Sentences with phrase «first sneered at»

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Nothing to sneer at that statement, as this is a man who won his first World Cup title when he was just 17.

Dieters flock to the gurus that promise 12 to 15 pounds of weight loss in the first two weeks, while sneering at the idea of losing a paltry 2 pounds of fat per week.

-- «Mutiny on the Bounty» (1935): Clark Gable was at his most virile and Charles Laughton at almost his most vicious and sneering in director Frank Lloyd's vigorous adapta tion, the first and best screen version of the Bounty story.

When RCA sneered at transistor radios, Sony captured the audio market by first putting out tinny pocket transistors for teenagers, then expanded its base with steady technological improvement.

In the beginning, the first e-books were sneered at and denigrated by agents, publishers and company - approved authors.

When Peggy Guggenheim first looked at a painting Pollock submitted to Art of This Century, the gallery she opened in 1940s New York, she sneered.

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 idenFIRST, 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 idenfirst time that it has a name and that it is called the Kaya identity!