Sentences with phrase «more cynicism»

They do so at their peril and at the risk of engendering even more cynicism and uncertainty in the minds of readers about the value of the media — especially when one month later the news shifts in a new direction.

Something about Modernism can seem embarrassing, but maybe that takes more cynicism than common decency.

For 15 years as a college president, I watched each incoming freshman class exhibit less civic engagement and more cynicism toward political processes.

Anything else runs the terrible risk of causing more cynicism, disillusionment and disengagement in our democracy, not less.

I'll make up for it next week with even more cynicism and barely - concealed existential despair than usual.

Frankly, I hear a lot more cynicism these days than utopianism.

In these circumstances, petty corruption has grown, fostering yet more cynicism and disorder in the relation between governments and their citizens.

Not exact matches

But something much more interesting struck me about many of my peers» choices: There seemed to be an overwhelming consensus on shorting bitcoin and, as a contrarian, this uniform cynicism obviously piqued my interest.

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.

It will also generate more of the cynicism about journalism so many non-journalists feel, and heighten the disgust for liberal bias that animates so much conservative activism.»

To establishment lawyers, the immigrants» irreverence toward the law and its minions looked more like cynicism than a way of keeping the things of the world in their proper place.

But instead of seeing that cynicism as an emotion to indulge, maybe we can use it as a catalyst to get more involved.

I won't desecrate beauty with cynicism any more, I won't confuse critical thinking with a critical spirit, and I will practice, painfully, over and over, patience and peace until my gentle answers turn away even my own wrath.

Cynicism and moral anarchism, whether expressed in crimes against persons and property by the dispossessed or in self - interested manipulation by the better - off, are, if I read modern history right, more likely a prelude to authoritarianism if not fascism.

Nowhere have the weak social foundations of American liberal institutions been more evident than in the battered and tattered nature of the welfare state, and in the cynicism with which it is viewed by nearly the entire populace — from the wealthy to the poor, for different reasons.

Cynicism corrodes our commitment; skepticism compels us to seek a more sure foundation for a commitment that can survive the eclipse of political fashions.

During the 1960s and»70s, as the nation's military involvement in Vietnam inspired a mood of questioning and cynicism, defenders of U.S. policy seemed to become even more explicit in their efforts to find divine legitimacy in American history.

I mean a blind man and his dog hiking the Appalachian Trail is more uplifting than all this cynicism and ranting that seems to be in fashion in the comments.

Certainly one is more inclined to think so to the degree civil religion is viewed as mere individual choice, since one can observe cynicism replacing faith, pessimism replacing hope.

Or how it's when you're down to the essence of yourself that you realize even cynicism is for the well - rested and undesperate, and how God deals so gently with us, more gently than we can suspicion, and I feel like I could lay down on the floor and just rest in the love I feel so strongly while I'm here in this daily luminous life, and then I think I should just quit and tell everybody to go read Brennan Manning or Madeleine L'Engle because this is absolutely ridiculous.

I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.

The remedy for such cynicism consists in the recognition of the necessity for more adequate conceptual schemes and in sufficient reflection upon the experience of imperfection.

Now that same cynicism is rearing it's ugly head again with his current situation, he is breeding massive uncertainty amongst the players, with several not signing extensions and more not having extensions offered.

«As expensive as it will be, the cynicism would be more expensive in the long run.

Moreover, he has merrily made his way to the top of a field of limited opportunities without deceit, without guile, without cynicism and without, it would seem, half trying, fame having stalked him more than the other way around.

My cynicism towards Chelsea's position in relation to the transfer window and deadline day were swiftly changed when rumors of David luiz making a sensational return began to look more and more likely.

I find a lot of this animosity does actually appear online, though, when people seem free to express their more judgemental side without having to stare someone in the eyes while being nasty... I love that your idea of cynicism is that we all just actually love, respect and accept each other!

Eunice Goes suggested to me that the sneers against areas such as Hampstead and Islington are part of a wider cynicism about urban - dwelling educated people that has existed for centuries but is becoming more prevalent in our post-factual age, «there is a very long established tradition of anti-intellectualism in England that is more about posturing than reality because there are lots of excellent English intellectuals».

Finally, and perhaps more importantly, the much talked about free SHS, which the NPP, particularly, our 2016 presidential candidate, Nana Akufu - Addo has been associated with, has come to fruition despite all the bastardization and cynicism from our political opponents.

More proof (as if it were needed) of how pervasive cynicism has become!

More dramatic is the cynicism revealed in questions about the political system — only 24 % believed the system of coalition government is working well.

Nothing encourages cynicism more than a public body asking for views on an issue that has already been decided upon.

Without any cynicism, or no more than usual anyway, my mind quickly reverted to his yet - to - be-seen interview with Piers Morgan, so heavily briefed to the media, and so heavily prepared by Alastair Campbell, in which the prime minister CRIES.

If this is the outcome then he has also done politics a disservice by adding to cynicism more broadly, though this would not be without comparison to selfish party splits and back - stabbing that is not unheard of by those who may wish to criticise George.

She seemed appalled by wiretapped conversations that she said exposed his «bullying,» «cynicism» and «extreme» physical threats — tactics, she said, «more usually associated with professional criminals.»

However cynicism is not the sole preserve of the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats you may suspect and I certainly do, feel that in the traditional three party split where the Liberals are in the middle they hope to pick up the votes where they are second and either Labour or the Conservatives are third and thus gain more seats in the commons.

Nor are Labour exempt from cynicism as they failed to implement any concrete electoral reforms to the way MPs are elected to the House of Commons whilst in power from 1997 to 2010 but now their leader wishes to be seen as the reformer though he is still so partisan that he refuses to be seen in the company of the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, I personally assume therefore this is more about driving a wedge into the coalition, opposing David Cameron and general point scoring than a real desire for electoral reform for Ed Miliband.

Once researchers adjusted for other factors that could affect dementia risk, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking, people with high levels of cynical distrust were three times more likely to develop dementia than people with low levels of cynicism.

The study also looked at whether people with high levels of cynicism were more likely to die sooner than people with low levels of cynicism.

Cynics might note that the only accomplishment was an agreement to talk some more, and their cynicism may yet be confirmed.

Take cynicism, for example: A 2014 study published in the journal Neurology linked high levels of cynicism later in life, i.e. a general distrust of people (and their motives), to a greater risk of dementia compared to those who were more trusting, even after accounting for other risk factors like age, sex, certain heart health markers, smoking status, and more.

And the movie does have its flaws: for such a supposedly important author, Eiffel's work sounds like it has more in common with Oprah's Book Club than Saul Bellow, those two boobs from the Sonic Drive - Thru commercials are inexplicably cast as co-workers (perhaps to contribute to the entire atmosphere of unreality), and the whole thing plays like Charlie Kaufman Lite... blurring the lines of reality and unreality, but without the messy cynicism.

More than that, the appeal was predicated on a deep enough investment in the genre to sustain both enthusiasm and cynicism.

Despite their shared cynicism about love, both grow closer and become more involved romantically, though their cynicism often gets in the way.

So while Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a hugely enjoyable movie - going experience, there's a certain cynicism in Goldman's writing that becomes increasingly apparent the more times you watch the film, and which casts him as a kind of puppet - master pulling our strings.

But there's a level of sincerity beneath Leigh's cynicism that redeems his movies and makes those titles more than cheap shots.

More beguiling still is their warts - and - all depiction of low life, so upfront it ends up quite affectionate; equally, the keen observations quash charges of cynicism.

NPR spent more than a year in the coal counties of central Appalachia and found hope, cynicism and some surprises.

It gives the idea of consumerism run wild the short shrift that it deserves (and the cynicism that an intervening quarter - century demands), touching on the original's explanation of the zombies» affinity for the shopping mall and the human heroes» delight at their newfound material wealth before becoming a bracing action film that, like Marcus Nispel's reworking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the source of which didn't need updating as much as Dawn arguably did), is more firmly entrenched in the James Cameron Aliens tradition than the Seventies institution of disconcerting personal horror film.

Men in Black utilizes the world's capital even more extensively than Ghostbusters did, realizing the value in putting otherworldly threats face to face with modern - day metropolitan cynicism.