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  • His influence was weakened, however, by his cynicism and by his ultra-aristocratic views.
  • Disregarding all the accidental excrescences of the doctrine, Cynicism must be regarded as a most valuable development and as a real asset in the sum of ethical speculation.
  • The cold cynicism with which he acted towards de Witt is only matched by the heroic obstinacy with which he confronted Louis.
  • Cynicism, often followed by religion in a poet's later life, is common.
  • Her cynicism has influenced me more than I thought; I am now skeptical of almost everything.
  • Yet, in spite of all, his jovial disposition and good-humoured cynicism saved him from unpopularity, and rendered his death an occasion of mourning.
  • So that in Rome also Cynicism was partly the butt of the satirist and partly the ideal of the thinker.
  • I detected a note of cynicism in the author's writing.
  • A lock of her hair is preserved, with the inscription in Swift's handwriting, most affecting in its apparent cynicism, "Only a woman's hair!"
  • The analogy, however, must not be pressed too far, since orthodox Stoics do not ever seem to have regarded Cynicism as the more perfect way.
  • My daughter is my only bright spot in this world full of cynicism.
  • He is full of cynicism regarding today's young people.
  • A cynicism so unblushing shocked even the seasoned diplomats of the congress, who would have preferred that the king should have made a decent show of yielding to force.
  • Towards this goal of approximation to Cynicism the later Stoics had all along been tending.
  • He is often outrageously unjust in the substance of what he says, and in manner harsh to cynicism, scornful to gruesomeness; but in no battle that he fought was he ever actuated by selfish interests.
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