Sentence examples for cynical argument from inspiring English sources

This isn't a cynical argument.

It is a deceptive, even cynical argument.

A more cynical argument is that youngsters need a reality check.

It's hard to know the difference between the cynical argument and the realist one.

The cynical argument runs that neither creativity nor critical plaudits count for anything in Hollywood now.

While a solution in the Middle East would help calm things down, this is a cynical argument.

One of the cynical arguments that Senate members recently invoked in ducking their responsibility to enact stronger gun controls was that the government first needed to enforce laws already on the books.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Republicans were making "cynical arguments in an effort to maintain an ideological edge" among judges on the D.C. circuit.

In Neoconservatism we see the apotheosis of the cynical utility argument.

It concluded with a rhetorical question: "Is this really a cynical, hysterical argument, or simply the voice of logic and common sense?" The Sun gave unequivocal backing to Johnson for making "the reasonable point that various people had tried and failed to unify the ­countries of Europe — including ­Napoleon and Hitler".

Using more sophisticated (but no less cynical) geopolitical arguments, ASEAN diplomats justified admitting the unsavoury bunch as a way to prevent Myanmar becoming an arena in which China and India would vie for influence.But this is happening anyway.