"Not a minute," was the half-amused, half-cynical reply.
"If they are cynical", he replies, "feel free to give them my email.
"You can always have people who will take a cynical view," Mr. Cuomo replied.
Then, in what I imagine to be a cynical, world-weary tone, Pilate replies, "What is truth?" Jesus says nothing in response, and Pilate's question is left hanging — an open query in the middle of John's rendering of the Passion.
When some piece of public skulduggery was once described as "a pious fraud," that cynical 18th-century pol Lord Holland replied, "I can see the fraud, but where is the piety?" Contemplating the fate of the Cherokees, one can likewise see the expansion more clearly than the liberalism.
On learning that I am from Idaho, people have not infrequently asked, "Then how were you able to write a book?" Once or twice, when I felt cynical or lazy, I have replied, "I went to Brown," thinking that might appease them only to be asked, "How did you manage to get into Brown?" One woman, on learning of my origins, said, "But there has to be talent in the family somewhere".
No one replied, they looked cynical, they looked like they didn't like me as I was new.
Cynical about my cynicism?
"Maybe," he replies, "but mine is a very cynical mind".
