Sentence examples for cynical understanding from inspiring English sources

A funny line, but one that reflects a profound and cynical understanding of intercollegiate athletics' great problem: recruiting.

Having said all of that, the mullahs seem to have a somewhat better, if more cynical, understanding of their country than the Shah and the rest of us did.

It's a purely political and cynical way of understanding policy; if health care costs "escalate unbelievably" that's not good for anyone.

Again, Republican strategists have a cynical but canny understanding of American nature, how susceptible it is, how easily (if one is patient) a subliminal suggestion can be planted, take root and then, when the time is right, be brought to unquestioning kinesis at the utterance of a choice word or piquant phrase.

But players are nothing if not cynical and there is an understanding among those at Tottenham that Modric is within his rights to push for the move to Madrid.

We felt that some of the people who were claiming to acknowledge the film were quite cynical in the way they were saying it was contributing to understanding problems of homelessness.

The wife should be listening and showing her understanding and respect for the husband, but sometimes they pour cynical words onto him so that the quarrel starts and…bum bum…(the sound of slapping).

This is a cynical dismissal of an important area of training that helps doctors achieve shared understanding with patients about illness and its management.

This is disastrous public policy brought about by cynical politicians promising popular mandatory sentencing guidelines to the voters who lack a clear understanding about the social and financial costs involved.

The study of the use of evidence in policy varies from negative to positive advocacy, from simplistic to complex understandings of the processes involved, from uncritical technical approaches to highly cynical commentary.

This more fundamental subtext of anti-Semitism provides a background for understanding the country's slow and equivocal response to the problem and the cynical and self-serving rationalizations by some in its intellectual elite.