Americans resisted the holiday during a few decades, perceiving it as just an attempt by merchants to replicate the commercial success of Mother's Day, and newspapers frequently featured cynical and sarcastic attacks and jokes.

Said Attorney General Andrew Cuomo: " This company ’ s attempt to generate business by duping consumers was cynical, manipulative, and illegal.

In 2000, Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, founders of the stuckism art movement instigated remodernism, with a manifesto, Remodernism in an attempt to introduce a period of new spirituality into art, culture and society to replace postmodernism, which they said was cynical and spiritually bankrupt.

In a dystopian New York City in the year 2031, cynical taxicab driver Harry Canyon narrates his day in film noir style, grumbling about his fares and the occasional robbery attempt ( which he thwarts with a disintegrator installed behind his seat ).

Human rights advocates and opponents of the Sudanese government portray China's role in providing weapons and aircraft as a cynical attempt to obtain petroleum and natural gas just as colonial powers once supplied African chieftains with the military means to maintain control as they extracted natural resources.

Historians debate Smith's motivation, whether it was a cynical attempt to defeat the bill by someone opposed to both civil rights for blacks and women, or an attempt to support their rights by broadening the bill to include women.

As an attempt at atonement, the paper established a charity fund for the victims of mental illness, although some mental health charities condemned The Suns latter action that day as being grossly cynical in the light of the former.

Some critics contended that the whole series was a cynical attempt to wilfully stir controversy, and in practice many viewers discovered that " softcore porn " against which campaigners had railed was in fact genuine art cinema ( and not the titillation for which they'd stayed up late ).

It is still arguable whether the programme was a cynical and unworkable attempt to secure on-going support from the poorer part of the population, or a genuine plan that was shelved but which should be put into effect unaltered in today's very different Ireland.

Hollywood accounting has long been derided as a cynical attempt by movie studios to cheat individual authors out of royalty payments.

Historians debate Smith's motivation -- was it a cynical attempt to defeat the bill by someone opposed to both civil rights for blacks and women, or did he support women's rights and was attempting to improve the bill by broadening it to include women?

The fact that speed limits have reduced, even though traffic is lighter than before, has led some to claim that the limit reduction is simply a cynical attempt to force motorists to use the tolled M4.

Foster has the unique distinction of having once befriended one of the aliens, though he could not prevent him from being killed by SHADO personnel ; his overall demeanour became noticeably more cynical after this event ( chronicled in the episode " Survival ").

Another important character was Taggart's long-suffering, wheelchair-bound wife Jean ( Harriet Buchan ) whose disability did not prevent her from pursuing a number of interests in life, while her cynical husband stuck mainly to his job.

Rookie police officer Dick Durkin ( Duncan ) is assigned to partner Harley Stone ( Hauer ), a burnt-out and highly cynical homicide detective who, according to his commanding officer, survives on " Anxiety, coffee and chocolate " after being unable to prevent the murder of his partner by a serial killer several years previously.

Unlike Hitler, however, he retained a cynical detachment from his own rhetoric.

Historians will no doubt dispute as to whether this cynical bargain, which did indeed provide Stalin with the sinews of war but also helped bring Hitler, an arch enemy of the Soviet Union, to power, was ultimately worthwhile for either party.

He joined the Parian colony on Thasos and battled the indigenous Thracians, expressing himself in his poems as a cynical, hard-bitten soldier fighting for a country he doesn't love (" Thasos, thrice miserable city ") on behalf of a people he scorns (" The woes of all the Greeks have come together in Thasos "), yet he values his closest comrades and their stalwart, unglamorous commander.

The peace agreement Hector negotiates with the visiting Greek commander Ulysses, is no match for Demokos's deliberate lies, and at the end of the play, the seer Cassandra's cynical prediction that war cannot be avoided has been proven right.

This culminated in the cynical power-plays undertaken in Korea by both Koreans supported by Fukuzawa and the Japanese Imperial Army during the Sino-Japanese War.

A direct and darker continuation of the first series, after the defeat of Emperor Bamba and his mutant minions Inazuman goes on to fight the evil robots of the Despar Army with the help of cynical cyborg Interpol agent Arai Makoto and the new ability to hurl lightning bolts.

The Monk also owns a somewhat cynical horse, which he was allowed to keep because " horses were so cheap to make ".

In 1498 ( fifteen years after the death of Louis XI of France ), Commines's work was completed ( first published in 1524 in Paris ), and is considered a historical record of immense importance, largely because of its author's cynical and forthright attitude to the events and machinations he had witnessed.

:" In this film, some audiences will say that the title seems to be very cynical, because it is about two persons living together, and at the end, they are just separate.

At the same time, Streator tends to be philosophical and cynical about the world around him and the people he meets, probably because of the tragedies that have haunted him for many years.

His students were growing cynical about the benefits of science to humanity because of the controversy surrounding the Vietnam War.

" In 2005, J. Hoberman of the Village Voice stated that the film "... has long been a cult item -- in part because its talented 25-year-old director, Michael Reeves, died of a drug overdose before the film's release, but mainly because it is an extraordinarily bleak story of political evil ... Reeves shot on location and the movie has a robust autumnal quality perfectly matched by Price's overripe performance ... it remains contemporary, and even frightening, in its evocation of cynical Puritanism and mass deception.

Thompson said that he believes Blankets was a success because he was " reacting against all of the over-the-top, explosive action genre alternative comics, and I also didn ’ t want to do anything cynical and nihilistic, which is the standard for a lot of alternative comics.

He also has a significantly gruffer and more cynical attitude, partly because, as the villain Rebel insinuates, Damage was left badly scarred, but alive, by Zoom.

Thompson said that he believes Blankets was a success because he was " reacting against all of the over-the-top, explosive action genre alternative comics, and I also didn ’ t want to do anything cynical and nihilistic, which is the standard for a lot of alternative comics.

One of them is cynical, not believing longevity will happen, but the other deems the theory valid, yet rejects the prospect out of hand because longer lives will be available to everyone instead of only the elite.

DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson commented on the episode in a negative way, writing that it was " a harsh and cynical move kill off Maude because of Roswell's departure, though I could forgive the decision if it produced a more satisfying episode.

The film narrative concerns ruthless and cynical Mark Dixon ( Dana Andrews ), a metropolitan police detective, who despises all criminals because his father had been one.

Fiona is shown to still be kind hearted and caring but bitterly cynical and disillusioned about the power of true love, because she was never rescued from her tower.

The film, in which a number of New York citizens embark on a killing spree because God Told Them To, is called ' one of his most ambitious movies ' that is ' cemented in an interesting idea ' by QNetwork Entertainment, who find Cohen's ideology of the existence of God interesting: ' cynical at best ' and ' sacrilegious at worst '.

Pen — by now rather cynical about love and life — toys with the idea of a marriage of convenience to Blanche and his uncle encourages him in this, but — partly because he knows Harry Foker loves Blanche — Pen doesn't propose.

Her polished manners and superior attitude make her no friends among the rest of the aspiring actresses living there, particularly her new roommate, flippant, cynical dancer Jean Maitland ( Ginger Rogers ).

Though, the very last frame of the last completed adventure suggests a cynical view that the poor will suffer, no matter who rules the state.

Wholly cynical, he had no regard for man, woman, child, or God.

He was the least cynical of mankind, but no one had a keener eye for the humours and ironies of the political situation.

This was essentially a cynical appeal to popular prejudice, and no significant actions were taken against the province's Catholics following the election.

There was little or no popular support in Taiwan for the proclamation of the Republic, and many Western observers considered its establishment as a cynical ploy by its authors to evade China's obligations under the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

While violent fanatics deployed by cynical leaders make highly visible attacks on Western interests and even on ' homelands ', this is thought by many to be no more than backlash for an entire 20th century full of cynical attempts by German, British, and American Empires to deploy Islamic idealists as a mere tactic.

He lives on as a modern model of redemption and a permanent rebuttal to the cynical claim that there are no second chances in life.

Diana is a cynical, retired photojournalist who has found herself consigned to the retirement home after a career documenting some of the 20th century's most dangerous events has left her single and with no one in her life outside of her niece, and later, her great-niece.

Winick followed up with a three-issue miniseries, The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius, about a cynical, profane grade school whiz kid, who invents a myriad of futuristic devices that no one other than his best friend knows about.

When he wants us to know that a Peyrot is cynical, he says " Wholly cynical, he had no regard or respect for man, woman, child, or God.

He was asked to withdraw his resignation and rejoin with promises of reform at the Indian Museum, however he wrote that I stuck to my resolve that if the position at the Indian Museum was to be improved by my efforts no cynical potentate at Simla should ever say that I had got it altered for my own benefit.

Today, the often-used cynical phrase, " no such thing as bad publicity " is indicative of the extent to which " success by scandal " is a part of modern mass media culture.

In Perrault's Cinderella, he concludes the tale with the cynical moral that no personal advantages will suffice without proper connections.

According to Đilas she had no influence on Tito's decision-making and mostly occupied her time with housekeeping and taking care of her husband: " With Jovanka around, order and consciousness started reigning supreme, but Tito would still often be extremely gruff, rude and cynical towards her, even in front of others ".

But as hard and cynical professionals, they have no qualms about killing him now.

By this time, the Polish Communists had lost the Stalinist zealotry of the 1940s ; they had grown corrupt and cynical during the Gierek years, and had no stomach for bloodshed.

" Machiavel expresses the cynical view that power is amoral, saying " I count religion but a childish toy ,/ And hold there is no sin but ignorance.

In his article " Non Believer " in the 7 July 2010 issue of The New Republic, Bacevich compared President George W. Bush, whom he characterizes as wrong-headed but sincere, with President Obama, whom he says has no belief in the Afghanistan war but pursues it for his own politically cynical reasons: " Who is more deserving of contempt?

Michel discusses women with Quinsonnas, who sadly explains that there are no such things as women anymore ; from mindless, repetitive factory work and careful attention to finance and science, most women have become cynical, ugly, neurotic career women.

On the human side, various subplots run through the novel, contrasting the " official " heroism of NASA with the human fallibilities of the cast — the difficulties the Kolffs face in integrating into American society ; Norman Grant's initial embrace of the space program and his abandonment of it as it no longer serves his political aims, while his unstable wife and their daughter fall in with a highly intelligent but cynical cult leader calling himself Leopold Strabismus who exploits first the UFO craze and then an anti-scientific creationist agenda to increase his fortune ; Randy Claggett's womanizing ; the contrast between Stanley and Rachel Mott's ordered, rational existence and their troubled relationship with their sons, and John Pope's unusual yet supportive relationship with his lawyer wife Penny.