Sentences with phrase «getting sneered»

I hope I can now take a plastic bag from the supermarket without getting sneered at, secure in the knowledge that in 100 years the bag will crumble to dust.

That may get some sneers from the skeptics — but the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (a separate entity from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative) is forging ahead, doling out $ 50 million in funding to 47 researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, and the University of California, San Francisco.

If your kiddo knocks over (insert the object that has the potential to make the biggest mess), I promise you will not get any sneers at WHISK.

Bonds and cash get sneered at, but they play an important role in risk reduction for both individuals and institutions.

Not exact matches

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.

She derogated marriage and sneered, «If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.»

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?»

We've got articles sneering at Pedro now the wind has changed and the rumour mill suggests (quite possibly incorrectly at this stage) that he is joining Chelski, and now we've got articles about Chelski fans» rants on the internet.

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.

We got ours as a gift after the boys were born, and I sort of sneered at them originally, but they turned out to be amazing.

As a new parent, I picked up all of the popular books ad magazines offered dire warnings about co-sleeping and sneered at breastfeeding past six months, but now I've gotten pretty good at knowing where to avoid.

«He gets paid near on a million pounds, lives by talking about politics but sneers about politics,» Clegg said today during his weekly LBC phone - in show.

Boles hit back, saying that the question was typical of the party opposite who «sneer at people's aspirations», and that there was a difference between property developers building a block of flats on gardens and ordinary families getting extensions.

If they could get through my name without a sneer I'd be happy.

«The person sneering - if he's got any sense of shame ought to be ashamed of himelf.»

David Cameron sneered: «We have lost a Shadow Secretary of State for Defence who believed in our nuclear deterrent - and instead we've got someone apparently who takes funds from Leigh Day.»

So, let's stand together and agree to stop saying «basic» with that sneer (except when it comes to Ugg boots and jean mini skirts in the dead of winter, that still earns some serious side - eye), find those pieces that get your fashion wheels churning, and start warming to the idea of filling your closet with charming and interesting not - so - basic basics you love!

He showed up frequently in the films of Humphrey Bogart, most memorably as the white - suited gent in Casablanca (1942) who turns to Bogart after the arrest of Peter Lorre and sneers «When they come to get me, Rick, I hope you'll be more of a help.»

As much as I wanted to chuckle haughtily at how much gall it takes to wrap this sneering, overcooked mess in a moralistic bow, the snickers got stuck in my throat.

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.

The twist of «Breaking In» is right there in its title: while a crew of standard issue bad dudes (led by Billy Burke's Eddie as the one who gets to be the leader by virtue of his ability to sneer a lot) quite easily get into the house, it's Shaun who's locked outside, desperate to break back in to save her kids.

The sneering bad attitude was already there, in Deadpool's previous human guise as Wade Wilson, a Special Forces soldier turned mercenary thug: «I'm just a bad guy who gets paid to f — up worse guys,» he announces.

He gets under, and indeed into the skin of the notorious crime lord, sneering into the camera, his near whisper of a voice scaring the be-Jesus out of us in nearly every scene he's in.

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.

Sometimes the two types of performances exist side by side: It's easy to sneer at Sandler getting in drag to play the braying, Bronx - born Jill in Jack And Jill, but there's visible effort (and sometimes startling, sweaty detail) in that character, as opposed to the surly, condescending version of a straight man that the Jack character lazily embodies.

It's like an American indie reworking of Hollywood high melodrama — initial pettiness and sniping grows into passive - aggressive war between bitchy frenemies in close quarters — but instead of the theatrical thrill of showboating spectacle of divas dueling with sophisticated wit and sneering delivery we get something uncomfortably intimate and personal.

His girlfriend, Julie Hastings (Frances McDormand), is a crusading journalist whose nose for news gets Peyton caught in the crosshairs of Louis Strack Jr. (Colin Friels), a malicious corporate real estate tycoon who makes use of a small army of sneering mercenaries led by the sadistic Robert Durant (Larry Drake).

Along the way, they encounter a number of D - list washed - up actors (Cary Elwes, Chazz Palminteri, Christopher Lloyd, Cloris Leachman, Jamie Pressly, Toni Braxton and others), all hiding sneers of embarrassment at the ridiculous things they've got ta do.

He was down right ughly with me, getting in my face and sneering, yell - talking at me and couldn't hear a word I said.

Do you a) sneer at the jumped - up pretender; b) pay no attention; or c) get a sinking feeling that maybe you shelled out too much?

If, on the other hand, you switch from recalibrated to originally published ages, and push data which is beyond 1940 back in time or maybe extend the reconstruction beyond 1940 (when there aren't nearly enough proxies no matter how you slice it), and limit only to alkenones, and do whatever else you need to get what you want... then you can flood the internet with innuendo and sneering.]

I'll never get my time back, and it's time I would have preferred to spend writing about music and other things: as your fellow man of science David Appell likes to sneer, I am a mere Shirley Temple fan.

Hunter, someday when you get your GED and really buckle down to basic math and introductory science, you may be able to pull off this sneering superior act.

It gets picked on, verbally abused, sneered at and in all manner abused as the ash can of Canadiana.