Sentences with phrase «not cynical ways»

«We have to work in strange ways, but not cynical ways.

Not exact matches

Chewing four peyote buttons is not an easy high; the cynical evader of the drug laws can probably find an easier way to use drugs.

The conference was entitled «The Future of Reproduction» and was troubling in all manner of ways, not least because it was unclear whether I was witnessing a naïve attempt to really speak about the renewal of American culture, or a cynical undertaking to destroy the whole enterprise from within.

MLB's announcement to the world that Wahoo was going away was also an announcement that, hey, you have to buy while you still can, and slapping a Jackie Robinson Day patch on a hat with Wahoo is just further proof that we're not really being cynical when the league goes out of their way to prove us right.

As you probably know, many marriage don't make it past 10 years — not to sound cynical but perhaps these marriages won't either, and perhaps for reasons that will result from the role switch; no way to know.

The NHS budget has actually been ring fenced (don't give them too much credit for this, it's a cynical way of seeming to «protect» more popular or «sexy» areas of spending while providing political cover for the overall austerity programme).

What really made it newsworthy was not so much the cynical, brutal way in which the Mail and Mail on Sunday went after Ed Miliband via his father - and then via a journalistic invasion of a family memorial service event - but the momentum which Miliband's righteous anger generated in response.

Given the shelf life of political pledges, the smart money, in my cynical mind, was on his going the other way, running again in 2016 and then deciding two years later that «the job wasn't done.»

Here's a (sort of sad and cynical) way to tell if a food item is «clean:» If you can find it in the coupons section of your Sunday newspaper, it's probably not clean.

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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.

It's a film defiantly aimed at young girls, but not in a cynical, commercial Hannah Montana sort of way.

The screenplay by Garrett Lerner and Eric Garcia (based on his novel) gives Remy's story from his own words, typed as an exposé to the company's ruthless ways while he's on the run with fellow delinquent buyer Beth (Alice Braga), and it's a voice - over without much to say but a very cynical way to do so (not to mention a definite misunderstanding of the point of Schrödinger's cat).

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.

An extremely tired - looking Sally Field is the senator who can't seem able to make her mind up about whether to back Elle or stand in her way, whilst Regina King is the cynical office worker with an understandable distaste for all things pink.

The actor, who's found a new franchise in «John Wick» and small roles in provocative festival - circuit fare like Nicolas Winding Refn «s «The Neon Demon» and Ana Lily Amirpour «s «The Bad Batch,» has always had more range than he's given credit for — not that this role, a cynical lawyer in Louisiana who knows the system and how to work it, affords him much opportunity to display that range in an overt way.

And while Landline portrays characters grappling in their own ways with the age - old institution of marriage and the expectations of monogamy it creates, Robespierre isn't cynical about romantic relationships, recognizing the need for constant companionship, while acknowledging the at - times - agonizing difficulties in sustaining them over a long period of time.

For the cynical and pessimistic, the reasoning may be that Watts has merely gotten older, and the good stuff just isn't coming her way in as great of frequency now.

New star - on - the - rise Isabella Patterson (played by Imogen Poots) tries to convince a fairly cynical journalist that she really does believe in Hollywood fairytales, insisting that she prefers a «good yarn'that doesn't let little details like the truth get in the way.

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 film's cynical, hard - candy shell makes way for a super-gooey inside that Reynolds doesn't have the capacity to carry off.

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.

Just like the aspiring author who was cynical about Twitter, you may simply be facing a blank wall at the moment and not really seeing the endless ways you could utilize Twitter to gain and build a solid following.

Not in a dark, mean, cynical way, because that's way too easy.

In a sleazy and cynical attempt to make you part ways with your money, many of these agencies like to say that you need a unique ISBN, not just for print and electronic, but also for different formats of eBooks.

Again, a cynical mind might see that as Ancel stringing fans along (and maybe Ubisoft stringing Ancel along) so everyone thinks that they'll get what they want eventually and maybe buy more Ubisoft games along the way, but we're not cynical here.

Gen X were not supported by the systems and had to make our own way, which made them really resiliant and a bit cynical - Gen Y's are glorified by the system and in a way very trapped and dependent on it for their identity because of this.

But there are people who don't, people who are just doing it in a way that could be considered slightly cynical.

Harun Farocki «s 1998 film, Worte und Spiele (Words and Games), which has not been shown in the U.S. to date, explores the cynical machinery of reality TV which emerged in Europe in the 1990s, and exposes the ways in which intimate emotional moments are turned into thrilling entertainment.

Not to sound too cynical but I think we'll see subsidised Coal to Oil production way ahead of policies that reduce the use of fossil fuels — insuring a supply of oil being seen as urgent and Climate Change as less urgent.

An elemental question begs to be corroborated in more than one way for sheer fairness: When the main pushers of the idea that the «reposition global warming» phrase insinuate it is proof of an industry - led disinformation effort employing crooked skeptic climate scientists — Naomi Oreskes saying it indicates a plot to supply «alternative facts,» Gelbspan saying it is a crime against humanity, and Al Gore implying it is a cynical oil company effort — are they truly oblivious to the necessity of corroborating whether or not that phrase and the memo subset it came from actually had widespread corrupting influence, or did they push this «evidence» with malice knowing it was worthless?

Call me cynical if you like, but if Judith had wanted to create a measure of uncertainty and doubt in the popular mind about the BEST findings, then allowing the Daily Mail to do their worst with her comments would be a neat and deniable way of doing it, don't you think?

But the figures for half way through 2013 show a beleaguered, limping, haggard refugee stumbling to the sliding doors, not the happy smiling BUPA beneficiary we had promised the cynical analyst community.