Casting a quick, cynical glance round the room—a glance which scathed, or was intended to scathe, as it crossed me—he fell with fury upon "les Anglaises.
Madame Beck esteemed me learned and blue; Miss Fanshawe, caustic, ironic, and cynical; Mr.
" He looked up from his book; his eyes were not cold or malevolent, his mouth was not cynical; he was ready and willing to hear what I might have to say: his spirit was of vintage too mellow and generous to sour in one thunder-clap.
Or was he a cynical bachelor crow, believing that he travels the fastest who travels alone?
To the eyes of those who observed him superficially he might have passed for one of those cosmopolitans, curious of knowledge, but disdaining action; one of those opulent travelers, haughty and cynical, who move incessantly from place to place, and are of no country.
And it was not exactly pleasant to reflect upon, even for a cynical, worldly old man, who had been sufficient unto himself for seventy years and who had never deigned to care what opinion the world held of him so long as it did not interfere with his comfort or entertainment.
Farebrother—his effort after the cynical pretence that all ways of getting money are essentially the same, and that chance has an empire which reduces choice to a fool's illusion—was but the symptom of a wavering resolve, a benumbed response to the old stimuli of enthusiasm.
Mary might have become cynical if she had not had parents whom she honored, and a well of affectionate gratitude within her, which was all the fuller because she had learned to make no unreasonable claims.
My first thought was that she had come to the end of her forbearance with his infatuation for Strickland, and, goaded by the latter's cynical behaviour, had insisted that he should be turned out.
His partner, in a violent letter, sent to his bank, had taunted him with hiding his whereabouts: and Strickland, in a cynical and humourous reply, had told his partner exactly where to find him.
She rarely heard the little cynical note in it now.
Barney laughed—the laugh Valancy did not like—the little, bitter, cynical laugh.
And it was with this cynical mentality that I approached the second season of 2018's breakout hit Killing Eve.
You can be someone who educates yourself, or you can believe that being negative is clever and being cynical is fashionable.
It's like the cynical editor who tells the cub reporter,"If your mother says she loves you, check it out.
"Cynical young Chinese will scornfully tell you that the travelling middle classes pay lip service to appreciating culture, but they are mainly after the goods: specifically, European brands they can buy in situ, and bring home to lord over their non-travelling neighbours," says Telegraph Travel's Sally Peck, a former Beijing resident.
"Cynical young Chinese will scornfully tell you that the travelling middle classes pay lip service to appreciating culture, but they are mainly after the goods: specifically, European brands they can buy in situ, and bring home to lord over their non-travelling neighbours," says Telegraph Travel's Sally Peck, a former Beijing resident.
Purchasing Fake Brand Names, Can Make You More Cynical Scientists suggest that purchasing knockoff goods can turn a person cynical and encouraging them to take the easy route.
But even the most cynical, secretly admit that success exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless.
Here's a young guy who has every reason to be cynical.
