No doubt there are those who will cynically observe he has done this to save his own neck.

But no such motion, he observed cynically, had been placed before the House.

Luke sure has risen in status in the past few weeks, he observed cynically.

AT the Gettysburg cemetery, the Abraham Lincoln of Gore Vidal's novel barely gets through his first sentence - about the events in America "four score and seven years ago" - when the young Presidential secretary, John Hay, cynically observes that such rhetoric "will please the radicals."

I hope one did not too cynically observe that they offered these to their husbands instead; the redeeming observation was their husbands' complete satisfaction.

"Deputy heads will roll," Fiona observed cynically.

Her brother, cynically observing this, said that she should make a practice of losing her temper, since it improved her, lending animation to a countenance well enough in its way but a trifle insipid.

"I suppose your grandfather's betting on Prince Charles not counting them personally," I observed cynically.

(CS) Ladies and gentlemen, if this directive on services is adopted in its current form, which is a poor compromise, we might cynically observe that we have at least partially complied with the Treaty of Rome.