For decades — centuries — the archetype of the successful business person has been
the sneering blowhard, unafraid to bark orders and excoriate the work of underlings.
The power trip goes to her head — «This is your life now,»
she sneers to another girl suffering from cramps — but the reign of terror ends with the arrival of HelloFlo «care packages» containing tampons, pantyliners and even candy.
Claiming that your new fitness app is going to «solve the obesity problem in the U.S and save millions of lives» will likely be met with
sneers by skeptical journalists.
Oddly, intellectuals and academics across America
sneered at Eisenhower while he was president.
His character could have easily been
a sneering, sexist buffoon who clashes with his female publisher, but Hanks applies a smart, dignified restraint.
Ackman
sneered at one point.
Gawker is a vicious tabloid, run by
a sneering Englishman named Nick Denton who delights in humiliating people.
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.
But the Minister of the Crown still sees kindred spirits in punk rappers with an anti-establishment
sneer.
From reporters to venture capitalists to bankers to the general public, opinions run the gamut, from frenzied flag - waving, to cautious curiosity, to
sneering skepticism.
I laugh and sometime
sneer at those who think new Fed Head Jerome Powell will impose monetary discipline by raising interest rates at least up to the real rate of inflation and reduce the Fed's balance sheet according the schedule as laid out by Yellen.
«BlackBerry users are like Myspace users,»
sneers Craig Robert Smith, a Los Angeles musician.
If Core wanted Bitcoin to be digital cash, they would not
sneer and jeer that anyone who wants to «buy coffee with Bitcoin» is an idiot.
A naked statue of Donald Trump, complete with a distended belly and jowly
sneer, is to go on display at a Haunted Museum after a paranormal investigator bought it at auction.
Cutler has
sneered at Roger's ambition to head up the new SC&P: «And you'll be our king.»
It makes injustice quail on its throne, chafe,
sneer, abuse, hurl its spear, tender its goal, and finally offer to serve as truth's vassal.
So, can
I sneer at the Buddhists for their arrogance in thinking * their * way is correct?
This book is a personal and at times blistering critique of the «ignorant screeds» of the New Atheist meme machine: the «
sneer pressure» from the likes...
Meanwhile, I have gravitated to a certain type of mommy - blog: one written by a stay - at - home mother, lovingly grateful to her provider - man, capably in charge of every detail of her children's lives and home: the Angel in the House, as we might have
sneered back in English 101.
It featured some mountebank striding up and down in front of an audience, wisecracking and
sneering at Darwinism....
Einstein was an atheist and would laugh and
sneer at you.
Conversely, of course, the slightly
sneering treatment given to these minor characters highlights the relative respect with which the others on this list are portrayed.
«Ludicrous,»
sneered the Nation «s Robert Scheer.
re Rush L's comment - anybody who doesn't share the exact same ideology as you has to be slammed and
sneered at.
Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you...... 32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some began to
sneer, but others said, «We shall hear you again concerning this.»
The scientist must not
sneer at the guy sitting in his back yard enjoying the sunset, saying, «He doesn't know anything about nature.
In fact any form of «dualism» with regard to the constitution of human nature has frequently been
sneered at as philosophically dated and theologically distasteful.
It's a fairly bold
sneer for someone facing down a mob.
I like that, and I would include
sneering at the «religion» of atheism as being juvenile and stunted too.
It's a world - weary Tyrion Lannister
sneering at the ridiculous motives of those around him.
«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while
sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.
Sneers about front - yard grottoes and dashboard figurines?
I think this is important — some may
sneer at the supposedly «uneducated» Gospel writers Matthew and Mark whose accounts are based on the testimony of working people.
Sometimes in direct attack, as in the Roman persecutions of early centuries and the Nazi and Communist movements of our time, sometimes through
sneers and the opposition of hostile public opinion, Christianity has had to defend itself against those who believed the false or utopian ideas of its founder to be dangerous.
It is popular among the elite Bible scholars and academy - trained theologians to
sneer at the uneducated lay person who seeks to teach Scripture and theology to others as being «untrained» and therefore, unable to accurately teach others what God is like, what He says in Scripture, and how to live life in light of what we learn.
I'll try to avoid reciprocal
sneers (although his reference to Nazi Germany makes the temptation all but irresistible), but I do want, very briefly, to unmuddy what he has made of my position.
The more the elite press
sneered at Bobby as «ruthless,» the more it seemed to me that white ethnics were flocking to him.
(Also said with a loud
sneering emphasis on the word «anything».)
Paul Griffiths's
sneering review of our book, By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed («Against Capital Punishment,» December 2017), illustrates how much bile — and how little charity — is often to be found in those who speak the loudest of mercy and humanity.
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...?»
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.
One of the crosses we are called to take up and bear for Christ by God's help is fidelity to conviction in spite of lifted eyebrows and the curt or
sneering remarks of friends.
In a satirical magazine launched in 1721, the school's self - appointed jester
sneered, «I have known a profligate debauchee chosen professor of moral philosophy; and a fellow, who never look'd upon the stars soberly in his life, professor of astronomy... and, not long ago, a famous gamester and stock - jobber was elected professor of divinity; so great, it seems, is the analogy between dusting of cushions, and shaking of elbows; or between squandering away of estates, and saving of souls!»
Bible scholars and academy - trained theologians often
sneer at the uneducated lay person who seeks to teach Scripture and theology.
She derogated marriage and
sneered, «If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.»
I say it again, re-read her post ---- she if she wasn't
sneering at people who had posted earlier.
In one respect, his presentation of Byzantium seems aimed at Gibbon, who
sneered at Eastern Christian claims to be the protectors of reason and civilization.
Therefore his cosmopolitan detractors in the Roman Empire were able to
sneer that he had put in his appearance «in some small corner of the earth somewhere,» and not (to borrow a modern phrase that seems appropriate) out here in the real world.
Yet the impulse among European intellectuals since 1848 has been never to give the market its due, and to feel in fact that one is being ethical only if one
sneers at market outcomes.
Its stories will do more than attacks on National Councils, hand - wringing about liberalism's ineffectual leftovers, and snide or spiteful
sneers can do to explain why «we» have lost the world we have lost.