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From:Journal of Literary Studies (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSummary In this article, I argue that J.M. Coetzee's autobiographical trilogy can be read as a set of texts in which the author responds to the problem of cynical self-doubt, as it is described in Coetzee's writings...
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From:B'Or Ha'Torah (Vol. 25) Peer-ReviewedBiographies of great individuals are always the subject of debate. What is remembered, how is it remembered, and does the account have veracity? There is potentially always a kind of suspicion or cynicism that surrounds...
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From:Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This article focuses on the following aspects of syntax in "Die uur van die idiote" by Abraham H. de Vries: word and phrase repetition, enumeration, omission (ellipsis), word order, rhythm, length and...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 317, Issue 7159) Peer-ReviewedIn one of the numerous documents I have received on the NHS white paper for England I read the following: "Clinical governance encompasses all the processes needed to achieve the highest quality clinical practice...
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From:American Journalism Review (Vol. 18, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedMedia cynicism is a trendy subject that has been discussed by congressional members and journalists. Senate Majority Whip Trent Lott believes that if Congress would work with the media there would be less cynicism in...
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From:American Journalism Review (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe us vs. them attitude of journalists toward politicians is necessary when considered in historical perspective. It stems from the lies of Vietnam and Watergate and falsehoods unleashed by the Kennedy and Johnson...
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From:British Medical JournalPeer-Reviewed"Who's a nice chimp, then?" It has been several years coming and is not fully worked out. But it is continually gnawing away at the back of my mind. Now I have been pushed over the edge by the British government's two...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 63, Issue 29)PERHAPS it's time to reassess the virtues of cynicism--that deep and abiding suspicion of all things organized. The rise of Donald Trump was, at least in part, founded on this suspicion, on the belief that the political...
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From:Social Justice (Vol. 40, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCynic, n. "A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be."--Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary AMERICANS ARE POLITICAL CYNICS. RESEARCH SHOWS THAT CURRENT US ATTITUDES toward...
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From:Kola (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDevout in his cynicism, that naïve expression of heartbreak, my father was a man more negative than the pep talks at terrorist boot camps, more paranoid than the gun lobby and as snide as commercials promoting Las...
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From:The Journal of Humanistic Psychology (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article investigates an organization of personality, centered on a sense of excommunication. What often seems like amoralism or cynicism often hides a moral outrage against the moral and social order the individual...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCzech author Josef Skvorecky's characters unveil the reality of socialism through presenting real workers who are uneducated and cannot solve the social problems that arise. His humorous, sarcastic presentation...
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From:NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis report examines three critical moments in today's Latin America: the tense face-off in Venezuela between supporters and opponents of President Hugo Chavez; the coming of an apparent flashpoint in the long Colombian...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"THERE IS NO AFTERLIFE, no heaven," she said, "no God, no Satan, none of that stuff. When you die you become past tense." Janet said things like that since their mother's stroke. "It's too simple," Eric said....
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From:The Hastings Center Report (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn a recent evening, while working in a children's hospital emergency department as a pediatric emergency medicine physician, I picked up the chart of yet another patient without a true emergency: a sixteen-year-old...
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From:Ivey Business Journal ReprintsPeer-ReviewedA business leader cannot create a values-driven culture with rules and mission statements alone. Using techniques such as pre-scripting, rehearsal and peer coaching, leaders can learn to listen and employees can learn...
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From:Harvard Review (Issue 29)The Cynics were uncouth. At the height of Greek culture, they found its cultivation an affront and called for a return to simpler ways of life. They did so in such artful fashion that Plato referred to their founder...
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From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 55, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"George Eliot and the Cosmopolitan Cynic" explores the contribution made to Eliot's thinking about cosmopolitanism by her long-standing philosophical and stylistic attraction to cynicism. Middlemarch (1872) and Daniel...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedNovelist Dashiell Hammett's detective fiction follows a postmodern aesthetic in the way his characters portray cynicism and alienation in the modern world. This style departs from modernist approaches which attempt to...
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From:Interpretation (Vol. 55, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA new intellectual climate is emerging for rethinking the God of revelation who is unreservedly for and with human beings and who, in turn, calls us to be for and with the Other. The first comprehensive theorist of...