Books Included for This Word Counting

As if to live up to the dark drollery of its title, "Wilbur" begins as cynical spoof, like some second cousin to "Harold and Maude."

Vincent said he thinks the cynical approach is a miscalculation on Rose's part that will "hurt him with writers" who control his election to the Hall of Fame on ballots this year and next.

"The cynicism is beyond imagining.

Miranda, the cynical lawyer played by Cynthia Nixon, has fallen in love with Steve, the father of her child.

'A cynical foul!" shouted the sports commentator, as a player was tripped up while descending on his opponents' goal in some soccer match I was watching on television.

Was the commentator's use of it entirely justified, I mused, as I considered the dictionary's definition: "Resembling the cynic philosophers in contempt of pleasure; churlishness, or disposition to find fault; surly, currish, misanthropic, captious; now esp.

More than once in literature, this etymological relationship to a dog has been introduced when a cynic is paraded in front of us.

In a passage in Aldous Huxley's story The Giaconda Smile, a young lady says: " 'Oh, you're cynical.' Mr Hutton always had a desire to say 'Bow-bow-wow' when that last word was spoken.

The word cynic entered English in the 16th century, either from the French cynique or from the Latin cynicus, which meant simply a philosopher of Antisthenes's school.

By the 17th century, cynic was being applied to any fault-finding critic.

The early English works often associate cynics with tubs.

Since the 1960s, America's engine of assimilation has been stalled by radical multiculturalism and cynicism towards our history and political institutions.

It was spawned in the same era in which Watergate and the Vietnam War provoked a deep cynicism about America.

The rise of multiculturalism and cynicism caused key institutions — universities, churches, public schools, and federal agencies — to foster ethnic separatism and de-emphasize the virtuous characteristics of American history and culture.

"I'm more bitter and cynical about religion than I was before."Who, save for the cold and cynical, would sneer at such sincerity and innocence?And what editor would quash 700 earnest words about applesauce, naps, and tinkling?Put your kids in print and you not only show your human side, you meet your deadline with plenty of material to spare.

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