Sentences with phrase «such cynical»

While no one likes to think in such cynical terms — injuries are not commodities, after all — we do want to encourage lawyers to remember that even the noblest professions must mind their bottom lines.

These exhibitions don't offer easy answers to such cynical questions, which effectively suggest that Atlanta would be better served by insular local showcases.

After paying up to $ 60 for a AAA blockbuster title like this one, players should never have to find themselves at such a cynical fork in the road, especially as it presents a temptation that deliberately appeals to those more susceptible to gambling or prodigal spending.

A democracy can not function or endure under such cynical chicanery and abusive machinations.

«Benjamin Button» is a welcome sight in such cynical times.

Too bad he went out on such a cynical note.

Such cynical online dating jokes can be cathartic for singles feeling bogged down by the swiping carousel.

The blogosphere can be such a cynical place; it's nice to her from folks who are happy in their faith communities.

The more cynical minded may say that this move was entirely electoral calculation, but I reject such cynical reasoning.

How could a new investment tool rise to success in such a cynical and burned - out climate?

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In our cynical age, many might scoff at such an old - fashioned motto (or, indeed, at the power of any motto or slogan).

«And right now we have a Prime Minister that has demonstrated such a lack of judgment, a lack of openness, transparency, accountability that Canadians have become incredibly cynical about all of us who choose to serve in this place.

Such egocentric and, I suspect, ultimately cynical beliefs run roughshod over the ethical.

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.

It surely would depend would it not on what the pastor has learned about themslef (male or female) and whether they have taken such lessons and applied them or repeated mistakes and instead of looking to themselves, the common demonimator in the communities he had left, be blaoming others and becomgin cynical and bitter in the process.

Hitchens, along with fellow militant atheists such as Richard Dawkins, speaks for many in our cynical, post-Christian society, and his vehement diatribes eloquently express modern secular attitudes towards religion, Christianity in particular.

These are all cynical forms of cashing in on the family, but why is that this reality, the family, lends itself to such forms of exploitation?

Moreover, even at the level of pragmatic politics, such appeals leave religious conservatives cynical and the churches burned over.

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!

Maybe Puel too could be exploited by companies with cynical eyes, such as Sun Bets.

At least part of the thinking behind their record - breaking move for Gareth Bale was commercially - minded, and the Welshman has since proven to be an asset on and off the field, especially when it comes to making strides in English - speaking territories, such is the cynical nature of the modern game.

Those of a more cynical nature would argue the football gods have been more than kind to Spurs with this fixture coming after such a heavy mid week European defeat.

This move by world's largest baby milk company is described as «terribly cynical» by Baby Milk Action as Nestlé continues to promote its formula with claims such as it is the «natural start» and «protects» babies.

It is totally absurd and fantastically cynical for Chin to make such a promise.

A jaded and cynical person such as myself will see the faraway look in our chief's eyes, the clenched fist held against their chest, and merely respond with an exasperated eyeroll, muttering, «He's going all Jim Hacker again».

Both of these attitudes — the cynical opposition of some Tories to gay marriage and the mostly synthetic outrage against Moore — are, in my opinion, not about their subjects but about the ambitions of those who express such sentiments.

It is in the nature of cynical Britain to sneer at such sentimental American notions, but it does remind us that there are many, many people who could do my job as a politician and probably do it a great deal better, but no one else can be a father to my children.

Never has such a completely cynical satire, about how our politics works been so funny.

When people vote Dems win... that is why TEAPublicans go to such great lengths to make folks cynical about government — they stay in power by doing everything possible to undermine turnout.

I am so sorry that Members take such a negative and cynical view; it does not suit them.

Campaigners for democratic reform give a mixed reaction on Mr Brown's proposals, with some, such as Power 2010 saying it did not go far enough: «Without troubling the public for their views, ministers hand - picked the voting system they favour in a cynical exercise aimed at wrong - footing the Tories ahead of a likely election defeat.

Responding last night, Mr Kenny said with claims such as these, «is it any wonder that people are cynical about politicians?».

At the risk of sounding cynical, everything about this — including the perfect timing — suggests to me that it's being staged: 1) Labour is on course for a huge defeat 2) no - one wants to take on the leadership of the doomed party at the 11th hour 3) GB's popularity (such as it is) is at an all - time low Given that no - one else wants the job on the eve of such a crushing defeat, surely the only chance Labour have of gaining support and mounting any semblance of an election campaign is to first restore some faith in their battered leader.

Cynical distrust, which is defined as the belief that others are mainly motivated by selfish concerns, has been associated with other health problems, such as heart disease.

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.

I'm one of the growing number of users cynical about social networks such as Facebook.

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«Into the Wild» didn't make me want to eke out a living in an abandoned bus, but it did make me yearn — just a little bit — for my younger, less cynical days when there was nothing but open road ahead, and such a journey would not have been out of the realm of possibility.

To many, especially the cynical, it seems a bit preposterous for Jackson, having turned each of the 400 - 700 page Rings novels into roughly 3 - hour films, to generate three more such films from the shorter and simpler children's book that came first.

On his own, Matthau continued developing his comically cynical persona in such worthy ventures as Plaza Suite (1971), California Suite (1978), and especially The Sunshine Boys (1975), in which he was paired with George Burns.

The moral guides for such stories are the soldiers trapped in the wars, cursed with a preternatural, often cynical awareness of what it means to be an agent of the military in a time of conflict.

Aside from the main themes and characters, there's that divorced - women's support group, run by Dorothy's cynical sister (the expertly wisecracking Bonnie Hunt); a «child - care technician» obsessed with modern jazz; and run - ins with various sporting figures, both real (from Frank Gifford to Katarina Witt) and fictional, such as a superstar quarterback played by TV's Jerry O'Connell, and his hard - nosed dad (an uncredited Beau Bridges).

Too bad that the narrative is such a conventional melodrama in depicting the fight of the little man, the humanist Hoffman, against the military machine, represented by the cynical and nihilist man (Donald Sutherland, also not associated with this genre).

I can't help but cast a cynical eye on his trajectory so far because there's no reason why he shouldn't be called in for the same parts that actors such as Logan Lerman, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort and co. are being offered.

The Best Picture winner of that year — one that heralded for many the ascendance of the «indie» and predicted, if one were cynical enough to predict such a gloriously retarded thing at the time, the major studios scampering to erect boutique «major - minis» and hence create their very own independent movies — was of course Sam Mendes's grimoire of suburban gothic archetypes, American Beauty.

In a bewildering series of deceptions, these people entrap the idealistic Mike into debt, betrayal, grief, guilt and cynical disappointments, all leading up to a big televised fight sequence at the end which makes no attempt to be plausible and is interesting (if you are a student of such things) for its visual fakery.

In both cases, perhaps a bit of dementia may be the thing that misguides them, but underneath, there is a pang of self - doubt that lingers that suggests an inner struggle between the belief in clinging to what one feels should be right and true in the world, and a cynical one in which such a notion is no longer in existence.

Film noir was always a cynical and dark (thematically and literally) genre, but 1949 saw the end of the first wave of classic noir films being replaced by the far rawer and more violent wave of B - grade noirs by the likes of directors such as Joseph H Lewis, Robert Aldrich and Samuel Fuller.

It's hard to be completely cynical about gross over-saturation of a genre when a developer does such a good job of creating an entry into said genre.

Those charmed by feel - good Capra films might find this gentle baseball nostalgia pic a winner, while I took a more cynical approach as I found myself unmoved by such a hokey ghostly baseball story.