If a favourite character is advertised to appear on another series then some might cynically say that it is only to boost the ratings. |
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At its best, the show cuts into many forms of televised image manipulation, cynically riffing on every news scandal of the past decade. |
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Legislation has too often been cynically reactive to the leader columns of the tabloid newspapers. |
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African-Americans, it is cynically assumed, will remain loyal to the Democrats regardless of the treasons committed against them. |
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The miners were no angels but the media was blatantly and cynically used as a propaganda machine for the government. |
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By cynically playing on the follies of various discontented peers and MPs, he builds a faction round the marquis. |
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He was cynically lured into helpless addiction by the Perth scone barons in a lock-in at a local tea-room. |
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Tax cuts and benefit increases are cynically jiggered to mesh with an increasingly mythical congressional budget plan. |
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The more cynically minded would say that an Italian contemporary music scene simply doesn't exist. |
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After Diomedes leaves, Cressida speaks in dismay of her own inconstancy, while, unseen, Thersites comments cynically on the whole interview. |
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Americans have grown accustomed to cynically dismissing campaign promises peddled by politicians on the stump as pure pablum. |
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However, the opposite of cynically or insensitively dismissing people's difficulties is not prettifying their behavior. |
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Now, it certainly could be that Kerry is cynically pretending to take the high road, while letting the national press do his dirty work for him. |
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It's easy cynically to suggest that some artists ' career and reputation would be bolstered by their own deaths. |
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It has been cynically noted that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. |
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One suspects that aesthetic considerations were cynically sacrificed to muddle-headed political expediency and tokenism. |
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This is a film which knows that good films are meant to move us, but doesn't cynically tug on our heartstrings. |
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The Senator had no compunction about appealing to minority interests, cynically perhaps, but certainly effectively. |
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The teen horror film and the teen comedy are both about as shallow and cynically complacent as film genres can be. |
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By using surveillance, the regime cynically granted my father's friend a sort of closeted freedom. |
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Taxi is an embarrassing formula picture that is full of miscalculations and cynically milks previous material. |
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The ending is no mere abrupt trick, cynically toying once again with audiences ' expectations. |
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The whole affair was cynically intended to placate the reform party, while the real abuses continued. |
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His view is that our anxiety about terrorism is hysterically out of proportion, and is cynically perpetuated by our leaders. |
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We have the difficult task of fighting them, while protecting innocents in a war where the enemy deliberately and cynically conflates the two. |
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She argues that the food companies have in fact been guilty of cynically manipulating the average American into becoming a porker. |
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They are cynically exploiting the fears and concerns that exist over the question of the immigrants. |
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Now out of form strikers and captains who cynically exploit the laws of the game are immune from being dropped. |
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Whether Gore, cynically, committed himself to originalism to make some political hay is quite besides the point. |
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The ward bosses' unanticipated about-face was not motivated by conversion but cunning and deceit that cynically betrayed public trust. |
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Ljungberg has just been cynically body-checked by Pellegrino, leaving Arsenal with a great free-kick opportunity, 25 yards out. |
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Indeed, what is most troubling is that both sides to the dispute have cynically resorted to the rule of law only when it suited them. |
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The huntsman relents out of pity but also cynically reminds himself that Snow White will probably be devoured by wild animals anyway. |
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He cynically points out the signs posted that demand cleanliness. |
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Given the healthy advance booking, the play knocks on the head the cynically despairing argument that all the London public wants is musicals and movie stars. |
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He was cynically giving the audiences what they wanted and expected. |
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The singer's dominance on radio stations and in record outlets is often cynically attributed to her former relationship with the record company exec. |
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The director has never made a movie cynically, i.e. just for the tie-ins. |
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The phoney e-card is the latest scam in the eternal battle for online traffic, playing cynically on people's goodwill to bombard them with adverts or promote dubious websites. |
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They have now cynically brought back legislation that may be similar in appearance but not similar in effect. |
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However cynically conceived, novels about journalists usually inspire some faint, emulative tic in the people who read them. |
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Sports authorities, athletes appalled at ungentlemanly behaviour or, more cynically, those who lacked access to stimulants, cried foul. |
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Marcelo cynically took out Morata yet Tevez scuttled on and Carvajal abjectly failed to check him. |
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It is destroying hundreds of thousands of farming jobs in the south and is cynically pushing farmers to move off the land or to immigrate. |
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In any case, this has been said more plausibly but also more cynically by Mr Rosenzweig, the US Assistant Secretary involved. |
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They also do not hold government in high regard and many react cynically when told their opinion matters. |
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Some observers interpret these symbols cynically, as opportunistic, basely commercial, unquestioningly nationalistic expressions of pro-war sentiment. |
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Soldado cynically tripped Joaquín on the left edge of the penalty area and from the resulting free-kick Vincenzo Montella's side were level. |
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It flickers through my mind cynically that we may see that patient again at their next attempt. |
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It is a power that he has abused cynically and he is now trying to cheat democracy. |
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Most of the media covering the scene spoke of the death of the two women instead of how they were used cynically by Hamas. |
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Once it had achieved all these objectives, Vietnam cynically embarked on this crackdown against all forms of dissent. |
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They are also cynically used to collect data from that member's riding to thereby target further information through other means. |
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It is also surprising that these western superpowers, paragons of democratic virtues, are preparing so cynically to breach the peace. |
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This shows how the Tibet question has long been cynically manipulated by the imperialists for their own interests. |
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The Supreme Court cynically tied together the Spisak and Mumia cases, not despite but because of their glaring differences. |
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In contrast, Hamas cynically fires on the crossing points, forcing closures and delays, and abuses humanitarian convoys and corridors. |
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By firing on border crossings, the terrorists cynically force closures, which hamper efforts to deliver humanitarian aid. |
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To put it cynically, they believed that by keeping the people ignorant, they would keep them in their place. |
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In varsity, a friend told me quite plainly and cynically that friends use each other to gain something, using to gain information, influence, solace and companionship. |
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Much of this legislation, cynically titled the USA Patriot Act, was railroaded through Congress within six weeks of the terrorist attacks of that fateful September morning. |
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We cynically reject any attempt at sincerity nowadays, but when it comes to the past we are as credulous as little children. |
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We are meant to cringe at the sight of a photo of an all-black classroom and ask cynically where the white kids are. |
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Meanwhile, Democratic leaders blubber about racism while cynically scheming for a permanent demographic majority. |
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Republican senators just cynically backed an amendment that would limit the influence of big donors. |
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But mostly, I think the Democrats are cynically pushing this shutdown talk as a way to scare their base. |
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Waldman is not cynically suggesting that the Supreme Court is a slave to public opinion. |
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She cynically manipulated her gullible enthusiasts, knowing all the while that she never intended to run. |
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How can we ensure that an office invested with broad powers will not be used cynically by political parties, or irrationally by an unexpected megalomaniac? |
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No more cynically cutting opposition candidates out of a district for petty political purposes. |
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A litany of cynically broken promises too long to particularise but what about jailing knife carriers and cracking down on violent offenders? |
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A nation is not, as H. G. Wells cynically suggested, a group of people gathered together under a foreign office, but a group of people with a purpose in life, a purpose in being together. |
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Tobacco firms tend to plaster their own electronic products with terrifying health warnings that, some observers suspect, are an attempt cynically to play up fears of vaping's potential harm and put switchers off. |
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Instead, A Good Day To Die Hard cynically exploits our nostalgia for one of modern cinema's most tenacious action heroes. |
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It was an artificial charade, cynically created to suggest to the viewer unrehearsed extemporisation, just as these revolting talk-shows do. |
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The trap that Lenihan and the Irish cabinet have cynically set for the opposition won't save Fianna Fáil from a crushing defeat in the general election, which is likely to be held some time in early March. |
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It was unfortunate that the government surreptitiously, cynically may be the more appropriate word, chose to bring in the pay equity reforms under the budget implementation bill. |
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They cynically manipulated that underlying sense of fear and loathing that holds back these working class redoubts from moving on with the rest of society. |
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Finally, we must acknowledge the special responsibility of those countries which have achieved a high level of democracy and development but which, instead of setting an example, cynically continue to disregard human rights. |
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In fact, he cynically noted that most elected officials believe that they won't be around for the finished product so they get in on the ground floor of an initiative when the numbers are still very soft. |
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California's legislature did this in 2001, producing cynically squiggly districts that made most of the seats safe for whichever Republicans or Democrats already held them. |
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And so this thoughtful policeman is also led to brood over the debasement of language by the politicians and bureaucrats who cynically confuse, misdirect and misinform the public. |
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Most of the media that were covering the scene only mentioned that two women had been killed, opting not to discuss how they had been cynically used by Hamas. |
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The proletarians are cynically sulky, no longer believing in the disinterestedness of those who appeal to them to make additional efforts and sacrifices to repair the waste of war. |
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And by firing on border-crossings and abusing humanitarian convoys, the terrorists cynically force closures, which hamper efforts to deliver humanitarian aid and relief. |
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Puncturing the myths surrounding Christmas, even cynically manufactured ones, can make a person feel like the Grinch, but Bonnie Taylor-Blake, the amateur etymologist, hasn't suffered. |
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Whether it did so naively or cynically, I honestly do not know. |
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As you know, there have been recent positive developments in the region, and those responsible for this latest attack are cynically working to eliminate the promise that they hold. |
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It seems clear that those who cynically planned these atrocities, whoever they are, have no interest in a political process towards a peaceful, viable and enduring solution to the conflict. |
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The way that this draft resolution reached the floor therefore cynically ignores the fundamental principles of this and every other international organization. |
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Members who choose not to be in their places, or to abstain, or to make themselves suddenly absent, who catch the parliamentary cold as they call it cynically, do a disservice to this place. |
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Some say, cynically, that people may grow used to it. |
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It was alleged the programme cynically simulated scenes to make average restaurants look like health hazards. |
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A Good Day To Die Hard is a high-speed tour down Memory McClane that cynically exploits our nostalgia for one of modern cinema's most tenacious action heroes. |
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But now the company is targeting British holidaymakers, cynically cashing in on the jailing of a notorious Midland drug dealer who packed an Uzi machine pistol. |
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Here is why, for Frye, all literature, even the most wretchedly tragic, the most cynically satirical, and the most alienatingly ironic, can teach us about desire. |
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