Ejemplos de uso de cui bono?
1. We keep reading that the Tory party needs a big hitter, but cui bono? if one is not sure whether the big hitter will be batting for ones own side?
2. So do instant certainties in the cold light of the following morning. ‘Cui bono?‘ asked an agonised Polly Toynbee in the Guardian. ‘Not Labour and not Blair‘s natural successor ... this is not a moment for I–told–you–so triumphalism about prime ministerial hubris.
3. In their place have come what Don DeLillo, in Libra, his brilliant psychological novel about Kennedy‘s assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, calls "theories that gleam like jade idols". Such theories are seductive precisely because, as DeLillo puts it, they are "four–faced, graceful". Employing a 20/20 hindsight whose starting point is always cui bono? – who benefits? – they masquerade as an interrogation of the facts but are actually a labyrinth of mirrors.