In that sense, a cynic might think it was a " good day to bury bad news".
The room was delighted, but as a Washington native and born cynic, this writer was not impressed.
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And folks wonder why I proudly call myself a cynic when it comes to so-called Wall Street reform?
Diogenes the Cynic wandered about ancient Athens carrying a lantern on his quest to find a single honest man.
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Despite having lived for centuries, Doctor Who is an enthusiast, not a cynic, unlike some vampires I could mention.
This is all good enough to secure the number 4 slot on the list, and to please any seasonal cynic.
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The cynic in me thinks that GM was very leery of introducing the Volt in large numbers where it is cold.
Being a natural cynic I sense that all politicians, whatever their political colour, keep a weather eye on the political cycle.
It's the oldest sales pitch in the book, but as every cynic knows, you have to read the small print carefully.
How does he convince himself of his flatterers' sincerity, especially when he's got his own cynic philosopher, Apemantus, telling him the truth?
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With Jeff Daniels, as the bearded cynic who runs the time-travelling show.
The cynic in me sees the bubble-makers blowing up a new one.
It may merely be a subtle way to keep noses to the grindstone for longer, says one cynic, causing more stress, not less.
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The cynic in me, which is coincidentally 86 percent of me, wondered: Are these people really dismayed with stress testing as it is?
Master cynic Joe Queenan once cited an expert with an interesting take on those heartwarming tales of dolphins ferrying drowning swimmers back to shore.
Oh, and finally resolve that thorny definition of a cynic, as a person who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Now, a cynic might suggest that this review, coming in the heat of the election season, is little more than a campaign finance shakedown.
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But his numerous critics revile him as a cynic whose man-of-the-people persona is cover for the billions of dollars amassed by his wife and children.
And Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) is a blue-haired cynic whose summer job at a superstore named Wallman's is paying for video equipment to make her first film.
Though no one admits as much even a mild cynic might suspect that it is illegal because ethane-to-ethanol is cheaper than corn-to-ethanol, and much cheaper as ethane prices collapse.
We're meant to sympathize with the embittered central character, a cynic from the start whose careless comments about the regime cost him dearly during his university days and beyond.
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The cynic in me questions just how seriously you can take a competition where three of the seven teams had been eliminated before United even touched down in Tokyo.
Alternatively the cynic in me wonders whether Sinn Fein simply want to inject uncertainty into the proceedings in order to create more suspense prior to announcing a positive decision.
Mazzini was a dreamily unsuccessful revolutionary, Garibaldi an unscrupulous adventurer whose invasion of Sicily in 1860 was illegal and Cavour an old cynic who never travelled south of Pisa.
But a cynic might further conclude that to the extent that upriver dams smooth a flow's seasonal extremes, China's upriver projects actually make ones in downstream countries more feasible, too.
Bill Singer taking on the role of the cynic.
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The cynic in me cannot avoid pointing out that the big winner of a negative turn in our economic fortunes would unquestionably be the GOP as they head into the 2012 elections.
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The cynic might say that Jobs succeeded in making people feel insanely great about being overcharged for his products but the balance between marketing hype and product quality always seemed to work.
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