Word: cynically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What does not make sense to me is how anyone who knows David Sword could believe this," says Jeffrey B. Golden '93, a friend of Sword's from the Fox. "I'm kind of a cynic about people, but I know David so well. He's much too honest and much too good...
Henry Reno spent 43 years on the crime beat in a town soaked with ugly crimes, without ever becoming a cynic. He would tell his children stories of the cops and judges and officials who were most wise and compassionate and honorable. When Janet Reno grew up, she was shocked to learn that Henry had a reputation as a man who could fix parking tickets. But then she found out that her father had frequently been approached with ticket problems by people of limited means. Not wanting to humiliate them, Henry Reno had kept the tickets and paid the fines...
Jacques E. C. Hymans, an editor of The Crimson, openly admits that he is a cynic...
THIRTEEN HOURS. SIXTY-FOUR INVITEES. THREE-minute time limits. The gathering at a college basketball court in the capital was billed as the first formal meeting of the President's normally secretive health-care task force. A cynic might have dubbed it a grudging charade by an Administration that likes its participatory democracy in tiny slices. But none of the participants was cynic enough to turn down the access. Each spoke for three minutes and joined one of 12 panel chats with task-force members. (Hillary Rodham Clinton, their chief, was attending her father, who had suffered a stroke...
...Before Bill was an actor, he already was who he is. He's laid back. He's a realist but not necessarily a cynic. He's witty, tending toward irony. He's like a nasty Jimmy Stewart. He's a hero for our generation, because he talks the talk of our generation but embodies the classic American-hero myths. Working with Bill this time was simply helping him honor things I know are there -- tenderness, genuine concern for others, a kind of goodness without too much irony -- but that he wasn't ready to risk showing to people before...