Word: cynically
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...that-subtle, solid and funny. David Staunton, the main figure, is a successful Canadian criminal lawyer. The court in which he finds himself struggling at mid-career is not the legal kind, however, and he is not defense attorney but defendant. Staunton is a skilled professional, a rationalist, a cynic and a celibate whose pose in personal matters is to remain aloof. In reality, he lives in an increasingly overgrown clearing surrounded by an unexplored psychological jungle, whose advance he slows by drinking a bottle of whisky a day. One of the beasts lurking here is his beloathed father...
...finally rise above themselves and fight for some ideal when a revolutionary member of the group is captured by a Mexican warlord with whom the riders did business. The situations are no less important than the action, which is violent. Well acted, beautifully directed and photographed; the most successful cynic's western because it is fashioned from the inside...
...bushy mustache, a crinkly smile and a slightly bemused expression. He has a remarkable gift for saying tentatively, and with disarming humor, things that ought to sound pretentious or phony or both, but instead convince and captivate his listeners. The result is that after meeting Bach, even the veriest cynic is likely to find himself shamelessly rooting for Jonathan Livingston Seagull and curiously willing to forgive the book its literary trespasses...
They say that Harvard is a sheltered community. Inside the gates of Harvard Yard one finds the disillusioned cynic who sees no purpose within the American system...
They say that Harvard is a sheltered community. Inside the gates of Harvard Yard one finds the disillusioned cynic who sees no purpose within the American system...