Sentence examples for cynicism from high-quality English sources.

• This is Christmas cynicism at its most tuneful.

• There’s a difference between cynicism and pragmatism.

• The United States was different after the war, tainted by a growing cynicism.

• Recent paintings by Liu Wei, another proponent of “rogue cynicism”, are of rotten-flesh obscenity.

• He told Stephen Fry that he had discovered, in America, “a conspicuous lack of cynicism, and skepticism.”

• Penn calls it “The Daily Show” without cynicism or “a funnier version of ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ for young people."

• Zabel understood how hedge-fund people operated, and he wasn’t afraid to express his cynicism about their motives.

• Jo Cox—idealistic, diligent, likeable and rooted in her Yorkshire constituency—was a living rebuttal of that cynicism.

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• Chinese and Russians still view each other with striking cynicism: just ask residents of Hunchun about trains to nowhere.

• "There is a real danger that something that is well meant can end up creating cynicism on social media," warns Mr Glaesener.

• “Now is not the time for cynicism or hopelessness,” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, said on Twitter.

• Underlying this cynicism, amounting at times to paranoia, is a conviction that the interests of ordinary voters will always be ignored.

• Price is particularly good when the flat cynicism of his speakers works against the slight floweriness or literariness of their language.

• How after that, Mr Morgan asked, could Mr Clegg dare to pose as a "shining bastion of non-cynicism" in the “cesspit of cynicism” that is Westminster?

• Donna Leon is an American who's lived in Venice for more than twenty years and she describes the corruption, inertia, nepotism and cynicism so sharply we can only think it's authentic.

• He pointed to two passages, one about stock promoters and the other about misleading narratives, that "reflect Buffett's longstanding cynicism about the fads and fashions of both Wall Street and Main Street."

cynicism sentence examples

• Navigating this period feels like a constant balancing act, walking a tightrope between optimism and cynicism; tenaciousness and tentativeness; Martin Luther King’s dream and the nightmare that we have known all our lives.

• The cynicism and idiocy of a government which, just a week after signing up to a green agenda in Paris, turns its back on renewables and then plumps for this filthy, landscape-destroying, economically disastrous option which at best might last a decade, is breathtaking.

• As Newsweek's Jeff Stein wrote, the coup and Diệm's assassination led to "a nightmare that ended up killing 58,000 Americans (and 1.5 million Vietnamese), ripped the US apart and spawned a deep-rooted cynicism about the American political establishment that persists today."

• "By cynically manipulating and distorting scientific evidence, the manufacturers of doubt have seeded in much of the public a cynicism about science, making it far more difficult to convince people that science provides useful - in some cases, vitally important - information.