| If this is the standard of fare to be served up by the top six, cynics might say it would be better if the final positions were drawn by lot. |
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| Modern cynics would have us believe that this turn of events was about something other than freedom. |
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| Now is a time for cynics to drop their superior sneers, swap their sarcasm for a sleigh and listen to the Santa in their soul. |
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| The prime minister has the opportunity over these next 10 days to confound the cynics. |
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| The story stands in defiance of cynics who don't believe you can find your soul mate by placing an advert on the web. |
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| Shares rise when the majority of investors switch from being market cynics to market supporters. |
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| From the Greeks, we learned that determination easily trumps the banter of cynics. |
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| They need to prove their critics, the doomsday predictors and the cynics wrong. |
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| He won gold and then confounded the cynics beating the top two Americans within the next couple of weeks. |
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| The performance did not quite convince the cynics, nor some of his closest colleagues in the diplomatic service. |
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| It was inevitable that the critical and commercial success of the film would rile the cynics. |
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| He said that the expectation and excitement prompted by the Jubilee across the nation has confounded the cynics. |
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| For two seasons, the football team have defied the cynics and their critics to regain and retain their status at the top of the league. |
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| I hope the pessimists, cynics and scoffers will not have the last word on this. |
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| In Afghanistan the cynics were proved wrong as voters thronged to the polls. |
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| So many people today, not least those who blog, claim to be cynics, yet are not, in the strictest sense of the word. |
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| He doesn't hold with the cynics who can't accept characters bursting into song at the drop of a hat. |
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| We would need perhaps 100 or so experienced cynics who can spot mis-selling a mile away. |
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| The cynics and the mockers and the doubters can say what they like, but that's what these protests are about. |
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| I have written a hundred articles proclaiming my faith in the Project, while the cynics said it would all blow up in my face. |
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| After 52 years, cynics have begun to feel that things were better under the British rule. |
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| He also throws down the gauntlet to those cynics and critics of the council and the way councillors do their business. |
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| In fact, in a speech spanning an entire four sentences, she dedicated half of it to rebuffing the cynics. |
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| It's almost too good to be true and cynics may dismiss this fine album as mere easy listening but that would be wrong. |
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| It also appeals to defeatists, cynics, and worldly-wise men who are not prepared to try to change the system. |
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| To party cynics, she may be seen as a political chameleon, reinventing herself to charm the voters. |
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| Some cynics even dared to advance the theory that parsimony on the behalf of the home management had stayed their fingers on the on-off switch. |
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| Those cynics among you who don't believe in fairy-tales will have to think again. |
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| But is it reasonable, or just an article of faith in the marriage religion, that apostates must all be cynics or manipulators? |
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| This is not a film for cynics or suspicious types who expect plot twists to pop out at them. |
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| But Ambler's cynics are irredeemable, whereas Furst's are usually amenable to a little persuasion. |
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| The result gave the lie to cynics who suggested the result was a foregone conclusion. |
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| It is worth noting, however, that the cynics are already in full cry about the alleged quality of western fly-fishing. |
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| To us ageing cynics Fathers Day is just another materialistic calendar date when people spend hard earned cash on silly presents and cheap cards. |
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| If the cynics are to be believed, the attacks were stage-managed for external consumption. |
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| You should be careful of people's deeply felt grief and sense of loss before you dismiss them as selfish cynics. |
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| Sales soared and while the cynics predicted that the bubble would burst as we moved on to the next novelty, the people mover, demand has steadily increased. |
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| A comedy titan who was always the center of attention, amusing even the most hardened of cynics with his manic energy. |
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| Humbugging cynics might wonder if this seasonal tide of volunteers is entirely altruistic or a conveniently watertight excuse for avoiding dysfunctional familial festivities. |
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| The cynics are crowing after Jeffrey Hillman turned out to be neither homeless nor shoeless. |
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| As ever, the utopians and cynics have both jumped into the fray. |
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| Although this will not cut much ice with cynics, it is the same argument used to explain why the millennium bug failed to have the catastrophic effects predicted. |
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| Just as Strauss-Kahn critics joked that his zipper could be his undoing, Sarkozy cynics bet on a baby. |
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| It's natural for Cancers to be cynics, but it's eating you up inside. |
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| It only leaves the cynics to presume that maybe other motives are in play. |
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| Some cynics say the people who subject themselves to potential humiliation on celebrity shows are doing it in hopes of reviving collapsed careers. |
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| For some cynics, it is merely the foreign junkets and chance to travel on per diem expenses that draws the attraction of our globalised political classes. |
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| It was suggested by some cynics that the real reason for the aggressive campaign was an attempt to gain a greater market share amongst public sector workers. |
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| Ambitious plans to build tunnels under the runway and the River Almond have been attacked by cynics, who believe the project will never be approved. |
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| Well the cynics among you may well be thinking that this is yet another government report that arrives in a blaze of glory and ends up as something of a damp squib! |
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| Again the retail sector's cynics refused to entertain the idea. |
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| Well, that's one in the eye for the nay-sayers, the doubters, the cynics and assorted tosspots what make up the media and that. |
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| As such, the cynics are claiming Cardiff versus Portsmouth is the dourest final for years. |
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| I know there are certain people, the moaners, the groaners, the doubters and the cynics, who will have a go and that is understandable because of the position we are in. |
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