Sentence examples for cynical bit from inspiring English sources
Or was it a cynical bit of realpolitik, conducted in exchange for some other favour?
Lefebvre characterized the supertax as a "cynical" bit of demagoguery that would suck away the country's dynamism.
This strikes some as a particularly cynical bit of appropriation: a grass-roots food scene turned into a theme-park facsimile, just a few subway stops away.
That cynical bit of realpolitik seems to have led the king to send troops last week over the causeway from Saudi Arabia to Bahrain, where they backed up a violent crackdown on unarmed protesters by Bahrain's own security forces.
These days the treasure map is digital and Long John Silver is a mixed-up kind of guy in a film that is less an "act of homage than a clumsy and cynical bit of piracy" (A. O. Scott).
But the movie, which opens today nationwide, is less an act of homage than a clumsy and cynical bit of piracy, designed to steal time and money from schoolchildren and their harried, Pottered-out parents during this very long holiday weekend.
Which brings us to the cynical bits.
It missed a few twists and turns — amendments and riders and the like — and left out the cynical bits about the lawmaker-lobbyist mutual-enrichment cycle.
I think it's easy to get a bit cynical about how much content is out there, and it's easy to be cynical about the big glitzy commercial DJ world, but there are so many incredible people that are really digging.
I'm sorry, maybe it's a little bit cynical.
