A cynic would see this as a Chinese company trying to penetrate European markets with a fondly familiar name, and that cynic would probably be right.
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" A cynic might translate that to "doesn't sound famous.
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Jaik Puppyteeth is an artist and cynic based in Vancouver.
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Meet Gabe Rivera, the hopeful cynic who runs the joint.
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Frankly, the cynic in me cringes just at the name.
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You become a cynic and a political change becomes impossible.
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The words made even a cynic like me get emotional.
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The cynic in me doesn't trust any tool or exchange.
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You see where being a cynic lands you in 2K18?
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At the core of every cynic lies a broken heart.
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A true believer and a cynic at the same time.
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The quote in the CYNIC clue was cut for space.
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It was, therefore, a good time to be a cynic.
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He is not a cynic; The Inkblots is not an exposé.
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But a cynic might speculate that it is purely for show.
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"I remember going to the Cannibal Corpse/Cynic tour," Gallagher says.
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Evict your inner cynic and enjoying it should demand even less.
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He is a cynic wrapped in an ideology inside a scheme.
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There's a bit of the cynic, of Holden Caulfield, in Francisca.
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Immense failure and disappointment can turn any optimist into a cynic.
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IF A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing, as Lord Darlington observes in Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan", then it is getting progressively harder to be a cynic.
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Alec MacGillis's biography of him is literally, and correctly, called The Cynic.
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Remember yesterday, when I said I was bad at being a cynic?
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My view is it's easy to be a critic or a cynic.
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A cynic might suggest that 1m is a suspiciously headline-grabbing figure.
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A cynic might believe the emergence of such claims against Lt. Gov.
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" He insisted that he was neither a cynic nor a "categorical pessimist.
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"It's easy to be a critic or a cynic," Mayor Emanuel said.
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A cynic might wonder if class had anything to do with it.
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A cynic would argue that phone manufacturers aren't interested in this solution.
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I don't think that makes him … I don't think he is a cynic.
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A cynic would say they want to get them hooked while they're young.
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"I'm not a cynic," he says, during a rare moment of self-reflection.
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A cynic might say the good-cop, bad-cop routine is well underway.
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Explanation: Only a cynic could fail to see that he was being funny.
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Is he a cynic or a sucker, a romantic or a con artist?
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Smart-ass cynic Lucas is Mouth, while kind-hearted and determined Mike is Mikey.
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"Trump has spawned a new generation of media critic/cynic," Malooley wrote for Esquire.
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Like the cynic, economists often assume that prices are all anyone needs to know.
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The cynic rightly responds to all of this week's news by asking -- who cares?
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It doesn't take a cynic to understand that there is no middle ground here.
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Perhaps, like Diogenes the Cynic, you'll find me carrying a lamp in the daytime.
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But it's also made her a cynic, someone who finds it difficult to trust others.
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A cynic might note that LinkedIn makes a lot of its revenue off recruitment services.
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There is a single, perfect target audience for Garfield Go: the die-hard E3 cynic.
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The cynic in me would say she was just happy I was finally with someone.
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"Yeah, but doesn't the whole thing make you a little suspicious?" his "Inner Cynic" asks.
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I don't even think you have to be a real cynic to realize this anymore.
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Surprise: It's truly not that bad, guys — and I'm usually a cynic about this stuff.
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Maybe I'm a cynic, but it felt like a PR gimmick, contrived to create hype.
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The Austrian director Michael Haneke has been called a cynic, a nihilist, and a fraud.
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One needn't be too much of a cynic to find a few things worth asking.
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"A cynic might be tempted to call it 'No College Left Behind,'" Mr. Hartle said.
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The older Power is not at all a cynic, but she is less ramrod straight.
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So I contacted Alec MacGillis, author of The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell.
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Whether you're a hopeless romantic or a self-proclaimed cynic, there's no avoiding Valentine's Day.
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A cynic might say Uber did many of these things to boost employee and driver retention.
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But a cynic would point out that China has made such promises before, and broken them.
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I'm a cynic—often cruel, really—and I regularly scoff at outpourings of grief from strangers.
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As a fellow cynic, Visser had foreseen this issue and was well prepared with an answer.
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A cynic might accuse me of using my religion to weasel out of covering Kris Jenner.
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To a cynic, this week's message, like others Mr. Zuckerberg has issued, might sound like puffery.
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To a cynic, this week's message, like others Mr. Zuckerberg has issued, might sound like puffery.
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You don't have to be a jaded cynic to wonder why the Stormy Daniels scandal matters.
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Even our 'allies' will constantly surprise even the most hardened cynic with their mendacity and double-dealing.
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Ever the cynic, I can't help but wonder what will happen after these three years are over.
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"The cynic in me would say there is an understandable level of opportunism taking place," Scheid said.
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The chain-smoking Missouri Mule is not a fashionable cynic, but the real thing: a disappointed idealist.
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But even the most hard-hearted cynic will be moved by this lovey ad for Hallmark cards.
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A cynic might ask: Is Obama just washing his hands and letting someone else take the blame?
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A smart and a natural cynic, lacking all the ugly caricature that normally followed South American characters.
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A cynic might call it an election-year ploy designed to make an indefensible outcome look moderate.
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He never quite loses his idealism; in a crass political era, he impressively avoids becoming a cynic.
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Sure, Eleanor outwits the Bad Place 801 times because she's a selfish, doubtful cynic, so nothing's absolute.
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Charlie Brooker is too much of a cynic to ever think there's an easy solution to anything.
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So the cynic in me — the same cynic that says if a marketing guy is telling you how to do great marketing, or a get-rich guy is telling you how to get rich, you wonder why he's not doing it himself, is the same sort of thinking there.
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A cynic may note that these changes are as good for business as they are for the soul.
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Without sounding like a complete cynic, let's not forget that the on-off couple just had their E!
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"I was a cynic at first," Crowley said of Obama's interest in developing America's first national HIV strategy.
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Like Dan Lyons in Disrupted Garcia Martinez is an optimist turned cynic by the vagaries of startup life.
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As for firms' staying power, a cynic would argue that their moves are driven by public-relations considerations.
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Quotes like those are why he is routinely described as a contrarian, an instigator and, yes, a cynic.
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Jackson also performs one-on-one readings with some of the staffers, including Ana, the episode&aposs cynic.
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The cynic in me says it is simply a chance to put new packaging on very old stories.
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Maybe I've just become a cynic, but that was my big takeaway—and I probably wasn't the only one.
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Ricki Lake was a self-proclaimed "cynic" about marriage — but that was before Christian Evans came into her life.
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He is, Ms Pedder writes, at once romantic and deeply calculating, a philosopher king and a hard-headed cynic.
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Don't take anybody's word for anything ever, basically, without being a cynic or without being some kind of paranoiac.
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Holmes and Balwani regarded anyone who raised a concern or an objection as a cynic and a nay-sayer.
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Others, judging by the man's bare feet and unkempt look, say he is probably a Cynic philosopher, perhaps Diogenes.
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The footage is enough to remind even the biggest cynic that football can still be a force for good.
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Perhaps you wouldn't be able to bring yourself to do this; perhaps your inner cynic is just too strong.
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Cohen's contrition was the act of a cynic in trouble, not that of a repentant who saw the light.
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Maybe, a cynic could argue, it was Microsoft's way of letting a game quietly die, knowing few would notice.
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A cynic might say that RGGI is popular largely because it hasn't had much in the way of teeth.
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"For an optimist, I'm a cynic on this issue — Republicans have already succeeded by making it yesterday's news," Rep.
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The reason for this, a cynic might argue, is that these men are cheating on their wives and girlfriends.
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I&aposll admit to being a cynic when I was first invited to test out the Casper Dog Bed.
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"For an optimistic, I'm a cynic on this issue — Republicans have already succeeded by making it yesterday's news," Rep.
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And a cynic — or realist, given past performance — might say many of them will fail by spring, if not sooner.
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FLEISCHER: I&aposve been a cynic all along on this detente with North Korea because I lived through it before.
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A cynic might suggest the company was trying to distract from the lasting legacy of the exploding Galaxy Note 7.
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"It's hard to ignore that kind of a story, no matter how much of a cynic you are," Wartinger said.
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As a general cynic when it comes to programming toys like this one I found it quite fun and clever.
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"You're either a cynic," says Brian Wieser of Pivotal Research Group, which analyses the industry, "or you're not paying attention."
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We'll see if maybe this changes things, but I'm just a terrible cynic at heart and who believes in nothing.
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A cynic might point out that while the UK's population is 67 million people, England comprises 55 million of them.
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The cynic in me found the vision hokey; the dreamer in me would have liked to disappear with them. ♦
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A cynic might see the AT&T deal and others getting ahead of any changes to our inadequate antitrust laws.
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Only a cynic would believe that the Yankees' principal owner is using that ridicule as the beginning of contract negotiations.
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Yeah, the cynic in me questions how serious and whether they're just doing this because it sounds good right now.
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"Maybe it's just the cynic in me or just confluence, but this all works out neatly for the government," Vernick said.
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I'm a romantic, but I'm also a cynic, so I didn't post my pictures of us together for this very reason.
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EVANS: BECAUSE IF I WANTED TO BE A CYNIC, I WOULD SAY YOU ARE HITTING ALL THE RIGHT BUZZ WORDS NOW.
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"[A] cynic might suppose that neurologists and nephrologists are prone to discover brains and kidneys everywhere," Salcman added in a paper.
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Columnist Michael Slezak wrote a column for Entertainment Weekly imagining a debate between himself and "Slezak's Inner Cynic" about the nudes.
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Call me a cynic, but most men will not act upon knowledge about sexual harassment until we have weaponized these networks.
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Trump has reconnected them with their soul or rather, if you want to be a cynic, forced them to find one.
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Son Jason (Evan Alex), the firebrand who loves the word "anus," and daughter Zora (Shahadi Joseph), the family critic and cynic.
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At trail's end, following the footsteps of 10 centuries of wanderers, the cynic in me had given way to something else.
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"Assistant Wanted, Female" opens with her sharing breakfast with her best pal Rhoda, a wisecracking cynic, stressing out about her diet.
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And as Oscar Wilde said, "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
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The cynic in me (embittered by years of bad pranks) thinks this could all be the lead up to some master prank.
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When climate-change cynic Reagan took office in 1981, however, he did a take back and ordered the solar panels be tossed.
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A CYNIC, says one of Oscar Wilde's characters, is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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In a speech supporting the Democrats' nominee, Hillary Clinton, Biden said that Trump was a cynic trying to win by fear-mongering.
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His colleagues remember him as a cynic and a clown, with a cultivated look of neglect, untucked shirt and famously messy hair.
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A cynic might be tempted to read far too much into recent developments as an indication of what the company's plans are.
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But then Arthur popped up and became the first internet cynic, busting the floodgates wide open for generations of truthers to come.
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A cynic might cavil that networks are merely exploiting the American viewer's new taste, trained by social media, for variety and distinctiveness.
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"I really hate corny stuff and it could be because I'm a little bit of a cynic," Noth said during the interview.
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Maybe it's the cynic in me, but whenever a product's biggest promise is also its biggest unknown, I find myself deeply skeptical.
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It doesn't take a cynic to notice that the governor has long failed to deliver on a full slate of ethics reforms.
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But he is a hollow cynic, a man who has learned how to play the game and suppress his actual political instincts.
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But a cynic might argue that the Fed's job is to keep the US economy afloat and not micromanage the global economy.
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Warhol, often billed as a hardhearted cynic, was actually, or also, a true romantic who almost never found the love he craved.
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Call me skeptical or a cynic -- maybe I am -- but I would be lying if I didn't say that I was astonished.
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A cynic might suggest that Besson's spaceship can do nothing but auger in, leaving a saucer-shaped crater in Hollywood's 2017 gross receipts.
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RDR2 takes place in a cynical time, and it forces you to become a cynic when deciding if you want to help people.
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I'd slowly allowed myself to turn into a cynic and a bit of a misandrist when it came to my interactions with men.
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Ever the cynic, Mr Trump accuses British and French leaders of liking the Iran deal because their countries make money trading with Iran.
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I don't have any flies on it other than to say that if you're a real cynic, you can say, 'You know what?
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A cynic might look at his record and say McConnell has been part of the D.C. swamp since it was a mere wetland.
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My inner cynic cringed, but the optimist in me loved them, as I knew they signified a social shift toward acceptance and visibility.
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He is a passionate cynic, an artist who degrades and celebrates his medium through the relentless yet fervent repetition of a selected motif.
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I was happy to, but the urban cynic in me wondered why he'd ever trust a rando he didn't know from a pickpocket.
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Starry-eyed at the beginning, he learns to temper his idealism, but in a crass political era, he impressively avoids becoming a cynic.
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The melodrama was milder, and a cynic might surmise that that's why the show lasted only three seasons, compared to the original's 14.
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The cynic in me, however, was wary; I've known people with longer experience of 19th-century ballets to make unstylish and insensitive revisions.
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Yeah, I think I'm like ... it's a total cliche but it's like that hardball old detective or soldier who thinks he's this total mercenary but then, well, it's like Rick in "Casablanca," who ends up, who thinks he's a total cynic but at the end of the day ... well, like I say in the book, inside every cynic lies a heartbroken idealist.
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While the cynic in me is all for Twitter cleansing its service of youths, it isn't exactly implementing age restriction as you might think.
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Now they think they see a cynic like so many others in politics, who ran as an outsider but will govern as an insider.
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The cynic might say that it makes no sense to tax something as highly addictive as sugar, citing booze or cigarette sales as evidence.
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I felt a combination of affirmation and pride and every other cheesy emotion that not even a grouchy cynic like me could stuff down.
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Mr Wenger has been a particularly outspoken cynic about corruption in football, arguing that there is "a real tsunami" of it in the sport.
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Call me a cynic, but I think Buffalo will play their best game on Sunday and put the Jets on the outside looking in.
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"Anyone who still lives with the idea that institutions are functioning is either a cynic or blind," said Josias de Souza, a prominent columnist.
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A cynic might guess that he'd had enough success to touch all of them but not so much as to foster jealousy or resentment.
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A cynic might look at Graham as just another Republican in Congress worried about a primary challenge from a pro-Trump candidate this cycle.
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A cynic might say that Eminem, who is reported to be coming out with a new album next month, is following a similar playbook.
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If as a young man he possessed what Lamster calls an "extravagant hauteur," he was too full of enthusiasm to be merely a cynic.
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Like Lear, Timon has two friends who do not betray her; one, taking the role of the fool, is the cynic Apemantus (Arnie Burton).
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She was the killjoy, the cynic who didn't believe in soul mates and who bought a house in Brooklyn instead of collecting Manolo Blahniks.
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While a cynic might wonder how, exactly, Trump's reputation could possibly be damaged by revelations of extramarital affairs, the free market has spoken here.
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A computer nerd turned NASA scientist turned establishment-science cynic, Zayner is something like the self-appointed leader of a small but burgeoning biohacking movement.
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A cynic might say that running businesses in prisons seems like a pretty sweet way to engage in modern-day sub-minimum-wage slave labor.
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Hayes: Now, the cynic in me says, you've got other tech companies that are much more dependent on that kind of thing than Apple is.
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But it all worked out well in the end, with the sort of only-in-Hollywood finale that even the harshest cynic had to appreciate.
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A cynic might read the events of the last few months as an orchestrated game plan by Kim to bring China back into his camp.
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The experience is kind of like going to your first SoulCycle class — you enter a cynic, but you emerge (hopefully less sweaty) a zealous convert.
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While I wouldn't call tragedies like Bambi and The Lion King treacly, a cynic could easily cast those weepy titles as nothing more than melodrama.
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If you are a cynic, you will argue that if the news subscription business was truly promising, Facebook and Google would be pursuing it themselves.
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A complete cynic might have expected economists who denounced budget deficits and easy money under a Democrat to suddenly reverse position under a Republican president.
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An extreme cynic might wonder whether the House speaker would support anything that boosts the economy, since by doing so it would help Trump too.
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It's still lurking in her computer: Big-hearted cynic w/spiritual leanings & roving intellect GWF, 36, Loves E. Dickinson, yoga, music, & my New York Times .
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But the cynic would be mistaken, according to recent research from Mexico, which suggests that this affront to liberty actually impacts consumption in a positive way.
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After wearing the sweater it sold out almost immediately, which is a fact that might give a cynic pause about the motivation behind this new friendship.
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Call her a cynic, call her a villain, but at least there's still someone on this show with the foresight to worry about tomorrow's war today.
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When the kids came to my classroom and said, "We really want to go to DC!" the grownup cynic in me thought, there's just no way.
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Marsters's natural theatricality gets plenty of room to stretch between the meek man Spike was before becoming a vampire and the sneering cynic he became after.
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And only a deep cynic would believe it's just because he enjoys standing in front of a huge crowd and making the whole thing about him.
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Eva's chief antagonist isn't her husband, the quasi-fascist Juan Perón (Enrique Acevedo), but Che (Jason Gotay), a generalized man of the people and freelance cynic.
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A cynic may see today as an elaborate example of bonkers-budget experimental and experiential marketing from one of the biggest streaming services in the world.
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Death, a black-bereted cynic who tips cigarette ashes on Jacob's floor, cites Jose Luis Borges's tale of "Funes the Memorious" to argue that forgetting is necessary.
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In the case of LBJ, the story is about a politician who grows from being a power-hungry cynic into a more idealistic leader with a mission.
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Whether you're a diehard St. Valentine stan or total cynic, keep in mind that, thanks to the moon, there's something else you can celebrate on the 14th.
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A cynic might argue that it's been a great day for the newspaper Nice Matin – they're unlikely to have sold this many copies in quite some time.
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A cynic might say that it has basically served the interests of the economic elite while winning votes from the white working class with racial dog whistles.
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The master colorist of the couture and its anti-cynic, whose clothes often seem built on generosity of spirit, Mr. Piccioli was riffing on the subconscious backstage.
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He was a "sentimental cynic," in Luc Sante's spot-on phrase, or what you might call a "real character," with all the authenticity and hyperbole that implies.
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"It's very, very hard not to be a complete and utter cynic when it comes to this," James Donohue, a longtime English teacher at the school, said.
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"A cynic might say, 'Well, she's just redoing the same thing over and over,'" Jennifer Withrow, head of exhibitions and publications at the McMichael, said in an interview.
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And that cynic might then go on to argue that any attempt at translating the pill experience into something that's both readable and relatable is doomed to failure.
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In what a cynic might call a transparent effort to curry favor with the next administration, Slater personally gave $1,000 each to both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
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At the same time, the cynic in me wonders if people like that are at the network mostly to provide cover for the more toxic figures, like Hannity.
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They view him as a cynic who craftily adopted their worldview out of self-interest, to win over the faction he needs to win the Republican presidential nomination.
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I'm a cynic—you have to have a little bit of cynicism to be a comedian—and it's almost too ridiculous for me to take improv so earnestly.
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This site is not for the faint of heart — if you're a cynic, conservative by any means, or get sketched out easily, you're probably going to hate it.
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It's the cinematic equivalent of K-Pop: an elaborately scripted and manicured production that shouldn't work, but is earnest enough to disarm even the most practiced highbrow cynic.
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A cynic might say he was the most charming ex-governor ever to have vetoed a bill that would have ended the death penalty for the mentally retarded.
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The words, unattributed in the film and the source of its title, come from "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde, where they supply the definition of a cynic.
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I'm existing in a world that turned me into a cynic over the years, and Twitter hasn't helped in suppressing that toxic streak of anger and cancel culture.
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Some of Sean's other acclaimed works -- besides his contributions on "Human," of course -- include his part in the awe-inspiring Cynic album, "Focus," which got released in 1993.
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My friend Jane, bighearted cynic with spiritual leanings and roving intellect, loved ideas and books, and she loved babies, but she had a particular weakness for teen-agers.
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"McCain was a romantic about his causes and a cynic about the world ... He understood the world as it is with all its corruption and cruelty," he wrote.
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What I remember most about the scene, which I was covering in 1987 for the Vermont Cynic, the University of Vermont's weekly paper, was how serious the mayor was.
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The cynic in me believes this deeply unpopular proposal is part of a plan to play chicken with our healthcare system, allowing Republicans to finally destroy their ACA nemesis.
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Ever the cynic, McConnell this week deflected reports that the GOP tax cut was driving the debt increase and instead suggested that entitlement programs were the real deficit busters.
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Most of the first part of this season focused on Strand, a fascinating mixture of cynic and romantic, and the love that drove him south to the Abigail farm.
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What can victims of disembodied trolling online learn from how the internet feeds informal pressures in the flesh (and what might Diogenes the Cynic have to do with this)?
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Either Mr. Trump is a rube who believes that Russia didn't interfere in the 2016 election, or a cynic playing to a base that accepts his lies as gospel.
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A cynic observing this unusual Capitol Hill lovefest could plausibly argue that it's easy enough for Republicans and Democrats to link arms when there's serious money to be spent.
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A cynic might respond that it's because she has received more than $800,000 in campaign donations from the pharmaceutical lobby since 2002, more than from almost any other industry.
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Indeed, a cynic might wonder whether Bolton's appointment was in part Trump's effort to protect his right flank as he pursues a historic, if flawed, North Korean nuclear "deal."
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There are two possibilities: A cynic might argue that it's just puffery, that the broadband industry is simply trying to present a friendly image to an outraged online horde.
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Friday marked the Autumn Equinox and, while I hate being the crabby and absent-minded cynic, this is no time for cheap Christmas trash to hit department store shelves.
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A cynic might argue that Bolton may be well aware that Trump's calls for dialogue with Iran may be futile and that the hard-line sanctions policy could spark conflict.
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Do you think that Luke Skywalker is an old man who learns a lesson about aging and wisdom, or a cranky cynic who never would have become what he is?
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Let's revisit it: If that didn't convince you, a cynic, that Offset and Cardi B were in some sort of era-defining relationship, this will: the two are now engaged.
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Norbu wore a headset microphone and T-shirt with an image of the Buddha of his own design, tempting the cynic to label the performance as a spectacle or gimmick.
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It's a good time to be a death metal fan with a healthy sense of curiosity (or a soft spot for older weirdos like Atheist, Demilich, Cynic, and so on).
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A cynic might see the NSA is moving proactively to avoid another public relations disaster after one of its top secret exploits was leaked and used in a global ransomware attack.
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A cynic might argue that this new FDA list is purely symbolic because it doesn't actually set out any reforms or even provide drug companies with information they don't already know.
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So as a self-described millennial cynic, I decided to consider whether or not seven of the Disney Princesses lead post-fairy-tale ending lives I would actually want to lead.
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A cynic might give Trump and his GOP Congress credit in the sense that their failure to do anything prevented the reversal of the economic gains made by the Obama administration.
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Any Facebook cynic probably guessed this was the case: Zuckerberg is willing to work with the government only to the extent that Facebook can have some influence over the final result.
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As his closest friends have often noted this week, he was a man of great contradictions: a playboy fighter pilot turned hero, a romantic and cynic, and as South Carolina Sen.
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And even if you're a cynic who thinks Valentine's Day is just a fictional holiday made up by greeting card companies, you have to admit that these products are pretty damn cute.
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Call me a cynic, but I just don't see the Take Care Clause question as the benign or even neutral act of a court seeking efficiency in clearing up an unsettled issue.
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A cynic would say Mr. Ryan has nothing to lose: Either he gets the bombastic, unpredictable Mr. Trump as the next president or he survives to seek the presidential nomination in 2020.
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A cynic might say that companies introduced the matching feature to do what it actually does — shortchange poor employees by diminishing company contributions, under the guise of motivating such employees to save.
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Gail: Cynic though I may be, I did not expect to see our right-left conversation morph into a discussion about how the president could be removed from office for mental incapacity.
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There have been many headline-grabbing stunts recently that a cynic could roll their eyes at: Fender, the guitar maker, for instance, introduced a range of "Game of Thrones" instruments this month.
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"The cynic in me thinks this is another way for companies to say they need to raise their prices," said Erin R. Fox, a drug-shortage expert at the University of Utah.
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Goofy but well-meaning Ken (Jake Lacy), who romances Meg, is the simpleton; commitment-phobic bartender Tom (Anders Holm) is the slattern; David is the cynic; and Alice's ex, Josh, is the center.
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For if it turns out that Cruz is really more of a cynic than a zealot, then he might indeed be capable of moderating and working with them once he gets the nomination.
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A cynic would say the obvious reason for economic competitors— and their wish to see us remain in the agreement— is so that we continue to suffer this self-inflicted major economic wound.
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The word "cynic" comes from the Greek kynikos , meaning "doglike," and Sloterdijk coined the term "kynicism" to differentiate Diogenes' active assault on prevailing norms from the passive disengagement of the late twentieth century.
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A cynic would say that the Frenchman is no more than a faded simulacrum of his English-speaking forebears, and that would be true if the only evidence were a sheaf of stills.
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The cynic, however, would undoubtedly retort that James, four times the league's most valuable player, has to do that much for the Cavaliers as they're currently constituted because they have so many holes.
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The guy is credited for helping pave the way for the niche rock genre, as he was a founding member of the '90s band Cynic as well as a brief member of Death.
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A cynic would say the obvious reason for economic competitors and their wish to see us remain in the agreement is so that we continue to suffer this self-inflicted major economic wound.
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"Inner Paths (To Outer Space)" is half Cynic-esque voyage and half workout music for the bugs from Starship Troopers, an antidote to newfound Mortician-jocking lunkheads that has no shortage on brawn.
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To a non-cynic, it would be a real celebration of the human spirit, the limits of physicality, the magic of elite athletes making their bodies do things other humans cannot even comprehend.
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Philadelphia's Horrendous—whose complex, cerebral take on death has always been reminiscent of Floridian bands like Death and Cynic—added jazzy basslines and a forward-thinking sense of melody to their new album, Idol.
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The biggest impact would be to rural and Republican states, which is another reason for political strife, because a cynic would say this is a Democratic effort to raise wages only on Republican districts.
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A cynic might think that it was a reaction to your report of his apparent leaning on a podiatrist to manufacture a physical defect intended to get him out of military service in Vietnam.
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Perhaps Tyrion's strategic gaffes are part of his own humbling arc as he evolves from a cynic into a true believer, a phase he will overcome later as a powerful force in the war.
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LONDON (Reuters) - If Formula One shot itself in the foot in Canada on Sunday, as some said after the race, then a cynic might suggest it was remarkable there was anything left to hit.
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It's not that Lewis has become a cynic, it's just that her Gen X penchant for irony kicked into overdrive — and that's the blade she sharpens to use in her fight against the darkness rising.
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"I was quite the cynic about it, but I basically realized I didn't know what the hell I was talking about" when it came to managing homes, recalled the general, who retired a decade ago.
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The president of Kynikos Associates, which literally derives its name from the Greek word for cynic, revealed for the first time publicly that he's targeting four stocks in two industries: fast food and health care.
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An author with a distressingly wide range, Park has written picture books and poetry, as well as historical and contemporary novels, united by a core moral purposefulness that even a dedicated cynic cannot help admiring.
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The second most interesting character is Maeve Millay (Thandie Newton), the mistress of a bordello, and the two women appear destined to team up: virgin and whore, white woman and black woman, innocent and cynic.
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"A cynic would say the obvious reason for economic competitors and their wish to see us remain in the agreement is so that we continue to suffer the self-inflicted, major economic wound," he added.
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As Alec MacGillis, a reporter for ProPublica, observes in "The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell," McConnell was reliably pro-choice until it became inconvenient and pro-union when it would get him votes.
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Call me a cynic, but meeting up with Floyd for £2,000 in Manchester will presumably entail him talking about how fantastic he is, while not discussing anything that you can't read in a book he's authorised.
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Ahead of the fight, it was hard for the natural cynic to not question whether Ellenberger was deserving of an opponent such as Brown, nor his main card slot, with such a slump in fight form.
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It's all of these small exceptions to Richard's corroding moral center that add up to the colossal transformation of his character, from struggling idealist to an inconsiderate cynic willing to do whatever it takes to succeed.
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Call me a cynic, but it seems to me that the only reason for not fixing DACA — and reform our immigration process overall — is because it's a handy political football to kick around come election time.
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By exercising his right of contempt, he succeeded, at least in his own mind, in not becoming a victim, though he may have become something else—a cynic who undervalued the art that he helped produce.
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This site is not for the faint of heart — if you're a cynic, conservative by any means, get sketched out easily, or simply aren't a fan of unsolicited dick pics, you're probably going to hate it.
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It says a lot for Brooker himself—not the failing part, but a writer often misread as a cynic, who is in fact simply trying to communicate an ounce of the bewilderment we surely all feel.
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It has Tommy guns and Model T's, luxuriously polished surfaces, some fine squealing-tire action and a handful of solid performances, including one from Sienna Miller, who tramps around as a 10-cents-a-dance cynic.
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He takes no clear political position on many of the hot-button topics the show raises, portraying himself as a reporter not pundit, realist not cynic, equally amazed and appalled, refusing moral judgments or virtue signaling.
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Chappelle, who described himself as "a cynic when it comes to politics," appeared on the show alongside Ben Jealous, a civil rights leader running for governor in Maryland, who he said is "like family" to him.
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A cynic might suggest that this is just a remix of the typical (and overdone) chrome effect that companies like to apply to technological products and car window frames, but cynics say a lot of silly things.
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That's right: I'm a VR cynic but I managed to have a blast in VR. But let me preface all of this with one caveat: I would not buy a VR rig right now, today, this instant.
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It seems like another venue closes every week here now, and a cynic could say that it doesn't matter, than venues are just empty spaces, boxes that can be uprooted and replanted anywhere without any real effect.
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Not only is the curatorial theme weak; the selections made to support it are so diverse as to seem arbitrary—unless, a cynic may think, so many big-name, high-priced artists are expected to draw crowds.
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But here's the realization that turned me turn from cynic to enthusiastic rube in the hours since the bout was announced and hypothetical bullshit became unavoidable reality: the punches thrown are incidental to the pop culture moment.
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Throughout, Ms. Margolin pits a concentration-camp survivor who somehow remains almost naïvely hopeful against an amoral, greedy cynic with a fundamentally materialist view, and uses that contrast to explore issues of morality, trust, faith and guilt.
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If you are a cynic you could say we live in a culture in which people say they believe (i) and teach their children to say (i) when asked, but always act as if they believe (ii).
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"However, you don't need to be a huge cynic to believe that this is all about punishing Bezos and the president's good for a negative tweet about Amazon pretty much every single day," the "Mad Money" host said.
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It would be lovely to be able to understand and believe in very wealthy people we don't know, and I know my continued insistence that we don't and can't and shouldn't try makes me sound like a cynic.
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Simon thus exemplifies the freedom of the Cynic, namely those who chose a life as free as possible from politics and power, who were cosmopolites, citizens of the world and not subjects to any particular city or state.
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That, too, has a dutiful daughter at its heart, as well as a helpful doctor, except that he is a cynic with an impish grin, who knows that the world, amid the detritus of Communism, has gone mad.
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In spite of his longtime reputation as self-serving cynic, it has been fascinating to see Donald Trump as president exhibit a loyalty to conservatism and conservative Republican members of Congress rivaling and perhaps exceeding that of Reagan.
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The first episode introduces the stock characters (loyal son, too-perfect daughter, rebel, cynic, screw-up) in lively fashion, but then the story bogs down in anemic mystery and filler, like a risible detour into the Vietnam War.
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More important, the film is a challenge to the widely accepted view of Mr. Putin as a coldblooded realist, a cynic who believes in nothing but power and spends his days poring over maps and checking his bank statements.
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Up until this point, there'd been a viable interpretation of Melisandre as a cynic or a con artist, but "Home" clarified that she's meant to be understood as a true believer who is genuinely distraught that her prophecy failed.
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Outer Peace is full of the same cheery charm and outsized charisma that he's grown into over the last couple of records, but this one's a little closer to my heard because hey, he's turning into a cynic too.
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But the cynic in me thinks that Chicago is being chosen by Trump as the city to focus his attention because it is his predecessor's hometown and led by Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D), President Obama's former chief of staff.
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Greta Bjornson, who worked last academic year as the editor of The Vermont Cynic, a student newspaper at the University of Vermont, said that student activists sometimes raised valid points about a lack of diversity on the newspaper staff.
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"Being a cynic, I would say they're so far behind on fundraising, why would they want to antagonize Wall Street at this point?" said Greg Valliere, chief strategist at Horizon Investments and a leading voice on the Wall Street-Washington connection.
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A cynic might suggest that the GOP lawmakers were embracing a chance to criticize the President on an issue that is hardly a critical one for conservative voters while avoiding accusations that he abuses his power in his dealings with Ukraine.
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In fact, most of the time, I see the Shadow-Wednesday relationship as a nightmare neo-noir frog-scorpion bromance, with Shadow the savvy cynic seduced by a more-savvy homme fatale who might not have his best interests at heart.
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But a cynic might read the events recounted in this book and conclude that Corsi's behavior matches quite well with a calculated strategy: to admit everything he thought Mueller's team could already prove, and claim memory failure on everything else.
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"All the things he chooses to present to the people who come there are about his races," says Alec MacGillis, a ProPublica reporter and author of a 22018 McConnell biography, The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell, in an interview.
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A cynic might argue that Barr's remarks could be read as a dressing down of media and legal commentators who have savaged him as a tame enabler of an unbridled President as much as they are directed at Trump himself.
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"Call me a cynic if you like, but I think my generation, we're the last ones to come out of the school system that didn't have this stuff pumped into them, force-fed day after day, about climate change," he said.
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Indeed, a cynic might say that many Republicans' top priority won't be to limit the Court's move to the left — it will be to avoid getting their own fingerprints on the confirmation of a justice who will pull the Court to the left.
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"The cynic in me says that you probably shouldn't be developing tax proposals based on the friends you hang out with," said Mark Mazur, a former Treasury and Internal Revenue Service official who now runs the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center in Washington.
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It's not unusual for extreme metal musicians to have extensively studied classical music (see Gorguts, Fleshgod Apocalypse) or jazz (see Atheist, Cynic), nor is it odd to find acts with an interest in philosophy, history and mythology, or politics and social criticism.
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A cynic certainly has the right to say no, but I would disagree, not because there is an overriding will inside the organization to reform, but because FIFA will have no choice but to conduct its business more transparently and more honestly.
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But Tyrion is also speaking in a cosmic sense, expressing his belief that the men and women of Westeros can break this ceaseless cycle of generational conflict, one so ingrained that a cynic might say: There is no point trying to overcome it.
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"The beauty of the Teifi Valley has led it to be identified as a place of entry to the Welsh 'otherworld,' or Annwfn, and even the strongest cynic will find something magical about the peaceful wooded Cych Valley and the waterfalls at Ffynone."
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Look at Cynic, who on their progressive death metal opus Focus (1993) had keyboards appear on the album and during live performances, or British gothic doom band My Dying Bride, who relied heavily on synths for their 1993 album, Turn Loose the Swans.
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The best account of Mitch McConnell's life and political career comes, unsurprisingly, from a representative of the avowedly (as opposed to accused) liberal media, the former New Republic reporter Alec MacGillis, whose aptly titled McConnell biography, The Cynic, was published in 2014.
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"The cynic in me says that you probably shouldn't be developing tax proposals based on the friends you hang out with," said Mark Mazur, a former Treasury and Internal Revenue Service official who now runs the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center in Washington.
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Any big changes in interest rates are thus political decisions, not purely economic ones (although a cynic might say the same is true in America, Yi Gang, governor of the People's Bank of China, faces umpteen more constraints than Jerome Powell of the Federal Reserve).
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But the cynic will argue that while many conservative lawmakers profess those points of view, they are often in the pocket of vested interests, like the fossil fuel companies, and as such are more in the business of protecting those who are already winning.
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I became the sort of person who resisted going to a museum because I was a world-weary cynic, convinced that Monet and Seurat were just bait to lure suckers into a gift shop where their masterpieces were sold on mugs and T-shirts.
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Unless vendors decide it's in the interest of mankind to make these improvements available — call me a cynic if you like, but I'm not holding my breath on this one — it's going to be a very long time before the posited smart-city capabilities come to pass.
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Clicking through pages of "unlock the value of your big data!" advertorials, a cynic might suspect that the best (and perhaps only) method of deriving value from big data is to go into the business of telling people how to get value from their big data.
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"Without wanting to be too much of a cynic, when faced with something this hard to discount markets do sometimes take the easy way out and do what they were going to do anyway," Michael Shaoul, chairman and CEO of Marketfield Asset Management, in a note.
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Lee and Clementine's relationship was a natural storytelling baton, and if you'll let me indulge the cynic for another moment, it's often felt like Telltale executives wouldn't let Clementine to get close to anyone, a decision that only underscored what's been missing for years now: a heart.
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It was also a quiet but sharp denunciation of Donald J. Trump, whom she did not name, in which she took aim at his campaign slogan and derided him as a cynic who viewed the world's challenges in terms of 140-character posts on Twitter. Mrs.
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Dean then posited that a cynic might suggest Waller-Bridge had been taken on board to increase female representation on the writing team, which has only had one female writer in the franchise's 57-year history (Johanna Harwood in "Dr No" and "From Russia with Love").
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Dating other famous people, a cynic might say, but there was buzz surrounding this lanky comic even before he became one of the youngest cast members in the history of "Saturday Night Live," and then a regular player in the daily soap opera of online media.
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A cynic might wonder if conservative evangelicals have adopted the same marketing tactic as the Koch brothers and their conservative fund-raising network, who since about 2014 have rebranded their advocacy of deregulation and radical free-market economics as simply the promotion of human well-being.
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"From the temperamental painter, who is a great man one day and a naughty child the next, to the earnest, analytical sculptor, who is a cynic about women even while he idealizes them, the model learns art from all its perspectives," she wrote in a newspaper column.
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Anderson has also said that aesthetics may turn out to have been Marxism's strongest suit, which is just as well, a cynic might reply, considering how weak its economic and political suits have been, but it's true that Hobsbawm was marvelous when describing bourgeois culture in its heyday.
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A cynic might suggest that the entire preseason schedule is just a massive cash grab, in which teams force fans to buy tickets to watch has-beens, never-will-bes, and PTOs signed specifically to circumvent the veteran roster rules, all playing in games in which nothing ever happens.
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In "The Last Time I Saw Richard," an embittered, lonely cynic projects his romantic disillusion onto his friend, mocking her taste for "pretty men" when he is the one who will marry "a figure skater," a union sealed with the purchase of a dishwasher and a coffee pot.
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This might just be my inner-cynic jumping out, but it seems unlikely that Peter has found the proverbial "one" while traveling this long and winding path; he's been too busy (poorly) refereeing arguments between the women and injuring himself on golf carts to focus on finding love.
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Mr. Levinson allows his star to settle into the skin of a fussy cynic, who's so nit-picky that when the Securities and Exchange Commission drops by for a routine check, he's more annoyed by the agent's jacket than at the possibility that his con could be exposed.
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To some of those he encountered, he was an impish, 22016-foot-tall cynic whose American associates nicknamed him "Carry-on" or "KK" and who was rejected for a job with an oil company in Moscow in late 22016 or early 22 because he was seen as too meek.
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I like seeing free and open-source software inching closer to being a global standard rather than a niche, but the cynic in me suspects that even if this law were to be enacted in dozens of countries, we'd still have the same problems when it comes to government software.
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A cynic could draw comparisons to Bieber's performance at the AMAs last year, and Kanye's original incarnation of the levitating stage, but, regardless, this still all makes the Brits look like the Aldi Christmas party, and I'm starting to think the MTV EMAs is the greatest thing I've ever attended.
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Even the greatest cynic would agree the business of college sports has a vested interest in at least some of its student-athletes succeeding, if for no other reason beyond the system depending on people believing that bartering immediate-term revenue for post-playing benefits is a fair and just trade.
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Now, a cynic might argue that whilst there are big differences in how various types of pill affect the user—and even from user to user the impact that an Einstein, DefQon, or Snowflake can have vary wildly due to a variety of circumstantial reasons—the pill-taking narrative is usually pretty similar.
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They are also hoping the film will explain Han Solo's back story, including his friendship with co-pilot Chewbacca, how he won the Millennium Falcon spaceship, and how he became the cynic whose catchphrase "I have a bad feeling about this" has been used in some form in almost every "Star Wars" movie.
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A cynic might note that members of the industry who charge fees on $100 in traditional accounts when employees are 25, increasing to $21625,2900 at age 220006, collect more fees than when they charge fees on only $2202 in a Roth account when employees are 2628, increasing to $28500 at age 6900.
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A cynic might suggest that at least Obama took the Wall Street money and rewarded his financial benefactors with relatively weak Wall Street regulations and little punishment for Wall Street misdeeds, while his successor criticized Wall Street money and then named the kind of Wall Street execs he criticized to his cabinet.
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And while Frazier braved Trump's Twitter wrath and was the first to exit, you would not have to be a cynic to conclude that the subsequent rush of CEOs to desert Trump had as much or more to do with concern for their blue chip brands than a sudden desire to honor civil rights.
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Outrage spilled quickly A cynic might argue that the President, who may be on the verge of doing a deal with Democrats to permit hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children to stay, finds himself at a political moment when he needs to protect his populist credibility with his voters.
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Ashbery not only captures that French renegade's intensity and playfulness in his translation, he does so with an urgency that reminds us that Rimbaud left the form that he helped create—modernism—as a disenchanted young man, while Ashbery, never a cynic, works in his own vibrant space, one that goes on and on. ♦
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A cynic might suggest that re-tooling the biggest selling pop record in recent memory was a great way to finance a divorce, but in fact the motivation behind it was creative stalemate: 60 songs into the Prisoner sessions Adams was stuck in a creative rut (he ultimately racked up 80 tracks in total).
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The keywords that trigger items for sale do only that, and only when you've entered them into the shopping extension, so it means that Viber doesn't amass that data, which if you are a cynic or opportunist you may see as a lost opportunity; or if you are a privacy advocate, may be encouraged to hear.
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He went 1-10 for the Cleveland Browns the last two seasons — and 1-10 for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2014 — and a cynic might say that his lack of success makes him a natural fit with the Jets, who went 5-11 last season as they missed the playoffs for a sixth consecutive season.
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The group decides to throw a Christmas Eve party at the local Waffle Town restaurant, and the tomboy (Shipka) starts to question her feelings for her best friend (Hope); a holiday cynic (Merced) accidentally befriends a global pop star (Moore); and a member of a visiting competitive dance team (the YouTube star Anna Akana) bumps into her former flame (Liv Hewson).
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While reading the best scholarly history of Alexander the Great and his father Philip II, "By the Spear," by Ian Worthington, I learned the word "cynic" derived from the Greek for "doglike" because Diogenes and the Cynics lived on the streets, urinating, defecating and sleeping like dogs … When Alexander visited Diogenes he asked if he could do anything for him.
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It was, however, hard to stay unimpressed with the guy when he was able to keep a cigarillo dangling from his lips while dancing harder than anyone else to the between-set DJ. But it's easy to be a hardened cynic and that disillusionment washes away almost instantly because the music is great and no one's cranky or too drunk or taking too many selfies.
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But then I am a cynic, so here's a comprehensive ranking of every Olympic sport, based on how cool it is: Being good at archery was well cool in olden days when, if you were amazing at archery and you got caught by the enemy, they would chop your fingers off to stop you from archerying—I mean, that is honestly one of the coolest things ever.
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Brazil prepared for an "unprecedented" operation, deploying 44,000 troops starting Saturday to fight the fires that have blanketed the Amazon region and prompted anti-government protests, as well as global condemnation and widespread concern, reports AP. Why it matters: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, known as a far-right populist and climate science cynic, authorized use of the national military to battle the blazes on Friday as international pressure mounted.
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"All of a sudden people are looking at these trends and realizing these questions about the future of work are more real and immediate than they guessed," said Roy Bahat, the head of Bloomberg Beta, the venture capital firm funded by Bloomberg L.P. A cynic might see the interest of venture capitalists in U.B.I. as a way for them to atone for their complicity in the tech that might lead to permanent changes in the global economy.
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But the trend dates back much further than Sex and the City; The Golden Girls had Blanche, Rose, Dorothy, and Sophia, and Designing Women had Suzanne, Charlene, Julia, and Mary Jo. Libby Hill (who's married to Vox culture editor Todd VanDerWerff) points this out in a great essay for the AV Club: Female social circles, particularly on sitcoms, are often represented in groups of four, which then break down personality-wise into the following established female archetypes, which I'll call the Slattern, the Simpleton, the Cynic, and the Center.
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