Sentences with phrase «even sneer at»

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It's a useful book for students who need accurate information for the argument / debate / shouting match at the student bar, for families tackling big issues in passionate kitchen debates, and for quiet perusal before replying to the sneers of office colleagues — or even to the well - intentioned «But surely you can't believe...?»

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

With that review now over, the city has decided the best course is to integrate the two agencies, and leave Mr. Banks in charge of both — even though a Cuomo spokesperson sneered at Mr. Banks, a former Legal Aid attorney, as part of the city's «management problem.»

Moreover, if people are supporting Ukip in such large numbers — even after the media's massed guns have been rattling at it for weeks — it is probably time to drop all the sneering and think about why.

My boyfriend has even convinced me to try Mahi Mahi and Salmon; he's good at convincing because three years ago I would've sneered at the idea of fish in my diet.

Jackman even fucks this up by overdoing it — every sneer at the kid feels forced, and this despite the kid being an abrasive know it all cunt.

Though, the fact that the film isn't entirely without obvious merit confuses things even further: Krauss is wryly brilliant as Krauss and delivers the film's biggest laugh with his Herzog - ian reasons for using a wheelchair; Gael Garcia Bernal has a great time as a lecherous member of Laura's delegation, spinning his suitcase with the sneering verve of a cartoon villain who twirls his mustache and gleefully acts smarmy before being felled by his own beleaguered bowels; Herzog's shots of Diablo Blanco, portrayed by Bolivia's real - life Uyuni salt flats, are among the most stunning in any film released this year; Shannon has fun in the impromptu photo shoot that takes place toward the end of the film; and as expected, there's a fascinating push and pull in the battle between human and nature at the heart of the film's central premise.

The other thing it has going for it is that Mario is more mainstream than Zelda and while there have been many people who have sneered at the high praise it has received deep down inside all of us gamers Mario taking away the top spot at any awards show (even if it was undeserving.)

«Even if he agreed with you, he would sneer at someone who has to reduce themselves to name - calling.

Even the harmless little NACA duct on the hood seems to sneer at you derisively.

While Lib has many admirable (even heroic) qualities, she is also arrogant and extremely derisive of the village's inhabitants, mocking their dilapidated homes and meager food and sneering at their beliefs.

Even if you sneered at the concept of playing a Mickey Mouse game, the sheer quality and ingeniousness of this title won you over.

Think about this: FIRST, Willis Eschenbach wrote and published on the world's leading climate science site a sneering, mocking piece laughing at how stupid the Kaya identity is and all the people who ever referred to it, and ONLY THEN did he even find out for the first time that it has a name and that it is called the Kaya identity!

Finally, Bethell sneers at scientific «consensus,» noting that even if 99 percent of experts in a field accept a given theory, that doesn't make it automatically true.

Millenials are often sneered at for not caring about long - form news, or even any news.