The person fanned itself for a moment, looking off into the distance with a smile in which satisfaction and a certain cynicism were blended.

Indeed, to try to do so today, knowing how lacking in innocence our age is, can even bespeak a certain cynicism.

You could blame a certain cynicism that afflicts more than a few veterans of the Catholic school system.

And I sense a certain cynicism here.

There was a certain cynicism in the agency girl's eyes, but Diane wasn't somebody who'd just climbed down off the backwoods bus.

In New Jersey, where rates are even higher, residents may be forgiven a certain cynicism about efforts to control costs.

There was also a certain cynicism on display about the electronic media and its motives.

But the sport's blemished history has lent it a certain cynicism.

A certain cynicism of mind and a grim humour complete the parallel.

One thing the men do not appear to lack is ammunition, and a certain cynicism about talk of a cease-fire.