The cynicism that stops short at this point is the evil kind of cynicism, and becomes purely contemptuous and derisive.

Cynicism is generally the refuge of the disappointed and indolent, but there is, after all, a nobler kind of cynicism, which even religion must strive to develop, the cynicism which realises the essential worthlessness and pettiness of human endeavour.

APEMAN'TUS, a churlish Athenian philosopher, who snarled at men systematically, but showed his cynicism to be mere affectation, when Timon attacked him with his own weapons.

Cynicism and pessimism are children of idleness and frivolity, never of heroic sacrifice and nobly accepted pain.

Your cynicism is only a matter of words, Steinmetz, and not of deeds.

Cynicism was the great means of eloquence of the middle ages, and with cynicism Degas has rendered the nude again an artistic possibility.

Indeed, cynicism is by no means a fault of New Zealand political life.