Sentences with phrase «as snobbery»

Now as in the 19th century, amateurism and lack of real commitment as well as snobbery and emphasis on chic on the part of women in their artistic «hobbies,» feeds the contempt of the successful, professionally committed man who is engaged in «real» work and can, with a certain justice, point to his wife's lack of seriousness in her artistic activities.

As the snobbery surrounding audiobooks dissipates, and as technology advances, I don't doubt that audiobooks will continue to be increasingly impactful on a listening audience, as new ways of storytelling are explored.

«This is often misinterpreted by the masses as snobbery.

Not exact matches

It was a cut above the chronological snobbery Mad Men often serves up as sociopolitical critique, and it was several cuts above the cartoon - spinster conduct of Peggy in this episode.

The republican party has courted, and climbed into bed, with all sorts of slime and trash to gain power — but perhaps the consequences of their appeal to ignorance, to empowering stupid people to reject education as the trappings of elitism and snobbery, are finally starting to accrue.

People call «elite - style snobbery», but then claim to have the «truth» themselves, even if that truth is that everything is all good and you get to live in «heaven» as long as you pick what's right for you and do good things.

There is a minority of Christian circles that practice «spiritual snobbery» and look down on people who are not «in the know» as they consider people should be.

-LSB-...] in the name of this shake is slightly setting off my barista snobbery because as you recall from my barista talk post, a latte is espresso and -LSB-...]

As a current café worker and former barista coffee cart girl (4 years thank you very much), I've developed a bit of coffee snobbery.

But it still nails some of the less - than - savory realities of life as a server at a top New York City restaurant, from the wine snobbery to the palpitation - inducing kitchen drama.

Such was our snobbery that we organized something called the Jacobin Club and listed it with the dean as a fraternity simply to appear at the head of the published lists as the fraternity with the highest grade averages.

Sounds like premiership snobbery to me my concern as a villa fan is he is accident prone and overrated not saying he is not a good player he is but because he belongs to Arsenal the media boost him up to be a superstar of which he isn't, oh and you have to be fit to play in the championship he isn't that either.

You choose to think it's snobbery on my behalf and that speaks volumes of your judgement and your attitude to other women as well as a lack of imagination as to what issues I and other women might be going through.

And despite Macintyre's Guardianistic snobbery, when I'm aboard (and I include Scotland) I'm defined as Black English - although not always in that order or using that terminology.

As shadow education secretary, I am determined to stop the snobbery about apprenticeships and vocational education.

The Tories, having looked for an angle to hit back at Miliband, linked his union comments, the pasty incident, and Westminster tittle - tattle about his alleged arrogance and indifference to more junior members as evidence of elitism and snobbery.

On Friday, Farage threatened to escalate that row after describing the Essex councillor as a «rough diamond» and criticising what he called metropolitan snobbery against people from outside the capital using «colloquial» language.

The resignation brings to an end another bruising period for the Conservative party, which saw them associated with a class snobbery Cameron had spent much of his time as leader trying to dispel.

The collectivist idea that someone's class ought to invalidate their views is as idiotic and unfair when done through inverse snobbery as it is in old - fashioned snootyness towards the poor.

When I joined the Labour party as a working class teenager in the 90s, I discovered that snobbery could be just as common on the left as on the right.

For a start you're not questioning why working class socialist labour voters went Ukip in the first place, it wasn't some guardian reading, snobbery that the working class are think, therefore are bigoted, so they must vote UKIP as they're nasty right wingers who dint like immigration, the decrease in wages among blue collar workers, due to immigration, is by the bosses seeking immigration to pay lower wages to make themselves more profits, Appeasing implies going along with something through fear of something worse, to agree with controlling immigration, because ex labour voters are going UKIP isn't appeasing it, why would us being afraid of losing is our votes to.

She comes an upper - middle class gift thanks to Marlo's wealthy douchebag brother Craig (played with perfect upper class snobbery by Mark Duplass) as a «night nanny.»

It hasn't been clear sailing all the way, mind: popular historian Stephen Marche recently took to the NEW YORK TIMES to debunk such «prophets of truthiness» — Emmerich and Orloff are but a new, high - profile strain of Oxfordians, a group who name nobleman Edward de Vere as the true author of Shakespeare's texts, even the ones dated after his death — for advancing a lunatic conspiracy theory based on little more than class snobbery.

This is not a new idea, as Shakespeare was a commoner of humble schooling and the Brits retain their class snobbery.

There are protesters and snobbery, but they just don't have the same everyman vision as Barnum.

Gillespie and Rogers are doing more than telling Harding's story; they are making pointed observations about athletic ambition and competition as well as the class snobbery that dominates this niche sport.

As Patrick's father, David, a thwarted pianist whose snobbery is topped only by his cruelty, Hugo Weaving (best known as Agent Smith from «The Matrix») manages to be terrifying from the first moment he appears, lying stock still in his coffin in Episode As Patrick's father, David, a thwarted pianist whose snobbery is topped only by his cruelty, Hugo Weaving (best known as Agent Smith from «The Matrix») manages to be terrifying from the first moment he appears, lying stock still in his coffin in Episode as Agent Smith from «The Matrix») manages to be terrifying from the first moment he appears, lying stock still in his coffin in Episode 1.

John Woo has been applauded - generally by the sort of person whose pretentiousness takes the form of inverted snobbery - as a maestro capable of transforming bombs and bullets into a gorgeously kinetic oriental ballet, or poem of violence (perhaps his apologists are confusing him with Takeshi Kitano).

And not all English ones would be regarded as «top» such is the nature of English snobbery.

As for the lack of pedigree, it's worth parking our in - built European snobbery and remembering Pagani uses an AMG Mercedes motor, while Koenigsegg's V8 still has traces of Ford DNA.

Boasting refined handling, localised tuning and good kit as standard — the ix35 appears to be breaking through the badge snobbery and ignorance that once held the brand back.

More important, though, Saturn targets its cars and its dealerships at that broad middle segment between car enthusiasts and car haters, a group that includes people of any income who view a car as an appliance - not as a personal statement of character, financial success, reverse snobbery or anything of the kind.

Cutting a fine line between «writer» and «author» will have absolutely no meaning to readers and, therefore, should be discarded as the valueless attempt at snobbery that it is.

On the contrary, those whose snobbery requires the green light from yesterday's monopoly holding publishers must only need it as a stroke to their egos — not as anything to do with the craft of writing.

It's hi tech snobbery — beating down perfectly good devices just because they're cheap or older or not as shiny.

But in The Guardian, it was an article in March, you said you still deal with snobbery as an indie author.

A blogger who goes by Dizzle takes exception to my the «absurd snobbery» of my suggestion last week that Robert Scoble has abandoned the Kindle for the iPad because he only skims his reading material, as opposed to Kindle fanboys like me who immerse themselves in books.

Follow the transformation of Elle Woods as she tackles stereotypes, snobbery, and scandal, in pursuit of her dreams.

Food snobs like yourself can feel better that you are paying $ 60 a bag and as such you must love your dog so much more than all those who feed them cheap food, but as the article states your snobbery is easy prey for companies like Blue Buffalo.

You'll see a huge canvas colored plain green, toilets splotched together with masking tape, and paintings that look like someone splashed together twenty colors over five minutes and displayed it as a joke on artistic snobbery.

Fans of the prize — which tends to go to large - scale realistic drawings — have lauded it as a visionary phenomenon free from coastal elitist snobbery that dominates the art world.

How did name - dropping «Chelsea» — and here the mention means west Chelsea, not the neighbourhood as a whole — come to indicate just the right amount of arriviste culture and instrumental snobbery that a television import, from the UK no less, could risk a $ 60m production budget on such a reference?

It must reveal an awareness of cultural perceptions dating back as far as the 60s such as: «America has a racist history,» or «Male sexuality tends to objectify females,» or «High art is about cultural snobbery.»

One way for me to share that special balancing act with others is to take each art separately and present it as simply as possible, without the hocus - pocus and snobbery, so that everyone can see how it's done.»

(I hate reverse house snobbery too) but as a lover - and renovator - of old homes I applaud you - and envy your historic district location too!