cynicism

But it’s also easy to notice Farsi’s ingrained cynicism about the state of things, having once been imprisoned as a teenage dissident during the years following her country’s Islamic Revolution, now in exile.

The names alone suggest a level of parody, and, in the first episode, a send-up quality flits in and out of the proceedings, but the show chooses cynicism over satire every time.

A direct ethical transfusion links them to the Obama cynicism that gave us EVs like the Ford Lightning.

"Europe is in the shadow of a war," says German Foreign Minister Boris Pistorius, pointing the finger at Russia, which he accuses of "waging it with maximum brutality, cynicism and ruthlessness."

But behold the cynicism of Democrats, who now want to exploit their Tuesday election victories to prolong the dysfunction at the public’s expense.