Word: cynics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...scored big in 1998 when Green Mountain, based in Austin, Texas, agreed to print educational material and offer churches $35 cash for each parishioner who enrolled. Formerly part of a Vermont utility, the company was sold to private investors in 1997. A cynic might call the setup a marketing V.P.'s wildest fantasy: priests endorsing a product in the name of you-know-who and then pounding the pavement. But that would not be entirely fair. Both sides are vulnerable, and neither has an advantage. It's the Holy Spirit meeting the 'invisible hand.' Ecumenical groups are adapting...
They did change their minds on that one. Maybe there's more going on than meets a cynic's eye? Let Defense Secretary Rumsfeld explain the decision to suspend missile talks with N. Korea...
...cynic would suggest the bonhomie was a sign that none thought the bill had a chance of passing. But a realist would give them credit for trying, while recognizing it as the protective warmth that envelops any effective mutual-aid society. Campaign-finance reform may be an arcane subject, but it is also a matter of survival for politicians, as familiar as their morning coffee. And the Senators were using their intimate knowledge of the subject to protect themselves and each other...
Pierce Brosnan's Andy Osnard is the anti-Bond--a cold cynic in need of a revolution to revive his career as a secret agent. Geoffrey Rush is the anti-hero, creating an imaginary insurgency out of the rumors he picks up while fitting bespoke clothing in his elite, near bankrupt shop. There's a nice irony in the way their needs feed each other, but the movie works it too hard, and when the revolution turns real, the film finally collapses under the burden of implausibility...
...cynic would suggest the bonhomie was a sign that none thought the bill had a chance of passing. But a realist would give them credit for trying, while recognizing it as the protective warmth that envelops any effective mutual-aid society. Campaign finance reform may be an arcane subject, but it is also a matter of survival for politicians, as familiar as their morning coffee. And the senators were using their intimate knowledge of the subject to protect themselves and each other...