Sentence examples for cynical expression from inspiring English sources

"He answered the question without answering the question," Malik said, flashing the cynical expression of a seasoned political reporter.

The way these ads work, this one is already playing over and over on the Web as a free-media "ghost," in professional parlance — too late for any cynical expression of regret by Mr. McCain.

The head of London Hospital, Carr Gomm Henry Stramm), a pale, bald man with a fixed, slightly cynical expression, comes onstage, followed by Frederick Treves (Alessandro Nivola), a recent hire at the institution.

It is unlikely that Mr. Culbertson was unaware of the cynical expression on Clark's face, and he knew perfectly well what other members of he press were thinking of him.

If only I had been trained to follow rules, rather than having been spoiled by the modern disrespect for them!" But if you imagine a cynical expression distorting my face while I read such wistful counterfactuals, you would be wrong.

A line like "What's the burgling of a bank compared to the founding of one?" is greeted in Dublin with sympathetic laughter, and Brecht's cynical expression of the capitalist credo as "You have to kill your neighbour to survive" is delivered with rasping vigour.

To him, those are cynical expressions of faith.

D'Elia has a loose-limbed physicality and a rubbery face designed to display an endless array of amused-cynical expressions, and he takes full advantage of both while infusing Danny with a kind of goofy charisma.

Airport staff members, virtually unchanged since Soviet times, are "soapy," Mr. Belyayev said, using a polite Russian expression meaning cynical and prone to pilfering.

The door opened and Reinhardt stood there, an expression of cynical bewilderment on his face, a large cigar between his lips.

It is clear that, for Nixon, resentment was not just a cynical strategy but an authentic expression of the self.