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.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Twain proved that needn't be so: you can dispense real, uncynical life-wisdom, and still be hilarious. ❋ Oliver Burkeman (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Despite the horror stories from other women's lives she has spent absorbing – as well as her own struggles – she seems utterly uncynical. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I certainly get both praise and criticism for being a pretty uncynical filmmaker. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Disney is pure and uncynical, hopeful and wholesome. ❋ Unknown (2009)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2012)
The other film was Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky, in which nothing of import happens to a delightful, uncynical London schoolteacher named Poppy, fabulously played by Sally Hawkins. ❋ Unknown (2008)
While white people have fallen in love with Michelle for many of the right reasons - her intelligence, compassion, strength, humor and uncynical sense of moral duty - their adulation also allows them to congratulate themselves on their enlightened ideas about race: Here is a dark-skinned African-American woman with classic black features, and we relate to her totally! ❋ Unknown (2009)
Not only do Michelle's clothes project an authentic self -- confident, healthy, smart, uncynical -- they also reflect the spirit of the moment. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The country's workforce is the largest in the region along with Iran's, and so, in trying to be as uncynical as possible, Egyptian workers should be a major political force. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The listen-to-your-heart gang might like this one because it's a sweet movie for the uncynical. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The only way we crack that paradigm is to embrace our ideological adversaries in a uncynical manner and honestly and intellectually debate our different positions. ❋ Stillidealistic (2008)
Like Saxondale, I tried to make it uncynical because I wanted him to be a nice guy, not a nasty guy. ❋ Unknown (2008)
