The cynical view is that the mirror's revival into the high-style vernacular mirrors our own vanity.
Globe and Mail (2003)
Others at the time and afterwards took a more cynical view.
The Times Literary Supplement (2011)
The cynical view is that golf is in a hole and should stop digging.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The bad news, or the cynical view, is that they have done so only because it is not particularly onerous.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)