Some cynics spoke of a marriage of convenience, others asked how she could possibly stay.
Lest cynics find the city's efforts naive, it was Obama himself who first drew attention to the connection.
The cynics will say that CSR initiatives are nothing more than misleading presentations, like the pretty green flower logo outside BP petrol stations.
Of course, Republicans aren't the only cynics.
DreamBusters can be critics. They can be cynics.
But the history of umami, now universally recognised as a fifth fundamental taste, shows that the cynics are sometimes wrong.
What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply.
And the cynics believe the Fed is at it again.
Even the cynics, though, are having a hard time explaining this latest twist in the tortuous peace process.
Though it would be easy for cynics to assume otherwise, this was a serious study based on a series of scientific measurements and not on the opinions of Mallucci.
The romantics would call this a love story: the cynics would call it a tragedy.
And cynics might wonder whether governments will really meet their obligations when faced with runaway inflation, rather than finding a way to "redefine" the statistics.
Let's show the cynics and the special interests that we still can.
Assume for a moment that the cynics are right.
"The people who made this rumour up will be punished either by law or by karma. It's just a question of time, " says Wang, who blames cynics wanting to mock religion and attack famous figures.
Older cynics may be very familiar with this topic.
I've probably already lost the cynics and defeatists by the beginning of this second paragraph, but for everyone else, I'm betting the idea sounds at least vaguely attractive.
But the women who notice these contradictions are often afraid to speak them in case they should be labelled cynics.
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