A ploy. A ploy to get me cooking again.

Now, that is cynical. And Southerners usually aren't that cynical.

I resent your cynical remarks.

And the cynical majority said,

Are we feeling cynical today?

She is very cynical about life.

I call that the cynical design.

But you were contemptuous and cynical.

It's a ploy to get john. It's a trap.

A ploy to intimidate Burnett into giving up intel.

He smiled a cynical smile at me.

He smiled a cynical smile at me.

He always makes cynical remarks to me.

Then take some refugees. You're so cynical.

Being depressed and cynical is my job.

So if you have any ploy, try it against Me!

You'll find this ploy somewhere in your manual, I'm sure.

Using the institution of marriage As a cheap political ploy.

It's hard growing up with a cynical father.

But the colonists saw through the British ploy and cried, Monopoly!

It is a very cynical place out there sometimes.

And the cynical majority said, We don't believe you.

Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind.

It's hard to talk if you're going to be so cynical.

Only a cynical man would call what these people have lives, Wayne.

You know it's sad to see someone so young be so... cynical.

We feel overcome, we feel overwhelmed, we feel anxious, maybe depressed, frustrated or cynical.

No problem. What's with her? You mean,why isn't she cynical and jaded like you?

Now, there is a more cynical argument, that some people have made, and I think it's reasonable to give that due time, and one of the cynical arguments, or the more cynical arguments, is that the U.S. had close financial and trade ties to Britain, not to mention cultural ties, ...financial ties to... ...the British.

And I thought they were being cynical, but it turns out I was wrong they weren't.

And then a more cynical view of why the U.S. entered the war, and this is true of probably most wars, is that there's a lot of

I was taking a class of his, and he was just like, this is an overeager student, which we don't normally get in the United States, because everyone else is cynical and jaded.

We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road based on sometimes dreams of a past that never really was, a fear of each other, distancing and blame.

The one, we can call it the cynical design, that means the design invented by Raymond Loewy in the '50s, who said, what is ugly is a bad sale, la laideur se vend mal, which is terrible.

Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.

And behind this powerful disagreement between how to close that gap, there's the worst kind of cynical party politics, the worst kind of insider baseball, lobbying, all of that stuff, but there's also this powerfully interesting, respectful disagreement between two fundamentally different economic philosophies.

And then we turn the page of the magazine, and we see this now this is the page the FDA requires pharmaceutical companies to put into their ads, or to follow their ads, and to me, this is one of the most cynical exercises in medicine.

But these conferences are going on, and I know people get skeptical and cynical about the big global summits and the promises and their never being kept, but actually, the bits that are, are making a difference, and what the politicians need is more permission from the public.

Now, of course, this was a simple ploy on Dr. P's part to get me to do the exercises I didn't want to do before the prospect of being the richest five year old in the second floor ward, but what he effectively did for me was reshape an awful daily occurrence into a new and promising experience for me.

It has gotten to the point where, you know, within advertising or within the movie industry, happy has gotten such a bad reputation that if you actually want to do something with the subject and still appear authentic, you almost would have to, you know, do it from a cynical point of view.