1.   He also needs the words and the vision to explain to an increasingly cynical electorate what lies beyond this decade of dreadful post-communist trauma.

2.   It is a recipe for perpetual and mean politics, and a cynical electorate.

3.   This cynical electorate, ironically enough, can exact a terrible price for breaking the unrealistic promises it demands.

4.   Not surprisingly, Vladivostok has a cynical electorate.