As audition for a mob boss role in a movie, Trump’s performance may have been acceptable; as diplomacy for a president of the United States, it was pathetic, embarrassing, degrading, and un-American. In other words, it was exactly what one would expect. Since then, Trump has cut Ukrain...
Unlike the very beginning of the replication controversy, which I think was characterized by disappointment and confusion, now it is increasingly characterized by skepticism bordering on cynicism, combined, in some cases, with a detectable smidgen of self-righteousness and even schadenfreude. [Insert ...
many claim it was the worst. There’s no doubt about it—2020 brought many challenges, but perhaps none as significant as those related to distrust of government and, more accurately, wholesale cynicism.
To present steroid use as a major medical risk—or, worse, as a sure ticket to catastrophic consequences—is to invite cynicism or worse in users and, as has been seen with so many other illegal substances, a marked tendency in the user community to disregard all cautions as lies. A ...
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sowing seeds of cynicism and speaking words that are indicative of where they are in life or how they feel. Whether the energy is good or bad, we project that – sometimes knowingly but most times not – onto those we share life with … in our homes … in our places of work … in ...
Such frankness struck the former flunkey as the acme of cynicism. Mashutka had begun boasting of her successes and her stage life; but seeing that her father only turned crimson and threw up his hands, she ceased. And they spent a fortnight together without speaking or looking at one ...
We can’t be trusted to “stow” (cynicism aside, points to the airlines for steadfastly maintaining a handful of nautical terms. Inflight Fight Club would shrivel away if the pilot said “Avast ye!” on taking off and everyone cheered) our tray table. Our laptop, if we press CRTL+...
I was also intensely focused on that year’s presidential election—a kind of referendum, in my view, on an incumbent who misled a grieving nation into a disastrous war, dismantled environmental protections, fought with particular cynicism against gay marriage, and lavished tax cuts on the ...
Burnout and cynicism are therefore risks associated with both the status quo of suppression, and PF2050, whether successful or not. The additional potential harm associated with the PF2050 promise of eradication is “the risk of creating disappointment, not meeting expectations when the realisation ...