Sentence examples for cynical quip from inspiring English sources
And her voice grows more angular to match, practically slicing out of her nostrils to give each cynical quip a metallic sheen.
Among friends, Mr. Boland was known for his offbeat sense of humor; he was quick with a joke or cynical quip.
In the 1980s, the poverty debate was summarized by Ronald Reagan's cynical quip that the war on poverty had been fought, and "poverty won".
Most of what were to be standard ingredients in the series are here at the start – the opening credits with the familiar Bond theme accompanying the hero shooting straight into the camera lens, the outlandish villain with his plans of world domination, the Bond girls to be bedded and left to their fates, the cynical quips that accompany the deaths of foes and so on.
Bernard Shaw's cruel quip about cynical shopkeepers staining the simple life chest green and selling it to cottagers for 36 guineas still rings true in our own culture of spurious "craftsman-made" home furnishings and so-called "artisan baked" bread.
Cynical about my cynicism?
Of course, as a critique of consumer society, his quip remains at least as cynical as it is amusing, and not everybody will buy it.
But, with Google's targeted advertising in mind, the tech community's reaction was rather more cynical: "If your house is burning down you'll now get Gmail ads for fire extinguishers," quipped one commentator.
Oscar Wilde once quipped that a cynic is someone who "knows the price of everything and the value of nothing". From this point of view, the world today seems more cynical than ever.
