling, in Season Five, from Lane Pryce's anti-spending slogan: «Pennies make pounds.

has also done a lot to make people cynical about American political life.

But it makes people more cynical than they already are» cynical about politicians, and cynical about newspapers» and cynicism corrodes the cynical, even when they have reason to be, and for that the Washington Post bears responsibility.

after I learn to control my anger, started watching people to figuring out why they do what they do — then I started studying history, and when you stand back and look at humanity and its history, a pattern emerges... and it can make one very cynical.

This is often a cynical argument, made by people who believe in religion but not in God.»

Yes, Jesus was sarcastic, perhaps even cynical at times — such as when he instruct us to pluck out the wandering eyeball or cut off the offending hand — making light of the belief that sin might be removed surgically.

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.

Seeing the posts of hypocrites like HS, Chard, George, and the rest of the f * xkwits here has made me more cynical than ever.

One must resist the perhaps cynical answer that he may be made an archbishop.

Maybe I'm too cynical, but the best sense I can make of the administrations decisions requires me to presuppose the predominance of (1) dreamy human rights internationalism, and (2) cynical efforts to keep the Middle East out of domestic politics by doing whatever it takes to kick the various cans down the road.

Tragic natural disasters, the consequences of human preditory selfishness and injustice will be experienced by both believers and unbelievers; but whether those experiences make us bitter and cynical or empathetic and compassionate will depend a lot on whether the inevitable suffering that comes to all will depend a lot on whether we believe our flawed existence to be essentially good, though disordered or essentially evil in spite of its few «good» moments.

In the final analysis: If God made me (or you, or my dad, or anyone else) a curious, questioning, restless, cynical, depressive agnostic (irony meter BUSTED!

An editorial in the New York Times says that it seems Mr. Clinton is making «a redoubled effort to plunge further and further beneath the already low expectations of his most cynical critics and most world - weary friends.»

However, I'm more cynical than my mother, and during the game couldn't help but make a few snarky comments to the effect of, «I guess that pass was intended for the Holy Spirit.»

There is a world of difference between seeing this teaching lived out with generosity and grasping the difference it makes and, for example, being told by a tired, cynical RE teacher: «Well, no one believes it anyway but we have to go through the motions of teaching this.»

I bet every dollar I ever make that the most bored, cynical, pessimistic people are the ones with the fewest meaningful relationships.

Dishonest taxgatherers, adultery, racial prejudice, religious bigotry — all the evils that make men cynical are in that book.

Bravest: Matt Appling with «Honk if You Hate Social Justice» Conservative Christians: The way some of you talk about social justice makes you all look like a bunch of cynical, selfish jerks... It sounds like you find the idea of social justice more abhorrant than poverty itself.

Most Likely to Force You to Confront Your Own Cynicism and Judgment Without Making You Feel Cynical or Judged: Nish Weiseth with «Alabama, Southern Baptists, and a Recovering Cynic»

As it is, it seems that the clever prophecy that was made by my cynical former partner Tim Rice has actually come to pass.

For example, the similarity of today's collapse of traditional values to the challenge which the «front generation» of the 1920's (veterans of the trenches of World War I) made to all the traditions of state and culture that had held Europe together for so many years; or the comparison between Hitler's anti-semitism and the cynical use of racism for political purposes in the political campaigns of George Wallace and others; or the similarity between American actions in Indo - China and European imperialism in Africa at the turn - of.

As for the Mexican War, «the deadliest that the United States has ever fought»» one in ten American soldiers died in less than two years of service» Howe makes a persuasive case that it was provoked by Anglo settlers with the connivance of the Polk administration as part of a cynical scheme to take California and the Southwest from Mexico.

Firstly, my parents» marriage made me incredibly cynical early on.

I'll admit I was a bit cynical to start with but the meal plans totally changed that and fast - such simple recipes and so fast and easy to make!

The Headline still makes me give a cynical laugh tho, Lol..

The thing is that when Xhaka makes one of those cynical moves we generally look to have been caught out cold in midfield with no - one left covering in front of rearguard, and half the rearguard further forward.