Sentences with phrase «getting sneered at»

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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