Sentences with phrase «through cynicism»

To me, the fact that it can be all these things means that it has the potential to cut through the cynicism inherent to itself... there's something urgent in that thought to me.

Motivated by the artist's profound belief that art has a unique ability to break down personal, emotional and social barriers, Happy City looks to cut through the cynicism that pervades the modern world.

That kind of interconnectivity pierced straight through the cynicism I felt over «yet another Assassin's Creed game.»

We're far better off embracing difficulty instead of padding against it through cynicism, escapism or control.

«In Searching for Sunday, Rachel's honest and hopeful wrestling tore through my cynicism about the perils of organized religion and touched my heart, reminding me why this broken but beautiful Bride is worth the fight.»

The only answers Scientism can offer to the problem of evil are the desperate optimism of scientific progress, and the rejection (and simultaneous embrace) of evil through the cynicism of nihilism — good and evil mean whatever you want them to mean because good and evil ultimately mean nothing.

Not exact matches

Supervisors in organizations waste a lot of time and energy going through the motions of recognition and might even stir up negative reactions (cynicism and apathy) because their actions are not viewed as genuine.

Your cynicism and hurt speak loudly through what you have written here, and I invite you to lay it aside, and be open to the idea that the truth is neither as rosy as some paint it, nor as dark as you have come to view it.

What Lasch described in 1972 as «the familiar materials of popular discontent, quietly persisting through three decades of «affluence,»» are once again on the rise: «distrust of officials and official pronouncements; cynicism about the good faith of those in positions of great power; resentment of the rich; a conviction that most things in life are «fixed.

Hope faded away; the generation that had lived through the war could no longer believe in anything; a wave of apathy and cynicism engulfed all but the least or the most experienced soul.

Millions of gallant souls have known that experience, and instead of being wrecked by life's tragedies or driven into skepticism and cynicism, they have found an inner resource which brought them through their hardships radiant and triumphant.

I am ashamed of the way I judge those I deem judgmental, the way I stumble through my day without prayer, the way I issue praises to heaven in one breath and curse my brothers in the next, the way I talk a big game about loving others and then brush past the woman crying in the airport, the way cynicism seeps into my bones, the way I zone out in front of my wireless glowing mirror in a pathetic effort to avoid confronting it all.

The media in its cynicism may have said that about Obama, but he has never said that or declared that through his religious doctrine.

On Sunday morning in contemporary America, modern disciples come straggling through the church door weighed down by cynicism, stress, pretense, power.

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.

But when I looked at the Gospel for the day (John 20:19 - 31), it became very clear to me that here is a story, a story of Jesus» appearance to the disciples when they were in hiding after the Resurrection... this was a real opportunity to say something about that story and about the faith which is built around people who were fearful, were skeptical, and into the midst of them, somehow, in a way that was ultimately moving, comes the presence of Jesus through locked doors and barriers of skepticism, cynicism, and doubt, all of these things that prevent ourselves from being God's people.

I don't know about you, but sometimes it seems like cynicism follows me through every church door, nipping at my heels like a pesky dog as I find my place in the pews.

When he wrote it, my brother had gone through the wars, so to speak, spiritual and emotional, and it has a wry, nightmarish intensity to it, run through by deep veins of both withering cynicism and luminous faith, that I found fascinating and rather disturbing.

McKinnon agreed with her and said that campaigns now also have a harder and harder time breaking through to reach increasingly skeptical voters — we can add voter cynicism to the list of reasons that political television advertising is steadily declining in effectiveness.

They're supposed to be despised, their every action viewed through a prism of scepticism and cynicism, but the warmth of the reception extended to Burnham defied such cynicism.

For reasons rooted in cynicism, Cameron pushed through same - sex marriage.

This one's a keeper if only for the virulent vein of cynicism rife through the piece, particularly from such an unexpected source.

A film about a lot of things, it draws its power from the Gordian complexity of crafting a legacy through the belief — when every other system and bedrock is filthy with rot and cynicism — in the ability to forget.

Midnight Sun is cheesy and implausible and manipulative, but it did chip away at my cynicism through the sheer force of its corny and sincere heart.

About halfway through the movie McGinly unfortunately dispenses with comic cynicism in favor of hearts and flowers, but no amount of sentimentality can erase Malkovich's brio.

Optimistic because the way it views the world is through a scrim of absolute cynicism — and despite it, despite all the towers falling down, there's the possibility of love, sweet and simple, between Ms. Kubelik and Mr. Baxter.

There can be truth in cynicism, and the awards season brings it out: if you play an historical figure, your chances of winning a major award go way up; if you play an historical figure through thick layers of prostheses, you're practically a shoe - in.

I kind of respect it, even while I can feel the cynicism of the storytelling choices coursing through my body.

The way to deal with cynicism is to work through it,» he added.

I think, that maybe writing romance is the way we work through, over and around all the cynicism in the world.

«Life is not an easy matter... You can not live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.»

In contrast to the charm, Swords of Ditto has this dry cynicism that runs right through it in a refreshing way.

Can you detect the amount of cynicism laced through these last few sentences?

Forgive my cynicism, but trawling through their back catalogue doesn't exactly fill you with confidence - this is the same developer responsible for the monumentally woeful Motorcycle Club, after all.

A recent graduate of Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas Texas» M.F.A. program, his work offers perspective through a lens of cynicism.

Something like a surge of love through them, like a desire to heal the wounds of the same Pop Art and turn - up against the cynicism of his approach.

A monumental sculptural installation by Nancy Rubins and a large group exhibition titled Denial Is A River explore our collective iconography as it has been built up by the mass market throughout the last decade through physical and intellectual deconstruction, while suggesting new meanings with wit and cynicism.

Finally, a write - in field for other responses answers Having worked in the litigation industry for more than 20 years and seeing favoritism trump skill plenty of times, I expected some cynicism to show through in the answers provided.

This animated ad grabs attention through entertaining visuals and an engaging voiceover while ultimately positioning the law firm as a viable ally when dealing with cynicism and questions about insurance companies.

You've got to be willing to be patient and to push through feelings of fatigue, cynicism or fear in order to see real and lasting results.