Oh, yeah, this Ziller guy. Some spoiled, fur-rending liberal brat who thinks it’s his God-given duty to do the whining for those who can’t be bothere… - Iain Banks

Even though we thought ourselves by now inured to the thoroughly reckless nature of our opponents, we have been profoundly shocked and disappointed to discover the completely irresponsible and utterly senseless depths—or should I say heights?"—the ambassadorial emissary showed his teeth and glanced around his appropriately appreciative team—"to which our previously at least ostensibly esteemed adversaries have been prepared to stoop to in their understandably increasingly desperate attempts to secure a victory in this outrageously prosecuted, thoroughly unfortunate and—on our part—wholly unprovoked dispute.

There now; cynical, paranoid and pessimistic. I think that completes the set, doesn’t it?

How are you?"
"I am here."
"Apart from that," she said levelly.
"There is no apart from that.