Sentence examples for cynical generation from inspiring English sources

Marc Ecko says his statement and his message reflect the ambivalence of a cynical generation.

If I was the one doing the Powerpoint presentation, I'd tell the assembled suits that it won't work with anyone under 30, but anti-brand activism might well curry some favour among a minority of guilt-ridden, cynical Generation X-ers.

Young people have tended to be either excessively pragmatic (1950s) or excessively idealistic (1960s) -- or excessively cynical (Generation X), but the combination and balance of pragmatism and idealism in my generation is producing some exciting results.

"No wonder students never have any money," says the cynical older generation, "they spend it all on drinking!" Well, you shouldn't believe everything (anything) you read in the Daily Mail.

But the problems are real, and they've created a generation cynical about its own prospects.

There is also the intimate civil war between an exhausted and cynical middle-aged generation and their angry, bewildered children.

Then the President will have to devise a fallback strategy — preferably one that answers the desires of the people who applauded in Cairo, and doesn't leave another generation cynical about American promises.

No wonder this generation is cynical.

She has always been drawn to beautiful, trapped girls, who belong to a generation too cynical to unite in rebellion and too cool to unite in conformity.

But a generation of cynical, short-termist politicians has turned ethnicity into a poisonous national obsession, Nairobi's slums are the most squalid in Africa, and the vision required to defuse the frustrations of the young population trapped in them is noticeable by its absence.

On the other hand, I could just be reflecting the cynical bias of my generation, which has been repeatedly stuck with the bill for the baby boomers' political excesses.