How To Use Cynicism In A Sentence

That search, which Corto knows is fruitless, reconciles the sublimation of the motivating object with the euphemistic cynicism of a horizontal and not ascensional awareness of the journey.
Their inability to work together for the good of the republic would only increase the peoples' cynicism about government.
Sick of his persona - delicate emotions paired off with caustic cynicism - he creates a bogus doppelganger to hide behind.
To anyone inclined to political cynicism, I would urge you to read this book. Times, Sunday Times
Naturally trustful people must never be given a good reason to become cynical, for cynicism is the enemy of every honor system.

Rather, it invites ridicule, contempt and cynicism towards the whole devolution project.
Most books with names like this one are inferior works filled with an ersatz cynicism that pales beside the real article.
How can we live honestly, not deceiving ourselves yet not giving way to cynicism or despair? Christianity Today
This talk betrays a certain cynicism about free trade.
Ministers may deplore this cynicism - but they are to blame for having so many times promised so much and delivered so little. Times, Sunday Times
It ran for two years on Broadway to mixed reviews: its undisguised cynicism appalled many critics.
The first cynicism argues that the ANC government is creating a 'technicist' approach to governance, meaning that all policy is reduced to technical jargon and bureaucratic reasoning. CONTENTS:
Sylvia, receiving this into a sore and raw consciousness, said to herself with an embittered instinct for cynicism that she had never heard more euphonious periphrases for selling yourself for money. The Bent Twig
He has presided over a marked increase in public cynicism about politics without suffering significant damage to his own electoral prospects.
This weekend in sickening episode of political cynicism Livingstone cheerleaders dragged out the corpse of Stephen Lawrence onto the stage courtesy of his duped mother. Black Issues or White Guilt
That this has so widely happened in our day is at least part of the reason for current cynicism and nervelessness in the effort to secure peace and justice in human relations.
The degradation of public discourse, the spread of cynicism, makes our collective life less civilised.
The greatest help in setting a strategy is a hefty slice of cynicism and the openness of mind to re-examine cherished beliefs.
In such circumstances, cynicism, passivity and a sense of fatalism can influence public attitudes.
Many politicians and media critics confuse cynicism with skepticism.
In this modern age of cynicism and celebrity the road from pariah to popularity is a short one.
Too little skill, or inappropriate system, or CEO indifference, leads rapidly to cynicism.
There is cynicism at work every time politicians draft in some forgotten singer or soap poppet to do their dirty work.
There is now widespread cynicism about the political system.
Still, you're always willing to give something new a try (cause the true cynic is cynical about cynicism, baby, ya dig?), so you set up that new FaceBook page. Archive 2007-12-01
Suppose a man of great birth and fortune, who in his youth had been an enthusiastic friend of Lord Byron and a jocund companion of George IV.; who had in him an immense degree of lofty romantic sentiment with an equal degree of well-bred worldly cynicism, but who, on account of that admixture, which is so rare, kept The Parisians — Complete
All the cynicism about his abilities, all the sniping about his wages have vanished. The Sun
But he has allowed his enemies to represent him as a figure of immense gaucherie, cynicism, and stupidity. Mark Miller: Newspaper Swindlers Black and Radler Look Quaint by Today's Standards
It was natural that this cynicism should infect poetic self-reflection, hence certain theoretico-aesthetic “movements” and manifestoes; I suspect, although I wasn’t there to witness what actually happened, that Ange is right in saying that certain avant garde poetry had tried to deliberately retreat from the figure; however, in retrospect, one finds that all poetic practice, in practice, was never really able do completely without the world or its actual things. Writing and Failure (Part 8) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
The same Pew Research Center survey found - tut-tut - a surge in the intensity of partisan feelings also turned up a decline in cynicism about government.
This has inspired overwhelming feelings of apathy and cynicism, particularly with regards to accountability. Times, Sunday Times
All the cynicism about his abilities, all the sniping about his wages have vanished. The Sun
On surveying the organizational ranks, they see only low morale, divisiveness, cynicism, and dulled thinking.
It has contributed to a lowering of investment returns and to public's growing cynicism about pension planning.
But this blog strongly deprecates that kind of cynicism about politics.
AND not to mention as informed by the angry video game nerd Winston was cut out of all the old video games. slash i don't care how, but i'd love paul rudd in this. he has that murray cynicism. Bill Murray Gives Details on His Ghostbusters 3 Appearance | /Film
But speaking of plays about the Trojan War, I think I'd like to see Tiger at the Gates done in repertory Troilus and Cressida, a compare and contrast between irony and out and out cynicism. Lance Mannion:
Disappointed expectations lead to unwarranted cynicism. Times, Sunday Times
He managed to find the comedy in melodrama without undermining suspense or lapsing into self-referential cynicism. I need to read that “Secret Empire” story
His name is Francois "Frank" Pluviose, a 42-year-old New York City cabdriver who commutes to work each week from Reading, Pennsylvania -- a two and a half hour bus ride -- and he is totally immune to the disease of cynicism that has managed to infect so much of our politics for too many years. Mike Barnicle: Driving Through History
A certain amount of cynicism on the part of American team bosses is justified. Times, Sunday Times
It was in Belfast that his journalistic career and his cynicism about it began. Times, Sunday Times
Along with ‘cynicism and misanthropy,’ he detects Catholic guilt and ‘deep-seated problems with women.’
You see, citizens had been pushed to such extremes of cynicism that this latest transparent assault on their credulity was enough to break them.
It is one thing to seek to excuse Machiavelli's cynicism and cruelty on the grounds that he was a man of his time - a victim as well as an architect of Renaissance arrogance and presumption.
A profound cynicism lies behind the work.
The Quiet American is a thoughtful film about what ensues when cynicism, both personal and political, collide with idealism.
In 3,000 words or so of journalistic pointillism, McGeough paints his picture of America's predatory cynicism with artful little dabs and daubs of well-placed fact.
Vacuity posing as merriment, cynicism posing as savviness, a wink and smile covering for betrayal ... these things are not funny. Times, Sunday Times
When differing versions of that line come into conflict, the result can be rancour, frustration, and political cynicism.
But today, the combination of American moralizing at home and cynicism abroad could severely harm relations between Europe and the United States.
You’ve got in here the press’ natural cynicism and the fact that it’s better, career-wise, to be dubious of big pronouncements like this — when they run * against* hawkishness, that is — than it is to accept them. I Get Around | ATTACKERMAN
Now, both professions are probably regarded with equal amounts of cynicism and wariness.
In fact, such ingrained public cynicism is misplaced. Times, Sunday Times
And without some healthy cynicism, these inelegantly protracted negotiations could seriously compromise the prospect of a deal being struck in Durban. Jonathan Wootliff: Good News From Durban
In an appeal to the target market's well-developed cynicism, Hank himself is shown saying, ‘May I suggest you have that with a schmear’.
They see with eyes uncoloured by bitterness and cynicism.
Public cynicism about change is understandable. Times, Sunday Times
Recognition of such a project in his later poetry should begin to unsettle long-standard accounts of how Brecht (or Benjamin, for that matter) alternately models an exchange-value Left cynicism, and a mechanical-reproductionist, exhibition-value "Avant-Gardist anti-aesthetic" (both of which, in solidarity with radically-intended post-Modernist art and theory, oppose themselves to a more auratic, Romantically-derived Modernism) .26 Intervention & Commitment Forever!: Shelley in 1819, Shelley in Brecht, Shelley in Adorno, Shelley in Benjamin
Perusing the liberal press, I am struck by the mixture of utter confusion, self-absorption, cynicism and sheer ignorance which characterizes the commentary on the war in Afghanistan.
Indeed the book deliberately oversteps any fine lines of political correctness to ventilate the incorrectness of anger and cynicism, the voicing of nasty things that are felt and festering, but usually left unspoken.
Introducing slam poetry to the Olympics will bring a healthy dose of cynicism to the proceedings. Times, Sunday Times
There will be some healthy cynicism, too. Times, Sunday Times
February 2nd, 2010 at 12: 00 pm tombaker says: the self-absorbed cynicism and fatalism of righties is astonishing. no faith in their own country. no can-do attitude. no regard for their fellow americans. just hundred-proof nihilism & narcissism. Think Progress » Rep. Frank Wolf claims trying terror suspects in civilian courts would be treating them better than our military.
He had us in the palm of his baby-sized hands and instead of choking us in his usual cynicism, he joked with us and stroked us affectionately.
Bill spoke with a cynicism born of bitter experience.
Never has there been such mistrust of politicians; such contempt, cynicism, ridicule.
Cynicism was originally the philosophy of a group of ancient Greeks called the Cynics, founded by Antisthenes.
Bill spoke with a cynicism born of bitter experience.
The incompetence, the lies, the bullying, the cynicism, the cover-ups.
Even if the majority of the industry treat the concept as a joke, with huge helpings of cynicism added in, the average bloke on the street still believes in it.
That doesn't mean it shouldn't be done simply because this kind of muckraking exacerbates cynicism about public officials.
They have even achieved the ultimate in cynicism by insisting that the freedom of consumer choice and the freedom of the individual are one and the same thing.
As political contests sink further into the gutter of abuse, public cynicism about and alienation from politics can only intensify.
When people came to know, they said that to have done it when sober had shown him possessed of a kind of maliciousness and cynicism almost pardonable, but to do it when tipsy proved him merely weak and foolish. The Translation of a Savage, Volume 1
Not all Mosteller's Bayesian suspicions, some of which verge on cynicism, have proved well founded.
The decision to delay the new parliament's first sitting will only add to cynicism in the electorate and will be no encouragement to take part in the election.
For The Book Show journalist Rachel Carbonell read Flat Earth News with a healthy dose of cynicism.
Their run to the top of the standings is cause for cynicism.
In the late '70s, anticipation would have had us in near rapture waiting for another Annie Hall or Manhattan, but alas we have entered a new century, and cynicism is the order of the day.
It would be hard to think up a system that could do more to fuel public cynicism about MPs. Times, Sunday Times
Second, even if they do, because of the wall of cynicism and disillusion, they don't believe we will achieve them.
Leblance also believes that a rise in cynicism may be to blame for lower interest in student journalism.
Oddly, this cynicism runs alongside breathtaking naivety. Times, Sunday Times
The good will even if it is for show, even if it does mask darker moods that particularizes the interactions of the characters in THE HAUNTING has evaporated entirely a decade later, leaving rancor and cynicism in its wake as if the pragmatic disregard of Dr. Markway's wife has infected the rest of the world. The Mount Everest of Haunted Houses
There was not a trace of cynicism in his voice.
Intelligent cynicism about democratic politicians is a particularly noteworthy feature of this handbook to power written by an English Tory. The Times Literary Supplement
The bluejackets, though, had their own name for it - ‘animal fluid’ - reflecting their cynicism at the newfound love affair that the middle classes were enjoying with the new Victorian religion, science.
In our haste to condemn cynicism we must take care not to stifle skepticism.
For Egypt, the scale of the climate crisis is overwhelming, infecting all discussion with cynicism and fatalism.
This administration seems to have a really dangerous and disturbing mix of cynicism and stupidity as their driving motive.
Its really hard to know whether Lanny Davis is totally lacking in even the slightest trace of a sense of irony, or whether he's just another Clinton remora who takes cynicism to the level of pathology. Watch Hillary Meet With Editorial Board -- Live!
We've gone from the rah-rah of Capra to the cynicism of Kubrick, Coppola, Stone and, well, Kubrick again.
He begins a marathon of jokes and cynicism about the identity of Hero's parentage.
Weeks in unheated cattle cars, forced labor, and malnutrition broke the health of millions whom Stalin delivered into this boreal hell, but it was the senseless suspicion and climate of treachery inspired by Soviet ideology that shattered their spirits and left only cynicism and mute despair in their stead. This Side of Ultima Thule
The cynicism, or boredom or maybe numbing hope that it was all going to be over soon - that we'd see the tyrant of Iraq in a coffin.
That illusion, like the touching belief that one party is always better than the other, is compounded of near-equal parts naiveté and cynicism.
Is it because of a growing cynicism against anything the government tries to push through without proper consultation, or is it unjustifiable paranoia on my part?
For men, hate is most often used with cynicism, scum, and racism.
Cynicism about matrimony has always come easily to me.
The filmmaking duo are being cool about coolness, cynical about cynicism, and critical of pretensions.
Introducing slam poetry to the Olympics will bring a healthy dose of cynicism to the proceedings. Times, Sunday Times
The combination of cynicism from a revolution gone bad and fear of a pote ... Melody Moezzi: The New Iranian Political Party
We all know how easily innocence is lost, how simple it is to thoughtlessly embrace cynicism and the humdrum monotony of what we call everyday life.
The press, enjoying a freedom also long established in Dutch tradition, denounced the cynicism of the new Directory.
A rapprochement between business and activists has never been more vital, but a deep cynicism persists in both camps.
Twice, amid much sniping and cynicism from elsewhere, the city bid for the Olympics.
I love his acerbic humour and his cynicism. The Sun
I am supposed to move the story along and provide comic relief or cynicism wherever I can.
This cynicism makes today's young people hard to predict.
The touch of cynicism struck a slightly sour note.
The conference season took place against a growing mood of public cynicism, disenchantment and disengagement from politics.
His handlers obviously coached him to adopt a more somber demeanor, though his signature cynicism came through just as clearly.
There is a weary cynicism abroad. Times, Sunday Times
It was an era before distrust, cynicism, agents, and chequebook journalism permanently soured the relationship between footballers and hacks.
Through a combination of cynicism and self-flattery, we put their accomplishments on a par with the banalities of contemporary celebrity culture.
Any people can be delivered from thraldom but they need, as Tasman rightly points out, the undergirdimg world-view, which is NOT 'generalised Westernism' as if that could power anything but our current cynicism and self destructive hedonism. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Increasing public cynicism towards politics has been fuelled by shady fundraising practices. Times, Sunday Times
The female Twi'lek's voice was tinged with just a touch of cynicism. The Cat is a Metaphor
It was, of course, nowhere near as bad as that; but cynicism narrows one's view. MURDER SONG
The final insult to those voters who decided to swallow their cynicism and take the trouble to return their slips, was to choose an option other than the one wanted by the majority.
Their cynicism was well founded. Times, Sunday Times
The phenomenon which is denounced in culture criticism as cynicism, as cynical mass business, should be a new access to the soul.
He's been a good friend and his inveterate optimism has been a welcome tonic to my usual cynicism.
Today, a bubbling brew of cynicism and suspicion seems the cocktail of choice for millions.
He had resigned that summer, and when the news reached Dutch Harbor it only confirmed me in my cynicism.
MH apparently is unaware of the depths of his own political cynicism.
It was so wonderful to hear music and spoken word croon through its doorway, but again disappointment and cynicism grabbed hold of me. Newspaper Tree
Chandor's language is as precise and convincing as Mamet's, the realism never slips into cheap cynicism and, as Jean Renoir says in La Règle du jeu: The awful thing is this. Margin Call – review
His 1965 song "Subterranean Homesick Blues" references the violence inflicted on civil rights protesters by cops ("Better stay away from those/That carry around a fire hose") but also reflected his growing cynicism ("Don't follow leaders/Watch the parkin' meters"). Peter Dreier: The Political Bob Dylan
It features an ambitious politician and her neglected son, and it achieves levels of cynicism I would have found implausible had I not witnessed the ascendance of Sarah Palin. 07 « December « 2009 « Precocious Curmudgeon
After a decent interval he and Madeleine left Carew to his liqueurs and cynicism and headed back across the square to the Hotel Adernis.
We had to wait for public cynicism to return, as it always does. Times, Sunday Times
The man was no fool and his very cynicism afforded him some protection.
And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.
But when poorly understood or practiced, the language of ‘hospitality’ also can tempt us to distortions and corruptions that generate sentimentality or cynicism.
Its production is a story of incompetence, complacency and cynicism. Times, Sunday Times
If you have even the slightest degree of cynicism in your nature, it has moments that will make you howl with derision and disbelief.
Interesting, cos they are not portrayed as a tight, likeable team, but a nest of corruption and depraved power-to-commerce cynicism.
The methods might have been foul - full of dishonesty, cynicism and hypocrisy - but they worked.
The cynicism and barefaced slanders employed in this campaign demonstrate the methods employed by the Bush administration and the extreme right in every sphere of political life.
There exists within sections of the white electorate a deep cynicism towards the traditional political parties.
Speaking as a republican for reasons of well-founded political cynicism, I don't recall monarchism at a lower ebb.
These conditions often led to disillusionment and cynicism among community members.
I found Bellamy's notions of how society could so easily be remade and then perpetuated in its idealized form more than a little soft-headed (says she, full of twenty-first-century cynicism).
The degradation of public discourse, the spread of cynicism, makes our collective life less civilised.
Was her bond with the descamisados,or shirtless ones, simply cynicism? Times, Sunday Times
Another is to retreat into various shades of nihilism, cynicism or amoralism, gazing blankly at a world of stone.
And perhaps most importantly, it can only increase yet again public cynicism and mistrust of government and politics.
In fact, there was a deep underlying cynicism. Times, Sunday Times
When we see our politicians acting in such a puerile and childish manner is it any wonder the country is awash with apathy and cynicism?
All parties and institutions are affected by a climate of cynicism and mistrust in which society is disinclined to believe whatever it is told by authorities and experts.
Still, there's no contempt or cynicism in Ryan's attitude here.
Failure to take meaningful account of the opinions of the people you canvass is a sure way to engender cynicism.
The only bystander who appeared to have a twinkle of cynicism in his eye joked about being "quizzed" on the surprisingly academic material, and told me he expected Fairey would be "preaching to the choir" rather than facing hard questions about fair use. Bostonist
A second issue is cynicism about whether recyclables are actually recycled. Times, Sunday Times
The story of a nun who befriends a man on death row never sentimentalises the issues, but is an unforgettable study of capital punishment's cynicism.
And can they then cut through pervasive public cynicism and generate enough voter interest to enact their recommendations?
Neither change has yet been enacted because political scruples intervened at some stage in the march of cynicism.
She struggled to analyze whether this was a naive point of view; or worthless cynicism.
Life was dull, monotonous, and sodden with cynicism. Times, Sunday Times
Safety was sacrificed for savings, while danger signals were ignored through incompetence, complacency and cynicism. The Sun
It is inexplicable that these women find optimism amid calamity when like lemmings our young rush to enlist in the politics of cynicism amid relative fortune.
I share Rahul Verma's cynicism about the coverage of the Behzti furore.
Most books with names like this one are inferior works filled with an ersatz cynicism that pales beside the real article.
It reminds me somewhat of the collusion between cynicism and innocence, in which nescience is the very form that jaded dyspepsia takes.
And can they then cut through pervasive public cynicism and generate enough voter interest to enact their recommendations?
The cynicism of this act constitutes a serious breach of faith.
Therein, perhaps, lies a clue: wherever it is, whatever he is, he would wear it with a certain equable tough-mindedness, a discreet cynicism tinged with self-deprecating irony.
Broadly speaking, if you are lucky enough to find that life is kind, and there is not much cause to be angry with it, then there is a tendency to misinterpret other people's anger as peevish cynicism.
He is the doctor who seems at first to be all cynicism but who, we come to recognize, cares about his patients far more than the falsely paternal, beaming head doctor.
It was in Belfast that his journalistic career and his cynicism about it began. Times, Sunday Times
His work embodied an unpleasant brand of marketable and light-minded cynicism in the 1990s.
But this is not the same thing as exploiting popular cynicism about politics to mount facile attacks on politicians, which is all too often the principal activity of the media today.
Ministers may deplore this cynicism - but they are to blame for having so many times promised so much and delivered so little. Times, Sunday Times
QUEST: Why, I don't know, you wish to pour such cynicism on what has clearly been a markable day of honesty from two sons mourning their mother 10 years on. CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2007
In the spirit of Barack Obama, he warned them that cynicism is the enemy, “cynicism” being the code word du jour for any skepticism about liberal proposals to perfect mankind under the tutelage of a benevolent government. Africa
The atmosphere is fun, friendly and completely devoid of cynicism. The Sun
I would be delighted to hear Chris Smith tell us why the Dome's critics are wrong, but nothing will foster mistrust and cynicism faster than the random accusation that they are jaundiced cynics.
Gephardt referred to cynicism, loss of faith in the political system and the decline in voting.
Which is, I think, appropriate to think about here in this town — because here, the highest hopes of mankind work hand in hand with the deepest cynicism of man. Climate, Poverty and Health~ Opening remarks
But he said he was increasingly concerned about the public cynicism of politics and politicians.
The way the trial was handled has increased cynicism among Malays.
In fact, the splitting is more likely to end in deep cynicism than psychiatric treatment. Times, Sunday Times
The level of cynicism which is brought to many anecdotal accounts used in journalism could equally be levelled at official documentation.
At present it feels more like weary cynicism. Times, Sunday Times
He is being driven mad by the all-pervasive cynicism of modern Britain.
Whatever the origins of the malaise, this dissonant combination of urban potential, challenges and inadequate responses can only lead to more frustration and cynicism among citizens.
It's hard to tell if his cynicism is the result of living in the ‘English’ world or if it's part of the natural, organic process of growing up.
When he is not exchanging repartee directly with his beloved, Tom affects the cynicism of a full-blown Restoration rake.
While he's crucial to the survival of the paper, his self-destructive tendencies and his cynicism destroy him.
Unlike other near contemporaries such as Thomas Dekker, Whetstone's anatomization of urban failings does not slip into cynicism, nor does he take a vicarious enjoyment in the vices he describes.
This has caused widespread worries at Westminster over a growth of cynicism about the political class. Times, Sunday Times
Bill's poll-based views, his `parsing' of the truth, contributed to greater cynicism about politicians.
I read intelligence, warmth, cynicism, and self-mockery in it. A RODENT OF DOUBT
I'm trying to keep the weary cynicism out of my voice. Times, Sunday Times
Yet Rogers himself retained a healthy cynicism about the artistic merits of his brainchild.
They applauded anything that happened on stage; a welcome relief from the normal cynicism of London audiences.
It is enough to make you smell a rat and be damned for your cynicism.
If we are to circumvent the immobilizing effects of political fatalism and cynicism, the political imagination must find a basis for hope in the future.

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