But he was not, as some of his critics claimed, empty or cynical.
Mr Megrahi may be the beneficiary of flawed reasoning by a naive Scottish administration or of cynical manoeuvring by the British government.
In that film, Ms. Marling played an enigmatic beauty who might have been, as she claimed, a time-traveler from the future, or the cynical priestess of a crackpot cult in the San Fernando Valley.
Citizens were cynical or fatalistic about the Mubarak health scare Tuesday.
The cynical or the socially envious will take that to mean a feeling of protection from the hoi polloi, including the many of us who drive feeble regular cars.
What I liked most about The West Wing -- and what was most realistic to me -- was that instead of portraying people in Washington as either cynical or naive, our boss, Aaron Sorkin did a great job at portraying serious and deeply committed and well-intentioned people trying to do good things in what is a very difficult, complex and political environment.
Classroom teachers (never consulted or interviewed ) grow cynical.
This may seem to the cynical a mere show or public relations, and a few of those cynics are in the church.
Or one could be slightly more cynical and think that it was done so as to leave said link visible only to those who scrolled and thus perhaps less visible than the Court of Appeal desired that it be.
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Thus, unless one views every single benefit given to and received by a physician or hospital as part of a cynical effort to influence the independent judgment of physicians, it is impossible to gauge whether any payments in the database are problematic, or instead appear to be reasonable, justified, and even beneficial for society as a whole.
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Or is it merely a deflection, a cynical ploy designed to relieve the rising tide of popular and legislative demands for such action?
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In career management, this means that, rather than being cynical and jumping to the downside or a negative view of what is happening, find a way to assume there is a positive and think about how you can build on the opportunity.
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As I suggested yesterday, the former chair of the All Wales convention, Sir Emyr Jones Parry, will be sitting on the UK Government's commission whose job it is to kick around the West Lothian Question, or, if you're of a cynical bent, kick it into the long grass.
Finder's take on the sales rep's trade is as cynical as that portrayed in the movie Tin Men or in the David Mamet play Glengarry Glen Ross.
Over time, politicians grew increasingly cynical about people seeking to influence them one way or the other: if they wanted to know what their constituents were thinking, they called in the pollsters and ignored their mail bags.
Ours is not a cynical effort to ride the Google wave to capture page views or audience (though we certainly want to improve our performance in these areas).
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Savvy, cynical professional investors are welcome to go long risky assets like EPP or IBB (a Pacific ex-Japan ETF and biotech ETF, respectively) for the ride, but you must be ready to rip these positions out within a week or two.
But cynical customers may wonder: Is all this aimed at saving my hours or saving teller hours?
Liberals called her the most divisive politician since Richard Nixon or George Wallace, and some former Hillary Clinton supporters said McCain's selection of Palin was a cynical gambit that wouldn't help him sway female voters.
That makes them an engaged and cynical bunch, curious to try new things while downplaying brands, such as Nike Air Jordan sneakers or Doc Marten shoes, and logos, like Izod or Tommy Hilfiger.
Admittedly the English media can be harsh and cynical at the best of times but as a friend and former team-mate, the perception or depiction of Ponting the man can't be further from the reality.
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