Weak states, of course, tend to be cynical about China s growing might.

Rather than slavishly believing policymakers assurances, emerging market researchers have learned to be cynical about official promises.

Imagine how those workers must feel grateful for the paychecks, but completely cynical about the value of the work they are doing.

Imagine how those workers must feel grateful for the paychecks, but completely cynical about the value of the work they are doing.

In these cynical times, that is encouraging.

Now is no time for cynical complacency.

That is perhaps a little too cynical.

And the cynical majority said, We don't believe you.

But who would be so cynical as to believe that?

But the post revolutionary elites are ideologically cynical and opportunistic.

There are more cynical interpretations of the European Commission s motives.

For a long time, that cynical response seemed to be justified.

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 a cynical remark, Ahmed titled his post Justice has many faces.

Rather than slavishly believing policymakers assurances, emerging market researchers have learned to be cynical about official promises. All too often, everything that can be done wrong will be done wrong.

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The socialism established by Mao Zedong has been replaced by a thoroughly cynical creed.

Recent opinion polls suggest that this is the view of much of Russia s cynical public.

Thaksin s detractors call his rural strategy (which his proxy successors have followed) cynical vote buying.

This is not to say that all appeals to religion are just cynical election ploys.

Lenin once said that capitalists were so cynical that they would sell the Soviets the rope with which they would hang them. Lenin and communism have passed away, but that cynical indifference to suffering when profits are involved remains.

These regimes can only read the West s dithering as a green light for their cynical agendas.

Lenin and communism have passed away, but that cynical indifference to suffering when profits are involved remains.

Meanwhile, Haiti continues to bleed under an undemocratic and cynical rule that does nothing to reduce poverty.

It is enough to make even the cynical shake their heads in disbelief. You could not make it up.

The West feels repugnance over the Iranian regime s cynical human rights transgressions and hypocritical mixing of religion and politics.

The pacifist Leo Tolstoy, in his novel War and Peace , regarded this pruning and tending of war as cynical.

Egyptian blogger Zenobia writes a post with the title incorporating a cynical Why are you so shocked!!?? , and wonders

North Korea s unpredictability and China s cynical irresponsibility appear to be boxing in South Korean President Lee Myung bak s conservative government.

They are either too cynical or timid in their vision of the world, or they have others priorities, or both.

Mahmoud wrote in his blog Pains and Hopes a cynical letter to Obama, encouraging him to see the real Egypt.

Some Japanese Twitter users had a more cynical perspective on the annual hype surrounding a potential Haruki Murakami Nobel Prize

Journalists are also encouraged to be skeptical without being cynical ( If your mother says she loves you, check it out. ).

None of these misguided or cynical efforts has diluted Gandhi s greatness, or the extraordinary resonance of his life and his message.

For 70 cynical years, and for centuries before that, everything done in the name of Ukrainians was done without our consent.

Lenin once said that capitalists were so cynical that they would sell the Soviets the rope with which they would hang them.

Goodman finds himself groping the secretaries, just as the other cynical executives at Schlock do, and ends up stealing from the company.

This would require, of course, less cynical political elites who can transcend their petty ambitions and divisions for the sake of the country.

In our cynical age, many might scoff at such an old fashioned motto (or, indeed, at the power of any motto or slogan).

Perhaps because they are older and more cynical, European societies seem to bask in a collective moroseness, from which they have difficulty emerging.

What happened in Yugoslavia, an ill conceived product of Wilsonian diplomacy, could happen in the more cynical imperial creations in the Middle East.

But whether a new woman will help to soften foreigners perception of Putin s cynical diplomacy and increasingly brutal rule is open to question.

Western leaders dithering, and the callous, cynical, and cavalier support of Russia and China for Assad, is a stigma that they will bear forever.

There was also an urgent need to intensify efforts to combat trafficking in women and girls, which was a particularly cynical form of violence.

But these conferences are going on, and I know people get skeptical and cynical about the big global summits and the promises and their never being kept, but actually, the bits that are, are making a difference, and what the politicians need is more permission from the public.