Sentence examples for cynical idea from inspiring English sources

Mr. Mamet did not create the cynical idea behind "Wag the Dog," but he might as well have.

He has no large affection for his current descendants, comics like Chris Rock, Al Franken, Dennis Miller and Bill Maher, whom he thinks have bought into the cynical idea that entertainment is a product.

It is a typically sprawling, ambitious piece, drawing on video, music, dance and the spoken word to create a shifting, almost kaleidoscopic image of a nation under greatest siege from its cynical idea of love of country.

It sounded like a bad, even a cynical idea: the Metropolitan Museum's decision to arrange "The Age of Rembrandt" — the present exhibition of all two hundred and twenty-eight circa-seventeenth-century Dutch paintings in the museum's collection — along a time line of the works' acquisition, beginning in 1871.

By Peter Schjeldahl It sounded like a bad, even a cynical idea: the Metropolitan Museum's decision to arrange "The Age of Rembrandt" — the present exhibition of all two hundred and twenty-eight circa-seventeenth-century Dutch paintings in the museum's collection — along a time line of the works' acquisition, beginning in 1871.

The cynical idea was that better pay might fuel inflation, which in turn could cause interest rates to get spiked by the powers that be, putting the brakes on the economy.

People who reboot old movies are seen as hacks; cynical, idea-free megalomaniacs who'd happily stamp all over your childhood memories for a stack of coins.

Cynical ideas, like the McCain-Clinton summertime gas-tax holiday, would only make the problem worse, and reckless initiatives like the Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep offer to subsidize gasoline for three years for people who buy its gas guzzlers are the moral equivalent of tobacco companies offering discounted cigarettes to teenagers.

Seen whole, he tells us how limited and cynical our idea of art has become.

In the era that was passing, Mr. Friedman said, "the humor was more cynical, the idea of community seemed earnest and not cool.

To the cynical, the idea that political donations would be used to pull the strings of a corrupt system may sound like business as usual.