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- adjective Not
cynical .
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Examples
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Then there are the moments of amusingly uncynical honesty, as when Stein and Toklas met Ernest and Hadley and “forgave us for being in love and being married — time would fix that.”
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I certainly get both praise and criticism for being a pretty uncynical filmmaker.
Love triangle on 'Date Night' set: Carell, Fey, director Levy 2010
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Disney is pure and uncynical, hopeful and wholesome.
Mickey Mouse Organization: Lessons to Learn and Unlearn from Disney | Managing Greatness 2009
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However, once you cease the sneers about it being Slumdog Millionaire crossed with Spellbound and Glee, there is no getting around the fact that the kids are heartbreakingly likable, the adults helping them decent, hard-working and inspiring, and the film compassionate and utterly uncynical.
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They offer what will strike some as an almost laughably uncynical account of the motives behind this project, but that makes the documentation of its ultimate failure all the more compelling.
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Then there are the moments of amusingly uncynical honesty, as when Stein and Toklas met Ernest and Hadley and “forgave us for being in love and being married — time would fix that.”
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Twain proved that needn't be so: you can dispense real, uncynical life-wisdom, and still be hilarious.
This column will change your life: The wit and wisdom of Mark Twain Oliver Burkeman 2010
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The new selection from Chamfort gave him particular pleasure, with its uncynical and humorous appreciation of human nature comparable, he felt, with Montaigne; he also gained great satisfaction from The Child by Jules Vallès, an autobiographical novel dedicated to everyone who was bored at school.
On Douglas Parmée 2009
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Then there are the moments of amusingly uncynical honesty, as when Stein and Toklas met Ernest and Hadley and “forgave us for being in love and being married — time would fix that.”
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The movie plays like some uncynical, credulous version of Wag the Dog, in which we are all expected to get behind the sugary good-news story and endorse the good faith of the politicians and big-oil hombres who did their darnedest to set the whales free.
Big Miracle – review 2012
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