"Of chance? No, thank you. That goes by strength, skill, wind, endurance, chaste living, self-denial, and judicious training. Every winning boat is manned by virtues." His eye flashed, and he was as earnest all in a moment as he had been listless. A continental cynic had dubbed this insular cynic mad.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
As for me, I smiled cynically--quite cynically, you know; for it was very absurd.英文原著 · 《Dolly Dialogues》
Cynics, a school of philosophers, founded by Antisthenes. Their texts were a kind of caricature of Socraticism. Nothing was good but virtue, nothing bad but vice. The Cynics repudiated all civil and social claims, and attempted to return to what they called a state of nature. Many of them were very disgusting in their manners.英文原著 · 《The Meditations》
For a moment the hard, cynical face was illumined with a smile of rare beauty, but only for a moment. The gleam passed and the old, hard, cynical face turned in challenge to the Superintendent. "Explain!" he said bitterly, defiantly. "Go on if you can."
The Superintendent stood silent. "Ah!" breathed Moira, a thrill of triumphant relief in her voice, "he cannot explain."
With dramatic swiftness the explanation came. It was from Jerry. "H'explain?" cried the little half-breed, quivering with rage. "H'explain?英文原著 · 《The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail》
Tyrants both, they exercised their sovereignty in accordance with their varying temperament. Hers was a fine, fat, Falstaffian humour, which, while it inspired Middleton, might have suggested to Shakespeare an equal companion of the drunken knight. His was but a narrow, cynic wit, not edged like the knife, which wellnigh cut his throat, but blunt and scratching like a worn-toothed saw.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
He faced his accusers with a clear eye and a frigid amiability; he listened to his sentence with a calm contempt; he laughed complacently at the sorry interludes of judicial wit; and he faced the last music with a bravery and a cynicism which bore the stamp of true greatness.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
CA: I mean a lot of cynics say about someone like yourself, or Bill Gates, CA: I mean a lot of cynics say about someone like yourself, or Bill Gates,演讲 · 《Life at 30,000 feet ~ Richard Branson》
I don't know if you're actually cynical or just a super romantic crazy cheese ball You did go seeing "Princess Bride" by yourself on a week night like a total looser电影 · 《What If (2013)》