Sentences with phrase «rather cynical»

Not always pretty, sometimes rather cynical, but always realistic.

I know that politicians have to campaign to get into positions, but I do feel rather cynical about anyone who has to shout about cycling to work, or other green behavior.

Essentially, I'm rather cynical — but I try to be funny about it at least.

For years I had the sort of laser focus that Meghan had, and I have some of her rather cynical attitudes about the affluent around her.

To be honest, I find it a rather cynical business - especially after having a conversation with a self - help publisher a few years back who explained that they have their books on a roughly 3 year cycle - where basically they can repackage the same ideas in a different format about once every three years and, on the whole, sell it to the same audience who bought the previous books.

I think this is a rather cynical perspective.

Another rather cynical statistic: 46 % of respondents had never broken up with someone in person, choosing to do it online.

Mike Gallagher, who was the Roman Catholic producer for NBC - Catholic programs, criticized the lack of seriousness which characterized the network attitude to religious programs: «I have a rather cynical attitude towards the networks.

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.

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LONDON — A rather cynical tradition has developed in recent years in which, in the final days and hours before MPs leave Parliament for their summer break, the government releases a deluge of embarrassing reports, statistics, and statements in an apparently deliberate attempt to bury them.

Not exact matches

That's why it's a technology to get excited rather than cynical about.

Two — you've been subtle about your PR achievements so the VC is left with a positive impression of your press coverage rather than becoming cynical.

So we have the rather severe problem of an unfortunate choice facing many of the young: accept either a mystical and irrelevant religious tradition or a cynical secular environment.

Truth be told... others would call me critical, and negative and cynical, but my heart bursts for the church, I just wish leaders would realize how mistaken we have been to treat the church so much like an organization and a business rather than allowing it to grow and be nurtured as we would a child!

My legacy has meant that rather than fight the battles they fought, I have had another type of battle to overcome: being cynical, skeptical and prideful among them.

First, the common character is naïve, retaining a certain innocence rather than becoming cynical, hard - bitten, or spoiled by the world.

These songs did not at all reflect how I relate to God and are what the more cynical amongst us call «Jesus is my boyfriend» songs — in other words a lot of sentimental mush where people claim a rather too human type of relationship with God

You seem to be a very sarcastic and cynical individual who likes name - calling rather than dealing directly with the facts.

You said, «You seem to be a very sarcastic and cynical individual who likes name - calling rather than dealing directly with the facts.»

But British football fans are the most cynical of the lot, and will leach themselves on to any detectable flaw within their grasp, with Hargreaves sadly remembered for his incessant injury problems rather than his delectable ability with a round size five ball.

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).

«However, we believe that the prime minister's decision to call this election is a cynical decision driven more by the weakness of Corbyn's Labour Party rather than the good of the country.

Now, I don't want to be too cynical - if you wanted people to support a constitutional amendment which relinquishes sovereignty to Canada, you'd need a huge amount of social influence over a prolonged period of time; but some of the existing initiatives for constitutional amendments are challenging mostly because of active minority groups applying pressure in both directions rather than staunch popular opinion.

The Ukip leader called Theresa May's decision to call for a snap general election a «cynical decision driven more by the weakness of Corbyn's Labour party rather than the good of the country.»

I don't intend to insinuate ir sound cynical but rather on a mission to seek clarifications to my ununderstandings and severals minds out there who are bothered on this same issue.

If you want to keep doors open, then it is important to build successes in your research so you can demonstrate achievement to the cynical employers who might think you are leaving research because you've failed rather than because you want to.

The suggestion that people would rather give themselves electric shocks than sit idly seems to confirm notably cynical observations (12...

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.

In a nutshell, I'm an outgoing, ambitious, cynical, and extremely sarcastic human being who had a rather odd perspective on the world.

If irresponsibility and a lack of trust or deep caring between anyone is the grounds for good humor, then Bojack Horseman does it infinitely better (The difference is that in a cartoon show about vacuous Hollywood types there are characters who feel like subjects who can care rather than just targets for cynical jokes).

A rather trite, unnecessarily - complicated wartime romance in which the most cynical drunk in the world is persuaded, after getting a second chance with the love of his life, to sacrifice his happiness (and hers, but that's not really relevant) for the war effort, by tricking her into returning to her anti-Nazi activist husband and continuing her loveless sham of a marriage.

Whirling around the action are Michael Zegan's rather hapless Mikhail, Elisabeth Moss» grim and darkly cynical Masha, Jon Tenney's attractive but elusive Dr. Dorn, Mare Winningham's matronly Polina and Glenn Fleshler's hot - button Ilya.

Even in fine Christmas season films from the US, Santa Claus has been tarnished with a cynical brush that paints him as a rather desperate loser or out - and - out nutcase — Gene Hackman's undercover cop Santa in William Friedkin's The French Connection (1970); Dan Aykroyd's smashed Santa in John Landis» Trading Places (1983); and the one - two combination of cinema's worst shopping mall Santas, Jeff Gillen in Bob Clark's A Christmas Story (1983) and Billy Bob Thornton in Terry Zwigoff's bad - taste, big - heart classic Bad Santa (2003).

The script has taken rather a trim in comparison, this film concentrating on machismo and gunplay rather than the more artful and character driven original; the result is that Eastwood's gunslinger comes across as more of a cynical operator than Mifune's aimless but moralistic samurai, and the build up has a brisk, almost rushed feel about it.

For a cynical viewpoint, it might be that the motivation of the automakers with this and similar concepts (e.g. VW dual charging) is not fuel saving via down - sizing, but rather to reduce manufacturing and R&D costs by being able to use a single engine design for many different engines.

We can't help but be amused by some of Jonny's most cynical observations, about, for example, how you want not only girls but pretty girls to come to concerts because the pretty ones will be brought by boyfriends (two tickets sold rather than one) and the boyfriends will buy them T - shirts to ingratiate themselves (more «merch» sold).

Rather than be cynical and mistrusting I figured it was better to believe people were going to do the right thing, especially if they liked the book, and I hoped with all my heart they would forget the agreement if they hated it.

I mention this not to be cynical, but rather to suggest that if we are evaluating a credit card offer from Disney, we should do so with some detachment instead of becoming swept up in the «magical» Disney hoopla.

It'll be interesting to see whether this overtly controversial and mature content actually makes for a better game rather than a cynical way of netting shock sales.

Yesterday's cheeky video announcement was certainly hilarious, but the more cynical amongst us have been wondering whether it represents a last - gasp marketing stunt rather than a necessary delay.

Some people will also argue that the game gives you enough virtual currency for instant revivals (because apparently everyone with an iPad is an utter moron who would rather keep pumping money into a game they're losing at, than on buying an entirely less cynical game, or go and read a book or something), but if that's really the case (and it probably isn't if you lose several times in a row), why keep the system in there in the first place (unless you are not really that interested in adapting your game for a different platform).

Having said that, these paintings are not meant to be read as cynical, but rather as honest attempts at articulating the frustrating task of determining what is art, what is not, what is work, what is not, what is pleasurable, what is not, and so on.

It might be cynical to suggest this is partly due to the fact that these reward the efforts of those working in genres closely aligned to what photography seems to be for: functions rather than concepts.

I say surprised not only because I am disposed to a cynical suspicion about now - ubiquitous international contemporary art biennales and fairs, which somehow manage to be both bloated and vacuous, but also because, as a historian who works on postwar art of the not - so - distant past, my relationship to «the contemporary» and «contemporary art,» both in regards to my teaching and scholarship, has felt rather tortured of late.

I do not view him as an unintelligent or misinformed, but rather as a cynical manipulator who world rather wield power in his life than preserve the planet for his progeny.

I don't want to sound horribly cynical here — but, after so many comments I'm not sure that is really possible — but wouldn't it be easier and better value for your readers if you were to say what * you * think rather than reheating other people's metaphors?

One doesn't have to be overly cynical to take the view that the government's enthusiasm for a «gateway» is to deter prospective legal aid clients rather than to ensure that the poor and the vulnerable find expert legal help.

Justice Perell's observation, that «it is cynical to assume that with many years of future employment both possible and needed, that he will sit on his hands and wait out the reasonable notice period rather than getting on with his career» is no more than a reiteration of the BC Court of Appeal's articulation of this fundamental principle underlying the duty to mitigate.

He has made diligent, albeit unsuccessful, efforts to mitigate, and it is cynical to assume that with many years of future employment both possible and needed, that he will sit on his hands and wait out the reasonable notice period rather than getting on with his career.