The public is cynical because it has been taught to be cynical.
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O.K., we shouldn't be completely cynical (cynical, yes, but not completely so).
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I was cynical about love, or perhaps cynical about what marriage could do to love.
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Well, this particular administration is so cynical, it's a disturbingly cynical administration, which doesn't mind creating havoc.
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And as a slightly-less-cynical-but-still-pretty-cynical geek myself, I cringed a bit at Bob.
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It's a cynical piece of legislation written by cynical people and endorsed by a cynical president who forgot about his populist campaign promises the same way he seems to forget about lots of things these days.
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We're so cynical about Congress, and so cynical about their motives, that somebody like him is a breath of fresh air.
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So while it may be cynical to view this latest statement as a political ploy, it may be just as cynical not to.
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And from a more cynical perspective (and we should always be cynical with celebrities), it's the only way to get attention right now.
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You might consider this account either too cynical or not cynical enough: Surely President Trump cannot so quickly sully tolerance as a goal.
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It's a cynical, debased, fickle world, Hollywood—one not even the cynical, debased, fickle world of professional MMA could have prepared Ronda Rousey for.
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There is no more serious, cynical matter in sports — which seem besieged by the serious and the cynical at the moment — than throwing a match.
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There is no doubt that the courts will quickly dispose of the newly signed law, surely one of the more cynical political acts in this cynical season.
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It's an impersonal and cynical ending, fitting with the original script's more impersonal and cynical treatment of Michelle, as more of a bystander and sex object than a hero.
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A cynical gesture for a cynical age, pivoting is designed for a public sphere where bad faith is a given and attention, of any kind, is the ultimate commodity.
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One might consider the image ironic or cynical, but it is also a truthful representation of riverbanks across the country, and to crop out the can might be even more cynical.
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It makes me question my career path, it makes me cynical of the ethics of having children, and it makes me cynical of my own and others' attempts to take action.
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We don't want to be cynical — honestly, we don't.
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" Still, Cone clarifies that he's "not a cynical person.
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It was a cynical exercise -- deputy heads would roll.
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If you're cynical you'd say ... Because Comcast owns NBC.
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She's ruthless, idealistic, naïve, and cynical in the same breath.
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To imply otherwise is as cynical as it is misleading.
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United States officials sounded more cynical following Kim's remarks, however.
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Mitch McConnell is perhaps the most cynical politician in Washington.
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Anyway Valentine's Day is a purely commercial, cynical enterprise anyway.
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That might sound cynical, but it isn't meant to be.
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It's easy to get cynical about the family's sudden success.
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Did it make you more environmentally conscious, or more cynical?
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" Caroline, 7, "has an ornery, cynical spirit that is wonderful.
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Don't be too cynical in the game you choose, however.
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And yet it feels so cynical compared to the story.
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But they're not solely cynical — they're also believers in something.
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But Jokowi's likely victory is also thanks to cynical politicking.
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But embargoes are often used for cynical, public relations purposes.
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This is not cynical; it is the plain, obvious reality.
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One could not have made up a more cynical strategy.
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I'm cynical about remakes, but the new Spyro looks incredible.
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"He's the most cynical person I've ever met," she said.
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The lyrics are surprisingly cynical for such an upbeat tune.
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Gun researchers are accustomed to cynical resistance from the NRA.
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We cannot afford to be tired, or frustrated, or cynical.
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Didn't afford us the opportunity to be cynical about it.
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Let's talk about this in the least cynical way possible.
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Civic activism is hard in a busy, distracted, cynical age.
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Yes, I suppose that you can be cynical at times.
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Only the most cynical partisans hope for an awful opponent.
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" The Leadership Conference blasts this statement as "cynical and partisan.
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The legal system is a sham; the media is cynical.
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No one's asking that you join the president's cynical evasion.
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The experience left him deeply cynical about American policy makers.
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"This cynical, despicable woman he married took flight," he says.
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Mr. de Botton's provocative advice is both sad and cynical.
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This cynical and jaded political observer was surprised and impressed.
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Many women, though, tend to feel less cynical about it.
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Most people who are described as cynical are truly not.
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But I recently wondered if I'm perhaps being too cynical.
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But the risks of the cynical game were becoming apparent.
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" It is, Mr. Obama continued, "as cynical as politics gets.
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It's anarchic and rigorous, sophisticated and goofy, heartfelt and cynical.
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That to me is the most cynical reading of it.
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There are optimistic and cynical possibilities for the commission's rejection.
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The satire isn't only about cynical politicians and corrupt oligarchs.
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Mr. Netanyahu may be cynical but he doesn't rig elections.
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Still, there's a more cynical explanation for her mother's prediction.
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The strategy — however cynical — worked, even if the candidate didn't.
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And herein lies the cynical logic behind the US scheme.
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Against this cynical backdrop Microsoft's diplomatic efforts look refreshingly principled.
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So he is pursuing a cynical, but potentially effective, strategy.
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Mike: Is it cynical for me to say "the latter"?
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Are the attitudes in "Baby Face" realistic or merely cynical?
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To the cynical, this is just so much propagandistic treacle.
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Maybe it was finally time to stop being so cynical.
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If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical.
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Critics dismissed the pledge as a cynical ploy for votes.
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"I'm as cynical as I've ever been about this stuff."
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Her cynical political calculations became more obvious in subsequent months.
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Some on the left have accused Daou of cynical motives.
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A cynical impulse lies behind many of these kumbaya vibes.
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The effect isn't satiric, campy, funny, ironic or even cynical.
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That might seem cynical, but perhaps it is appropriately humble.
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Still, Zaman doesn't turn cynical or bitter, just increasingly anorexic.
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But few were as briskly cynical as "Quick Millions" (1931).
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"People are so cynical about politics these days," he said.
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I say mean and cynical things when I feel trapped.
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Where, wondered the more cynical observers [waves], was the hackery?
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It's hard to imagine a less cynical group of people.
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Yes, the minute I get too cynical I gotta quit.
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But a lot of the humor is cruel and cynical, for the sake of being cruel and cynical, and even more of it points and laughs at the rubes, provoking them simply to provoke them.
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There's also a more cynical reason to stay away from Telegram.
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There's little doubt that the Soviet reaction to Chernobyl was cynical.
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Catherine Deneuve's cynical ad campaign, on French television in 1984, for
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We wanted some goddamn magic back in our cynical little lives.
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They're us, but weirder, dorkier, and a whole lot less cynical.
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As I made my way to his funeral, I was cynical.
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But that's a cynical approach to a gadget that sprays butter!
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Here's a young guy who has every reason to be cynical.
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But the Democrats have been cynical about this discussion as well.
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Black Mirror is known worldwide as spooky, scary, and bluntly cynical.
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And I don't mean to sound overly cynical about this, either.
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Everything felt very cynical in the world, everything felt very dark.
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Did leadership make cynical decisions to target underage users for profit?
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Sorry, I don't think I'm being super edgy or cynical here.
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The world is a cold, bitter, and cynical place like that.
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This movie is extremely cynical about people, and about human nature.
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The Point: What Republicans like Gaetz are doing is HUGELY cynical.
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Absolutely. But did my cold, cynical, zombie-watching heart feel something?
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So even for the cynical among us, it's a notable union.
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If that sounds cynical, look at the Android case more closely.
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The confrontation has taken place in that cynical and underhanded way.
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Perhaps I am being reflexively cynical because it sounds so exciting.
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The most likely answer to these questions is a cynical one.
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A more cynical company—also known as any other hardware manufacturer?
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Don't get cynical, don't ever think you can't make a difference.
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The Senate process has been less chaotic but even more cynical.
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When I asked Zanes if Petty's decision was cynical, he demurred.
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Well, either that, or I'm just a cynical piece of garbage.
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He was a special character — a bit cynical in his humor.
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"It's arguably the most cynical strategy imaginable," write Allen and VandeHei.
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It is, however, a cynical and perhaps dangerous move by Sanders.
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It was the least cynical thing I've read in some time.
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It's easy for me to be cynical about all of this.
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But the timing of the speech is all about cynical politics.
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Now, though, I think Memories is the platform's most cynical element.
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Maybe this is all more cynical than I want to believe.
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This is a cynical media witchhunt that doesn't care about children.
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Never cynical—it wasn't humans that MAD loathed, it was hypocrisy.
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I think the song is all around more positive than cynical.
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It's easy to be cynical towards a festival like Desert Stars.
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Playing Pokémon Go as an adult is almost a cynical thing.
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Relief charity Doctors without Borders said it was cynical and inhumane.
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On the streets, local citizens are long-suffering and often cynical.
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In a cynical age, it's tempting to be skeptical and apathetic.
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They have contributed to Americans becoming polarized, resentful, discouraged and cynical.
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But that implies a cynical motive, which is alien to Nauman.
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What a cynical, mean-spirited, counterproductive and irresponsible step it is.
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Was it the cynical start of his eventual campaign for president?
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I think that's too cynical: From creative artists to the Rev.
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Ghost is cynical, dragged down by the weight of his past.
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Indeed, it is a much less cynical way to view it.
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But there can also be a cynical side to nationalist aspirations.
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It was a rough-hewed pitch, and perhaps a cynical one.
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Or at least that's the cynical idea behind many of Sen.
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Pedrinho's explanation for Bolsonaro's appeal in the favelas was bluntly cynical.
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If anything would make you cynical about this town, that's it.
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Part of the reason: Kids, particularly middle schoolers, are inherently cynical.
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"However, he still called the incident a "cynical media witch hunt.
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It also isn't camp in the knowing, cynical Ryan Murphy vein.
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Coal boosters have meanwhile seized upon this mythology for cynical ends.
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Charlie Brooker has always had a cynical eye on the future.
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It's a true ouroboros of late capitalism and cynical political celebrity.
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He was in his early 40s, mordant, cynical, and quick-witted.
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You become resentful, cynical and lose your creative spark and energy.
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But not all manifestations of American wiliness are so openly cynical.
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They also have a keen eye for excess, and cynical marketing.
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Placing itself at a cynical remove pre-emptively guards against criticism.
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The ornery Reid was no less cynical than his counterpart McConnell.
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"That's my cynical belief, anyway," Money certainly was part of it.
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Finally, let's not be totally cynical about politicians and their motives.
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She was politically cynical and now had her doubts about God.
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Twenty-six years later, Mr. Akhtar said he was more cynical.
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It's cynical, but in a good way, and very fast-moving.
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They were very still, there was no happy ending, very cynical.
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His style is not "postmodern" at all, but is rather cynical.
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A cynical house where the only gods allowed were drunken poets.
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I'd rather try to stay cynical and slightly distant from it.
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Most Libyans, though, see the overtures in a more cynical light.
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This was no cynical political crusade; Bradley was a true believer.
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Even the famously cynical P. T. Barnum plunked down his cash.
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The Iraqi population has become extremely cynical about anti-corruption initiatives.
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Mr. Trump's policy rests on a cynical and historically bogus foundation.
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Proponents of term limits are either naïve or cynical — sometimes both.
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Putin is theological and cynical, disciplined and calculating, experienced and knowledgeable.
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The oldest is cynical about the odds of any relationship lasting.
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Moreover, like our hypothetical city administrators, Kraninger's plan is inherently cynical.
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But Chinese internet users remained cynical about the government's positive spin.
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They are an antidote to cynicism in this often cynical time.
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Mike: Ah, Kevin, you're becoming just as cynical as I am.
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They will be revealed, I hope, although I have become cynical.
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State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin called Yumasheva's questioning a "cynical provocation".
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McConnell's response to Democrats' concerns has been typically cynical and hypocritical.
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But America has gotten pretty cynical about proposals that don't happen.
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I think the world has gotten incredibly cynical and incredibly dark.
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With a cynical person in the U.K., there's just a darkness.
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Admitting states in ways that preserve partisan balance may sound cynical.
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He contends that there is a cynical campaign to oust him.
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Perhaps some would criticize such a gesture as cynical or opportunistic.
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Am I wrong to be cynical about this sort of thing?
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"The N.C.A.A. can make anybody cynical," he once told Sports Illustrated.
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At the time, I probably thought the piece was fairly cynical.
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Yeah, it's completely cynical, it's completely made up, or it's whatever.
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I don't think these companies ... I'm a cynical person, Ashley, obviously.
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McConnell, as cynical as he thought he was, he was wrong.
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EK: So what does a less cynical part of you think?
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But it is somehow less unsettling to be cynical about physical violence than it is, in UnREAL, to be cynical about the psychological violence that Rachel and her co-workers inflict both on others and themselves.
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What I intended to say is that whatever Facebook's more deeply rooted problems, the paranoid, cynical style of PR championed by Sheryl Sandberg, Elliot Schrage, and Joel Kaplan has resulted in a lot of paranoid, cynical coverage.
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Dessler, however, has a somewhat more cynical view on individual, virtuous action.
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But let's just assume that it's cold-hearted calculation and cynical exploitation.
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French President Emmanuel Macron waded in, accusing Italy of cynical, irresponsible behavior.
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Behind this theory lay a cynical, but accurate, understanding of American politics.
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The even more cynical answer is that Comcast's executives don't really care.
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It's enough to make a person cynical about the American political process.
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But if we're being realistic here, it's a necessary, if cynical, step.
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Critics denounced it as a cynical and polarizing right-wing propaganda machine.
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It's a dark movie, but the story is not cynical or nihilistic.
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The parroting seems so cynical that voters must eventually tire of it.
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The quote is fashion at its most cynical and its most enlightened.
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He was cynical about human nature, including his own, and hysterically funny.
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I tend to be somewhat cynical about a lot of CBO forecasting.
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The cynical one is that the secrecy concealed a dearth of meaning.
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So I'll admit I was cynical when I first discovered Listen Bar.
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Consequently, The Punisher doubles as a fascinating, cynical exploration of authoritarian violence.
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Crossing Souls isn't shy about its influences, but it also isn't cynical.
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Mr Zinke's cynical stewardship of America's public lands is eroding those conditions.
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There were certainly a lot of people who were cynical about it.
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It's a cynical calculus that will someday lead to their own destruction.
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But today they're mere bywords for cynical commercialism and deliberate consumer misdirection.
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This is, even to the most cynical observer, a surprising business move.
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Skeptics might say that the order was just a cynical attempt to
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And I mean that from the very depths of my cynical soul.
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The idea that Trump isn't to be taken literally might sound cynical.
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It's cynical, but published studies can be a compelling form of marketing.
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"In general, I am cynical," he told Russia's R-Sport news agency.
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There was the cynical idea that Live Through This was a fluke.
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Like you said, the cynical view is they want to look relevant.
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But these attacks are feeding cynical, opportunistic Dems' desire for "change," i.e.
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That's just not a cynical way that's violating his promises, that's sinister.
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Cynical retorts of "All Lives Matter" serve to undermine this basic fact.
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This is a cynical media witch hunt that doesn't care about children.
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For cynical reasons, yes, but also because of its own corporate DNA.
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I think I was feeling really cynical about that at the time.
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There are also more cynical ways to look at the new appointment.
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It's a cynical attempt to maintain its profitable grip on our attention.
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Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate in 2008 was cynical.
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Ordinarily this is just a cynical way of operating, with little downside.
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Surely not — that was too cynical even for corrupt and contented Philadelphia.
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The cynical persistence of Republicans has put Democrats in a difficult position.
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Journalists are cynical types and you are known for being especially so.
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This plan, in other words, is being driven for entirely cynical reasons.
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We are all too cynical about the process and assume the worst.
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From a cynical perspective, this was a win-win for both sides.
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"He never became bitter, and he never became cynical," the star added.
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Americans need to come to terms with this shrewd but cynical move.
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Others view the initiative and referendum process through a more cynical lens.
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"I thought that was really cynical," Dr. Saltz said in an interview.
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But they were as cynical about business as they were about government.
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Critics, however, note that a more cynical motive is certainly at play.
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There's a temptation to become cynical, and I struggle with this myself.
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It's a cynical cash-grab, and one that might not even work.
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Cabrera and Glissant did not have time to be cynical or ironic.
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It was a cynical little scheme on the part of David Cameron.
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Hopefully that was a motivational tactic as opposed to a cynical decision.
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Social Security's enemies in the Congress may have a rather cynical reason.
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Our alliance with the Saudis has always been poisoned by cynical bargains.
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Cynical late foul from Rashford there, who dragged Virsaljko on the right.
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Then again, maybe it's cynical of us to attribute cynicism to Eminem.
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It's tempting to be cynical or dismissive about this bare-bones moviemaking.
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That makes Mr. Putin's typically cynical treatment of the killing doubly outrageous.
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They're cynical moves by opportunists who benefit from the attention they bring.
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In the end, it might come down to how cynical everyone is.
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" And Ukraine's General Prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko described it as a "cynical murder.
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And his previous disquisitions on show business have been zingingly, stingingly cynical.
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That sounds sensible enough, but it actually was a highly cynical maneuver.
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To be sure, it is cynical political maneuvering by the president's advisors.
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Always candid but never cynical, Gates gives some heartening but realistic advice.
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Sadly, by the 1990s the Business Roundtable had become cynical and distant.
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But others, like Mr. Raskin, had reached a somewhat more cynical conclusion.
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All of these transfers relied on a cynical logic of comparative loyalty.
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GREEN I am not in fact very cynical by New York standards.
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The full operatic version was shaping up to be just as cynical.
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Unaccountably angry and smug, the scraggy Smithers is Brutus's cynical, conniving cohort.
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Maybe you've found yourself gravitating to those cynical, pessimistic people at work.
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Close watchers of the Russia-Ukraine crisis are cynical about the announcement.
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It would be condemned as self-destructive, cowardly and almost bottomlessly cynical.
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A cynical attempt to become a 'wartime president' to ensure re-election.
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It would be easy to be cynical about the crowd and experience.
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Vince Staples' enduring ode to Long Beach is both loving and cynical.
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This is a fairly cynical take, but you know it's the truth.
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The Republican Party's cynical playbook has met its match in these teachers.
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Only the most cynical would call this inability to afford coverage freedom.
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It's possible to read today's YouTube news and be just as cynical.
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So it would be easy to be cynical about the whole thing.
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Captain Yossarian, a cynical, young bombardier, has no problem being an antihero.
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And yet, not everyone was so cynical with how they used Instagram.
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Polls show that Latin Americans see their politicians as corrupt and cynical.
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The few jokes they had about the holiday tended toward the cynical.
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I have grown cynical with the success of the horrid unicorn drink.
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I've become cynical and won't believe anything until I see signed papers.
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"This is a terrible, cynical way to make tax policy," Fox concludes.
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And then it starts to show through my jaded, cynical little shell.
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The spread is a "cynical board game of high finance," he said.
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If you are cynical, you might argue that it's Gurley's victory lap.
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I don't wanna say you're cynical but you're very funny and critical.
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On a less cynical note, there's a lot of catching up to do.
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The tweets don't have any cunning wordplay or cynical references to pop culture.
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Sometimes the characters failed, when moviemakers' mood turned toward the sour and cynical.
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The first thing he says is that the news is broken and cynical.
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BioShock 1, for its faults and over-the-top theatrics, isn't so cynical.
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But since Gita fails to make contact with me, my thoughts turn cynical.
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It reminded me that the world is often a cruel and cynical place.
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Cruz's "carpet bombing" schtick has all of the hallmarks of cynical campaign rhetoric.
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Her colleague Feng, however, appeared cynical about the notion of male programmer motivators.
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I owe it to my son not to be cynical about the future.
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I don't want to be cynical, but I believe in the right moment.
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For us friends turned clients, it's hard not to be cynical or skeptical.
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Instead, the boomers turned out to be remarkably self-absorbed, cynical and materialistic.
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Indeed those who invoke "political correctness" often use it for more cynical means.
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Deadpool finds cynical, bitter, and playful humor even in the most miserable situations.
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Yes, voters are angry, yes, they're exhausted and disgusted and cynical about everything.
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Mr Temer is fortunate that voters are feeling cynical rather than fired up.
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That might be very cynical indeed, but in a way it's actually encouraging.
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Ezekiel is turning Carol, still set in her cynical ways, into a believer.
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"Seriously, it's just really great, upbeat, non-cynical pop music," writes u/snowcone_wars.
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And it's also what an increasingly defensive, tone deaf, and cynical GOP deserves.
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THOSE of a cynical bent might think Tom Stuker a glutton for punishment.
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Britain may be opportunistic, even cynical, in the aftermath of a rough Brexit.
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But while Naota may appear collected and cynical-beyond-his-years, he's listless.
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Our fictional portrayal, by contrast, can be pretty wild, and often downright cynical.
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After gasping in wonder over the Freedoms' size, my cynical side took over.
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That cynical approach seems to extend to his visual branding as a whole.
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House of Cards is deeply cynical about everything, as a matter of course.
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Mr Trump's continued effort to deny the grisly obvious was callous and cynical.
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Indulge your own cynical judgments too much, and you might become a Joe.
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Notice the cynical symbolism of the chosen date -- July 14, France's national holiday.
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Does DJ's cynical attitude — which is also arguably Johnson's argument — ruin the movie?
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He's deracing a cynical strategy, making it more principled but less politically viable.
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If you need a good, deep, cynical laugh, this is a solid choice.
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That pressure often leads to cynical buys of stock not based on fundamentals.
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For the dedicated fan, its potent melodrama, as sincere as it is cynical.
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And voters have become so cynical about politics that it just might work.
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You know I wasn't quite cynical about things, I'm quite straightforward and English.
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Others in the smart gun movement have come to a more cynical outlook.
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And he's betting that you are too stupid or too cynical to care.
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It was much too cynical, and much too destructive of our democratic system.
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It is nearing the time when pragmatism, not cynical, irrational stunts, should prevail.
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Was it a head fake, a cynical attempt to limit the political backlash?
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Obviously, it's easy to be cynical about an organization like the Catholic Church.
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The Republican establishment, in acquiescing to Trump, has been cynical rather than careless.
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These days Mr Abe and his government are more cynical—and fed up.
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And she came down on the wrong side, and partly for cynical reasons.
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This Land is Mehta's expression of rage at the cynical exploitation of inequality.
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"His decades as scribe and editor had not made him cynical," Bono continued.
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THERE'S BEEN PEOPLE WHO WERE CYNICAL THAT WE'D GET MEANINGFUL PROGRESS ON TRADE.
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Instead, Democrats only offer hypocritical and cynical attacks designed to score political points.
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Realizing this point makes for a deeply cynical viewing experience as a result.
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What a cynical hack Mr. "straight shooter" Chris Christie turned out to be.
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A narrow, highly shaped brow also suggests a knowing, even slightly cynical, aspect.
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He has a cynical, innate intelligence for what his base wants to hear.
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This was a fairly cynical political calculus but also a fairly reasonable one.
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"It has long been a cynical substitute for real energy policy," he said.
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Its emblematic figures, Lenin in particular, were cast as cynical manipulators, totalitarian fanatics.
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Skinny reform was cynical because no one really wanted it to become law.
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I think it's demoralized people and made them even more cynical about politics.
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As cynical as Catastrophe is, it really does seem to believe in soulmates.
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I think it still comes out of a slightly cynical, fear-based thinking.
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People are fed up with the establishment and their cynical rigging of politics.
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"You stop being angry and start being cynical at some point," he said.
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When you don't deliver, it will make people even more cynical about government.
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The second is a cynical bow to the forces of reaction against modernity.
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But Trump is certainly using some of the cynical, damaging tools of demagogues.
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Ninety percent of 'super fights' in boxing and MMA are cynical cash grabs.
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To hear the plaintiffs tell it, the court should not reward cynical gamesmanship.
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This new option from Postmates is the most cynical thing I've seen today.
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Her appointment was something the Vatican of old would do — a cynical ploy.
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This is the cynical manipulation of white Americans' fears; fears of the other.
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Post-Tet resolve succumbed to cynical resignation, while military confidence and commitment eroded.
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These spaces offer a canny, if cynical, response: The guests supply the aura.
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There was only a facade — a cynical front for this administration's insidious agenda.
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"I've always been a little cynical and jaundiced about technology," Mr. Hastings said.
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Most Americans recognize the cynical and hypocritical reactions now being deployed over this.
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If that sounds too cynical, here's an example of that kind of thinking.
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In a world turned cyanide cynical, belief grows more precious, more powerfully colorful.
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The cost of such cynical chicanery to the public's health has been high.
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But their corrupt and cynical leadership is too fearful to let that happen.
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And if you get cynical and hopeless enough, they make you a columnist!
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The NBA wasn't supposed to be this cynical, and here it had become
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Some in Khan Sheikhoun were cynical, saying Mr. Assad's behavior would not change.
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Trump's own commitment to the Iranian people is cynical and partial at best.
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This is a time for Trump to be Trump — utterly cynical and unpredictable.
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Let's start off with the optimistic before we get to the cynical takes.
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A very cynical look at it might say that there was some planning.
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"But I've become cynical about whether we can have any influence," Chouinard said.
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The cynical approach to politics has led to where we are right now.
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That's a notion that alarmed climate scientists regard as either naïve or cynical.
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Of course, it's also the culmination of Andre and Nessa's whole cynical scheme.
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This is cynical politics, of course, but it is also dangerously irresponsible governance.
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Her colleagues said she never became cynical or lost her love for politics.
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The Schumer shutdown was a cynical political stunt and a losing legislative strategy.
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But its outlook — optimistic about human nature yet cynical about the times — lingers.
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"This kind of cynical impunity has been increasing in Michoacan," Mr. Hope added.
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"This kind of cynical impunity has been increasing in Michoacan," Mr. Hope added.
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It's a cynical movie because it's the furthest thing from sunshine and rainbows.
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D'Avenia's relationship to simile is misguided and cynical: used to obfuscate, not clarify.
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The White House didn't try to conceal the cynical political motivations at work.
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Just a cynical package that will continue to hurt NC and trans people.
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It is not difficult to understand why artists can become cynical and gloomy.
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If Fedor grows cynical after this week I may never forgive President Clinton.
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But you're not going to do that, because you're a socially engaged human being and it's time to accept that we need a subversive, angry, bleak, and cynical film to match our subversive, angry, bleak, and cynical hearts this Christmas.
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Cynical journalists held this out as another example of athletes being pampered and cosseted.
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Maybe that's cynical, but American Horror Story has never been about the bright side.
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Critics say efforts to boost turnout are cynical attempts to help Putin further entrench.
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Nonetheless most Mexicans, made cynical by corruption, do not have much trouble believing them.
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Depending on your perspective, this choice is deeply cynical, dangerously encouraging, or perfectly fitting.
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Palin, I have become a target of the cynical stalwarts of the status quo.
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It's as inspiring as a basketball signing can possibly be in these cynical times.
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Or, just maybe, we're being too cynical, and the mystery buyer is a museum.
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Surprise: It's truly not that bad, guys — and we're usually cynical about this stuff.
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At the time we talked, you've been someone who's been ... I wouldn't say cynical.
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It's true: Cynical exploitation of anti-Semitism is as real as anti-Semitism itself.
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"I had already formed a pretty cynical perspective on that whole cult," he said.
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The Mist is relentlessly cynical, with one of the bleakest endings of all time.
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But it is the country's cynical elite that has allowed tribal tensions to fester.
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It was a painfully honest answer and a depressingly cynical one, all at once.
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They help him escape the cynical demands of his job as a corporate lawyer.
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But I have completely shed my cynical attitude regarding the upcoming total solar eclipse.
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Well, the truth is that there's a lot to be cynical about with 5G.
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As Jen on Dead to Me, she's cynical, angry, uptight, nuanced, and marvelously funny.
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I would take a more cynical view and assume fear always beats out empathy.
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Yet that feels cynical when measured against the delight of Zuckerberg's Max-related updates.
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Here we see the cynical "return on investment" thinking that seeps into Lady Bird.
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"Definitely all of this makes you feel cynical about the government protecting human health."
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It's so cynical and perverse when people try to stage these crimes as 'fun.
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Cynical people in Washington dismiss that as being an effort without merit or value.
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Room for improvement definitely remains, but this isn't just some cynical Apple-chasing gimmick.
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A cynical onlooker might conclude that is the reason Fenbushi has kept his name.
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But can she rebrand Valentine's Day, the most cynical and soulless of all holidays?
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Officials in Kiev and the West dismissed the Russian offer as a cynical ploy.
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"I think it's very easy to be cynical about large companies," he told me.
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You're right to be cynical, and the legal process can drag out for years.
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Declassification diplomacy, as Obama has practiced it, has been an effective but cynical tactic.
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This is the fulfillment of a nakedly cynical promise Trump made to social conservatives.
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" Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer slammed Trump's comments, saying, "This cynical strategy will fail.
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Call me cynical, but this is the part of the circus I don't understand.
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As I got older and more cynical, people would routinely tear my story apart.
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I was able to both be a comic, but at the same time, cynical.
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It's easy to be cynical about two cybersecurity veterans diving into the consumer world.
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As a result, some people may feel cynical, as if their votes don't count.
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It was a cynical play for leverage, and Green's endorsement is evidence it succeeded.
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Your cynical post-metal friends were on Twitter announcing they'd just eaten an edible.
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It will require some cynical, IPO legerdemain that can be easily supplied by bankers.
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"But there was nothing cynical or conspiratorial about the way I cast this movie."
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But while the restrictions are familiar, the rationale employed is new and startlingly cynical.
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With all this in mind, it would be easy to become cynical and jaded.
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Is it to become more cynical like the British or is there something else?
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Far beyond merely being completely cynical, he was passionately in love with presenting evil.
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In case you're still cynical, bipartisan work on elections has a good track record.
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That may sound cynical, but what happened with cancer drugs suggests Novack's probably right.
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Glance at Bustle and you'll miss the fact that it is a cynical enterprise.
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The "feminism" brand is making media stupider, its consumers less rather than more cynical.
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"This cynical business model has enabled armed groups to accumulate vast wealth," it adds.
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I was mentally exhausted, emotionally drained, and more cynical than I'd like to be.
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It might be bitter and despairing and pessimistic, but it could never be cynical.
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Like it or not, only the threat of protectionism will change this cynical behavior.
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It is no wonder Americans have grown so cynical of the leaders they elected.
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The cynical story of the next Congress is what many expect from our lawmakers.
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Selling the tax cut as a job and wage booster is even more cynical.
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It's a cynical approach, even by Washington's standards, that should be dead on arrival.
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McConnell has nearly all of his Republican colleagues beat: His moderation itself was cynical.
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They can endure hard times without becoming cynical and can be generous toward others.
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"My fortunes are a little cynical for the mass market, I think," McInerney said.
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She was sharp on her message, confident with crowds and acerbic with cynical reporters.
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A self-described "cynical optimist," Pound surveys the landscape — or is it a wasteland?
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That's why some observers are cynical about Exxon's sincerity in curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Zaha Hadid, the British Iraqi architect, was a secret romantic in a cynical age.
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A more cynical person might think that this has been Google's intention all along.
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Re-contextualized and re-organized, the resulting installations are cynical representations of digital dystopias.
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As it turns out, the reasons are far less cynical than you might think.
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" BuzzFeed's Mat Honan: "The Facebook comments and tweets are either astoundingly naive or cynical.
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In a cynical moment, I get angry because I gotta be on the computer.
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The best Joyce Manor songs are vulnerable but not fragile, cleareyed but not cynical.
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We dare not make them more cynical by showing that their votes didn't count.
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Reyes, O'Rourke contended, had a cynical, outdated view of the government's war on drugs.
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He has nearly all of his Republican colleagues beat: His moderation itself was cynical.
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"The Audience will laugh at a cat being burned," one characteristically cynical line begins.
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Is Steve Bannon an earnest ideologue or is he a cynical and grandiose opportunist?
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The deception that drives the story is activated by a cynical bachelor, Don Alfonso.
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Then they get cynical and wise up, and start being a more 'conscious consumer.
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And Vivian is a fantastic narrator, self-aware and funny and just cynical enough.
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What was cynical and ironized, at the start, becomes earnest, direct, vulnerable, even hopeful.
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" The cynical answer: Kodak's surged 34 percent after it announced a "major blockchain initiative.
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That's no excuse for racism, let alone the cynical political exploitation of that racism.
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All these endeavors showcase a cynical intelligence that's on full view in Black Mirror.
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As my awareness (and age) grew, I became cynical, hypercritical, and hard on myself.
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Allowing the Sackler family to whitewash Purdue's mess is hideously cruel and insurmountably cynical.
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He was deeply cynical about the human condition, and didn't take do-gooders seriously.
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"Kids can be kind of cynical and say, 'There goes my spot,'" she said.
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But the euphoria turned cynical and the acrimony on both sides grew more heated.
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Under the guidance of a cynical philosopher, two young men test their girlfriends' fidelity.
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" He's also "a John Hughes for a darker, more cynical, way more libidinous age.
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The paper's coverage of California as a land of possibility was decidedly not cynical.
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He is a John Hughes for a darker, more cynical, way more libidinous age.
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Gelambong's discovery had left him cynical about the industry that had overtaken his home.
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But cynical pandering, at this point, is all the NFL knows how to do.
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If the conclusion doesn't bring a tear to your eye, you're way too cynical.
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A feminist tale of rape and revenge, or an exercise in chic, cynical misogyny?
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In post-Soviet Russia, the same cynical mendacity has become the Putin government's hallmark.
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But there was nothing cynical or conspiratorial about the way I cast this movie.
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In the years after "Friday," she fended off all kinds of cynical business entreaties.
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State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin called the questioning a "cynical provocation," according to Reuters.
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Would it be cynical to see this move as a continuation of this trend?
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That exposes a more fundamental and cynical reason that Congress shies away from acting.
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Will earnestness and conviction continue to seem insufficient in the face of cynical trolling?
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The show's exclusive focus on providing men with physical upgrades now plays as cynical.
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We've got to fix the mindset that only leaves people cynical at our government.
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Putin's moral outrage may have been a cynical performance, but his anger appeared genuine.
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Heartbeat's version, by contrast, is a cynical realist who knows firsthand what killing involves.
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Not every such plot is successful: a few feel tone-deaf or overly cynical.
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And since my cynical self is on fire, I'll take it a step farther.
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Years and years of exhaustion have also made these people weary, cynical and disgusted.
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Don't allow yourself to grow cynical and pessimistic - stand up and fight for change.
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I know that's cynical of me, and that's why I'm trying to better understand.
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Mr. Wheeler's cynical ploy to upend the mercury regulations is emblematic of his agenda.
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The show's exclusive focus on providing men with physical upgrades now plays as cynical.
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To a generation of cynical internet users, TikTok videos are purely targets of ridicule.
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"A cynical ploy," said Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, one of the co-sponsors.
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EJ: Even my cold, cynical, Grinch-like heart, I enjoyed a lot of it.
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I'm just cynical enough to think that, yes, they will vote to confirm him.
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I hope you'll forgive me if that claim gets a cynical groan from me.
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They haven't learned that being smart means being cynical about what you can accomplish.
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A cynical observer might conclude that the administration wanted the report to go unnoticed.
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There is an idealistic and a cynical reason for automatic equivalence in political reporting.
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And I'm a bit cynical about the academy and what it does to artists.
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But Giuliani is not an unqualified pick for this position, just a cynical one.
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In Five Feet Apart, Cole Sprouse plays Will, a cynical teenager living with cystic fibrosis.
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Depending on how cynical you are, there's another another name for this phenomenon: plot armor.
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So this was a cynical act by the president at the end of the week.
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It feels as though people are becoming too cynical too buy into that original story.
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The cynical answer is that Comcast is confident it will find a way to cheat.
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The show that started as a cynical thrill ride is suddenly serving tear-worthy moments.
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It feels pretty cynical, even if Wenger's answer is thoughtful and given with a smile.
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We have a highly cynical population that does not trust elite bromides for this problem.
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It feels like cynical acceptance has gone mainstream for some, and everyone else has left.
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Rome, on the other hand, for all its ravishing beauty, is corrupt, chaotic and cynical.
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And a cynical focus on harm makes it hard for all sides to be pragmatic.
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Lael Hansen is more cynical than Sagittarius Shawty, and knows it doesn't matter what's real.
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This job experience made me more cynical about the world and more skeptical of corporations.
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One can see why venture capitalists have become jaded, cynical about the onslaught of pitches.
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I love my character because she's so laid back and so world-wary and cynical.
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IT IS easy to be cynical about government—and rarely does such cynicism go unrewarded.
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Plus a truck tonne of spin and cynical blame shifting manufactured by the company itself.
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The lyric is really good because it's dark and cynical and not at all fluffy.
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The book was not a cynical look at the way we interact with our phones.
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But I haven't been in love in a long time, so I'm a bit cynical.
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Yet until cynical politicians started paying attention, the main charge the compact faced was toothlessness.
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But critics said the lack of regulation can allow a somewhat cynical exploitation of tragedy.
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And made its low fee claim look more like a cynical grab for user data.
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In their air campaign, they have been careless and incompetent at best, and probably cynical.
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As the protector of America's climate-stressed environment, he is either misguided or extremely cynical.
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With little memory of the war, they tend to be more cynical about the MPLA.
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A little cynical, but at least 100 percent true if you're being honest with yourself.
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"(This) is a cynical, misinformed and unconstitutional piece of legislation," she told reporters in Vancouver.
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Cynical employers may latch onto other benefits - generous programs can attract already healthy job candidates.
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Such a cynical view of the NFL is what "Key and Peele" warned us about.
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A more cynical look is Snapchat's riding that fine line to boost its download numbers.
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A clear eye toward the future, not a cynical appeal to the good old days.
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It is easy to see a cynical calculation by the White House at play here.
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Or are they a cynical attempt to make money by playing on our worst fears?
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It's easy to hate the cynical dreck he's put out, and his hacky performances therein.
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Perhaps it is a great cynical strategy to be unclear but I am not convinced.
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Blockchain is increasingly drawing the attention of retail investors cynical of IPOs and their corruption.
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Next to the Rock, Statham is atypically understated, and his cynical softness works remarkably well.
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It's also about exposing the truly cynical business model animating all of this noise, right?
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Meanwhile, a cynical publicity campaign aimed to keep The Bell Curve away from scholarly critics.
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But Trump may have found a way around its requirements that sets a cynical example.
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It made voters so utterly cynical that many figured, Why not inflict Trump on them?
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After Life is a minor triumph: bleak, bitter, cynical and, in the end, sincerely uplifting.
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Many Liberians are broadly disillusioned and cynical regarding the honesty and integrity of their politicians.
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You're not cynical about seeing, for example, match fixing, the way some have become suspicious?
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Right now, "the woman card" and "the race card" are broadly seen as cynical tactics.
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A cynical strain of conventional wisdom says that nothing moves public opinion of Mr Trump.
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They brim with true tales of sacrifice and petty-mindedness, miraculous breakthroughs and cynical betrayal.
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He wasn't cynical about it, and he didn't feel his message was being cheapened either.
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Either way, she just validated one of Republicans' most cynical ploys of the Obama era.
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He was being cynical, but he was also acknowledging the power of perspective and feeling.
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Were they simply cynical, knowing that their provisions would not in fact protect the taxpayers?
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It represents exactly the type of bad governance that makes Americans cynical of big government.
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In fact, it is a cynical, abusive and, some might say, evil form of brilliance.
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Katrin, a cynical and capricious queen bee, is beautiful and more than a little cruel.
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It is mercurial, pragmatic and cynical; its meaning and values change to fit the circumstances.
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Perhaps, if you squint your brain, there is some truth to its central, cynical assertion.
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The investors called the move "a transparent and cynical attempt to maintain" the board's power.
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Prior to the weekend, we'd started to feel a little cynical about the Leicester fairytale.
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Only admitting that would be tantamount to admitting that prohibition is both cynical and pointless.
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They should imagine how tinny, how hypocritical, how cynical they will sound when they complain.
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I might be more cynical, which is odd because I'm twelve years older than him.
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So, that sort of jokey, cynical/LOL nothing matters, that sort of philosophy ... OD: Right.
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Even by the low standards of the 21st century, this has been a cynical process.
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Garfield also has a direct, simple, and consistent persona: Garfield is lazy, grumpy, and cynical.
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Don't be too cynical, because you're one of them, too; fight it all you want.
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The cynical response is to claim that they do so only to secure re-election.
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It's not a cynical, spiteful laugh, but a hopeful and desperate one — the survival kind.
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Now they're making a cynical play to get Trump to go back on his word.
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The sonic attacks on Americans are too serious to be used for cynical political ends.
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The Republicans' attempt to outsource the questioning of Dr. Blasey is cynical, sexist and cowardly.
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How cynical can anyone be to choose deceit and death over truth and social responsibility?
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The United States could not be viewed as a cynical paper tiger on human rights.
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The cynical, partisan implication of Trump's comments is that elected officials like Baltimore-area Rep.
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Ilegal is appropriately cynical commentary for the ingrained lack of justice within the troubled nation.
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Wags, for example, is usually among the most cynical and suspicious characters of the bunch.
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The state-run media has described them as too cynical, independent and apathetic about politics.
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And there's nothing so cynical as a corporate strategy dressed up to look like empowerment.
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It was Johnson's cynical speech to the nation that caused the whole thing to spiral.
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"We cannot afford to be tired or cynical," Ms. Abrams said on Twitter on Monday.
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Even cynical anti-shoppers should give the Codfish Cowboy (891 West Beech Street) a chance.
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But those actions stand in stark contrast to the cynical choreography of prominent resistance champions.
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To realize this potential, we must shed cynical assumptions about what is and isn't possible.
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Stamper is the most cynical view of a person in power, whereas Leo was aspirational.
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Harris warned that it was important not to be cynical about modern-day bail agents.
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Trump's cynical predictions of failure simply adds to that burden in an unhelpful, undemocratic way.
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He was mellow and sweet and optimistic, and I was angry and cynical and pessimistic.
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Was this a sincere change of heart, or merely a cynical shift in corporate messaging?
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"You know, we can be cynical about these things, but values count," Mr. Crocker said.
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Of course they do, the cynical thinking goes, that's what we do with our power.
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Some who have advocated Congress for more gun research are cautiously optimistic and others cynical.
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But I'm cynical that these companies' responses have anything to do with an ethical awakening.
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Robin made it through to the other side in a way that doesn't feel cynical.
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"I'm a lot more cynical than I used to be," Jewell said in Sack's story.
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Critics say short sellers are cynical opportunists who destroy shareholder value for their own gain.
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We need more of that in the increasingly cynical and predictable world of AAA gaming.
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Trump's presence at the game was already in and of itself a cynical political move.
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The response, she said, reflected a need for positivity during a cynical, often dispiriting, campaign.
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That, I suppose, would be the cynical view of this strange corner of corporate life.
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For a generation already cynical about government and the political system, this can be hard.
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Aro said westerners still don't understand "how cynical and massive" the Russian effort really is.
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The age was cynical but White's book, allowing for a lapse or two, is not.
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It's not that Hollywood movies, and even Hollywood blockbusters, can't handle a darkly cynical tone.
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They say it so often it has become a running joke among cynical climate journalists.
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He really understands the absurdity of life, but he doesn't let it make him cynical.
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Zappa's amalgam of genre-hurdling compositions, cynical humor and sleazy gross-outs was his alone.
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While both Pratchett and Gaiman's humour is often sarcastic, the book is anything but cynical.
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Barry is not a likeable protagonist, but Lake Success is not a purely cynical novel.
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I'm a little cynical about sort of "unlocking value shareholder split," financial complication, financial maneuvering.
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If God Friended Me were at all cynical about its premise, it would be unbearable.
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Again, I don't want to come off as cynical in this, though perhaps I am.
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It's a cynical ploy designed to jerk around the audience, not an authentic storytelling decision.
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And it's not like other, more cynical animals haven't been clamoring for their moment in the online spotlight: After all, raccoons have been on the rise lately — quite literally — and it'd be difficult to find a more cynical edgelord in all of the animal kingdom.
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If this sounds like a cynical view of my fellow citizens' motivations, a view heretofore advanced mostly by liberal critics of the right — well, look, it's been a year in which cynical interpretations of the conservative establishment have been vindicated time and time again.
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The whole point of a party establishment is to be cynical, detached, practical-minded, and realistic.
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Naturally, more cynical fans are chalking this up to a master plan from Kris Jenner herself.
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But for someone who was so cynical, he was also always full of hope and joy.
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"Playing politics with the FHA through cynical, surprise 11th hour rule changes is irresponsible," he added.
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I'm curious how have things changed or maybe you are cynical and I just don't know.
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Many Armenians saw that as a cynical ploy by Sarskyan to extend his hold on power.
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The cynical side of me wondered if perhaps the Speedfactory was an elaborate, expensive branding exercise.
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She's bubbly and bright, but beneath that candy shell is a bitter and somewhat cynical core.
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Our network refuses to look to the past to find cynical solutions to our nation's challenges.
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Ironically at the time, I was quite cynical about magic and religion and mysticism and spirituality.
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With each new chapter of her life, she's grown harder, more cynical, and better at killing.
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He writes a dour account of the future of engineering, which may well be too cynical.
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But it plays more like a cynical tragedy, a drama about regret, personal failings, and death.
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And when nothing gets done, voters become even more cynical about politics; it's a vicious circle.
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" Quotable "The first lady I went to, I went in and was very skeptical and cynical. . . .
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It's cynical, but it's cheering for us at the same time," Lloyd told CNBC's "Squawk Alley.
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Although we sold it in a rather ridiculous way, "I'm Too Sexy" itself is quite cynical.
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It's comedy that's often confrontational, cynical and caustic, but it's no less hysterical for its bluntness.
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Germans wrote of noble failure, of brave soldiers betrayed by a cynical or inept high command.
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That said, the whole conceit of the PixelQuest Arcade Kit seems a little cynical to me.
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His answer, delivered in the calmest of tones, managed to be both accurate and strikingly cynical.
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But I am convinced that for all his finger wagging, Thoreau is the opposite of cynical.
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And we get it, that lack of control can make us feel totally bummed and cynical.
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To those two cynical explanations for Mr Bolton's hiring, a more heartfelt one can be added.
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Yui and Naoko and then replicated again in the cyclical, cynical nature between Misato and Ritsuko.
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I think that Binky makes incorrect and cynical assumptions about the reason we use social media.
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I always think it's the most romantic comedy because it's cynical and that's what romance is.
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I expected to see a kind of cynical, laid back, phone-it-in, old pro performance.
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Congressman, last year, you know, playing along with my cynical friend, they have had some trouble.
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Cynical. Sarcastic. Ironic. All words not typically used to describe the contents of a kid's drawing.
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She's not being cynical when she says it's time to embrace what I'll call post-truth.
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The shift has heightened tensions in Europe, with France accusing Italy of "cynical" and irresponsible behavior.
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A study in relentless verbosity, it somehow managed to remain darkly comedic, blackly cynical, and delightful.
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It has failed to prevent widespread abuse by cynical operators, such as Manafort, that never registered.
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A group of leftist European lawmakers criticized the plan, saying it was inhumane, cynical and unacceptable.
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It was hard not to see the association's move as a cynical act of political pandering.
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And I'm not sure I can claim that the ending is any less cynical or sentimental.
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Since the U.S. presidential election, more workers report feeling more cynical and negative during the workday.
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Well, but you have a more hopeful view — [laughs] My cynical post-modernism is now hopeful.
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"It's hard not to get discouraged or cynical by the timescales involved with fusion," Cuneo said.
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It was a time when innocence quickly became cynical, when American mischief fermented into American mayhem.
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This cynical move would mark the beginning of their years-long effort to undercut the law.
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That cynical ploy may well be a way for Trump to rally that base to him.
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The Expanse books have always been bleak, cynical affairs, but this new installment feels especially hopeless.
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"On the other hand, even on the scale of hardball, cynical politics, this was a shocker."
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It was a gossip sheet for the digital age: abrasive, knowing, cynical, self-promoting, sometimes unfair.
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She's cynical, knows her selfie angles, and uses meme culture to channel her daily existential crisis.
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A cynical willingness to deploy racism isn't the only point of overlap between Bush and Trump.
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The protagonists of acclaimed women's fiction these days tend to be glamorous, self-centered, and cynical.
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Doubtful. Some China-watchers have dismissed Xi's embrace of free trade as cynical or downright dishonest.
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"The more cynical investor swoops in and buys when prices are at the bottom," Newport said.
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We don't want kids to be naïve, but we don't want them to be cynical, either.
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To call the growing movement to keep fossil fuels in the ground "naïve" is cynical denial.
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It was cynical and wrong, and it begs for reform so that it never happens again.
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This is why people are cynical about Washington when they hear this kind of double talk.
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" Cruz recently told reporters that if Democrats leaked the letter, "it was wrong, cynical and unethical.
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On the whole, Mapplethorpe's "Black Book" images, some of them portraits, don't feel cynical or opportunistic.
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And if you don&apost -- if you want to be skeptical or cynical about this, fine.
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She is an extension of Marlo, meant to represent a younger, less cynical version of herself.
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I want you to succeed in this world, but I don't want you to be cynical.
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Call me cynical, but I think this is probably because it only lasts for one month?
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As cynical as it may sound, I don't believe anything that comes from any of them.
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Or to put it another way, is there any way to make the public less cynical?
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"I'm a pessimist, and I am particularly cynical when it comes to politics," Ms. Wu said.
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Without respect for the sincerity of those ideals, painting will readily become prey to cynical imputations.
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Jumping into the world of online dating can make people seem more cynical, one woman said.
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The cynical alternative is to do nothing and waste a generational opportunity to get this right.
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For one has to admit that the G.O.P.'s cynical strategy is working to some extent.
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It's easy to criticize the Chainsmokers exploitation of nostalgia for commerce as a cheap, cynical ploy.
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He called it a "brilliantly cynical exercise in corporate locational strategy," and he might be right.
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Duggan paints Rand as cynical and shrewd in some ways, and hapless and naïve in others.
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When no meaningful legislation happened after our shooting, a lot of us became jaded and cynical.
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"What a cynical, mean-spirited, counterproductive and irresponsible step," said Doug Collins, the panel's top Republican.
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These failures are well known, but few know the cynical and racist origins of these programs.
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The cynical explanation, commonly heard in comedy circles, is that the service just outspent everyone else.
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In truth, Mr. Trump's promise was false hope, a cynical campaign pledge divorced from economic reality.
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The cynical explanation for these partnerships is that they're short-term co-branding and marketing stunts.
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Is it a cynical calculation — make the A.C.A. fail, then claim that it was already doomed?
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It will be humorous, it will be fun and, despite your cynical self, you will laugh.
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A cynical interpretation of this attitude is that some students want to keep the competition down.
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Unfortunately, as a result, Lu sometimes feels more like a cynical plot device than a character.
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India's lynch mobs today represent the latest and most grisly expression of such cynical political ideologies.
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Their performances are often dismissed with the cynical rejoinder: Who wouldn't win with that much talent?
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But it's because I'm not cynical that I don't like being pushed around by unearned sentimentality.
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Ms. Day's Tracey is more cynical, especially when she decides to apply for that managerial job.
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And it forced even the most cynical to consider what were we doing for our country?
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This "corporate PAC" pledge represents cynical symbolism that may not impact our campaign finance system directly.
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His apologizing for the practice as he began his campaign struck many as a tad cynical.
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Deeply cynical minds might have felt that his description of average Americans sounded a little … remote.
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I get why why people thought this movie was too dour, too cynical, or too ridiculous.
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The longer these stay unresolved, and subject to cynical manipulation, the worse the consequences could be.
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It's quite a cynical argument: We engaged in war crimes, so it can't possibly be genocide.
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Polls consistently show most are cynical and unwilling to give up the wheel to a computer.
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"It's cynical racism for his own political gain" -- @BilldeBlasio explains his comments on @realDonaldTrump https://t.
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For them to propagate this analogy in the name of human rights is cynical and manipulative.
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Authoritarian leaders are aware of this fact, and they exploit it to their own cynical ends.
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The Witcher is a grim story with complicated politics and a cynical view of the world.
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Mr. Branover accused Calabria of making nominal changes in a cynical attempt to flout the ruling.
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Not to be cynical, but Democrats forcing Franken out is hardly a profile in political courage.
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Considering its actions, it's hard to wonder if it's anything other than a cynical PR stunt.
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What was more surprising — or, for the cynical, more predictable — was the way it percolated up.
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Jen is older than the first-time kindergarten mothers, and wiser — or at least more cynical.
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When the term did not have a commercial or cynical cast, but had reach and resonance.
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Despite Mr. Trump's cynical advice, New York Republicans said they were not offended by the comments.
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Not only does that not ... It's out there in ... It's a cynical argument that people make.
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And, if forced, even the most cynical, to consider what were we doing for our country?
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While Museum of Capitalism often oscillates between earnest and tongue-in-cheek, it is never cynical.
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"Rural people are more cynical about the federal government than people in general are," Stauber said.
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Frank Bruni Somewhere between the Zika stories, the doping stories and the stories about what a fetid, toxic swamp Rio really is, I got the message: I was supposed to feel cynical about these Olympics, the way we feel cynical about pretty much everything these days.
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Mr. Putin may even believe this, following the cynical Soviet view of international politics instilled in him in his K.G.B. years as a vicious game of thrones in which the West's concern for human rights or rules are just cynical weapons to be deployed when needed.
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Outside of its cynical endings, Far Cry 5 can't conceive of this sort of risk or finality.
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" Fagen described his bandmate on Sunday as "cynical about human nature, including his own, and hysterically funny.
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We hope that there's some purpose here – even a cynical one – because otherwise it's just pure sadism.
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The whole thing is so brazenly cynical that you might expect BNN to be exposed, but no.
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This whole plot is, I think, key to why Corporate ultimately avoids feeling too cynical to live.
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Basically it's a story that will be shockingly relatable to even the most cynical Gilmore Girls fan.
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" Berry told the Boston Globe that the tweet was intended to be a "snarky, sarcastic, cynical remark.
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A slightly less cynical version of it would be, well, we can reach a much bigger audience.
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Chinese leaders feel blindsided, seeing it as a cynical ploy to corner them into accepting the announcement.
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I think those are very important things in this day and age because we become pretty cynical.
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Those visions exist within conservative circles, but the cynical, slapdash process Ryan put together hasn't unearthed them.
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Murphy Brown was more adult and more cynical, like the national news show where it was set.
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"This cynical strategy will fail," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said in a statement.
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" The actor also told Deadline that the show "doesn't take itself too serious but it's not cynical.
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But if there was a cynical cash-grab behind the scenes, The Conners displays no schadenfreude onscreen.
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That more cynical outlook on marriage was temporary — thanks, in part, to meeting her now-fiancé, Cook.
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Gary, the cynical survivor of male breast cancer, makes terrible jokes to mask his anger and fear.
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Maybe I'm too cynical here, but I think a lot of the battle will be around messaging.
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But this is one reason so many people outside of Washington have grown so cynical about politics.
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So it's natural that someone like me can become cynical and untrusting when it comes to relationships.
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If you spend your vacation crafting the perfect Instagram story, you should be more cynical about it.
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But as cynical as the show has been, it's also been consistent about not blaming technology itself.
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That is notwithstanding the fact that the vice-president's speech was in some ways cynical and reckless.
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By 2007 viewers were glued to "The Great Ming Dynasty 1566", a cynical drama about rampant corruption.
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Many of the institutions that once offered promising careers have been exposed for their cynical, greedy motives.
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Chinese leaders felt blindsided, seeing it as a cynical ploy to corner them into accepting the announcement.
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That's an admittedly cynical view of Lean In, but one that reflects the flaws in its arguments.
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The Democratic candidate's wish to neutralise the toxic politics of school reform has another, less cynical cause.
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And though Trump may be relying more on erratic behavior than cynical plotting, we're still paying attention.
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It's a bleak and cynical view of the young generation, and one that, frankly, they don't deserve.
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And voters I think didn&apost expect that because they got cynical and thought it would happen.
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I wouldn't call them "cover" because that makes it sound like they're engaged in some cynical act.
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At worst it is a cynical tool that risks hurting the economy and thus the poorest citizens.
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Recognizing this, it seems foolish — or worse, cynical — to layer even more responsibilities on the strained FEC.
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But even those who are more cynical tend to hold a certain respect for Jolie and Pitt.
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His arrest in December 2016 was universally seen by supporters as a cynical attempt to muzzle him.
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On a slightly more cynical level, The Last of Us may have also set a marketing precedent.
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Unless I investigate every event, I never have an opinion on it, because I'm just so cynical.
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Despite this, Bannerless is interesting because it feels like it was imported from another, less cynical era.
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According to Variety, Wilson plays a cynical woman who discovers her life has become a romantic comedy.
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"I've always distrusted doctors, and all these unhelpful diagnoses have made me even more cynical," he says.
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How am I going to convince one of the most cynical, suspicious, brilliant minds that I'm real?
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And on On the Beach, he is cynical about the world, but happy to be that friend.
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Now that he's heard of the potential of social VR, even my cynical gamer boyfriend is excited.
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Shepherd said she's become "too cynical" to assume climate change will get a question at a debate.
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This is not a personal attack, this is a response to a fairly cynical quote you gave.
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It's a cynical look not just at society and its structures and strictures, but at love itself.
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But really, that cynical perspective can work in tandem with a dreamier take on the portrait's charms.
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In fact, it seems like a cynical and shameless ploy to take advantage of people's sporting fandom.
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But it's a great prop for pretending you're in one of the more cynical Ray Bradbury stories.
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This is the cynical weaponization of fandom, in which studios use our love of something against us.
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He's cynical and jaded, but spending time with Rogers shifts his ideas about what's important in life.
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Democrats should remember, before they get too cynical, that this strategy worked in the 2016 presidential election.
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There's a cynical element too; a go-ahead for any big project gives new jobs to voters.
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And it reinforces the cynical view of the mobsters that their adversaries are no better than them.
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Washington, DC became more like Netflix's House of Cards, a deeply cynical drama about abuses of power.
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This weak-sauce response illustrates why the entire Republican Party bears responsibility for this reckless, cynical move.
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We will show up to defend our rights and oppose Trump's cynical attack on our democratic values.
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"People are basically cynical in many ways because they haven't seen a lot of accountability," Hill said.
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You don't want to be that person that's cynical before it happens, because it could be awesome.
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The next morning—in what Haaretz called a "cowardly and cynical reversal"—he reneged on the agreement.
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"An honest politician" sounds like a contradiction in terms to many in this deeply cynical political moment.
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The cynical among us might say that every date in June, July and August is Bug Day.
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"We cannot be complacent and we cannot be cynical, because the stakes are too high," Obama said.
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But it's cynical and prejudicial to assume that every Trump voter is a racist or a misogynist.
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Wanton violence and cynical destruction; looting police stations, stealing guns and uniforms; incitement and threats of violence.
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It's too cynical, or too scared, to be as grisly or as dirty as it should be.
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The Republican effort to block Merrick Garland's appointment has apparently been as successful as it was cynical.
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That may be "a cynical ploy, but it may very well be one that works," he added.
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Fascists led the former, while Communists, both the cynical and naïve varieties, sought control of the latter.
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His purely transactional, nakedly cynical diplomacy rejects longstanding U.S. support for collective security, multilateral trade, and democracy.
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However, I did get more cynical because I realized how many legitimate problems there are in society.
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PCP labelled Barclays's argument a "misconceived and cynical attempt" to avoid responding to "grave and serious" allegations.
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Even the most cynical among us must stand back and marvel at Chance the Rapper's Christmas Spirit.
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I know this sounds cynical, but in a way, it does seem like a kind of branding.
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And at just nine years old, she's much better than most of the cynical writers out there.
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It is, on the whole, thoroughly forgettable, and its setup for a future sequel feels vaguely cynical.
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Call me cynical for not expecting this to happen ever, but let's be charitable for a second.
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The "Bad Blood" singer and her British beau aren't the only celebrity couple under cynical scrutiny, however.
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"I resist and fight against sometimes that very cynical, more realistic view of the world," he said.
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"Online dating was new, and people were much more sincere about dating and less cynical," she said.
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There, he meets the cynical 22 (Tina Fey), a soul who doesn't believe life is worth living.
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"He was never cynical and would never let the cynicism of politics get to him," she said.
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"There a lot of shows that have a deeply cynical take on the world," Mr. Kim said.
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Investors have ignored ugly crackdowns before; that feeds cynical expectations that harsh measures will be forgiven again.
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Rather, it is a cynical re-election ploy with no regard for cost in American blood. Shame!
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And if the lyrics aren't intended as a knowing wink to taking ket then color me cynical.
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Quite frankly, and maybe this is me being cynical, but I wasn't surprised at the 2016 election.
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Opinion Columnist I have a confession to make: I have been insufficiently cynical about modern conservative economics.
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To see that even under the most cynical of circumstances, love would find a way through adversity.
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Carlos Rosas, who lives in Arlington, is cynical about his chances of getting legal status through Congress.
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And the themes they explore are tired, cynical, sub-Disney bromides about family reconciliation and self-discovery.
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Endowed with the immense powers of his office, he lacks the cynical Old Oligarch's understanding of politics.
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I'm a little bit cynical because I think it was very connected to the whole #MeToo movement.
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Witness just how out of touch and callous he becomes as he goes through his cynical paces.
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It is the kind of cynical behavior that detracts from Mr. Cuomo's often-impressive ability to govern.
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Being tired, ambivalent, stressed, cynical and overextended has become a normal part of a working professional life.
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"Looking at the world today, it's quite easy to be cynical about this opera," Mr. Kratzer said.
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Kellyanne Conway occasionally gets the treatment, mainly for making cable-news pundits flail with impossibly cynical arguments.
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When something is promoted as free, the first thing cynical shoppers do is look for the catch.
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It wasn't about who had the better cause, or who had the more cynical support from outside.
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We can add "exhausted" to words like "cynical" and "busy" that we wear as badges of honor.
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"This stock market is about as un-cynical as you can get," the "Mad Money " host said.
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It takes a certain kind of person to play that kind of game — namely, a cynical careerist.
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At worst, it is a cynical charade of mediocre athletes playacting as tennis pros, vulnerable to corruption.
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Rather, for most politicians, it's a cynical, politically expedient talking point that changes with the electoral winds.
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Thompson backtracks a bit at the end, but his cynical message is clear: Don't romanticize traditional journalism.
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Other Nangarhar residents took a more cynical view of what exactly led to the defeat of ISIS.
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Gita: I still think that the general niceness of Animal Crossing defeats these like more cynical readings.
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We live in a cynical culture, and yet the young, beautiful, talented, and famous still thrill us.
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His "literacy program" wasn't altruistic; it was a cynical effort to spread his dangerous philosophy & consolidate power.
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But Mr. Trump, when it comes to television, is much more cynical, cunning and savvier than that.
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That's the cynical lesson on offer here: You can't crash if you never get off the ground.
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Otherwise, we can discount his climate-change rhetoric as just a cynical ploy to get more cash.
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They are not cynical, they're not trying to turn the affairs of state to their own benefit.
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Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) is cynical beyond her years — and no wonder: She's trapped in a time loop
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But after years of marching many are cynical while others are too busy trying to find food.
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With eighteen years left in his sentence, he grew pessimistic, and his letters became terse and cynical.
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As cynical as this is, it is also tragic because the Izembek Refuge is a special place.
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KERNEN: ASK HIM IF HE'S DOING THIS IN A CYNICAL WAY TO CURRY FAVOR THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.
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It would have been easy enough for either Omar or Tlaib to point out McCarthy's cynical hypocrisy.
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She described him as "arrogant, deceptive, cynical, manipulative asshole," adding in a "fuck you" for good measure.
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I don't mean to suggest that you declared that you suffered from alcoholism out of cynical intentions.
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It's cynical on his part to do anything more than to suggest it is worth a visit.
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I kept journals when I was a kid, and when I got older I was really cynical.
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They just it do better than anyone else out there on this brutal, cynical hellscape of a brandscape.
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Beneath her explicitly heterosexual exterior was a cynical tomboy femme, just waiting to come out and date me.
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Aggressively cynical, indifferent to the lives of men, Daria would have made a great lesbian and proud misandrist.
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That's because, under the cynical fog of Valentine's Day, even the corniest pick-up lines sound half-funny.
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I hope that the cynical times don't ruin that; that people just don't want to tear people down.
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There is a cynical reading to his positioning, Susan Antilla and Gary Rivlin recently wrote in the Intercept.
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I battle all the time not to be too cynical; I want to believe the best of people.
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Say what you will, but no matter the potential cynical motivations, he's donated billions to those in need.
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Television news is a cynical business, and some current and former executives say the battle is win-win.
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When to use it: Whenever a blissful ray of pure, unfiltered delight punctures your dark and cynical soul.
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Californians deserve better than the cynical efforts of companies seeking to avoid honoring consumers' constitutional rights to privacy.
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But some worry that this is a cynical bias and an affront to academic freedom and intellectual progress.
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The cynical might be forgiven for seeing in such vagueness a license to cherry-pick the most comely.
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She's one of those people who make me feel so cynical after doing it for all these years.
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He slams the PRI, the fugitive's party, as "corrupt and cynical" and the PAN as "corrupt and hypocritical".
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He shows a cynical disdain for the values America enshrined in global institutions after the second world war.
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That's fueled by Democrats and Republicans voting for their team while independents are deeply cynical about both parties.
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Kelly doesn't seem cynical that things will change right now, but she's aware of the challenges we face.
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Depressingly, the argument that follows is a cynical one about the relative strengths of China, America and Canada.
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But it is too big to maintain the self-interested, opportunistic, cynical worldview that helped it to rise.
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A more cynical view is that companies will lay off the employees once they are no longer needed.
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It made politicians less willing to compromise, which increased gridlock, which made people even more cynical about politics.
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"We are shocked by the cynical murder of Russian citizen Pavel Sheremet in central Kiev," said the statement.
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That is a profoundly cynical plea: with majorities in both chambers, Republicans could fund CHIP whenever they like.
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Cessna's cynical and borderline nihilistic cards are a perfect inspiration for the Scrooges and holiday-haters among us.
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The comic book was cynical and deliberately profane, but it was built around a road-trip adventure narrative.
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Perhaps El Guincho is secretly more cynical about the value of useless plastic doohickeys than his tribute implies.
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It was an exhibition of Trump-style reality denial without the showmanship, as inept as it was cynical.
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At best, nearly right; at worst, third-hand cynical cash-ins—and there's been a few of them.
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Viewed from a cynical eye, it's just the tides of human attention washing in and then out again.
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When you are idealistic and don't find what you're looking for, I see people being cynical, very sarcastic.
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You can view them as short-term cynical moves by an industry attempting to escape a political firestorm.
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Without wishing to sound too cynical, my expectations of the Oppo Find X's cameras are not very high.
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It's the two-month crown jewel of sports that stirs joy in even the most cynical of fans.
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It is easy to view these events as just more examples of companies being opportunistic, cynical or both.
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And yet we still see cynical efforts to overturn the Affordable Care Act and gut these important protections.
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It's no surprise that the most cynical candidate America has seen in recent memory can press the advantage.
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That Jughead is effectively homeless with an unstable sense of family adds new meaning to his cynical exterior.
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It's also earned a legion of haters for a boring, cynical style that slows play to a grind.
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But it's the memes — good ol' cynical, dumb memes — where the queer and trans community truly comes alive.
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Does it make me cynical to be bored of being able to shoot everything and anything I want?
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Lorelai's trip to California to "do Wild" is clearly just a cynical joke-tweet that went too far.
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The weird thing with You're the Worst is that as cynical as it is, it's also deeply romantic.
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Also, the original acoustic demo of "Born in the USA" exposes the patriotic hit's deeply cynical, paranoid core.
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So it's not surprising that some of Paul's critics are cynical about his motives and newfound moral compass.
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As a culture that is obsessed with celebrities, we love to remain one cynical step ahead of them.
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As the photos circulated across a bitterly cynical internet, outrage, scorn, and ridicule flew in the governor's direction.
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So is he the most cynical person in the world or the most stoned or just the dumbest?
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With the election less than three months away, it's a cynical way to make amends and repair fences.
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Can you imagine how cynical people would feel if the General Assembly told them their votes didn't count?
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Robert Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones), the organization's cynical, heavy-handed director, wants to kill Bourne at any cost.
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In making peace with Carol, and her cynical worldview, Morgan is becoming a more nuanced and capable survivor.
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Happily, the more cynical responses have generally been roundly castigatedBut the most poignant fan tribute didn't come online.
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"I used to be much more cynical about how much was up against us," she told the magazine.
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ROBERT KING We didn't think we'd last past the first 13 episodes — we tend to be fairly cynical.
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Cynical political ploys like this may get the attention of the media circuit and the various players involved.
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Maybe I'm not cynical, maybe I just need some more Vitamin D—more "Sunny Ways" as it were.
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It was, as one of the Valley's more cynical turns of phrase has it, a "buzzword-compliant" talk.
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He is being portrayed, by some, as a cynical opportunist, trying to make money from his royal connection.
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The moral and the aesthetic are fundamentally opposed mental exercises—as Balthus demonstrates, and exploits, with cynical panache.
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"I know this is cynical, but people are going to have to experience the damage first," said Siders.
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There are cynical ideologues that would lead you to believe that our energy choices are all or nothing.
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Of course, Facebook has made no such claim, that's just a (only slightly) cynical guess on my part.
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Older people oftentimes have thick skins and are cynical, and young people are fresh and full of hope.
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If you like "Broad City," but wish it were more cynical and less joyous, this is for you.
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As Sheila, the line's oldest and most cynical dancer, Ms. Mellon is another reason to trust the production.
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Might sound like it on stage, but I listen," he continued, adding that today's political climate was "cynical.
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But from a purely cynical view, Putin has good reason to point to the waltz as a model.
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If anything, we need more of them to balance out cynical foreign influence in a pro-gun direction.
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They are self-centered and cynical, manipulating resentment with half-truths and untruths, accommodating the loony extremist right.
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Clinton's expressions set off a range of reactions, from relief to delight, to accusations of cynical political maneuvering.
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The tonal whiplash is part of Wolfenstein's charm, and the game constantly takes advantage of your cynical expectations.
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It felt like a year had gone by, and I was a different person: emotionally exhausted, more cynical.
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Keeping these awkward moments in the film reveals Loznitsa's cynical and ironic gaze at this highly theatrical event.
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But there's still something cynical about the MCU's treatment of him as a kind of Iron Man protégé.
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Tumblr users who have blogged about the news are overwhelmingly cynical about Verizon and supportive of net neutrality.
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But the movie brilliantly (and surprisingly, at least to my cynical ass) shines in its portrayal of friendship.
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The cynical way to look at this is that bar customers are paying to serve as lab rats.
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But as comically clueless as Wilson and Juan may be, they aren't held up for easy, cynical ridicule.
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CARAMANICA Here's the best Rolling Stones song in decades, all cynical attitude and lunging garage-rock guitar chords.
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It is the darkest, most cynical expression of Gene Roddenberry's vision, and it has its own unique identity.
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I was maybe not cynical enough about that side of the process, how much of it was sales.
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Some historians think the conservative Congress that passed it was merely being cynical, offering a sop to reformers.
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It is difficult to imagine a more bloodless season than this one, or a more generally cynical one.
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The alternative is an abrasive self-consciousness that pretends to be subversive but quickly turns sour and cynical.
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They're what give him continuity and imbue him with longevity beyond the cynical, gritty hyperviolence of the '90s.
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Is that huge collar popped as a buffer against the cold or the machinations of a cynical government?
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And the variously incompetent, venal and cynical counselors, lawyers and "male experts on rape" are obvious straw men.
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Some days, if I'm feeling particularly old or cynical, I'll watch a YouTube video of a little kid.
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I, on the other hand, was already a cynical asshole so I used to tease him a lot.
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Dodds said it was a cynical ploy to suggest Brexit would cause the Good Friday agreement to unravel.
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Yet his main goal is the cynical one of shortening the time for MPs to stop no-deal.
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And so, for reasons that he recalled as "pragmatic, really, and cynical," he decided to start with Rwanda.
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And in the movie's suddenly cynical universe, that's the material that apparently carries Ally to the Grammy Awards.
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I will not let anyone sacrifice its structures on the altar of a highly cynical and ruthless mercantilism.
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But as the battle swelled on Tuesday, some aid workers accused the coalition of engaging in cynical manipulations.
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And I'm not even going to be cynical about it, because I don't even know where I'd start.
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Normally developing teenagers veer from egoistic to altruistic, from cynical to whimsical and from wily to utterly sincere.
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It was a cynical approach, but when I, newly single, applied it to dating, it got fantastic results.
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The episode betrayed a government that is just as centralized, controlling and cynical as the one it replaced.
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" Representative José E. Serrano, Democrat of New York, on the other hand, called the boycott "cynical and unnecessary.
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"They are cynical woke actors who don't give a damn about Joe Rogan or Bernie Sanders," Enjeti said.
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His comic is earthy, cynical and profane, as anyone who has spent time around enlisted Marines would expect.
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But one needn't be cynical about the workings of representative democracy to recognize the limits of that idea.
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On the other hand, this might just be a cynical PR move to capitalize on a tragic accident.
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I realize that this all sounds hopelessly old-fashioned and out of step with our angry, cynical times.
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In this election, Mr. Trump engaged in a profoundly cynical campaign that bulldozed faith in our government institutions.
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In many ways, for the worse: It made us cynical and distrustful of our institutions, especially of government.
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METAIRIE, La. — Donatas Motiejunas, the New Orleans Pelicans' new 7-footer, may sound delusional to cynical N.B.A. observers.
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A new book from a former Israeli president aims to inject some optimism into a politically cynical world.
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Television news is a cynical business, and some current and former executives say the battle is win-win.
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"Beautiful Day" views Fred Rogers through the eyes of a cynical journalist assigned to profile him for Esquire .
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For years, Aubrey Plaza of Parks and Recreation stole the hearts of privately sappy, openly cynical people everywhere.
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