Sentences with phrase «do sneer»

Particularly, a lot of those writers do sneer at indies as failures.

Not exact matches

re Rush L's comment - anybody who doesn't share the exact same ideology as you has to be slammed and sneered at.

The scientist must not sneer at the guy sitting in his back yard enjoying the sunset, saying, «He doesn't know anything about nature.

I'll try to avoid reciprocal sneers (although his reference to Nazi Germany makes the temptation all but irresistible), but I do want, very briefly, to unmuddy what he has made of my position.

It doesn't get us anywhere merely to sneer: the young man who denounced the ageing and muddled ladies of a rather sentimental group - whom he had never met - as «feminiNazis» had hoped to raise bellows of raucous laughter from his young hearers but was greeted with silence.

Its stories will do more than attacks on National Councils, hand - wringing about liberalism's ineffectual leftovers, and snide or spiteful sneers can do to explain why «we» have lost the world we have lost.

But the Republicans keep laughing and sneering at the poor while they do their damdest to shove this country deeper into the hole.

Almost echoing Tertullian's famous sneer, «What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem?»

Often this tension was felt to have been so painful that one or another heretic sought to suppress either the Hebrew or the Hellenic element, as with the efforts of the second «century Marcion to get the Church to excise the Old Testament from the Christian Bible, or, from the opposite side, the sneering rhetorical question from the puritanical pen of the early «third «century Tertullian, «What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?»

Please, don't let us marginalise faith in God, or ignore what Christianity offers, or sneer at the possibility that men and women can know about the deepest and greatest things.

Let me stress again that I do not for a moment sneer at compassion; it is right to rejoice in the knowledge that God is all - merciful.

If he was sneering at Darwin a bit (one does not need a mirror to know that one sneers), did he remember uncomfortably that a sneer is derived from an animal's lifting its lip to remind an enemy of its fangs?

It's the same self - righteous sneer heard in the words of those who dragged the woman caught in adultery to Jesus: «What should we do with such a woman?»

is this: When he sneered at and abused himself beyond the tolerance of the crowd, it was not done through weakness but through strength, a defiance of God.1

In April 1526, he sent a letter, very pained at Luther's violent and aggressive sneers: «How do your scurrilous charges that I am an atheist, and Epicurean and a sceptic help the argument?

okay, don't sneer at me for asking this question, but... could you use packaged frozen chopped spinach here?

But does he have to sneer at players for not looking and acting the way they did 50 years ago, when every golfer was white and they all broke bread with him?

A few goals here, a few there, and suddenly Chelsea2 have a few more points in the league, another away goal in Europe, and José Mourinho isn't sneering and flailing his way through press conferences like a man doing a bad impression of José Mourinho.

I've sneered at the likes of Chel - ski, Oil City, and United, due to them trying to buy All Star teams year in and year out when they don't win.

Take that you c... And don't ever stand over me sneering about fake injuries.»

Much as I am consecutively annoyed, intrigued, baffled or sneer at these farcical stories, they do actually give me something to fill the doldrums betwixt the ending of one season and the start of the new one — so let the good times roll.

evonne, I was just teasing, I think jibe can mean «scoff — taunt — sneer — ridicule — mockery — jeer» none of which I was doing.

Rather a lot wrong with the idea that the intelligent get to sneer at others, and that how your child does is about you and your own status.

It's the best we can do to raise our little ones to be better adults than the ones sneering at them at the grocery store.

I chose a hospital for both of my own births but I don't sneer at those who elect different choices.

Willow Brooks was just starting to breastfeed her 4 month old son Angelo when Judge Gregory Lenehan looked down upon the mom, sneering at her and telling her «don't breastfeed in the courtroom.»

And if you don't like it, well, the hospital — sneer — is the sort of place for puritanical little sheep like you.

I don't generally care how you raise your kids unless a) they're mistreating mine, b) you're complaining about their behavior while feeding them candy or caffeine, or c) you're sneering at me for giving my girl M&M s as you feed your child organic fruit snacks (which are still candy).)

He said: «They have a leader who will not sing the national anthem, a shadow chancellor who seems to admire the IRA more than he does the British Army, a shadow foreign secretary who sneers at the English flag and a shadow home secretary who seems to advocate unlimited immigration.

No attack would be more certain of triggering an eruption of applause in a 1980s Conservative conference than a sneering assault on social worker do - gooders.

Do pols fear the sneer is a sword aimed at the wack belief that government is way more than a necessary evil?

Yesterday he made a speech at 8.47 pm at night, when most sensible people were already a pint and a packet of mini Cheddars down, about a local issue that is causing a good deal of distress to his constituents risking, in doing so, the muttered barbed and sneers reserved for the mighty who've fallen.

It is in the nature of cynical Britain to sneer at such sentimental American notions, but it does remind us that there are many, many people who could do my job as a politician and probably do it a great deal better, but no one else can be a father to my children.

He doesn't need to do ranting and sneering and gloating, he can just answer the question.»

You couldn't win office, but that's what you could do,» he sneered at the Observer's query.

That cheap sneer (fruit cakes and closet racists, backed up by his sister - in - law using a quote from Operation Black Vote)-RRB- did UKIP a lot of good.

Later we'll be sneering at Cameron and Obama and insisting that everything they do and say is programmed, cynical and insincere and nothing about them is genuine (because we tend to judge other people by our own behaviour).

But he does suggest that the scientists» ability to understand climate change — whose impact is far more pronounced in the Arctic — is hampered by their tendency to sneer at anecdotal evidence.

I was invariably given inappropriate, ineffective advice by the medics I consulted about what to do about the weight gain — advice usually accompanied by sneers and insults.

In short, the plot wavers between interesting and insanely confusing, if only because I do not have the attention span to look between Jean Dujardin being the goofy lead and the villain putting on a sneer while delivering his seminal evil genius speech.

Where those previous films felt compelled to lunge for edginess (read: sneering raunch) as chaos dutifully descended on characters they didn't like very much — and weren't particularly interested in getting audiences to like, either — Game Night takes care to locate our sympathies with Bateman, and McAdams, and its cast of charming ringers.

To the extent that Blocker has been a soldier doing his job, the movie regards him with sympathy, and supplies an Eastern intellectual (Bill Camp, wearing round spectacles) to sneer and judge.

The hard - nosed defense attorney questions everything, despite the fact that the sneering suspects appear to be guilty as sin; even the man's father is convinced his Hitler - adoring son did it.

Evans is completely forgettable (again) as the would - be hunky charmer, and McMahon has nothing to do but sneer in tight close - ups.

Stood next to this sneering, vaping, grandstanding powder keg, Garfields conflicted, wavering everyman cant help but seem the lesser character, even if he does have the more significant arc.

The burglars are personality - free voids whose leader (Billy Burke) does little more than sneer, spout banal game theory, and marvel at what an «impressive woman» Shaun is.

Remarkably candid («I don't even know what this movie's about,» sneers location manager Ad Paroo with far more bitterness than quoting him can convey; «Don't «woah» me!»

It's easy to sneer at these films, which are at bottom sentimental, feel - good fantasies, but in fairness the Marigold films do tackle issues like ageing and death that rarely get an airing in Hollywood.

More often than not those movies are dreadful — possibly because they do contain a certain hottie and who needs plot, pacing or dialogue when you have [insert poster boy / girl name here]'s sexy sneer to bring in the bucks?

Light is further egged on by Ryuk (voiced with trademark menace by Willem Dafoe), although the prosthetic - rendered demon has little to do besides sulk in corners and sneer; his real corrupting influence is girlfriend Mia (Margaret Qualley from The Leftovers), a cheerleader who turns into a psychopath quicker than it takes most pots to boil.