CYNICS may regard the phrase "political morality" as an oxymoron.
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Though cynics might snark otherwise, Billboard chart positions aren't meaningless.
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And where do cynics go to let out their emotions?
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But there are, as expected, a handful of cynics too.
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But like all cynics I prefer to call it realism.
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But what if the cynics and doomsday predictors are wrong?
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It's not that they're cynics; they've just never seen it.
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It's enough to melt the hearts of the most jaded cynics.
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But it's a feel-good movie with nothing to offer cynics.
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Perry had one message for cynics (in case there were any).
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These political cynics "think the whole system is corrupt," she added.
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Mr. Nelson encourages his students to be skeptics rather than cynics.
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Cynics say your voice doesn't matter or your vote doesn't count.
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For a group full of cynics, it was cool to see!
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Cynics might criticize the comparison to dark matter as a stretch.
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And there will need to be some cynics in the room.
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Despite the bigots and the cynics, immigration is good for our country.
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Cynics might say NBC just wanted to look like the good guy.
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Cynics, sit down: What more do you want out of a movie?
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Civil servants cited regulations; cynics noted the mayor's rivalry with the president.
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This alliance of true believers and cynics makes for a shaky foundation.
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But it's also that money politics gives cynics good reason for cynicism.
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Cynics suspect that the chancellor is interested in more than maximising value.
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They're both independent, they're both cynics, and they both live to hustle.
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Opportunities to prove cynics wrong by showing that government can still work.
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This might seem like overkill to some, but those cynics are wrong.
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These cynics expect what is sometimes called BRINO – "Brexit in name only".
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Ball knows about adversity, about expectations and injuries, about critics and cynics.
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Not because Reigns is as big as Cena—it's been howled about everywhere you care to look, from cynics and non-cynics, alike, that Reigns is simply not The Guy—but because WWE clearly wants him to be.
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It's hard to not get drunk on Obama nostalgia, even for us cynics.
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Cynics point out that the government's concern with diversity goes only so far.
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Rebel Wilson is here to convert all the rom-com cynics out there.
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She does everything with grace and simplicity, and people are cynics in Paris.
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For the cynics, the real takeaway is perhaps that the Switch is evolving.
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Pragmatists have their own kind of romanticism, cynics their own kind of naïveté.
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Cynics might be forgiven for thinking that they have heard this argument before.
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Some of the student leaders were getting social media heat from the cynics.
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Some cynics thought the title a touch inflated, even for cool-hand Jared.
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Cynics may conclude that thousands of non-existent service firms are inflating GDP data.
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Cynics say that data is unsecure in the cloud, but I don't buy that.
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Optimists, of course, are frequently disappointed, which is why we're often mistaken for cynics.
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Cynics might see this trend and think YouTubers are ridiculing their craft beyond recognition.
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For cynics and skeptics, a platform that hosts petitions is one-dimensional and flat.
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Throughout my career, I have encountered cynics who've told me, 'You can't do that.
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Whether or not the cynics believe it, every vote really can make a difference.
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Political cynics would argue that you get what you pay for when supporting campaigns.
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Cynics dismiss such facts by saying that all politicians lie, particularly about international politics.
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Cynics and Walmart-haters will still criticize the decision as not going far enough.
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Cynics and nuts are probably going to have a hard time securing Senate confirmation.
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Cynics abound — and the likelihood that the protest made a real impact is low.
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Cynics believe America's global engagement is similar to what adversaries like China and Russia do.
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MBS curried favour with Mr Trump by buying $110bn worth of American weapons, cynics say.
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Cynics note that the crisis may help Theresa May's potential successors burnish their leadership credentials.
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SULLIVAN: BUT THE CYNICS WOULD SAY TO THAT, YOU'RE JUST LEGISLATING IN A NEW MARKET.
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Get ready cynics — this elderly couple is about to make you believe in true love.
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This is one beautiful love story that will give us all — even the cynics — hope.
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Cynics might assume this means that Charlie Bean's film is the runt of the litter.
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The cynics will tell you there is little reason to follow the N.B.A. regular season.
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As an N.B.A. addict, I love it when the cynics are forced to stuff it.
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The cynics were soon put in their place by the hawks of Trumpelson News Inc.
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In a sea of cynics, she works hard to make her city a better place.
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City leaders "were holding a ceremony that some cynics were calling a funeral," he wrote.
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Cynics suspected Steyer was using the issue to set himself up for a presidential campaign.
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A public apology from the International Association of Naysayers, Cynics, and Other Not-Nice Internet Folks?
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Cynics will not be able to resist Donnie Yen's performance, which steals every scene he's in.
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But as cynics would dismissively philosophize, you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
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Cynics may—quite rightly—suggest that the process allows IBM chance for a little self-promotion.
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Cynics might say that Trump's no different from other candidates, and that all politicians tell lies.
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Cynics mask their prudishness, their unwillingness to probe pleasure, memory and play that occur in combination.
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The House and Senate passage of the GOP tax bills shows the cynics had it right.
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In an age of cynics, he was, and on the evidence of "Memoirs" remains, an idealist.
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Am I hardening into one of those embittered cynics who always expect the worst from people?
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LCD Soundsystem has always been a band for cynics who are desperate to embrace moments of purity.
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Well, if the cynics win this round, at least Offset likes to wear his hair shoulder length.
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The cynics say De La Hoya chose the biggest Texan venue to obscure Canelo's ducking of GGG.
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But the news was met with jokes from cynics comparing it to drugs like ecstasy, he added.
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Budapest cynics say that Fidesz's opponents are simply angry because it is better-organised than the Socialists.
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It's simply their dogged dedication against haters, bean counters and cynics who are repeatedly, easily, shown wrong.
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But even though the injury was very real, cynics speculated it was a ploy for sympathy votes.
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Cynics say the idea that tax cuts lead to sustained growth exceeding 3 percent is fairy dust.
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Cynics have long suspected that tinkering with weightings is one way to keep the overall figure steady.
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Those closest to him say he does not want to silence cynics; he wants to convert them.
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Cynics can call Cohen a liar all day long, but there's no cross-examining a signed check.
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"Cynics would say perhaps screening is not effective because six of eight deaths were missed," said Malhotra.
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Of course, as you would expect, the cynics were wrong: The photo ops were actually quite terrible.
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Cynics might say Fashion Climbing is a cash grab, a fully written book with a prominent name attached.
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"It even came with apologies from the cynics who were so adamant initially," Ritchie, 50, told the magazine.
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But in the world of psychology, one practice is turning cynics into believers with its amazing results: mindfulness.
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They were loud and obnoxious (and for you cynics — no, those are not considered virtues in New York).
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Cynics often use the subject of food to nitpick at Extinction Rebellion activists (or vegan dinner-party guests).
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But the bill unveiled this week is worse than even the cynics expected; its awfulness is almost surreal.
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Cynics dismissed this as a vote-getting stunt by a politician who is not really ready for annexation.
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They are cynics jeopardizing the rule of law to pursue a partisan agenda, and their antics cannot continue.
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They're after something saccharine — which is not a quality the hard-bitten cynics of my motherland are known for.
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Cynics muse that something similar may be behind the recent decline in violence—an election is due in February.
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Cynics argue that the real targets of such hiring decisions are not ex-politicians, but those still in office.
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"President Clinton has decided to stand up against Trump and the cynics driving a political agenda," an aide said.
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The video, posted by 7 News, will melt even the most steadfast of cynics into a puddle of goo.
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And currency market cynics will seize this apparent policy impotency as grounds for yuan devaluation; a favorite conspiracy theory.
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Cynics might be tempted to dismiss such measures as an easy way for yuppies to assuage their guilty consciences.
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If your cynicism disappears, even for a moment, you are dismissed by fellow cynics; worse, you court self-disdain.
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Nearly as quickly, it earned the nickname "HypeSlam" from cynics who call the beer over-celebrated and over-priced.
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And by tracing their ancestry through Simon, the Cynics could see themselves as having a direct lineage to Socrates.
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I think Paris is more of an alibi for cynics (Saudi Arabia signed it!) than a mechanism for action.
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If you find a stock that is widely hated but the outcries are unreasonably negative, that's when cynics buy.
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The Trumps are acquiring different lawyers now, and cynics might presume that eventually somebody's going to turn on somebody.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cynics who view pricy abstract art and scoff "a kid probably painted that" are finally right.
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This might include head-office functions, front-line staff, new hires, known cynics, influencers, partners, customers, outside experts, etc.
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Cynics might be forgiven, however, for wondering whether talent is the only factor involved in getting those crucial early shows.
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"Who knows, we might surprise the cynics again," he said, noting a bipartisan budget agreement they struck late last year.
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After decades of hate speech, cynics deride this volte face as a publicity stunt by Arab dictators seeking Western approval.
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Cynics even say that Ahmad Hariri, the Future Movement's general secretary and the prime minister's cousin, can overrule the ministry.
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Increasingly, though, the Republican ranks are filled not just with cynics who put up with Trump but with true believers.
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Cynics will point out that this sounds more like a struggling air conditioner than an epic call of the wild.
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Cynics are often romantics in disguise, and my married friend's joke was enough to release certain fantasies into the air.
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Even if a few cynics point out that he's 86 years old and isn't up for re-election until 2022.
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But cynics note they also allow hotels to quote cheaper room rates (even as they collect additional funds from guests).
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"Even if you have friends next to you that are constantly cynics, you have to tune them out, too," says Cook.
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All those cynics who, for years, have predicted the end of the longest bull market in history, have finally been correct.
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Viewed singly, harassment lawsuits are often dismissed by cynics who declare that the plaintiff is seeking fame or a quick payday.
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Although it has generally had at least one Afro-Cuban in a high-ranking position, cynics dismissed them as symbolic figures.
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Cynics wonder if the ministry is a panicked reaction to the demonstrations, rather than a sign of a genuinely new approach.
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Bad news for those "Baby Shark" cynics (and great news for its fans!): It has swum onto the Billboard Hot 100.
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Cynics and jaded memers alike use "dank meme" as a description to indicate the meme has reached Normie levels of popularity.
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Cynics predict that Britain will spend five years trying to get out, and the next five trying to get back in.
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"I am certainly prepared for the cynics and the naysayers to come out and say this cannot be done," Schultz said.
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America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics and cynics.
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Cynics may argue that even with these modest modifications, companies still are likely to offer opaque or confusing online privacy notices.
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"To the leaders, skeptics and cynics who told us to sit down and stay silent: Wait your turn," Mr. Kasky said.
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Pale and freckled some of us, dark-haired, blue-eyed, red-cheeked, too, the cynics, the idealists, the poets, the swains.
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America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.
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"I am certainly prepared for the cynics and the naysayers to come out and say this cannot be done," he said.
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Despite the cynics, we must not be hasty in giving democracy the boot when what it needs is a strategic reboot.
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But even the most stalwart cynics may have trouble staying dry-eyed during this portrait of heroic hospitality under extraordinary pressure.
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Our liberal opinion corridor thus offers the perfect pretext for cynics and xenophobes to parade their prejudice as truth-telling courage.
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For the cynics in the crowd, though, the more lenient guidelines seem to also reflect just how few Americans are physically active.
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There are so many Trump cynics and critics who watched this event and hoped for a train-wreck, shock-value disaster. Whoops.
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Even better news for us penny-pinching cynics — we can add the two extra layers of weather defense for less than $15.
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Cynics may remain sceptical, believing that Mr Trump is quite capable of a trade involving Chinese reef-grabbing for effective Korean sanctions.
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Pine-Apple Hibiscus Rosé Sorbet is so satisfying that it will have even the most staunch sorbet cynics taking a second bite.
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Lady Gaga and Chicago Fire's Taylor Kinney may be an unexpected couple, but even cynics have to admit they're kind of sweet.
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Cynics may scoff and puzzle over how children grow up attached to toy models created and sold off multi-million-dollar franchises.
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Cynics would say the sort of emollient language that Cardinal Tauran used when addressing Islam did little to protect vulnerable Christian minorities.
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Some cynics in Nairobi say that building the railway was a way to get a loan, rather than the other way round.
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Perfect for cynics, dark souls, and, fine, anyone who owns a leather jacket, the skull turns every soak into a Halloween party.
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Once the deal was struck, the same pundits and cynics warned that Iran will cheat and will not comply with its obligations.
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Even the most hardened cynics couldn't have imagined that the candidates would sink so low, and stay so focused on personal insults.
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Benevolence may be wide-reaching, and Mayr believes these findings should make the cynics of the world feel optimistic about our future.
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And we treat its sympathizers as romantics and idealists, rather than as the fools, fanatics or cynics they really were and are.
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Apolitical cynics suspected that Halpin had entertained Cleveland, Folsom and their pals on one of their fishing club's periodic boys' nights out.
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For the Cynics, only those people who achieved self-sufficiency (autarkeia) or independence of mind could truly exercise their freedom of speech.
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Cynics, hunting for a motive behind this fourth installment, will note that the first three films raked in nearly two billion dollars.
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Just like white supremacy, it flourishes like a plague when cynics and bigots inflame painful divisions and spew hate for political gain.
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Perhaps pro- and para-Trump conservative elites have not fully realized they are making common cause with full-blown cynics and nihilists.
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It's the view of cynics that history is never linear — it doesn't progress, but is instead cyclical, doomed to repeat ad nauseam.
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And as we sit over our coffee, I feel a misguided sense of relief that I am in the company of co-cynics.
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Yet cynics and the more conspiratorial-minded have argued that NBA officials somehow engineered the unexpectedly competitive contest to boost ratings and revenue.
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Cynics are entitled to wonder whether these and similar efforts are merely a way of putting a modern veneer on an old structure.
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The cynics among us will argue that the long-form game, the console adventures that we grew up on, are no longer appreciated.
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"Shimon Peres reminds us that Israel, like the United States was not built by cynics... and Shimon Peres was never cynical," Obama said.
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The tech companies, say cynics, are pretending to show how fiercely they resist government requests, while remaining happy to co-operate in private.
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A lot of cynics insist it doesn't matter, that the markets do whatever they want to do regardless of who is in power.
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Yes, there will likely be cynics and bears who will see the second-quarter production problems with battery packs as just an excuse.
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For Murray, there's a glut of cynics who refuse to believe his work comes from Paint, despite him makings videos to the contrary.
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Naturally optimistic about communism, he is being encouraged to be optimistic about the Communists in China by cynics around him who know better.
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These and other nuggets of misinformation are shared and amplified by cynics, the credulous and bots, thriving on the air of false equivalence.
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No matter how frequently it happens, when people online love something obsessively, when they simply must stan, it always brings out the cynics.
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Britain has always been fond of its cranks and cynics, and soon TVGoHome was drawing more than a hundred thousand readers a month.
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As this year has shown, "The system is rigged" has a bendy-straw flexibility: radicals love it, but so do cynics and schizophrenics.
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Cynics note that although the falling rial makes people poorer, it makes the government stronger, since Iran earns its oil revenue in foreign currency.
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"Here is my message to the cynics and those who keep cautioning us: 'Deal with it, big data analytics is here to stay forever'."
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Cynics speculate that the details will be left woolly on purpose, to make it easier for the army to justify meddling whenever it likes.
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Many cynics have long contended that the real reason the U.S. entered a slew of recent wars was only to protect American oil interests.
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"To the leaders, sceptics and cynics who told us to sit down, stay silent and wait your turn: Welcome to the revolution" he said.
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Surely, cynics have long muttered, it was too vast for the then-president not to have known about it, or indeed profited from it.
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Now, critics – cynics, perhaps, or Conservatives, or your local vicar – would say: it is bad that we all have gonorrhoea and love gak now.
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"There are cynics that are concerned that it's going to be a new round of civil war in the party," he told The Hill.
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I saw it every time I watched him ignore the cynics, risk being called naïve, and continue doggedly to speak for and pursue peace.
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Unfortunately, cynics are warning that the KSA and its allies within the U.S. government will endanger the nuclear agreement if they challenge Iranian aggression.
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Cynics have suggested all along that the spy agencies would intervene to leave at least some of the historical record surrounding the assassination obscured.
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Cynics might wonder if DeVos has been going to the defense of for-profit colleges so quickly because she wants to please her boss.
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And it's foolish to imagine that there are any limits on how far a party of fanatics and cynics will be willing to go.
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Greater transparency about the work philosophers do for tech companies would help convince skeptics and cynics about Silicon Valley's willingness to listen and adapt.
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But nowhere was the cynics' knowing intimations about the true nature of college basketball more clearly sketched than in the tale of Brian Bowen.
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Cynics might worry that senators care too much about their donors or primary voters to pay heed to general public opposition in their states.
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I could've listened to the cynics and doubted myself, but instead I went with what I trust most - my gut and my own two hands.
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The longer those like Obama and Clinton continue shattering glass ceilings and breaking barriers, the harder it will be for cynics to deny that truth.
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It showered wealth on voters in and around Ozamiz to win office and, cynics claimed, to make it awkward for the authorities to pursue them.
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Even cynics will have to admit the app is kind of adorable with its soft color scheme and its original, retro-ish pixel art icons.
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Out of some twisted notion of loyalty, party leaders previously seen as devoted to conservative ideals and policy are now viewed widely as unprincipled cynics.
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Because, of course, a mistaken minority of cynics assumes that those who donate to the foundation will in the future find influence with the Clintons.
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This is why, without some way of distinguishing real change from cheap talk, cynics will continue to see it as a grand exercise in hypocrisy.
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Drastic changes can bring out the naysayers; doses of reality can be a good thing, but it is also important to weed out the pure cynics.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Cynics often bemoan the state of US democracy under capitalism, where it seems that politicians are essentially bought and sold.
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Mr Marshall's contribution is a riveting account of the losers as well, the English zealots and cynics who wanted a better world or an unchanging one.
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Which is most people, probably, unless you're one of the cynics who believes that dogs are, in fact, the most manipulative creatures on God's green earth.
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Recently cynics have questioned the value of the awards -- now that technology allows virtually anyone to be a photographer or a reporter with a worldwide audience.
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It's a great call, and cynics who don't believe Franco could do the great Wiseau justice will be left keeping their stupid comments in their pocket.
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Many cynics even went as far as to claim that possibly the entire thing was an elaborate PR stunt, a hoax cooked up by the WetYourself!
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Say what you will about them, but when it comes down to it, even the biggest of cynics can't help double-tapping on visually stunning 'grams.
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"I am fully determined and I won't cede any ground, not to slackers, nor cynics, nor hardliners," he said on Friday during a trip to Greece.
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Cynics scoff that if more children's lives are saved, they will just grow up to have more babies and cause new famines and cycles of poverty.
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Cynics (and some economists) argue that many Australians are just wealthy and complacent, unfamiliar with more convenient alternatives that they'll eventually embrace and come to love.
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The whole thing's painted in this wonderfully sincere, almost Malick-ian strokes of boundless wonder, but fortunately there's a stand-in for the cynics among us.
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The incoming administration dismissed CNN and BuzzFeed News's report as "fake news," a term now used by partisans and cynics to discredit reporting they don't like.
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Cynics like to revert to that over-used quote about showmanship: "There's no such thing as bad publicity," often associated with circus promoter Phineas T. Barnum.
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"To be perfectly honest, I do not at all understand these big-data cynics who engage in fear mongering about the implications of data analytics," Ghose said.
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Fine wine delivered the best returns; surprising to cynics who might assume that, in the long run, the value of wine vanishes as it turns into vinegar.
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Or does it always come down to what the cynics think: that this is a blatant cash grab that will get all parties involved some radio play?
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Many cynics will point to Faber's inability to win UFC gold in four attempts, losing out to long-time foe Dominick Cruz twice and Renan Barao twice.
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And, of course, cynics would argue it's simply because millennials are more self-absorbed than other generations, and this trendy focus on self-care is the proof.
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Or how about when Prince Harry raised his bride-to-be's veil, and for one brief moment, even the most hardened of cynics swooned a little inside?
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Cynics may ascribe Mr Rubio's mild tone to the diverse population of his home state, and the fact that bombastic Mr Trump trails in the polls there.
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I'll be rooting hard for all of you as you build Uber into something vast and grand - far far past the cynics' doubts and the dreamers' expectations.
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If all goes as plan, the band will prove the cynics wrong by not trying to put together one more set of shows or one final album.
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It's sweet enough for the idealists, clear-eyed enough for the cynics, and warm enough to help anyone gin up the courage to get out there again.
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Even the most hardened cynics have surely found something to soften their hearts since the unveiling of The New York Times's "Modern Love" column 15 years ago.
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There are enough cynics in Washington who would view this proposal as creating just another mini bureaucracy to minimize the chances that anything will really be accomplished.
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But mainstream news outlets continue to be held to that standard and, I would argue, their news coverage meets that standard more often than the cynics think.
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One obvious mistake the cynics make is assuming that the political orientation of a paper's editorial board — or its board of directors — drives the paper's news coverage.
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Also available to listeners will be the complete first season of Bedtime Stories for Cynics, presented by Nick Offerman, a series that features inappropriate children's stories for adults.
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Elaborate claims are nothing new to the beauty world, and even the biggest cynics among us have been convinced by a compelling "before" and "after" photo or five.
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Cynics point out that the planned budget surplus will coincide with the point at which Mr Osborne hopes to replace David Cameron as leader of the Conservative Party.
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Still, even cynics who have seen the system from the other side of a cell couldn't help getting excited about the idea of a president possibly being indicted.
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Cynics quickly dismissed the record as a way for a boy who used to call anything that moved a slur of some sort to earn some woke points.
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While cynics might argue the economic benefits are insignificant compared to the threat of climate change, the fact remains that climate isn't the top priority for every group.
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Those who remain are either fanatics willing to do anything in pursuit of power, or cynics willing to go along with anything for a share of the spoils.
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There are probably some cynics out there who are asking, as they do whenever the British royalty take over the news and social media, why should we care?
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Where, oh where, are the cynics who pounce back with clever retorts about how second half earnings need to exceed prior guidance or the party might be over?
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They seek the greatest common denominator of our aspirations, not the least common denominator of what cynics claim is possible in a political system voters believe is corrupt.
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The president, Sergio Mattarella, might ask a respected figure, unencumbered by party allegiances, to form a government of 'technocrats' (Cynics note that Mr Grasso would fit the bill nicely).
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Sceptics doubt the weight problem can ever be properly overcome; cynics suspect that these projects are motivated by PR. But few people predictedthe pace of electrification in other areas.
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Cynics are of course saying that they never doubted for a second that these men and women of "principle" would rush to seize the reins of power once offered.
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They were no fun at all, and seemed to me, at the time, calcified cynics, immune to the buoyancy of Iranian youth and the vitality of the Tehran intelligentsia.
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While cynics might question the seemingly radical stylistic shift, the band explains that finding their authentic sound was an organic process that was necessary for the group's continued existence.
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Chance's shows are not for cynics, but fans of work like the exuberant "Coloring Book," which he released last year to much acclaim, are likely to leave fully satisfied.
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The problem is that all of this alarmist journalism, no less than the really fake news churned out by pro-Trump trolls and cynics, has commercial imperatives behind it.
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As reviled "pharma bro" and Wu-Tang fan Martin Shkreli knows, if you can't convince everyone you're Awesome, then let the cynics cast you as special kind of villain.
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"You defied the cynics, you accomplished big things, you racked up a great record, and you don't get enough credit - I can't imagine how that feels," Obama said, drawing laughter.
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After giving his uncompromising endorsement to our nation&aposs president, the star seems to be relishing in the clash between his views on Donald Trump and the cynics who disagree.
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That could turn Elliott Management's nearly $3 billion stake in Masayoshi Son's $90 billion SoftBank Group, as reported by Reuters and others, into a face-off between cynics and dreamers.
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Cynics claim unscrupulous attorneys are using the ADA as a tool to file dozens of suits in a short period of time with a model plaintiff, racking up attorney fees.
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On Valentine's Day, it's no doubt that your feed is full of superfluous displays of love, advertisements for jewelry and chocolates for your sweetheart, and cynics lamenting their lack thereof.
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What minimum outcomes from the next meeting could convince cynics the negotiations actually are accomplishing something and not just satisfying the leaders' egos and burnishing their domestic and international images?
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Especially because the would-be senators he's recruiting are a mix of cynics and fanatics who seem to share no coherent vision, just a common mix of ambition and resentment.
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Cynics might say that Mr. Heastie is dropping this controversy in the lap of Andrea Stewart-Cousins, who will be the Senate majority leader when Democrats take over in January.
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Today, across the Republic of Samsung, as South Korean cynics call their country, it can feel impossible to escape the company's influence, which stretches from gadgets to hospitals to art.
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Today, across the Republic of Samsung, as South Korean cynics call their country, it can feel impossible to escape the company's influence, which stretches from gadgets to hospitals to art.
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On the right, these explanations have descended into ever deeper voodoo; the Kansas experiment was based on obvious nonsense, and has turned out even worse than cynics might have suggested.
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Cynics who believe that young people taking a stand cannot prevail should remember that the patriots at Lexington and Concord were told that they could never defeat the British crown.
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For cynics, there might be nothing to see here outside that simple calculus: Trump wants to be loved and could be willing to jeopardize American lives to realize that goal.
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If anything, there isn't nearly enough alarm over the proposed changes at stake — which is why cynics have been so disappointed with the lack of visible agitation surrounding the issue.
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Despite the slog, what Payne found might stun some cynics: In 25 years, both Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Congress voted in accordance with their platforms 20113 percent of the time.
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Not monsters or even cynics, he answers in a pacey, plot-heavy novel of dramatic events and big ideas, but gifted storytellers fuelled by ordinary motives of love, loyalty or ambition.
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Religious conservatives, dogmatic nihilists, and spiritual cynics have long scoffed at the idea of the curse, as have many people living within the regions where its presence is ingrained in culture.
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We also had the realists and cynics who believed that only Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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Cynics, including many bankruptcy lawyers, will say that a plan that is credible to a banking regulator might not be credible to a bankruptcy lawyer, or more important, a bankruptcy judge.
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Still, the abrupt shift to nonchalance about adding trillions to the debt in order to cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy is causing a bit of whiplash even among cynics.
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And despite what cynics might think, Pechstein says her endurance is simple: The training regimen she learned in East Germany was strict and serious and it gave her a strong foundation.
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But the next time you're bombarded with over-the-top claims about how our country is doomed or the world is coming apart at the seams, brush off the cynics and fearmongers.
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While the cynics among you may think, "oh great, here's another pop star adopting a cause to look good," Pitbull's activism is the real deal and he's been doing it for years.
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When your highly anticipated, and critically acclaimed, film gets hit with an 'F' score on audience polling site CinemaScore, there's nothing much you can do besides flip the bird at the cynics.
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While Bryant became an advocate for the WNBA and women's sports, cynics believed it was all part of an attempt to scrub his past — the story-teller re-writing his own story.
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In October border guards seized at least four shipments of ivory, horn and other illicit wildlife products, an unusually large haul (cynics wonder whether their vigilance will cool after this month's conference).
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The cynics will say that he won this with some help from the draw gods, all seven of his opponents residing outside the top 20, including Kevin Anderson in Sunday afternoon's final.
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"I am certainly prepared for the cynics and the naysayers to come out and say this cannot be done," Schultz said during an interview at a New York City bookstore on Monday.
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With a Ferrari engine and close technical collaboration, it was always likely they would be more than just making up the numbers but there were also some cynics predicting a rude awakening.
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Sarita Butterfield -- a former Playboy model who claims Cosby groped her -- scoffs at cynics who think it's all too coincidental for these women to come forward on the heels of the election.
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Some sentimentalist goof-o who believed in the glory and power of every Boston Celtic might buy this excuse, but hardened basketball cynics roll their eyes at this puff-pastry-ass excuse.
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Of course, only the cynics would think such things possible, so surely neither of those two things have anything to do with the deafening silence on not closing the carried interest loophole.
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Cynics could see "plant-based," in that case, as a way of keeping costs low, in the same way that processed foods like Oreos and Pillsbury Crescent Rolls are both "accidentally" vegan.
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Cynics might see this is as a blatant attempt at image repair after the nightmare of his confirmation hearing, but the truth is ... this appears to be a regular thing for him.
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Many cynics viewed the referendum campaign as a political match between Santos and his predecessor, former President Alvaro Uribe, who led a military campaign against FARC that turned the tide of the conflict.
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"In today's environment, the world is full of cynics and you have to tune them out," says Cook, speaking in Scotland on Wednesday after receiving an honorary degree from The University of Glasgow.
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Below, in his own words, Zeif—who's now studying hospitality at the University of Central Florida—explains what cynics about the idea of young people forcing changes to America's gun laws are missing.
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Could it have benefited from a slightly more adult reading of the novel's edgier themes — including alienation, existential angst and longing — or are detractors who have criticized the movie's "squishy" worldview just cynics?
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ALBANY — The New York State budget — a nine-figure monster that prescribes more than $150 billion in spending — is due on April 1, which some cynics might note is also April Fools' Day.
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"Even cynics agree this is at least one good thing that has come out of the E.U.," Anthea McIntyre, a British member of the European Parliament, said when Gus visited Brussels in April.
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Cynics might conclude the fix is in: The United States quietly warns the Russians, they give Mr. Assad a heads-up and tell him not to react, and everyone calls it a day.
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"To the leaders, skeptics and cynics who told us to sit down, stay silent and wait your turn, welcome to the revolution," Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Cameron Kasky told the throngs in Washington.
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Indeed, cynics will note that many of the reforms being chalked up to the deal had already started, raising questions about whether the nearly two-year-long trade battle has made much difference.
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The show follows a couple who never intended to become couple from a wild fling to an unplanned pregnancy to the point where two cynics make a surprisingly strong commitment to each other.
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Some cynics are quick to dismiss the entire concept as a "brilliant marketing brainstorm" from record industry fat cats hoping to ramp up streams and potentially get consumers to part with their cash.
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Cynics may suggest that resource companies are doing too little too late, and what they are doing is geared more toward public relations, with an element of cost-saving flung in for good measure.
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At its height, progressivism produced moralists, cynics and social engineers, with some progressives seeking to liberate humanity from its benighted superstitions as others sought to impose strict rules about sex, alcohol and racial intermingling.
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These cynics imagine that Team Xi's true priority is to keep the economy growing quickly, on the assumption that material gains are the only thing that can keep a long-suffering public in line.
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Less than 20 percent, for instance, thought scientists in general were usually upfront about their potential conflicts of interest with industry, and they had the least confidence in nutrition scientists (the cynics aren't wrong).
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Cynics will claim it's in response to Apple's high-margin hardware business, and non-existent advertising business… but what Apple recognizes more broadly is that consumer trust (fueled by privacy) is the killer app.
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Cynics may conclude that Cohn's decision to hang on might also have something to do with rumors that he is in line to succeed Fed chair Janet Yellen when her term expires next year.
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The hopeless romantics will swoon, the cynics will roll their eyes, but what both camps can agree on is that scaring your beloved to death should never be a part of popping the question.
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With Britain being Britain, there are some cynics out there who feel Eubank Sr.'s words show more concern for his son's progress on the scorecards rather than the health of his opponent Blackwell.
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These cynics will soon realize that Trump is determined to burn the GOP down along with his imploding campaign — which is now headed towards the greatest embarrassment in the history of the Republican Party.
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Aspiring candidates and officials will find good career advice; wonks will appreciate the ticktocks of negotiations on Israel, Iran and climate change; cynics will see it as a trial balloon for one last run.
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Today, as cities and suburbs continue to reinvent themselves, and as cynics claim that government has nothing good to contribute to that process, it's important that institutions like libraries get the recognition they deserve.
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Gorsuch is what they call an originalist, a judicial breed that cynics define as people who believe that if the founding fathers were around today, they would be best friends and agree on everything.
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That's not because the number of Latinos in America isn't growing, it is, it's because racial minorities aren't voting in monolithic blocks as much as the Democrats and a lot of cynics think they do.
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That will necessitate a new wave of pessimists and cynics as product managers in order to predict and thwart ways to abuse software instead of allowing idealists to blindly build tools that can be weaponized.
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Some cynics, of course, keep pointing to Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's tweet, well after the fact, stating he unequivocally told Trump right off the bat his country would not pay for a border wall.
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"Now, all the cynics out there might look and say, that was a neat idea to try to pardon 49,000 lives during Oscar season," Weinstein wrote in a column for the trade Web site Deadline.
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While Dorsey had said that he was doing it in the name of "free speech," cynics believed it was more related to a reluctance to alienate supporters who make up a substantial chunk of Twitter users.
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The film's depiction of journalists shows them as hard-drinking, corner-cutting cynics -- and so endearingly that the film has been remade (including a 1974 version with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau) and reworked several times.
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The movie is as high school as a John Hughes comedy – think The Breakfast Club or Ferris Bueller's Day Off – in which teens talk like teens instead of old-school Hollywood cynics aching to sound young.
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Everyone with any sense knew he would be, although the scale of his personal profiteering, the strong likelihood that his family's financial interests have distorted U.S. foreign and national security policy, have startled even the cynics.
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Again, there are cynics who say this is the point of his return trip -- that he knows it may fail, and will serve to emphasize the Maduro government's intransigence if it denies Guaidó's freedom of movement.
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Cynics within the alt-right have so far seemed to mostly shrug off the idea, with some wondering why Furie didn't just sell meme-friendly Pepe merchandise for profit and donate the proceeds to leftist causes.
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And like many rituals, it's actually pretty important, even if cynics are inclined to roll their eyes at it — the quadrennial reminder that we are Americans with policy disagreements, not warring tribes, is crucial civic glue.
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And while cynics can snort at all the movie clichés that somehow found their way into Parton's childhood memories, the net effect no doubt creates the ideal environment to sell advertising for lots of "store-bought" items.
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A cynic might suggest that this is just a remix of the typical (and overdone) chrome effect that companies like to apply to technological products and car window frames, but cynics say a lot of silly things.
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Its intention in proposing the change, cynics say, was not to open politics to the rabble, but to hobble the Democratic Party of Japan, a left-leaning rival, by attracting more candidates and thus splitting the opposition.
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"WeWork won't change investor perception of the company by giving a board seat to one woman who cynics see as adding little more than weak cover to poorly-governed companies," Gordon said via email to Business Insider.
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"We don't think Chairman Jay Powell pays much attention to the president, but cynics in the bond market and elsewhere would howl that a stand-pat Fed has become politicized," Valliere told clients in a recent note.
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And what may surprise some cynics is that Tinder is also landing spouses for more than a few of its users, including a number who have been featured in the Vows section of The New York Times.
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A lot of cynics would have you believe that nightclubs are only good for trying to pull women, or that those who purport to love them are merely extending some juvenile urge to deny 'the real world'.
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But everywhere else, from the talk radio dial to the halls of Congress to Fox News, Trump's assault revealed that the party's would-be statesmen were mostly hollow men and its enforcers were mostly ratings-hungry cynics.
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For cynics, it is a boondoggle plagued by delays (it began in 2007 and was supposed to begin experiments in 2016, but this will not now happen until 2025), questionable management and ballooning costs (double the original estimate).
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There's no positive depiction of dogs in Shakespeare's work, with the partial and ambiguous exception of Timons of Athens (where a cynical philosopher is linked, as was habitual since antiquity, with dogs, who were seen as natural cynics).
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Though cynics say Ortega may be trying to protect her name with an eye to the future if the government falls, her prosecutors have in fact since last year begun showing increasing concern for prisoners' health and complaints.
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Ana Maria Celis: Most of us, I think, tend to be cynics, and we, I think, a lot of times associate art with value, and I think that triggers the question of, well, why is it that much?
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And yes, there are certainly cynics who may feel that Apple and Google's efforts are disingenuous — after all, these companies have always wanted to ensure that users, hardware sales, and, most importantly, profits go up ahead of anything else.
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Other cynics will decry that the App Store is now a pay-to-play environment, forcing developers to bid even on their own name or app title unless they want to see competitors kidnap traffic clearly meant for them.
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By combining their coordinated efforts to promote their love with these other lesser known aspects their relationship, we can comfortably say we are excited for the lovers to prove the cynics and haters wrong — and we think they will.
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Cynics and pragmatists might argue that this is just good business: Anti-immigration policies make it difficult to recruit global talent; investing in renewable energy and waste reduction is a win-win for the planet and the bottom line.
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He went and took the one thing that's come to symbolize everything the critics, cynics, and bullies have ever thrown at him and literally ate it out of the greatest accomplishment you can achieve in his line of work.
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"I fundamentally believed that there were enough good people in the world that they would do the right thing," Shaich said, adding that he "particularly loved torturing the cynics" who said there was "no way" his idea would work.
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Even after years in the music business have taught her that none of the men "peddling romance" take the drug themselves—but instead turn out to be cynics, misogynists, "even pedophiles"—it proves hard for her to pull away.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Gay Pride and Prejudice in Dominican Republic," by Ernesto Londoño (Editorial Observer, April 4): We are constantly told by both cynics and idealists that there is little difference between the two major political parties.
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This part of the human story is roundly mocked in academic circles and dismissed quickly by cynics—despite the rumored existence of these types of phenomena being at the heart of the human experience for all of recorded history.
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It's a better game.) The cynics can be right and Nintendo can still be smart for releasing a game like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, all while the company works on brand-new games (ARMS) and needed sequels (Splatoon 2).
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"The Yemeni cynics who criticize everything the other side does even if it is positive and who say the UN are naive seem to be saying the only solution is perpetual war in Yemen," Michael Aron said in a Twitter post.
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Cynics might point to the usefulness of employing a former professional 'keeper on the backroom staff, but kit men the world over will recognise the episode as demonstration of the sudden, chameleon-like demands that are placed on football's unappreciated virtuosos.
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While cynics might argue that this is further evidence that Trump is running a Potemkin campaign, Imer, as profiled by local news station KMOV, comes across as everything one would want in a young citizen: bright, engaged, and enthusiastic about democracy.
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Yet even with all of the public backlash and calls for regulation, Facebook still seems to lack or ignore the cynics and diverse voices who might foresee how its products could be perverted or were conceptualized foolishly in the first place.
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But his blunt online presence is increasingly raising questions in Israel about the blurred lines between the public and private personas of what some cynics refer to as Israel's royal family, which has reigned over Israel continually for almost a decade.
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"Cynics are right to think that, O.K., people in power want to get more campaign contributions, whether they're Democrats or Republicans," said Michael Kink, the executive director of the Strong Economy for All Coalition, a group of unions and community organizations.
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Though cynics might suggest the adtech giant is responding to competitive pressure on privacy by trying to frame and steer the debate in a way that elides its own role in data mining Internet users at scale for (huge) profit.
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"Despite all of the cynics, I have never been more confident in America's future," he said during a Tuesday morning speech at the 50th annual gathering in Davos, where two overflow rooms were needed to accommodate the crowd for Trump's remarks.
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What people mean by this term has varied over the years—to the extent that cynics might be forgiven for wondering if it is more than just a fancy rebranding of the word "chemistry"—but nanotechnology did originally have a fairly clear definition.
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Over the past 12 months or more, we've seen each of those component parts adopted by major financial services institutions – the sorts of institutions that have likely been pointed to by cynics looking to juxtapose the shortcomings of the online lending sector.
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When Lucca, an associate at Reddick Boseman, gets pregnant by a politically ambitious federal prosecutor, a white guy who hopes to win over black voters, the story develops promising echoes of "The Good Wife" 's central plot, about a power marriage between cynics.
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The best available fast-twitch cynics, people like former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart, craft talking points for and about Goodell; there are a great many people in Leibovich's piece going out of their way to talk about how much "winning" Goodell does.
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"The rise of the millennial generation emerging to lead Electric Boat's important work for the country, I believe, is a powerful rebuttal of cynics and naysayers that say that American manufacturing and technological excellence are a thing of the past," Courtney said.
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So on Wednesday, when Trump was in Cincinnati standing by the mighty Ohio and extolling the glories of river transport, cynics gloomily recalled that he wants to slice a billion dollars from the Army Corps of Engineers, which fixes the dams and locks.
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All are banking on the allure of nostalgia, although it remains to be seen if big-city cynics are ready to buy into the supper club's seemingly guileless creed: Take your time, everyone's welcome here, why don't we all just get along.
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"We just might surprise the cynics, again," the president said, directing his remarks to the Republican Speaker, Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (Wis.).
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Though Apple doesn't typically have to make a point of celebrating the city it's in, it does always kick off its press events with something like this: a couple of montages that will scan as affecting to all but the coldest of cynics.
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"The first time, you have to prove yourself, and we proved that it could, and did, work," said Steven Kolb, the chief executive of the C.F.D.A., sounding triumphant after admitting that there were cynics when the council decided to begin the initiative last season.
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In fact, while Griffin and Shields's artwork was attracting backlash, there were also plenty of cynics eager to put it in perspective by comparing it to Trump's own actions: It's almost like she mocked a disabled person or stripped healthcare away from 20+ million people.
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And if you're prone to panic, it's important to remember that while, yes, there is a storm upon us, much of the frenzy surrounding it is media-generated (some cynics may even wonder if meteorologists intentionally hype forecasts just to boost TV news ratings).
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The argument frequently pits cynics and pragmatists, who see Barack Obama's high-minded-candidacy-turned-difficult-presidency as an object lesson in the unloveliness of governing, against idealists and counterfactualists, who say Obama never attempted to turn the promise of his campaign into progressive action.
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Obviously DJ EZ, everyone's favorite pioneer of the Pioneers, playing for an entire day was going to be the musical highlight of 2016 thus far, but being the cynics we are, we didn't really think he'd actually, you know, DJ for the entire thing.
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If there were some cynics in the press room for the triple champion's no-show, it was only because he had joked the previous evening that he might "fake a pulled muscle" to get out of the wet tire test on an artificially-soaked track.
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As someone with extensive knowledge and experience related to the Middle East, he will be an invaluable advisor to the secretary and should reassure some of the cynics that Trump is indeed committed to strengthen U.S.-Israel ties after eight years of Obama's corrosive policies.
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Young people and many independents and others support Sanders because he believes in the power and nobility of the dream, while cynics claim those dreams are "naive" and "unrealistic" and should be abandoned before the battle to make them come true has even begun.
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But all of the bad news has been temporarily supplanted by an unexpected love affair with the Olympic Games, an event that has softened the hearts of even some of the most hardened cynics who now find themselves swooning with delight and national pride.
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There are cynics polluting the soil of the world, like a mercury leak or a pile of pig shit buried in hopes of hiding it from the local pig-shit-pile inspector: To all those who reckon time on the Gregorian Calendar - Happy New Year!
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As arrests mount once again, as the black market bounces back, as vital police resources are wasted, Trump's new era of prohibition will have the same effect as that of the old Prohibition: to make criminals of nonviolent citizens, and cynics of the law.
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There is another story connected with Simon that assumed significance for a more anarchic school of street philosophers who followed Socrates: the Cynics, or dog philosophers, so called because they were abusively called dogs and then took on the moniker as a badge of honor.
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Not the cynics and liars, but the well-meaning conservatives who look at something like the Comey firing and assume that there must be a normal method at work, who listen to whatever narrative White House aides spin out and try to take it seriously.
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"To the leaders, skeptics and cynics who told us to sit down, stay silent and wait your turn, welcome to the revolution," Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Cameron Kasky told the throngs in Washington, where the march turned into a thunderous, standing-room-only rally.
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Still, if Zuckerberg wants 2030 to look better for the world, and for the world to look more kindly on Facebook, he may need to hire more skeptics and cynics that see a dystopic future instead — people who understand human impulses toward greed and vanity.
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The partners in these couples were then separated and each asked to fill in a questionnaire that inquired about how satisfied they were with their spouses and how often they had sex (a fact on which, despite what cynics might suspect, husband and wife generally agreed).
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Although Jennifer Meyer's jewelry collection is among the top-selling brands at Barneys New York, cynics might be tempted to dismiss the designer as an "It girl" who benefits from the regular appearance of celebrity friends like Kate Hudson and Gwyneth Paltrow on her Instagram feed.
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Cynics will interpret albums like More Life and indeed Pablo as indicators that external validation liquefies a performer's talent and confidence, that money inspires the spurious notion that creative excess equals aesthetic quality, but these aren't bad things, exactly, and to insist otherwise reveals a furtive craving for auteurism.
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Some cynics have noted that a successful means of carbon capture and storage would be of great value to the prize's sponsors—NRG, an American energy company, and Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance—since it would make it easier for them to keep their existing methods of business going.
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Moore makes this case on the strength of his credentials: Before setting out to console the Democratic voter about going with their second choice, he had to convince himself—his performance is that of a reluctant convert reaching out to fellow cynics still waiting to see the light.
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Depending on whom you ask, it was either the apex, the inflection point, or the beginning of the end for Silicon Valley's startup scene—what cynics called a bubble, optimists called the future, and my future coworkers, high on the fumes of world-historical potential, breathlessly called the ecosystem.
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Deadwood, built on land stolen from the Lakota Sioux, had attracted exiles, fugitives, optimists, gamblers with nothing to lose, bloody-minded opportunists, cynics, and seekers who had come to try their luck, or to escape bad luck, in terrain that lay largely beyond the reach of the law.
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Cynics have sometimes referred to this brand of what we might term political one-downsmanship as the "oppression Olympics"—a contest in which groups that have attained or are vying for legal protection effectively compete for the moral or cultural authority that comes with the designation of most victimized.
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Since even V-Day cynics can agree that February 14 is the perfect time to awe your loved ones with a killer surprise, we've gathered a collection of presents they would probably never ask for directly, but will be blown away by as soon as the tissue paper comes off.
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Cynics who bet against the young Davids who demand their birthright to grow up in safety, and battle against old Goliaths who are the prisoners of petty corruptions and small thinking that infects highly unpopular politicians in Washington, should remember that many of them will vote in the 2018 midterms.
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Depending on whom you ask, 2012 represented the apex, the inflection point, or the beginning of the end for Silicon Valley 's startup scene—what cynics called a bubble, optimists called the future, and my future co-workers, high on the fumes of world-historical potential, breathlessly called the ecosystem.
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The Day of Love, or rather, the Greeting Card Manufactured Holiday to Guilt You Into Buying Cards for my fellow cynics, Valentine's Day is the perfect opportunity to give your lovers, exes, crushes, friends, and family the V-Day cards that they deserve — custom Refinery29 cards featuring their favorite celebrities, actors, and artists.
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For the cynics out there, the Dems in Congress have another very good reason for pushing through these votes: forcing members to take a public stance on net neutrality, making it abundantly clear to their constituents where they land on this issue, even if they have kept mum on it so far.
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But the breadth and depth of Russia's top-down doping culture has still been shocking at a stage when international sports have seen enough scandals and fallen angels to turn even Pollyannas into cynics hunched over their coffee and the smoldering butt of a Gauloise in a dark corner of the global internet cafe.
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Those cynics who believe that the very idea of a labor renaissance is built on false hope need to look to Missouri, where union and nonunion workers from all political stripes came together and defeated right-to-work Prop A by historic margins — the first victory against a right-to-work law in decades.
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The subject, or aspects of it, had been officially reviewed several times when, in 2009, Gordon Brown, Mr Blair's successor, ordered the Chilcot inquiry: reflecting, as the last British troops left Iraq, that questions remained about the decision-making behind the intervention (cynics reckoned it was also a bid to draw a line under the Blair years).
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"Were Donald Trump to show up in Washington as president of the United States (with Corey Lewandowski as his chief of staff), he would fit in perfectly with the Beltway culture — a culture that rewards hucksters, cynics, and ego-maniacs who have long ago sold their souls for a shot at power and perks," she adds.
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At the same time there's also no question that a lot of Republican operatives pushing voter ID laws are cynics who expect their party to benefit from lower minority turnout, and a number of professional right-wing partisans — including our president — see an upside in frightening their voters or viewers with the racialized threat of "urban" ballot-stuffing.
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While reading the best scholarly history of Alexander the Great and his father Philip II, "By the Spear," by Ian Worthington, I learned the word "cynic" derived from the Greek for "doglike" because Diogenes and the Cynics lived on the streets, urinating, defecating and sleeping like dogs … When Alexander visited Diogenes he asked if he could do anything for him.
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Looking at the administration's package, cynics wondered how a real estate baron could suffer under a plan that calls for a reduction of the top income tax rate, the elimination of the estate tax and an end to the alternative minimum tax, which is supposed to impose some modest sacrifice on high-income people who would otherwise avoid paying anything.
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Superstore's Mark McKinney, who co-created the series years after his time on Kids In The Hall and Saturday Night Live, plays a hapless suit who is repeatedly sucked in by a series of fast-talking charlatans and cynics — including an intensely quotable Colm Feore as the "visionary" head of a New Age marketing firm named Froghammer that's a spiritual predecessor to so many absurd fictional startups.
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His popularity only increased when he stayed long after the others had returned to the U.S. Cynics might (correctly) suggest that there was little interest in Marbury among NBA GMs and that the Coney Island native would rather bask in the adoration of Chinese fans, but regardless, he wanted to be part of the CBA, and that meant a lot to basketball fans in the Middle Kingdom.
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READ: From Bob Dylan to David Beckham: Male style icons While music critics have been gracious towards both albums, their appearances have also provoked streams of snark from cynics on all sides of the generational divide; some seeing in Dylan's latest transformation a concession either to what moldy figs believe to be the better species of pop music or to the imperatives of -- whisper it gently -- old age.
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Finally, the nail in the coffin that proves we really are a bunch of hard-hearted cynics, cake in the face style photos do not go down well and having your pet as a ring bearer was deemed to be one of the most hated wedding trends, with 36% of those asked not even able to muster a little joy when they see a dachshund in a tux coming up the aisle.
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We might pass clusters of slow-moving tourists and groups of schoolchildren, past the bars and tavernas vying for custom on a slow winter's afternoon, past Lulu's Bakery and Deli, and perhaps stopping — in honor of Dionysus, god of the vine and intoxication — for a glass of overpriced and rather routine red wine from Diogenes Patisserie (the locals call the monument the Lamp of Diogenes, alluding to the light that the first of the Cynics was reputed to carry in order to try to find an honest man in Athens).
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Plus, if you're going to focus on the downsides of booking your own tour, you should also keep the dreamy stuff in mind: feeling out where your fanbase is (maybe you'll play to three glassy eyed cynics in Paris who are too cool to clap but sell out a 300-person venue in Lisbon), making new music industry contacts, enjoying a holiday where you might actually break even, and possibly even experiencing the only thing more sought-after than adoring fans and some cool music label guy who's in love with your sound: Fun, you guys.
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