Sentence examples for cynical observation from inspiring English sources

Metaphor is piled over metaphor, aphorism upon aphorism, cynical observation on cynical observation, and philosophical conundrum on top of conundrum.

This is not the cynical observation of a hack reporting on his fifth World Cup.

I've always been rather sceptical about those who bang on about poor team spirit, preferring Steve Archibald's cynical observation that "it is an illusion only glimpsed in victory".

The team's conduct -- summed up by the cynical observation, "Do you know how hard it is to find good relief?" -- certainly doesn't give management the moral high ground.

Many have contrasted LeBron James's willingness to engage with often controversial social issues with Michael Jordan, who once reportedly justified his deliberately apolitical public persona with the cynical observation "Republicans buy shoes too".

The toughest lyric belonged to E. Y. Harburg, whose cynical observation, "It's a Barnum & Bailey world, just as phony as it can be," in "It's Only a Paper Moon" is camouflaged by Harold Arlen's irrepressibly upbeat tune.

It is the Prince's nephew, Tancredi (Alain Delon, above, with Claudia Cardinale as his love interest), who delivers the film's famous line, a crushingly cynical observation about power: if we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

In the first season, Dinklage's Tyrion provided comic relief, always ready with a pithy, cynical observation about the cut-throat world of the Seven Kingdoms.

The real high points, though, came from Christopher Turner's Fabio, wonderfully cynical in his observations on the vagaries of desire, and from Michal Czerniawsi's Demetrio and Emma Stannard as Berenice's put-upon sister Selene: between them they have the best music in the score, and both sounded glorious.

Freddy, who is earnest but seducible, is eclipsed by the cynical Pancho, whose gruff observations can be hilarious, though their more heated exchanges verge on the didactic.

The noncolor parts are the observations of a cynical, condescending Chinese bureaucrat dispatched from Beijing to interview the residents.