Sentence examples for cynical chuckle from inspiring English sources

Earhardt let out an ebullient, cynical chuckle.

With a cynical chuckle, Malkovich would invoke Faulkner's line about man's "puny, inexhaustible voice still talking".

Our comedians have a default position – comfortably left-liberal, slightly sneery, relying on sharing rather than challenging the assumptions of their audience – and this keeps up a low-level rumble of cynical chuckling which allows our political masters to keep on doing whatever they want to do, completely untouched and unthreatened.

The camera dwells on one wrinkled visage after another, until it becomes clear that the entire examining board is made up of octogenarians and a chuckle of cynical recognition runs through the cinema audience.The retirement age for Italian university teachers is 72.

I was criticized because I'm considered the cynical guy who's always chuckling with his tongue in his cheek, and nobody could conceive of me making a movie that seemed to be sort of idealistic.

Forgive me if I sound cynical, but after twenty years writing about Washington, the phrases "independent commission" and "reducing waste" make me chuckle.

Chuckle, chuckle.

"In my early 40s I can get cynical, grow a beard, learn how to play acoustic guitar and then do like a growly kind of 'over it' record," he said, chuckling at the thought.

Gentle chuckle.

They chuckle.

And again: Chuckle… chuckle… titter… guffaw!