Sentences with phrase «of hoity»

She has been the recipient of the Hoity - Toity Award, and has over five thousand five - star reviews for her books on Goodreads.

Wine connoisseurs may have an aroma of the hoity - toity, but a deep understanding of and appreciation for alcohol is apparent in their aftertaste.

Not exact matches

I get all hoity - toity and quote Scripture out of context sometimes to make a point.

whether in anticipation of guests for dinner or just the regular preparation for that night, the smell of his home grown fava and cannelini cooking in «odore» (a less hoity - toity word than confit) signaled comfort and a reminder of my roots as a Mangiafagioli.

«I do think the concept of exclusive, invite - only, hard - to - get - into, wait - in lines — it's very New York,» says Bradford, 30, whose company weeds out the hoi polloi from the hoity - toity.

It's true that the hoity - toity Watson never convinces us that Hermione is meant to be with the second - banana nebbish Ron (Grint), but that was one of Rowling's more arbitrary plot turns.

In the world of rom - coms, however, all you need is a case of amnesia, a crude man with questionable morals, and a hoity - toity woman who needs to learn that her real value lies in being a wife and mother.

You do not need a crystal ball to look at the movies slated to drop over the next 12 months to know that 2017 should be an interesting year regardless of whether you prefer popcorn - littered multiplexes or your local hoity - toity art - house.

Streep, in the two minutes (tops) she's on - screen, places a genteel overlay of breeding in her ringing hoity - toity voice, but her speech is filmed in such a haphazard way that what it ends up being about is her gigantic hat.

Mr. Hundert (Kevin Kline) is the soft - spoken professor of ancient western civilization at hoity - toity St. Benedict's prep school fond of making his kids memorize the Roman emperors chronologically, engage in an annual trivia contest to crown «Mr. Caesar,» and solemnly intone Caesar's fatalistic declaration of alea jacta est — «the die is cast» — whether appropriate or not.

Despite some acknowledgement that the storyline has been contorted to fit a traditional narrative story arc, and the fact that we know where the story is eventually going to lead long before all of the pieces come into play, Belle hits the right notes at the right times to please fans of «hoity - toity» period piece dramas.

The fantasy convention of magic swords with hoity - toity names comes in for ridicule, too, when brutal asshole King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) demands a title for his new enchanted blade and some wags in the audience yell back «Stormbringer!»

It's easy to stereotype the Pebble Beach weekend as an exclusive, hoity - toity gathering of the super-rich.

While some will accuse the Velar of being too plain, both look good in their own way and fit neatly in the hoity toity part of Palm Springs, so the image - conscious need not worry about being judged too harshly.

Our Opinion: It's easy to approach the Range Rover Sport with a heaping dose of skepticism, for its ubiquity at hoity - toity shopping malls and other establishments whose central business model is built around ladies who lunch — all places, in other words, decidedly NOT a sheep paddock or the like.

Without sounding too hoity - toity, it tells the story of a country from the pre-human to those who've lost basic human rights.

Sale: Book Market at Karma Do you still need holiday gifts for all of your pasty faced, hoity toity, art friends?

So toss aside all the hoity - toity notions that one of the greatest American artists of all time should indeed inspire, and take the tour of the retrospective in Houston — one so big it takes up space in all three of the city's museums — laughing.

It may be only a few golf swings from that height of East Hampton hoity - toitydom, the Maidstone Club, but for much of its sixty - nine years Guild Hall has contented itself with remaining a small - town art space dedicated to the artists in its hood.

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