Sentences with phrase «most cynical way»

The game takes place in a New York City ravaged by a virus that's spread in the most cynical way possible: attached to currency during the shopping orgy that is Black Friday.

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It was easy for me, then, to become cynical about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger of blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange new land of Christianity), I took for granted my life in the new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without Jesus.

At its most cynical, look at it this way: high visibility with their constituents is grist to the mill come election time, and only the most idiotic or arrogant politician would dismiss an opportunity — any opportunity — to present him or herself as «working hard for you.»

She taps into a darkness here that we are not used to seeing from her, playing a character that is cynical in ways that she most certainly is not.

Like a Monty Python skit that's far too worried about ensuring the audience gets the joke, Mitchell's take on Gaiman's story goes out of its way to be odd, but in the most cynical and manufactured of fashion.

After swiftly establishing, commenting upon and making fun of the most cliché - ridden plot motivation imaginable for an antihero in love, the bulk of the film focuses on Deadpool attempting — in his cynical, trying - not - to - care way — to save a rage - filled mutant teenager with pyrotechnic powers from a super-soldier from the future (Brolin's Cable) intent on killing him, Terminator - style.

In a way, that might be the movie's most cynical observation, as accidental as it might be.

But almost nobody, at least so far, appears to be acknowledging how radically subversive this film is — not so much in terms of its politics (though its worldview is cynical enough to alienate many humanist - minded viewers), but in the way it blithely torpedoes the most basic rules of audience identification.

The cabinet decision of July 1st, 2014, which serves as the basis of the current bills, thus represents not only an attack on constitutionalism, but also a most undemocratic and cynical way of gutting the peace constitution of postwar Japan of its substance.