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This left an ideological vacuum, swiftly filled in the 1980’s by greed, cynicism, and corruption.
With so many crises afflicting our world, there is perhaps cynicism that yet another global conference did little more than promise to continue talking.
Our ordinary standards of decency and righteousness cannot always be applied - but not because cynicism and hypocrisy are all that matter in politics.
An independent and vigorous press that checks the truth is crucial to preserving the integrity of democracy; but so is an electorate that resists cynicism and the debasement of political discourse.
But those divisions were manipulated with the same sort of cynicism that Slobodan Milosevic and Franjo Tudjman used to pit Serbs, Croats, and Bosnian against each other in the former Yugoslavia.
Indeed, eighteen months after the Arab Spring erupted, the euphoria that accompanied the fall of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, his Egyptian counterpart, Hosni Mubarak, and Libya’s Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi has faded, with democratic aspirations giving way to bitterness and cynicism.
The appeal of groups like the Islamic State to young people reared in democratic countries highlights these societies’ growing disparities in educational and economic opportunity, which are breeding cynicism, resignation, and anger among those who find themselves locked out of the social elite.
Instead, this time, Americans’ sadness was mingled with cynicism and suspicion.
Given the massive deleveraging of public- and private-sector debt that lies ahead, and my continuing cynicism about the US political and legal system’s capacity to facilitate workouts, two or three years of slightly elevated inflation strikes me as the best of many very bad options, and far preferable to deflation.
Yet when it comes to climate change, cynicism is a luxury that we cannot afford.
Despite the cynicism, confusion, and obstructionist politics surrounding efforts to fight poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation, a breakthrough is possible.
General Zia ul-Haq’s visit to watch a match in Jaipur in 1986 was an exercise in cynicism, since it was aimed at defusing tensions stoked by his own policy of fomenting and aiding Sikh militant secessionism in India.
Fifty years ago, when asked what he thought would be the Vatican's reaction to one of his dictates, Stalin responded with his usual brute cynicism: How many divisions does the Pope have? he asked.
That choice boils down to an unbearable cynicism or a totalitarian utopia.
The European “project” has become an exercise of unalloyed cynicism.
It would have been an act of supreme cynicism and hypocrisy, even by European standards, had he been selected.
Despair not only for the victims of violence, but for the cynicism of those politicians, such as Gujarat's Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who seek to justify lawlessness, violence and even murder of minority members by the majority Hindus.
Similar examples of such indifferent cynicism abound.
Throughout the developed world, companies, like governments, are confronting growing cynicism and anger, with much of the public feeling violated and dismissed.
But cynicism is wrong.
Nowadays, the WEF webcasts many of its sessions, and the cynicism comes from the sense that what is being discussed is not what business and government leaders need to think about.
Despite cynicism, apathy, frustration, despair, and violence, some Saudis still hope for the emergence of a prince on a white horse who will place the kingdom onto the path of reform.
One hopes that Lula can survive without having to rely on such cynicism.
This week’s events in Northern Ireland contradict such cynicism.
The dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei sums up the new mood of universal and unmitigated cynicism.
But such realities are lost on bloggers who blithely hold forth on what they claim are patently obvious solutions – and on the stupidity, cynicism, or insanity of leaders who fail to implement them.
The second risk that arises from seeing the world in black-and-white terms is greater public cynicism, thereby making ideals-based policymaking in the future even harder.
How did Ukraine reach this state of cynicism?
Earlier this year, we saw this cynicism in action once again, when David Miliband, foreign secretary in the previous Labour government, declared the Chagos Islands to be a protected marine zone, thereby preventing the islanders – if eventually they do return – from making their living from fishing.
The disrepute into which the political process has fallen, and the widespread cynicism about the motives of India’s politicians, can be traced directly to the flawed workings of the parliamentary system.
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