Sentences with phrase «from snobbery»

Bonhoeffer called for a «return from the newspaper and the radio to the book, from feverish activity to unhurried leisure, from dispersion to concentration, from sensationalism to reflection, from virtuosity to art, from snobbery to modesty, from extravagance to moderation.»

Not exact matches

First, perhaps his harshest critics could remove the enormous log of snobbery, hatred and judgement from their own eyes.

Apart from such dangers in excessive specialization, there is a kind of intellectual snobbery about the whole matter which I am sure all men of good will should steadfastly resist.

the s on that came from (wan na hear class snobbery and what is that but bigotry?)

Being immigrants, or children of immigrants, these people could not pretend they came from old and prestigious families; money was the sole instrument of their snobbery.

It often comes down to snobbery: some administrators believe that applicants coming from Catholic schools simply were not «good enough «to get a job in a better paying public school to begin with.

-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-...]

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.

A variation and particular kind of middle class snobbery can be found in Dan Hall Highate Mums Overheard Wisdom from the Ladies Who Brunch (Atlantic Books).

Taylor argues that snobbery is a key to our national life and looks at trends in different professions and stratas of society, including hilarious examples from politics.

[42] Earlier in the day, she had received much criticism after tweeting a photograph of a house in the constituency adorned with three flags of St George [43] and the owner's white van parked outside on the driveway, under the caption «Image from #Rochester», provoking accusations of 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.

Senior Labour MP Emily Thornberry has resigned from Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet after being accused of snobbery when she tweeted a picture of a house decked out in St George's flags.

Islington South and Finsbury MP Emily Thornberry was accused of snobbery after posting the picture of the modern terraced house with three red and white Cross of St George flags - one bearing a West Ham United badge - and a white van parked in the drive, along with the message «Image from Rochester».

Stars of Avengers: Infinity War have defended superhero films against snobbery from their Hollywood peers.

Along the way, the film explores class - consciousness from several angles while poking fun at sexism and snobbery.

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 1.

The five - part series «Patrick Melrose» follows an upper - class Englishman on a 40 - year journey of recovery from horrific childhood abuse, addiction and the soul - killing snobbery of his milieu.

Full of bitterness, spite, snobbery, sarcasm, self - loathing, abuse, addiction and recovery, Showtime's limited series Patrick Melrose is simply an irresistible tour de force from Benedict Cumberbatch that I can not recommend strongly enough.

Besides snobbery, Kia also risks getting lost in the crowd of more distinctive German, Japanese, and American luxury sedans, not to mention the Genesis G80 and G90 from parent Hyundai's luxury brand.

I think it is also true, that «The Major Publishers» need to climb down from their high horse of literary snobbery and realise that the majority of the reading public, just want to a good tale, and not an over edited, over indulgent, wordy story based on a subject that most ordinary, averagely educated people can not, and have no desire to grasp!

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.

-LSB-...] has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth and frankly absurd snobbery (well the iPad is fine for Scobel who only skins his reading material, but * I * immerse myself) from Kindle fanboys over whether or not the iPad is a Kindle killer.

I also firmly believe in no snobbery — you can learn from everyone.

Perhaps that's a lingering snobbery regarding self publishing authors (which is foolish, idiotic and wrong - headed in an age when some of the biggest writers are rapidly moving towards self publishing, are already self publishing or have emerged from the self publishing space).

I've seen, quite frankly, the snobbery that comes from your large corporate world.

Rory needed a way out from our dad's disapproval, from my irony and snobbery.

From what I can see it's not hard to identify a poor one, there's no magical science or snobbery involved:

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.

Hermes defied critical snobbery with sculptures made from found materials, including skittles from the local pub.

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?

Then we could see that science = «effete intellectual snobbery» and scientist = «greedy grant seeking leeches» along with the other gems of wisdom from the freeper codebook.