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(The conventional wisdom on the 18 th -century painter: He was said to be "a decadent ally of aristocratic taste"--Solomon; "an advocate of pomposity, cynicism, and costume drama"--Francis Haskell, New York Review of Books .) Hughes sees new levels of wit in Tiepolo's paintings: "[T]he distanced, self-aware theatrics of his style--his parade of visual language as a source of delight--make him look modern."
Now cynicism comes to the fore, now rage, now a brief interlude of tenderness, but their opposites also are always present--for Nichols is embodying the character, not the character's characteristics.
Aknow-nothing cynicism is pervasive now.
The answer, I believe, is an odd but very Washingtonian combination of cynicism and credulity.
--announcing the cynicism and greed and callousness that underlie the Gulf War, as the refugees are slaughtered.