Sentence examples for cynical killer from inspiring English sources
It involves a young cop and a cynical killer, and covers a series of possible scenarios.
The movie centers on the wrenching psychological struggle between two kinds of men — Robert Ryan's tough but humane lieutenant, who wants to lead his platoon to safety, and Aldo Ray's cynical sergeant, a killer who assumes the worst about everybody.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the Danish Prime Minister, described the killer's actions as "a cynical act of terror" and said her country had "lived through some hours which we will never forget".
As the cynical prostitute who finds herself embroiled in the search for a killer, she's tough, at times fascinatingly unemotional and yet ultimately vulnerable, dominating the film with a complex performance.
What made this movie such a solid hit on the art-house circuit (besides a killer cast that includes Gillian Jacobs, Chris Gethard and Kate Micucci) is that it's not excessively cynical or pessimistic.
His cool urbanity is perhaps the only constant among performances that include cynical secret agents, gregarious playboys, rugged adventurers, refined gentlemen, humble schoolteachers, and psychotic killers.
He looks like the slick city killer Mackie Messer in the song by his contemporaries Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill from their cynical masterpiece The Threepenny Opera.
