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Simple sentences
Why are you always so cynical?
I resent your cynical remarks.
He smiled a cynical smile at me.
People grow more cynical with age.
The patient's descriptions of her family are vivid, but very cynical.
Please keep your cynical remarks to yourself.
Tom is cynical.
I've wanted to tell you this for a long time: Your cynical jokes are unbearable.
Why are people always so cynical?
How can you be so cynical?
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
There's nothing cynical in being alive.
I'm not that cynical.
Tom is quite cynical, isn't he?
He's cynical.
Movie subtitles
Bordenave, the Variety Show director, cynical and boorish.
Hard, cynical.
By jove, you have got. cynical?
I know it's the very latest style to be cynical and callous about stupid things like marriage and home and babies, but maybe I don't like the very latest style.
I'm sorry, Mother, to find you cynical.
Has it made you very cynical?
Not so cold. - Cynical? - Sensible.
Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness, hard and unkind.
No mean Machiavelli is smiling, cynical Sidney Kidd.
You're a very cynical person.
Because I suspect that under that cynical shell you're at heart a sentimentalist.
Something cynical about marriage.
Gentlemen, you have before you a cruel and cynical monster.
You're not leaving with that cynical remark?
Young man, you are cynical.
You're a very cynical person, forgive me for saying so.
In cynical mockery, Not for long.
Apparently I'm not as cynical about Earth's people as you are.
I'm cynical about letters.
All right, I'm sorry. Sometimes I'm cynical.
That's a pretty cynical point of view.
Oh, sitting on boats with cynical young men and looking far out to sea.
You are a very cynical person, Rick, if you'll forgive me for saying so.
Because, my dear Ricky, I suspect that under that cynical shell you are at heart a sentimentalist.
I despise that brutal, cynical form of marriage.
You are really cynical, G?
Then you'll become warped and cynical like the rest of them.
Your tolerance strikes me as being almost cynical.
Forgive me. Your tolerance strikes me as being almost cynical.
Don't be cynical.
You know me, I'm from those cynical Celts.
Solemn regarding yourself, cynical and stupid when it comes to others.
But you're just a cynical merciless murderer.
News and current affairs
One could of course be quite cynical about both announcements.
This failure reflects the same dynamic at work in the breakdown of global climate-change conferences in recent years: a few cynical countries, whose cooperation is needed to save the planet, fuel the madness of those bent on destroying it.
Nevertheless, while an American withdrawal from the Middle East seems highly unlikely, US exposure to the region will indeed decline; as that happens, America's role there will probably become more subdued - and perhaps more cynical.
Recent opinion polls suggest that this is the view of much of Russia's cynical public.
In an era of evaporated pensions and benefits for the rank and file, piggish pay packets for CEO's have led a cynical public to wonder where big business has gone wrong.
One consequence of this cynical treatment of political ideologies is the wild swings in voters' preferences seen in various Central European countries.
In our cynical age, many might scoff at such an old-fashioned motto (or, indeed, at the power of any motto or slogan).
For example, many people both inside and outside the United States had become cynical about the American political system, arguing that it was dominated by money and closed to outsiders.
The second answer is more cynical.
The cynical answer about photo opportunities may or may not be correct.
Liberal-minded people may very well prefer not just to exchange one cynical prime minister for another at the next election.
Perhaps these words sound exaggerated to cynical ears.
Some - in particular, the ever-cynical bankers - argue that it is too late for Europe to save itself.
This cynical structure must be changed if people are to have enough confidence in the future for the economy to recover.
This would require, of course, less cynical political elites who can transcend their petty ambitions and divisions for the sake of the country.
Some observers believe that Lukashenko is making cynical overtures to the West in order to elicit more support from Russia, particularly at a time of economic crisis.
The socialism established by Mao Zedong has been replaced by a thoroughly cynical creed.
For example, many people both inside and outside the US had become cynical about the American political system, arguing that it was dominated by money and closed to outsiders.
In these cynical times, that is encouraging.
Easy access to oil wealth only allows their cynical frivolity to continue.
That the advocates of unconditional privatization are now crying out for state support would be cause for cynical laughter if the danger were not as big as it is.
Throughout the fighting, attempts to stop the killing have come and gone, and the war's innocent victims - not to mention much of the international community - have grown weary and cynical.
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