Mitch McConnell is perhaps the most cynical politician in Washington.
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"He's the most cynical person I've ever met," she said.
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Only the most cynical partisans hope for an awful opponent.
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That to me is the most cynical reading of it.
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"It's arguably the most cynical strategy imaginable," write Allen and VandeHei.
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Now, though, I think Memories is the platform's most cynical element.
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The quote is fashion at its most cynical and its most enlightened.
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This is, even to the most cynical observer, a surprising business move.
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Only the most cynical would call this inability to afford coverage freedom.
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This new option from Postmates is the most cynical thing I've seen today.
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But can she rebrand Valentine's Day, the most cynical and soulless of all holidays?
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Either way, she just validated one of Republicans' most cynical ploys of the Obama era.
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Wags, for example, is usually among the most cynical and suspicious characters of the bunch.
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Stamper is the most cynical view of a person in power, whereas Leo was aspirational.
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And it forced even the most cynical to consider what were we doing for our country?
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And, if forced, even the most cynical, to consider what were we doing for our country?
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Basically it's a story that will be shockingly relatable to even the most cynical Gilmore Girls fan.
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How am I going to convince one of the most cynical, suspicious, brilliant minds that I'm real?
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Even the most cynical among us must stand back and marvel at Chance the Rapper's Christmas Spirit.
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To see that even under the most cynical of circumstances, love would find a way through adversity.
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It's the two-month crown jewel of sports that stirs joy in even the most cynical of fans.
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It's no surprise that the most cynical candidate America has seen in recent memory can press the advantage.
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So is he the most cynical person in the world or the most stoned or just the dumbest?
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As Sheila, the line's oldest and most cynical dancer, Ms. Mellon is another reason to trust the production.
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It is the darkest, most cynical expression of Gene Roddenberry's vision, and it has its own unique identity.
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One thing that I just think that in my most cynical view, VCs just want return on their money.
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At my most cynical, I believe all relationships are just people finding other people to distract them from themselves.
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But the response was really good, think even our most cynical members were extremely supportive of it and excited.
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Brexit represents the most self-sabotaging instincts in its people, facilitated by the most cynical and self-serving politicians.
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We started off in the U.K., which I would say is the most cynical market for stuff like this.
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This 180-degree turn is, as far as I can tell, the most cynical policy reversal of modern times.
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The most cynical of the lot: to receive blessings at shrines you will need to make an offering of gold.
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There are a lot of movies about movies, and the default is generally self-flattering even at its most cynical.
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England, Mr. Pierson said, is "one of the most cynical markets in the world," and the co-founders were optimists.
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The best answer may be the most cynical: because it benefits key leaders, their friends, their heirs and their donors.
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The most cynical see a marketing exercise, rebranding everything that China does abroad under slogans that flatter Mr Xi's global pretensions.
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The most well known one is the Johnny Rogan book, which is the most cynical cash in of all of them.
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It forced even the most cynical to consider what were we doing for our country, what might we risk everything for.
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It's been a rough week, so I think we all need a story that's sure to melt even the most cynical heart.
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It is packed with big-eared, wide-eye, precious-pawed sweetness and should bring a smile to the coldest, most cynical hearts.
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Or, at the very least, they turned into proof-of-concepts for each and every one of the show's most cynical jokes.
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"We reinvented an iconic food in one of the most cynical cities on earth that is founded on the bagel," Oleksak said.
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All of which is to say that yes, it is absolutely one of the most cynical, manipulative devices I can think of.
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Magic tricks captivate even the most cynical audiences, but everyone knows that behind the scenes, the magic show is only an illusion.
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No one fights off the fall forever, but for a while even the most cynical fan was beginning to believe that Aldo could.
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Every Olympics, the campaign includes a tug-on-the-heartstrings video that brings tears to the eyes of even the most cynical viewer.
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" Even in the most cynical terms, as he notes "Patreon takes a percentage of creators so it's pretty clear who our priority is.
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"In '06 Slide Show, a Lesson in How VW Could Cheat" shows a company engaged in the most cynical, shockingly destructive behavior imaginable.
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Her songs are sonic talismans infused with an undeniable juju strong enough to make even the most cynical listener weak in the knees.
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Officially called "The Child," it's arguably impossible for even the most cynical viewer to hate a hair on his little fuzzy green head.
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Moreover, according to Ni, the Chinese Communist Party is probably rooting for Trump to win next year's election — in a most cynical fashion.
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"This is the most cynical interpretation of the secretary's remarks to an army of welcoming HUD employees," the department said in a statement.
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Wow pretending to be the victim of revenge porn is at once the most cynical, disgusting and probably effective way to end a career.
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The prickly tone is a difficult balancing act, and "Diamond Tongues" may settle for being a softer-hearted film than its most cynical scenes portend.
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Unlike, say, the nostalgic ruins of abandoned movie theaters (softcore), Kander's subjects are the most cynical and sinister any ruin-seeker could hope to find.
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Because it's either that, or the The Good Place becomes the most cynical show on TV — and that's a twist worthy of the the Bad Place.
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The latest Cruz amendment bifurcating the market with the sick in one place and the healthy in another was the most cynical kind of public policy.
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But even the most cynical among us had no idea just how many unforced errors the power company in the world's fifth largest economy could make.
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If there's anything we learned from 10 Things I Hate About You, it's that even the most cynical people go fucking wild for a good love story.
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But women are even further away from safety and equality than the most cynical feminists believed when an admitted sexual predator can actually win a national election.
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"Passing the Trans-Pacific Partnership in a lame-duck would be the most cynical type of politics," said Rick Manning, the president of Americans for Limited Government.
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You can now freeze your child's credit files for free — and it isn't as difficult as even the most cynical among you might expect it to be.
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Here is a map likely to shock even the most cynical observer of America's gun debate: Stark maps ... 50-state view of 2016 vote in gun vs.
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It might not be the best fighting the best, but Rizin has hit on something that teases out the nostalgia of even the most cynical long time fan.
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Corporations can be charged with crimes, and a take-down of the Trump empire — possibly along with his kids — is something that even the most cynical cannot overlook.
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But, as the most cynical of natural sceptics, I will now only believe the talk of a hyped comeback of Silva's when I see it materialise for myself.
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The show is in love with the fairy-tale earnestness of Cameron and Lauren, whose instant connection seems designed to melt the coldest and most cynical of hearts.
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But I also think they appeal to our most cynical instincts, to the Trumpian refrain that all politics is a waste and all politicians are crooks and liars.
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That's not necessarily a bad thing considering that only someone like Parton, whose distinctly earnest and kind songwriting, could pull even the most cynical television viewers into her world.
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Rick's turning his back on his own son's dream would have been the cruelest, most cynical turn in a show that has frequently drawn criticism for those very traits.
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They're potential employees, potential consumers, and in that regard even the most cynical among us can see why tech companies might want to get involved in helping this group.
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Not just another run of the mill DJ or party, no, something greater, capable of giving laughter, capable of making even the most cynical punter erupt like an untamed bugle.
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No, with swiftboating, birtherism, voter fraud, anti-vaxxing, Pizzagate, crisis actors, false flags, and alternative facts, the conspiracy theory has clearly been weaponized in the most cynical and partisan way.
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Bumhunters are pariahs because they turn what can be a cerebral, competitive game into its most cynical iteration, and, in the process, discourage that new player from ever coming back.
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It would only take my most cynical self to say that this whole thing was staged for PR, but it seems like Conor isn't really concerned about drawing attention lately.
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Only the keenest and perhaps most cynical observer of Russian propaganda might have thought at the time that the general's prediction of a chemical attack would actually come to pass.
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Yet even the most cynical among us are startled both by how quickly the bait-and-switch is proceeding and by the contempt Republicans are showing for the public's intelligence.
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However, 21-year-old Tumblr user Clementine pointed out some undeniable facts that give even the most cynical GOT fans reason to believe that the Lannister brother is not actually dead.
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But the putative elevation to the presidency of Mrs Mugabe, the president's former typist and an extravagant avid shopper, disgusted even the most cynical elders of ZANU-PF, the ruling party.
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At its most cynical, K-pop is designed to put forward an "idealized Korean modernity" that has proliferated at the expense of social goods like fair labor conditions and mental health.
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CNN's Donie O'Sullivan called it the "most cynical" thing Facebook has done since dropping its report detailing its role in a genocide in Myanmar the day before the U.S. midterm elections.
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President Trump confirmed the harshest caricatures drawn by America's most cynical critics on Tuesday when he portrayed its central objectives in the world as panting after money and narrow self-interest.
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Still, even the most cynical Trump critics have been rattled by the impeachment inquiry's revelations about the extent to which he used his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to shape Ukraine policy.
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Young Seger was left heartbroken, but in exchange he got one of his most enduring songs, capable of evoking the first rush of teenage romance in even the most cynical of listeners.
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At their most cynical, some Zimbabweans might have hoped that military-backed Mr. Mnangagwa would be the kind of "decisive benevolent dictator" that the economist Dambisa Moyo has argued African countries need.
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To be "woke" in the alienated culture is to embrace the most cynical interpretation of every situation, to assume bad intent in every actor, to imagine the conspiratorial malevolence of your foes.
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And he has forged one of the most cynical and darkly productive alliances of all time with the poker-faced Mitch McConnell, sending his personal approval rating to an all-time high.
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The most cynical is that Trump is just a really historically bad candidate who could alienate Latino voters from the Republican party for years or decades, and Republican elites want to avoid that.
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Because this is, after all, about movies, the most cynical show business of all, and one historically controlled in part by alleged serial abusers who ruin people's lives and careers in countless different ways.
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When you think about soup kitchens, you probably think good thoughts of charity, volunteers offering a warm meal on holidays, and—maybe at the most cynical—padding your college application with community service hours.
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But to the extent that voters are always dissatisfied with the system, the "throw out the corrupt bums" idea always resonates — particularly with marginal voters, who tend to be the most cynical about politics.
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But I still think if you made a BioShock game where the only verb you had was pull a trigger, I think even that would be too far for even the most cynical publisher.
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Generation Xers — adults between 35 and 49 — stood out as the most cynical with 64 percent saying that the media were too hasty, higher than the 56 percent of other age groups who agreed.
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RATING: C- Chris putting the cross on a dude who is shorter than him and bravely playing through a lost shoe is maybe the most cynical thing I've ever seen on a basketball court.
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This was not because the taqiyya argument was widely accepted, though it did appear to be; and only a handful of the most cynical lawyers and journalists spoke of political interference or reason of state.
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It was a safe and acceptable moment: He was able to address the elephant in the room in a way that seemed reasonable, in a way that only the most cynical listener would push back against.
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Felines, or at least the owners of felines, have been quick to embrace this trend, churning out plenty of precious pictures on Instagram to convince even the most cynical that 2017 is going to be alright.
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Whatever the reason, the biographies of 20th-century artists—the letters, the beguiling muses, the more or less agreed-upon non-monogamous trysts—challenge even the most cynical to resist the glamour of sepia-toned gossip.
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We put on our most cynical glasses to view the women in popular rom-coms, from the '90s through today, and came up with far too many reasons to believe these ladies exist off the screen.
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"By demanding LGBTQ young adults specifically (& young adults in general) be bound to their parents' earnings … Mayor Pete is using the family as a locus of social control in the most cynical, conservative way," he wrote.
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But even if you take the most cynical view possible of Russian foreign policy — not necessarily a bad idea — it makes more sense all the time that removing Assad would better serve Russian interests than keeping him.
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And if longevity were her goal, perhaps Attorney General Reno would not have shocked even the most cynical Washington observers by taking personal accountability for the decisions she made, rather than displacing blame along the bureaucratic chain.
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Like sunsets and rainbows, micro-events that carry a weird power to compel even the most cynical New Yorker into posting, floral arrangements, by nature short-lived, create occasions that require presence — you had to be there.
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The accompanying pants match the same red of the actual hot dog filter, and are even attached to red shoe covers, so even the most cynical of your party guests won't suspect that you're not the real thing.
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In times when I am at my most cynical, I find myself bashful about how much joy it radiates, and jealous that I sometimes care more about how my posts are received than the moment that my posts capture.
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After a closing flurry of episodes that consciously leaned into current events, the show closed at its most cynical and acerbic in an effort to trump them, zeroing in on its protagonist's utter ruthlessness in the pursuit of power.
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Reporters employed by everyone from the worthiest nonprofit group to the most cynical hedge fund-owned chain are risking their lives to get their readers solid facts on the pandemic, and are holding the government accountable for its failures.
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But Mr. Trump's defenders said he was being targeted for partisan and political reasons, his every move interpreted in the most cynical light and distorted to tarnish his reputation, while adversaries like Mr. Biden are given a free pass.
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If any American provided polling data or strategic advice to help Russia's hack attacks on election officials or to target fake news dumps, it would be hard for even the most cynical or craven Republicans to stand by their man.
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The most cynical view is that the Northern League pushed the referendums merely to raise its profile ahead of a general election due early next year, and that the party leadership may drag its feet in its pursuit of autonomy.
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Because that permission has been granted, "Playtest" looks like another relatively lighthearted episode at first, which makes it all the more unsettling when it gets darker and crueler, leading to one of the most cynical endings in the show's history.
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Yet even my readers who are the most cynical about and politically depressed by the corruption of the system should be be astonished and amazed by the potential lasting impact for good that the Sanders campaign has now brought within reach.
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Every gesture, every glance, every step of every walkabout revealed a professional at the peak of her form and no one, from the President of the Republic to the most cynical member of the press circus, was immune to her charm.
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He explains — in a scene that I guarantee will make the most cynical moviegoer weep — that as long as Bailey has money and power he will never lack for people to protect him, that it is, indeed, a wonderful life.
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They don't hurt its most cynical allies, the Republican hacks who are more interested in demonstrating loyalty to the president than anything else — the hacks can just parrot whatever today's administration line is, without worrying about its consistency with yesterday's.
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Episode I can't really be the worst prequel of all time when X-Men Origins: Wolverine, as oversized and out-of-control as Logan's mane in that film, or The Hobbit trilogy, one of the most cynical cash-grabs in movie history, exist.
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But the mainstream media, catering to low-information voters and reinforcing their worst prejudices in the process, persists in covering politics precisely through the most cynical lens, as a team sport, competing performances to be narrated like an announcer calling a game.
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At this point, it kind of feels like the show is beating a dead horse with all the windmill jokes, but even the most cynical Bachelor viewers among us still have to admit that rustic fantasy suite in Greece was pretty epic.
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Sure, the city is swarming with tourists, but the seemingly endless spectacles more than make up for these shortcomings: There's ice skating in Bryant Park, busy holiday markets, and of course, festive decorations that can induce awe from even the most cynical New Yorker.
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It turned out we had been prepared to accept some intermingling of the norms of personal communication with the norms of the commercial marketplace, but even the most cynical among us didn't quite realize the implications of letting all that bleed into the political.
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Prior to Tuesday's democratic takeover of the House of Representatives, Mueller represented the only meaningful check on the Trump presidency, which has pushed constitutional, legal and ethical norms in ways that even the most cynical pundit could not anticipate on the day of Trump's election.
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Even if we take the most cynical approach about the growing arms race in Earth orbit -- that it's a fait accompli -- can't we at least make a push for an absolute weapons ban in those regions of the solar system that haven't already been compromised?
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David Wiegand from the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Even the most cynical viewer may find him- or herself caught up in the drama because of the appeal of the characters, convincing performances and a careful attention to detail in costumes, sets and production design."
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Luckily, actually, we found that the most cynical place about drones is the U.S. When you actually go to some of the other countries that we're currently working in or will be working in, the attitude toward these kinds of technology, it's actually much more open-minded.
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But the so-called attribution dice that Soumenkov held in his hand, which I'd seen before at hacker conferences, represented the most cynical exaggeration of the attribution problem: That no cyberattack can ever truly be traced to its source, and anyone who tries is simply guessing.
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It quotes online advertisements paid for by Russians that called Mrs Clinton a devil, enthused over Mr Trump and—in perhaps the most cynical move of all—tried to suppress enthusiasm for the Democrats among non-white voters, urging them to throw their votes away on protest candidates.
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Even my most cynical readers should be be astonished and amazed by the degree to which the Democratic establishment and the media establishment are resistant to facts that are proven by the Sanders campaign and the degree to which they are intimidated by the implications of these facts.
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Read more: ' There was no way that they could've survived': A Boeing 737 Max victim's mom and brother are demanding justice from the FAAPrimarily, that's because even viewing the situation through my most cynical lens, there is no way that any stakeholder can afford to get this wrong.
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To the untrained—or the most cynical—eye, the West Village can seem to have been completely subsumed by the city's wealthiest denizens and developers, by bank branches and luxury storefronts, a graveyard of charming mom-and-pop institutions long ago driven out by obscenely elevated monthly rents.
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Rex Tillerson, the incoming secretary of state, comes from ExxonMobil, which is perhaps the most cynical corporation in the country—it treats itself as a global company, not an American one, and treats its home country as one of many persnickety countries it has to work with to make money.
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A universal basic income is, in the most cynical sense, a subtle kind of doomsday prep for the tech billionaire, a means to diffuse the revolutionary potential of the working class by supplying them with the absolute bare minimum, just enough to keep them almost happy, fat in the apps.
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Disney magic: 35 Not Disney magic: 21 The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, while now a joke, is still a fascinating example of a very specific type of movie — the type that blends the most cynical elements of the film industry with the kind of unhinged optimism you only experience during an acid trip.
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"The word around the Hill was — I'm paraphrasing, I'm putting this in the simplest and most cynical terms that I can — 'We don't care if you disrupt newspapers or schools or the trucking industry and put all these people out of work, but you mess with the elections, that's where we eat,'" he said.
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While many view it as evidence that politics is, in essence, tribalistic and disconnected from actual policy ideas, others, like UChicago's Anthony Fowler, have argued that voters are more rational and more likely to determine which politicians they support based on policy (rather than the other way around) than the most cynical interpretations of the data suggest.
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To its most cynical adopters, like Senator Marco Rubio, the mantra was little more than a rallying cry for his own ailing campaign—an attempt to harness genuine anti-Trump sentiment on the right, less for the purposes of making Trump's unfitness for the presidency evident than to press a momentary advantage against Ted Cruz and other Republican rivals.
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The landmark deal signed by the two leaders Friday wasn't the Berlin Wall coming down -- the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between the Koreas remains, and there are many, many issues to solve before anything approaching reunification -- but it had something of that historical weight, and has left even the most cynical of South Koreans feeling genuinely optimistic about their country's future.
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When a natural burial site is overseen by a nonprofit land trust or a public-park system where the proceeds purchase more conservation land and restore the landscape to a meadow or a forest, the environmental legacy of the departed extends to land that is protected as sacred burial ground, which even the most cynical developer or government will not dare disturb.
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Her brutal portrait of the Recording Academy as a chummy cabal of men with expense accounts, conspiring to line their pockets on the backs of musicians, harass women at will and cover it all up, seemed to confirm people's most cynical fears about the music industry and the Grammys in particular, which have long been criticized as out of touch and lacking transparency.
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But if the most cynical among us are prepared to say, "At this point, does it really matter if we create a World War I memorial," then what shall we say to the current generation of American soldiers who are being asked to defend our homes and cities from a threat that is as real and as lethal as 9/11?
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It should have been blatantly obvious to everyone this side of sycophantic Star Wars lifers that the dreaded muppet was the most cynical possible play for attention and sweet merchandise dollars, and yet, no, here we are, awash in millions of the most mediocre memes and posts imaginable, sourced from a breathlessly embarrassing cash grab of a show that was cooked up by Disney execs for the sole purpose of hawking another streaming service that nobody needs besides nostalgics and children, though that distinction may be redundant.
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And if it takes Google and AirBnB and tech companies who have pushed back and said, you know, we're not going to host the websites of these companies, we're not going to host neo-Nazis...when the president won't say it, if the people around him are saying it, even if it's — I'm the most cynical person about when tech companies and CEOs and various people do things in their own interest, because it's always in their own business interest, but when they make these stands, they're highly public, they're highly visible.
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We need to empower voting in the United States and expand it, and we need to fight what is, I think, the most cynical dimension of the era of zero-sum politics and defection from democratic norms that we have entered, which is voter suppression, which one party is doing in a number of different states and jurisdictions with all sorts of rationalizations that they offer about efficiency and cause and cheating and so on, but which they know in their hearts and probably in their private deliberations — and we can know from their actions — has the explicit and probably sole purpose of preventing minority voters from voting.
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