Diogenes the Cynic wandered about ancient Athens carrying a lantern on his quest to find a single honest man.
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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.
The cynic in me sees the bubble-makers blowing up a new one.
The cynic in me, which is coincidentally 86 percent of me, wondered: Are these people really dismayed with stress testing as it is?
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.
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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Its narrative structure is conventional the girl's trials and tribulations, the cynic with a soul who has lost faith in the world, and the eloquent, cold-blooded thug but within these confines the characters have a shape of their own and the dialogue is refreshingly sharp.
With Jeff Daniels, as the bearded cynic who runs the time-travelling show.
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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It's the oldest sales pitch in the book, but as every cynic knows, you have to read the small print carefully.
It might seem to a cynic that the Republicans are more interested in zero growth until Dec. 2012, the month after the presidential election, and the Democrats in Congress seem keen on the same, only to start reversing unemployment by next summer, also in time for the presidential election.
It is enough to make a cynic believe that the State Department hopes to somehow smooth the way for arms control agreements and the blossoming of a new detente by allowing the Soviets undisciplined access to Western financial resources.
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 title character, Sam (Andrew Dickler), a bushy-bearded horticulturist, quietly overbearing cynic, and multitalented funster, is about to marry the perky, more conventional Steph (Marguerite Moreau), who gets curious about his estranged younger brother, Tom (Ben York Jones), whom she coaxes to their house for the wedding weekend.
This is all good enough to secure the number 4 slot on the list, and to please any seasonal cynic.
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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.
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.
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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Oh, and finally resolve that thorny definition of a cynic, as a person who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Whether you are a devotee of the Black Swan Theory or merely another hard-boiled cynic like me, you may now be counted among those who place little comfort in years of accumulated stock market statistics.
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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The room was delighted, but as a Washington native and born cynic, this writer was not impressed.
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Being a natural cynic I sense that all politicians, whatever their political colour, keep a weather eye on the political cycle.
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