Mr. Obama spent little time on Iraq, instead arguing that the biggest opponent candidates face this year is not one another but cynicism.
It's a movie that captures – in a way that perhaps an older, jaded screenwriter could not convey – the limitless possibilities of youth, a movie in which a character can tell another, without cynicism, "You could do anything you want.
Another cell of cynicism is when you feel a company is not actually living out its core values.
Those who live or work in Washington, however, know another variant of cynicism, a fruitful one, a munificent one, a cynicism that is, in fact, the health of the conservative state.
But as another wave of cynicism washes over the sport in the wake of failed doping tests by Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay, reports emerge of desperately poor ticket sales for the Moscow world championships.
But good intentions withered as the nation faced yet another war (Vietnam), cynicism toward government grew and the very words Harrington used to define the problem slowly became the roots of the conservative argument against government action.
Recent paintings by Liu Wei, another proponent of "rogue cynicism", are of rotten-flesh obscenity.
So to the wry vision he brought from a confused Vienna was added the frenetic bad taste and cynicism of another society in terminal decline, the Weimar Republic.
Cynical about my cynicism?
As my colleague Patrick Wintour reports, Hunt also said having another Brexit referendum would fuel cynicism.
