United States officials sounded more cynical following Kim's remarks, however.
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Did it make you more environmentally conscious, or more cynical?
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One could not have made up a more cynical strategy.
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Still, there's a more cynical explanation for her mother's prediction.
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Where, wondered the more cynical observers [waves], was the hackery?
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There's also a more cynical reason to stay away from Telegram.
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A more cynical company—also known as any other hardware manufacturer?
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The Senate process has been less chaotic but even more cynical.
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Maybe this is all more cynical than I want to believe.
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Twenty-six years later, Mr. Akhtar said he was more cynical.
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Most Libyans, though, see the overtures in a more cynical light.
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Dessler, however, has a somewhat more cynical view on individual, virtuous action.
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The even more cynical answer is that Comcast's executives don't really care.
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There are also more cynical ways to look at the new appointment.
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Others view the initiative and referendum process through a more cynical lens.
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Critics, however, note that a more cynical motive is certainly at play.
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But others, like Mr. Raskin, had reached a somewhat more cynical conclusion.
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Indeed those who invoke "political correctness" often use it for more cynical means.
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Others in the smart gun movement have come to a more cynical outlook.
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These days Mr Abe and his government are more cynical—and fed up.
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I think it's demoralized people and made them even more cynical about politics.
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When you don't deliver, it will make people even more cynical about government.
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I would take a more cynical view and assume fear always beats out empathy.
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As I got older and more cynical, people would routinely tear my story apart.
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Is it to become more cynical like the British or is there something else?
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The "feminism" brand is making media stupider, its consumers less rather than more cynical.
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I was mentally exhausted, emotionally drained, and more cynical than I'd like to be.
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Selling the tax cut as a job and wage booster is even more cynical.
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A more cynical person might think that this has been Google's intention all along.
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We dare not make them more cynical by showing that their votes didn't count.
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" He's also "a John Hughes for a darker, more cynical, way more libidinous age.
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He is a John Hughes for a darker, more cynical, way more libidinous age.
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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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With little memory of the war, they tend to be more cynical about the MPLA.
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A more cynical look is Snapchat's riding that fine line to boost its download numbers.
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I might be more cynical, which is odd because I'm twelve years older than him.
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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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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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Naturally, more cynical fans are chalking this up to a master plan from Kris Jenner herself.
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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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And when nothing gets done, voters become even more cynical about politics; it's a vicious circle.
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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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"The more cynical investor swoops in and buys when prices are at the bottom," Newport said.
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Jumping into the world of online dating can make people seem more cynical, one woman said.
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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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Jen is older than the first-time kindergarten mothers, and wiser — or at least more 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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Murphy Brown was more adult and more cynical, like the national news show where it was set.
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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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If you spend your vacation crafting the perfect Instagram story, you should be more cynical about it.
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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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On a slightly more cynical level, The Last of Us may have also set a marketing precedent.
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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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But it's a great prop for pretending you're in one of the more cynical Ray Bradbury stories.
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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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It wasn't about who had the better cause, or who had the more cynical support from outside.
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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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But Mr. Trump, when it comes to television, is much more cynical, cunning and savvier than that.
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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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Perhaps El Guincho is secretly more cynical about the value of useless plastic doohickeys than his tribute implies.
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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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It was, as one of the Valley's more cynical turns of phrase has it, a "buzzword-compliant" talk.
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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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It felt like a year had gone by, and I was a different person: emotionally exhausted, more cynical.
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But ultimately it will probably make us more cynical than we already are about what drives international relations.
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Nancy Steele, a retired psychologist near Allentown, Pa., said she saw more cynical motives in the tax bill.
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Andrea had a face like a baby with her fat cheeks, but she was more cynical than she looked.
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But in my more cynical moments I wonder if this might play to one of our great national advantages.
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Good times for Mark... for now... Some authors are even more cynical about the prospects of a Cubs win.
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His Black Mirror takes place 20 minutes from now, in a world ten degrees more cynical than our own.
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The more cynical question one might ask here is whether Google removed less ads to improve its bottom line.
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Then there's a more cynical view: that advertising revenue is actually going down, and circulation revenue is going down.
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But the world has evolved, perhaps slipping backwards, since 2011 -- more cynical, less ideological in its centers of power.
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Young South Koreans, especially, are far more cynical about the North's intentions than their elders were even a decade ago.
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Human rights took a back seat to the far more cynical principle: the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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Or if you're taking a more cynical look, a way for it to more easily push cameras into everyone's home.
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But now, thanks to more cynical vetting, nominees act on the bench the way the presidents who chose them expected.
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The more cynical side of me thinks it's the reader's sense of entitlement to any piece of information she desires.
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Other more cynical folk view it as a calculated public relations move to get food publications to cover the cringy throwback.
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When I started, cases involving seniors or children being taken advantage of financially got to me, but I've gotten more cynical.
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Second, excluded parts of the community become more cynical about the justice system when they repeatedly see barriers to jury service.
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People are more cynical about social media, privacy is a looming concern, and tech workers are suspicious about their own companies.
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I was more discouraged by the shift I could feel in myself: more cynical, more certain that nothing could be done.
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A slew of commenters have come up with their own interpretations for the performance: And some are more cynical than others ….
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"The more cynical commentators on our careers would say that the northern accent has been the basis of our success," says Mortimer.
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The whole situation has made the Facebook press corps more cynical and skeptical about how the company tries to manipulate their coverage.
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By identifying, not minimizing, the artifice of the celebrity endorsement, "self-aware" Sprite sought to build a bond with more cynical consumers.
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Unlike students of my generation who held false hopes for the party, members of today's younger generation are more cynical and realistic.
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Investors have grown more cynical with every trade headline that wasn't followed by action, such as comments on the progress of talks.
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Five of them were effusive in their praise for the practice, while one was far more cynical about the future it offers.
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Not because others won't do heroic things, but because national heroes aren't easily crowned or even acknowledged in this more cynical age.
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What we're seeing in the harsher, more cynical Lara 2.0 is a woman afraid of losing herself the moment she loses her fortune.
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In the Telegraph in 20173, Chris Moss proposes a more cynical theory: "The barbecue is a superb example of justified idling," he writes.
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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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A more cynical or mischievous filmmaker might have slipped Glen Campbell's "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" onto the soundtrack, but not Ms. Osmond.
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A more cynical view is that the unionists could live with a hard border provided they get what they want in other areas.
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He originated iconic characters like Buckwheat, a street-wise spoof of Mr. Rogers called Mr. Robinson, and a more cynical version of Gumby.
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Another, more cynical, explanation is that it takes less courage for Republican lawmakers to condemn King than it apparently would to condemn Trump.
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Ted Cruz's presidential campaign and has remained critical of the president, had a more cynical view of members of his party joining the campaign.
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A more cynical take is this fits in nicely with Uber's corporate mission to stamp its brand on as many platforms as it can.
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Aside from her 17-year-old son, who has recently developed a more cynical take towards cryonics, the family is enthusiastic about the prospect.
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I'm more cynical about that now I guess, having become more experienced with the visual art market in which Lewitt and others made work.
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The premise felt like one more cynical take on showbiz shallowness and debauchery — "Entourage" and "Episodes" crammed into two ends of a horse costume.
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How would you compare "Madam Secretary" to other political shows that take a more cynical view of government, like "House of Cards" or "Veep"?
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Senate Republicans saw Mr. Mueller's invitation in far more cynical terms, as a quintessential Washington punt of responsibility, according to aides and political consultants.
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Game of Thrones is different, not just because this is its final season, but because the show has always been more cynical than the MCU.
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But the more cynical explanation is that they blur the lines between work and home to numb employees to the long hours demanded of them.
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A more cynical person might see Musk's collaboration with the Trump regime as little more than a bid to curry favor with the federal government.
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The more cynical interpretation would be that Democrats are more willing to criticize Saudi weapons sales under a Trump administration than under a Democratic one.
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The more cynical worried it might be shrewdly wielded like a partisan cudgel to go after Clinton and severely damage the reputation of the FBI.
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But it's true that this record is a bit more weathered and maybe even a bit more cynical than my youthful exuberance on Never Surrender.
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It's perhaps a more cynical, money-driven alternative to LFA, but it's a smart idea which will, in turn, allow local MMA to flourish financially.
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" IGOR ," a diffuse, impressionistic record, can be seen as a reaction to the audience-baiting and groupthink of more cynical pockets of the music industry.
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That makes "Escape to Margaritaville" even more cynical than the usual jukebox musical, which merely promotes a catalog of songs, not an alcohol-based empire.
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They don't make superheros much more cynical than Jessica Jones, who is played with sass, sarcasm and cutting bitterness by Krysten Ritter in this series.
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Sharp-witted and outspoken, Sharon can be a bulldozer; she's the more cynical of the two, but therefore often the more perceptive of the two.
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Notably, Jenkins leaves out a line from the book that suggests a slightly more cynical read on Victoria: "Of course, she's lying," says Baldwin's Ernestine.
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Theatrical thinking is both more cynical and more messianic: How do we create a martyrdom performance that will show the world how oppressed we are?
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They contrasted her message against what they described as Trump's darker and more cynical worldview, with some expressing dismay at his volatility and off-color remarks.
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Everyone was so much more cynical now that it was clear humanity wasn't going to get through the century without some serious planetary shit going down.
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While your older, more cynical self might look back with an eye roll, never forget what a momentous occasion prom, and your reaction to it, were.
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A more cynical view is that it could help stifle complaints about technology causing disruption and inequality, allowing geeks to go on inventing the future unhindered.
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"China is taking a darker and more cynical view of Trump's objectives with China," said Michael Hirson, Eurasia Group's practice head of China and Northeast Asia.
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The more cynical read: Maybe Toys R Us would have had a better chance at adapting if it hadn't been saddled with private equity-induced debt.
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He returns to Bogotá with a promotion in hand but a more cynical view of the drug war and what can be done to advance it.
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But the sentiment among many Juarez residents was more cynical, acknowledging -- if only privately -- that the war had been won by the Sinaloans, led by El Chapo.
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Billions may veer in a more cynical direction someday too, but for now the show seems to be hoping disenchanted Americans will root against a robber baron.
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In the UK people are just a little bit more skeptical, maybe a little bit more cynical, there's certainly not a big emphasis on positivity at all.
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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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A more cynical observer might argue that the officers knew they were up to no good, or didn't feel the need to abide by legally mandated transparency.
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Or at least that it can be partially filled, for about a third of the Republican electorate and certain of the party's more cynical and craven officials.
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Susanna is a mother of two and Leon is a gay man, and both are more cynical and have a wider worldview than Toby ever needed to have.
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The original Jersey Shore spawned a million think pieces, and a million more cynical jokes and hand-wringing about the end of pop culture as we know it.
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Latin Americans are being called to vote just when polls indicate that they are more cynical about their democracies than they have been for 15 years or so.
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If you're being a little more cynical with your reading (and I am), you could infer that the women in the film are punished for their maternal failures.
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Trump's lies, as in the health-care gambit, are both more frequent and more cynical, often just used to dominate a momentary political victory and be quickly forgotten.
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Since Bryan Singer's X-Men (2000) set the tone, superheroes on film became more serious and sardonic, more cynical and jaded about the world they wanted to save.
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Republicans skewed toward a more cynical and isolationist view that America was the guardian of its own democracy, but not responsible for the internal affairs of other nations.
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If that sounds like the plot of a rambling Robert Altman movie, that's because it sort of is — but weirder, more cynical, and admittedly a little more hamfisted.
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While as a doctor I may have grown wiser about end-of-life care, the inevitable corollary of that is that some of me had to become more cynical.
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Instead, the more cynical side of me was left believing the survey was selected with half a mind for the revenue O'Keeffe reproductions will make in the gift shop.
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Many of the passengers' realizations, though, are rife with trite, self-help clichés about "finding" oneself — sentiment that can turn off more cynical viewers with its navel-gazing impracticality.
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I admit that I'm reluctant to react to this latest cruelty, which is obviously just one more cynical move clearly designed to stir the pot ahead of the election.
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A more cynical — but alas, perhaps sometimes necessary — solution is to offer populist losers a way out such that they do not lose everything if they lose a vote.
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During President Barack Obama's tenure, however, Trump took a much more cynical view of the possibility of armed conflict with Iran during the lead up to a presidential election.
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It is absolutely fair for the average American citizen to be more cynical about the idea of fairness in America today, because there is less fairness in America today.
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While for some it may be a refreshing turn towards transparency, the more cynical view argues these posts aren't really doing anything to subvert the worst parts of Instagram.
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The New York Times did that piece about the existential dread of Instagram museums, and just in general, with brands picking up on it, it's gotten more and more cynical.
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Instead of trying to push into darker, more cynical territory, Jenkins leans into Wonder Woman's optimism and hope by telling her origin story as a fish-out-of-water tale.
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Bannon is an ideologue, but Putin's motives are likely to be more cynical: a desire to sow chaos in the governments that have clashed with Russia over its western border.
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It would be an outrage and shame if any voter in Virginia were to become more cynical about politics because of the Brazile book and stay home on Election Day.
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All the while, student debt remains high, and the economic scandals of the 2000s have led to millennials being more cynical than their elders about the benevolence of corporate overlords.
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Or were they just disingenuous clickbait, meant to rile us up for an afternoon, ultimately leaving us all even more cynical and dead inside than we were to begin with?
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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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But the unthinkable has happened, and our previously naive worldview has been shattered by a more cynical reality that suggests the one thing Americans love more than celebrities is fast food.
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I think the project started in a more cynical tone and quickly changed once I learned the level of sincerity — and almost childlike enthusiasm and love — people have for the holiday.
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But the key difference between 85033, when Democrats lost more than 60 seats, and last week's election is that — and this isn't a good thing — we're all more cynical and cutthroat.
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Some experts say it's because female voices sound more pleasing while the more cynical among us note that the idea of a female assistant plays into existing gender stereotypes rather nicely.
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Experts have pointed to another, more cynical possible explanation for Turkey's reticence about releasing evidence: It may quietly seek some kind of deal with Saudi Arabia that could prevent full disclosure.
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So you could convince yourself that it's O.K. to follow a more cynical variation of the Golden Rule: Do unto your employer as you suspect an employer might do unto you.
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To some of the more cynical China watchers, there is a sense that the pledges Mr. Xi offered to the forum, and the world, may amount to less than they appear.
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But a more cynical possibility, as mentioned above, is that Cohen was really trying to get Trump's attention with his PR blitz — to scare the president into paying his legal fees.
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In fact, the more cynical people are about government, the angrier and more dispirited they are about the prospects for change, the more likely the powerful are able to maintain their power.
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By putting Hillsong United in Hollywood lights, its message of humility and sacrifice could reach a larger audience — the band's purpose — but it also opened up the organization to more cynical judgment.
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A more cynical view would be that the main issue here is Trump likes to talk about the idea of a big infrastructure package, but Trump doesn't actually run the Trump administration.
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"More cynical traders have pointed out the complete lack of detail, including the potentially problematic question of which nations will curtail production," said Michael McCarthy, chief market strategist at Sydney's CMC Markets.
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While we enter a new decade chastened and more cynical about surveillance, propaganda, and the potential for mere connections to enhance our lives, we risk lurching into mindless paranoia about what's left.
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But for more cynical viewers, there was always something lost in the show's lack of self-awareness; how could there possibly be contestants who didn't see the show for what it was?
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I didn't know it was possible, but I came away a little more cynical about the voter registration processes and the ways that various states make it harder to vote rather than easier.
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So are its weaknesses, including a blurred line between fact and fiction and a depiction of the CIA's involvement in the war on drugs that is even more cynical than the dirty reality.
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More cynical folks out there might whisper it's design flaw by design; A strategic fault-line intended to push users towards an upgrade faster than they might have otherwise have unzipped their wallets.
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Whether it was a wilful idealism or just not wanting to be rude to a guest, my more cynical theories were rebuffed in favor of focusing on the possibilities of the music itself.
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A more cynical view is that big internet firms can afford to give away their AI software because they have a huge advantage elsewhere: access to reams of user data for training purposes.
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In fact, the more cynical people are about government and the angrier and more dispirited they are about the prospects for change, the more likely the powerful are able to maintain their power.
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With each passing day, the expectation that President Donald Trump can snap the economy out of a long period of sluggish growth fades, and the mood in the bond market gets more cynical.
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Many other times the draft slide, real or not, occurs for more cynical reasons, whether it's an injury that bodes ill for long-term production, insidiously vague "character concerns", or recreational drug use.
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I've long believed, despite countless opportunities to embrace a more cynical perspective, that government exists to improve the lives of citizens, but those citizens need input for our system to be truly effective.
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One of the more cynical touches from the new season is the Forgivies, an awards ceremony skewering the current spate of prominent public figures who are accused of wielding their power for bad.
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"I'm asking to you to work to share whatever it is that brought you here to those that may have gotten a little more cynical about the whole thing," Buttigieg told the donors.
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Hashtags and the activists behind them used this power to bring widespread awareness to phenomenons like police brutality and enthusiastic consent, making room for citizen journalism and (from the more cynical perspective) slacktivism.
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Western policies became greedier and more cynical, especially during and after the first world war, and this triggered a sharp reaction in the Muslim world, enraging humble, pious folk as well as clever elites.
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And pretty successfully, if we do say so ourselves: N.K. Jemisin's Fifth Season won over even the more cynical readers among us, and you all chimed in with smart, thoughtful insights along the way.
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"More cynical heads are clearly ruling the gold market at the moment, and are refusing to listen to the short-term noise from the White House," OANDA analyst Jeffrey Halley wrote in a note.
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Rinaudo noted that Americans are more cynical about the potential misuse of drones than Rwandans, but the company has strived all the same to avoid being perceived as an affiliate of the U.S. military.
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A more cynical view, recently articulated by Steve Bannon, a former architect of the president's tough line on immigration, and a Catholic, is that the bishops want to be sure congregations don't get deported.
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At first glance, it's somewhat difficult to discern whether the artist's creations stem from a genuine desire to enhance the mobile experience or from a more cynical and critical lens on contemporary phone culture.
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I'm more cynical, because I see it as a way to assimilate the critique (like the CIA does with Noam Chomsky and others), but here's a more hopeful article: The very headline delivers a jolt.
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For many, enlisting was seen as noble, a continuation of the Kiowa warrior tradition, but Cannon returned from his service deeply troubled about his role in the Vietnam war and more cynical about his country.
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But there may also be a more cynical explanation for putting the franchise back on viewer radars: Disney is rebooting "High School Musical," which debuted in 2006 and, after two sequels, went dormant in 2008.
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Despite having a slightly more cynical grown-up view of these movies nowadays, there's one part that endured the test of time and still managed to thrill me all these years later: Kevin McAllister's eating abilities.
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After all, if, when mainlines decline, they truly leave their old provinces bereft of "a persuasive language of the common good," that does seem like it could potentially lead them to more cynical or extreme politics.
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But it's understandable for more cynical readers to see this as proof of yet another public figure with toxic rhetoric shaping our modern day discourse, offering up an apology without the action to back it up.
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If the progression curve of The Crew was built to make you feel like you were getting better, the progression curve of Payback is much more cynical, built to make you feel comfortable rolling the dice.
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Though Uber says its UberPool numbers are doing just fine, I have a more cynical, alternative theory that there weren't enough people taking UberPool in DC, so Uber decided to nudge people into it by default.
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Post-Foley square, I definitely got more cynical but I also got more hopeful too, It's weird that those two would be put together but I got more hopeful in the sense that change constantly happens.
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Those with a more cynical view intone that the government in Ann Arbor was not terribly interested in the plight of the largely poor residents of long-beleaguered Flint, a casualty of the Rust Belt Collapse.
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The more cynical view is that the commission is playing a game of national politics, pitting one nation against another against another, even at the cost of the long-term well-being of the European Union.
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The newly disillusioned America of 1971 wanted withdrawal from Vietnam and got it within a few short years; the more cynical America of 2019 has favored withdrawal from Afghanistan for almost a decade without getting it.
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I want to be more convinced by arguments like Alex's that insist La La Land is more cynical, if only because the bittersweet ending keeping Mia and Sebastian apart was my favorite part of the movie.
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Others are more cynical, claiming Xi is merely trying to strengthen the party's grip on power, while adding that it is this one party rule that is the root of corruption and other social issues in China.
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Andrew Donohue, a senior editor at the Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit organization that partners with other media on reporting projects, said the single-minded, muckraking focus of some journalism has made the public more cynical.
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Not only did Soleimani out-marshal and humiliate Washington by brokering a cleverer and more cynical deal, which undercut its own vain attempts at conflict resolution, but he was then rewarded with US legitimization of his scheme.
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More cynical observers of American politics may feel that Mr. Paddock's advanced age, white race and non-Muslim religious background make it less likely that he will be tagged a terrorist, whatever may emerge about his politics.
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The more cynical side of me wonders why push back on this rather than, say, the tepid and slow-moving response to the travel ban a few months back, which also disproportionately affected tech companies' work forces?
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Perhaps the more cynical operatives in the nation's capital believed ObamaCare, once offered, would never be rescinded, but those in real America were convinced that GOP majorities in tandem with a new president would get it done.
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Or, from a more cynical perspective, ElliQ could be viewed as a means to offset the perceived "burden" of taking care of an elderly parent from the shoulders of a younger generation to those of a caretaker robot instead.
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But more cynical observers note that evacuating impoverished hurricane victims using a multi-millionaire's private jet is a reflection of the deep economic inequality and weak state institutions that mar a country that's otherwise relatively advanced by international standards.
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Overall, the story he tells goes something like this: Gorbachev, with the purest intentions, tried to reform communism and bring about world peace, but was undermined by other, more cynical men, who replaced the Soviet Union with something worse.
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Mr. McConnell's critics have taken a more cynical view, though, arguing that he is simply afraid of stirring the ire of President Trump, who views talk of Russia's election interference as tantamount to questioning the legitimacy of his election.
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From a more cynical point of view, it's also worth noting that tech companies are also now facing a world where there isn't all that much interest in their announcements during a relentless news cycle that prioritizes other topics.
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But the decision by "Dancing With the Stars" to cast Mr. Spicer is an even more cynical permutation of that strategy: a mainstream brand attempting to make money off the chaos and controversy that has overtaken American political life.
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The generous read is that he's finally doing something about the shutdown; the more cynical one is that he's going to show the world that both sides have an untenable position — forcing Democrats to give up their "clean vote" position.
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For more cynical analysts, however, the meeting will only be another talking shop where the group and its oil ministers will "talk up" the oil price, promising joint action to support prices and stabilize the market yet ultimately failing to deliver.
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In just the past year the UFC has grown both more sophisticated and more cynical, more corporate and more chaotic, and it's still an open question where the balance of power is going to fall once all the dust has settled.
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Mr. Hanna, the analyst, said there could be a more cynical explanation for the seemingly more candid approach of Egyptian officials: that they see an opportunity to blame another country, France, for the security lapses that led to the disaster.
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But whereas British comedy has a reputation for being bleaker and more cynical than our own (a comparison of each country's version of "The Office" is the most famous example), Ms. Long delivers her windy monologues without a drop of bile.
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It was as if the South Africans who fought against Zuma had subtly shifted their goalpost from a wish for truly new leadership to a lesser, more cynical ambition: to have leaders that simply had the decency to conceal their wrongdoing.
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A more cynical interpretation is that he realized that in a political system increasingly polarized along party lines, the GOP had nothing to gain from helping the Democrats successfully govern the country — and much to gain from his electoral opponents' failure.
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There's actually a more cynical progressive take to all this, which is that tech companies are starting to realize perhaps that if 90 percent of your consumer base is broke, you're not going to have people to sell shit to.
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Gomer was a recognizable kind of American hero: a good-hearted, gentle, unsophisticated sort (not unlike Forrest Gump of a later era) who encounters a harder, more cynical modern world — in this case embodied by Southern California — and helps redeem it.
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Fox departs from that idealistic prescription, a little, with "The Resident," a more cynical new series -- suffering from a serious subtlety deficiency -- that the network will launch Sunday on the back of the NFL playoffs, before joining its Monday lineup.
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Double Feature: "Wag the Dog" (1997) Director Barry Levinson and screenwriter David Mamet's much more cynical, downright hilarious look at absurdist political machinations to contain a presidential sex scandal (Available to stream via rent or purchase on Amazon Prime, Fandango Now and Vudu).
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This is officially because the Xbox One supports up to eight controllers, although my more cynical and couch co-op-mourning self believes that it's because Microsoft didn't believe that players would ever play a local multiplayer game on its console again.
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A more cynical-minded person might take the stance that Best Buy is finally becoming cognizant of the fact that brick-and-mortar retail is slowly going extinct, and the once iconic price tag is quickly becoming as obsolete as the floppy disc.
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A more cynical take on Charles Koch potentially supporting Clinton is that he's playing the long game, and understands that a Democrat in the White House would make it more likely for Republicans to continue to control state legislatures and governors' mansions.
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The album is a darker, more cynical sequel to PUP's self-titled debut, taking the elements that came to define their sound—feathery guitar riffs, stop-on-a-dime shifts, sing-along gang vocals—and twisting the knife in a little deeper.
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A more cynical explanation is that the filibuster gives senators and party leaders "cover" from their respective parties' activist bases, for why they haven't yet managed to pass new laws that activists demand but that leaders view as too extreme or politically perilous.
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While the entrepreneurs behind these companies may be at least as motivated by a desire to see artists and vloggers get a fairer shake (and take some billions of market share from YouTube), the actions of investors can seem a bit more cynical.
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A more cynical interpretation of the events of recent days might be that Trump's relatives and officials, by adopting more mainstream positions on certain issues, are carrying out a political strategy that can complement the President's often wild interventions to please his base.
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It's also worth being much more cynical on this issue: Do you really think, in your heart of hearts, that the conservative majority of the Supreme Court will miss an opportunity to strike down a wealth tax passed by a Democratic president?
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Issuing a boring diplomatic statement might not get much traction, but something edgier might have a better chance of reaching more cynical or more extreme anti-establishment voices who, in turn, might inject that meme or hashtag into the bloodstream of social media.
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Today's corporate cinema doesn't speak to, and lie about, the United States and its values the way that the old Hollywood did, perhaps because we know better or are more cynical or because it's hard to know what the country stands for now.
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By contrast, with the buzz-led, and I'd argue more cynical, approach, an investor, without prior views on a particular industry, would pounce on a thesis because it sounds on-trend and work backwards from there, searching only for businesses that fit those categories.
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The more cynical might see loans to those who are of a lower economic bracket as predatory, providing money to people who may not have the means to pay it back, and there have certainly been some companies that have contributed to that image.
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By the 1980s, grimmer, grittier comics aimed at an older and more cynical audience were all the rage, partly because of the more mature themes Lee and his cocreators inserted in their work, skirting the weakening Comics Code Authority rules through metaphor and implication.
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A more cynical interpretation might suggest the move aims to carve out a market buffer for homegrown vehicle manufacturers as European car makers will have no choice but to invest in the necessary technologies — whereas non-European car companies may not share the same focus.
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But a more cynical view is that the tech giants were fulfilling their own political duty, currying favour with the government by supporting a state-owned bank whose business model, though important to China's rural past, will be less relevant to its urban future.
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Recent research in the Journal of Democracy shows that North America, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand have all become more cynical about the value of democracy as a political system, and, overall, less hopeful that anything they do might influence actual public policy.
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Some outlets reported him offering the breezy sentiment, "I think it's the right moment for a black James Bond," while others said he used much iffier and far more cynical phrasing: After Barack Obama's victory I think we might have reached the moment for a colored 007.
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Kerry's speech may provide a broad outline of what he would like the future to look like, but it will be hard not to see it as a kind of capstone: The end of one era of U.S. diplomacy before the return of a more cynical version.
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The fallout has led to users becoming more cynical and wary of social apps asking them to share their data — and in the case of Tinder, where it's about — well, frankly, romance and sex — one would think users would give "opting in" a bit more thought.
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Nonetheless his expansive and expensive objects escape less and less easily the Duchampian legacy of fetishism and narcissism that plagues the work of more cynical market players such as Damien Hirst or Jeff Koons, and their ambiguous status as trophies for the "enlightened" top one percent.
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Drilling into some of the more interesting details, Pew found that Republicans are more cynical about the effect of social media on news than Democrats, with 83% of those on the right believing that social media has too much control, versus 53% of those on the left.
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Mr. Kuczynski has portrayed his decision as an act of compassion and a gesture toward reconciliation — a move that Mr. Fujimori welcomed in a video recorded from his hospital bed, in which he asked critics for forgiveness — but the president's critics see a more cynical motive.
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" The problem, at the end of the day, with trying to out-Trump Trump is that "the more cynical people are about government, the angrier and more dispirited they are about the prospects for change, the more likely the powerful are able to maintain their power.
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Shropshire said Buttigieg's challenge is unique in part because his candidacy has highlighted problems city managers deal with that have radicalized younger black voters and made many of them more cynical about the ability of legislation or politics to help solve the most challenging problems faced in the community.
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Brand accounts, for example, have become less "customer service hub" and more "cynical internet personality," which makes them more difficult to manipulate if you're using a goofy character like Ken M. In the past, McCarthy has counted on the fact that mods would probably respond to his trolls collegially.
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Although Midler became known for the swift, self-mocking stage patter of her creation the Divine Miss M—she's looser and more cynical than Dolly Parton—she sometimes lets the island girl come out, and her ukulele playing while she sings a Hawaiian song is soft, slow, and tender.
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The alternative, more cynical, outlook sees Leicester's title-win as a delirious flash in the pan, one enabled by a perfect Premier League storm of floundering giants, a rising middle class, and one team able to surf their own tidal wave of high-spirits in unprecedented and unrepeatable fashion.
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It is also amusing, in a more cynical way, that Jurich, last seen defending the men's basketball coach, Rick Pitino, from N.C.A.A. allegations regarding a years-long scandal involving prostitutes in a dormitory, released a nothing-to-see-here statement that concluded with agonizing over the unnecessary distraction.
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But, if you want to be more cynical about it, you could say Facebook is engaging in a little brandwashing of its data-powered business model by cosying up to a well known entity in the privacy/security space — which might result in the perception that it cares about user privacy.
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Following widespread news coverage of the exploit, Facebook users began reporting that the social network was blocking news links regarding the hack from The Associated Press and The Guardian, leading more cynical critics of the company to assume it was purposefully suppressing negative news about itself on its own platform.
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As with his earlier films, a la "JFK," Stone goes a bit overboard at times in seeking to lionize Snowden as a patriot -- someone whose desire to serve in the military and conservatism ultimately gave way to a more cynical attitude about his government, faced with tangible evidence of its transgressions.
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Their pretend friendship forms during the waning days of World War II. The more cynical adults in Jojo's life are well aware that Germany is losing and the country's future prospects are bleak, but Imaginary Hitler is still blithe and upbeat, and Jojo is utterly committed to the Nazi cause.
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But times have changed, audiences have grown more cynical, and filmmakers' approaches to this pliable narrative have adjusted accordingly — sculpting the broad strokes and basic ideas of "The Most Dangerous Game" into pointed social commentary and dystopian hypotheticals in which the hunter of man is not a deranged maniac but the State itself.
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I think they have acted like they've had a higher mission than, say, I don't expect a bank to do anything but the most venal thing of all, but Silicon Valley I do expect more from or maybe I'm being ... I guess maybe I would ... Maybe I'm more cynical than you are, Kara.
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But at a more cynical level, it will be a victory for the false claims Republicans have made to paper over the fact that their Obamacare alternative would create a humanitarian crisis by cutting off health care assistance to the poor and elderly so that they can massively and permanently cut rich people's taxes.
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You should be much more cynical about its willingness to curb the transgressions of telecoms, first as $100 consumer routers find themselves angling for bandwidth against multi-million dollar cell sites in the LTE-U space, and later as those same consumers demand the 5G they pay for and are denied by telecoms more concerned with their bottom line.
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A more cynical reporter might say it seems straight out of the Liuba Grechen Shirley campaign playbook (it certainly seems very close to her most recent campaign ad that was shot in this very living room), which ever since its launch in October of last year, has come to be defined by the candidate's working-mom ethos.
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You might feel even more cynical about the initiative when you realize that Nike paid the three runners to skip the London and Berlin marathons this year, and that Kipchoge's time won't become the official world record, because the Breaking2 marathon used a non-compliant arrangement of runners who ran ahead to set the pace and reduce drag.
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The alternative, considerably more cynical, reality is that people are people and Lemonade's early progress is merely a product of early adopters embracing a like-minded company — not everyone will go out of their way to buy Toms so a shoe can be donated, but the positive corporate ideology attracts its own cohort of loyal customers.
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They include the Minnesota Twins, who lost their first nine games of 2016, and the Tampa Bay Rays, who have completed their return trip to the AL East cellar, and the Atlanta Braves, who have pulled off the neat trick of combining league-pacing incompetence with one of the more cynical stadium-finance swindles in recent memory.
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The darker, more cynical view is to see this as a classic American heritage tourism experience: going to a country for the first time and noticing how different the McDonald's menus are, but also how it is mostly the same as those in the United States, and finding this all very interesting, but not thinking too much about why.
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To that extent, "The Rise of Skywalker" feels like a welcome course correction, featuring sequences and references that more cynical minds will dismiss as "fan service," but which derive emotion and power precisely from the bond and investment the audience has forged not just with this permutation on the story, but all of it going back to the original trilogy.
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But then, it's no more cynical than the behavior of Republicans like Dean Heller, Josh Hawley and even Ted Cruz who voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which protects Americans with pre-existing medical conditions, or supported a lawsuit trying to strip that protection out of the act, and are now running on the claim that they want to … protect people with pre-existing conditions.
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So it's a bit of a different one for me, because a lot of my songs come from that sense of loss or sense of relationship breakdown, but this was sort of taking a step back—which is one of the lyrics in the song—and kind of looking at all of that as a whole and I guess, yeah, perhaps a more cynical light than I normally do.
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As the Arab Spring turned to the Arab Winter, more cynical generations of young Arabs expressed concern "whether democracy could ever work in the Middle East" (22019); viewed "the rise of ISIS as the biggest obstacle facing the region" (2015); rejected ISIS and believed the group would fail to establish an Islamic state (2016); wanted their countries to do more for them (2017); and said the previous decade, shaped by the Arab Spring and ISIS, left the region drifting off course (2018).
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