Translation for '
cynical' from English to Russian
ADJ | cynical | more cynical | most cynical | |
SYNO | cynical | misanthropic | misanthropical |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
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Usage Examples English
- In the mid-1990s, the "godfather" of Chinese contemporary art, Li Xianting, labeled Yue Minjun with Cynical Realism.
- "Bug Jack Barron" (1969), a pre-cyberpunk tale of a cynical, exploitative talk-show host who gradually uncovers a conspiracy concerning an immortality treatment and the methods used in that treatment, was serialised in the British magazine "New Worlds" during Michael Moorcock's editorship.
- Wilson Shears, the pageant producer, clashes with Tommy French, a choreographer brought in from Hollywood, who is cynical and blunt.
- Film critic Andrew Sarris described "The Devil Is a Woman" as the "coldest" of Sternberg's films in its uncompromising, yet humorously cynical, appraisal of romantic self-deception.
- Penuelas created Wilbur as a response to cynical commercialism that got into surfing in the early 1980s.
- Communists are portrayed in the film as cynical opportunists, racists who are interested only in seizing power on behalf of the Soviet Union.
- In Alasdair's hands, the conventions of the Aisling were given a cynical and comedic twist.
- Radha Ranganathan, an advocate, becomes cynical after failing to get a criminal convicted for the murder of her brother-in-law.
- Grace Avery as Liz: a cynical, introverted woman who develops a loathing for Charlotte.
- Steve Passeur, pen name of Étienne Morin, was a French dramatist and screenwriter. His plays with scathing replicas often depicted cynical characters.
- Many artefacts of popular culture have created military salutes for fictional purposes, more often than not with a cynical or sarcastic purpose.
- However, some feminists have criticized modest fashion, considering it a "cynical" concept.
- Smalling, painting and drawing does not depict subjects that are dark, cynical, or macabre.
- A naive country girl comes to the city, where she is seduced by a cynical artist.
- Always wearing a mask, he is known for his sad, cynical lyrics.
- The "cynical" approach taken by FWD.us in its political lobbying and campaigning has met with some criticism.
- A woman, disappointed in love, becomes increasingly cynical and attempts to marry a wealthy man.
- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (6 April 1671 – 17 March 1741) was a French playwright and poet, particularly noted for his cynical epigrams.
- Wilkins writes that biologists such as the botanist Brent Mishler Wilkins notes that the philosopher Philip Kitcher called this the "cynical species concept", and arguing that far from being cynical, it usefully leads to an empirical taxonomy for any given group, based on taxonomists' experience.
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