This appeal is hard, given Putin's brutality and his cynical disdain for individual rights and democratic aspirations, to understand from a distance.
For the truth is that the public has become cynical about promises to curb police brutality.
But among other Arabs (including many Palestinians), the Syrian regime is coming to be seen as toxic, not just for its brutality but for what many think has been its cynical manipulation of the Palestinian issue.Lastly, might the Syrian regime split or change from within?
But Murdoch gambled on raunchy 1980s vulgarity via Married with Children, stylish 1990s cynical paranoia with The X-Files and in the 2000s, reality-TV brutality with American Idol.
Perhaps you're thinking that this brand of show, serving up the same snake-and-porcupine stew over and over, is nothing but a vile, cynical attempt to appeal to the ultra-paranoid and to people who enjoy brutality and gore.
The decisions represent a final frustration for prosecutors, who long claimed that Mr. Wiese and Mr. Bruder were at the center of a cynical effort to stall investigations into one of the most extreme examples of police brutality in the city's history.
Though no less violent and macho than Ayer's previous work, "Fury" is a lot less cynical, focusing on small acts of heroism in the waning days of the war without denying the dehumanizing brutality of combat.
The brutality is not all on one side and the Israeli over-reaction is too stupid to be cynical.
