Sentences with phrase «of snark on»

There was an abnormal amount of snark on that thread and I give kudos to Lee for sticking around as long as he did.

4000 babies dying a day from unsafe forumla feeding practices in the developing world, and you think a bit of snark on twitter is more «damaging»?

Not exact matches

Ben - Sasson, an architect of zk - SNARKs, is at work on a souped - up version of the tech that will require no multiparty setup phase — no computational baton - passing, no bonfires.

Update: This article was revised on Dec. 19 to more fully describe the team that contributed to the development of «zk - SNARKs.»

Again, it would be really easy to say, «Well, of course elite athletes have athletic bodies,» but seeing them here is enough to set aside the snark for a second and just marvel at the prowess and accomplishments of the women on America's gymnastics team.

My response to it all was, «yeah, but...» and I set up my piano on the border between Funny and Mean, playing sarcastic scales in the name of wit, you might be surprised by how much snark you can fit into 140 characters.

This is because her life radiates beauty: through her hospitality to friends and strangers alike, through her joyful laugh, through her care of those in need, through her passion for education, through her love of framing things on film through the lens of a camera, through her ability to be patient with her doofus husband, through her genuine love for God, through her sacrificial generosity to those with less than we have, and even through her stubborn refusal to let me get away with any of my trademark snark.

With a grand total of 89 cents in the Jar of Contention, I spent an hour and 29 minutes on the roof Monday morning doing penance for a month's worth of complaining, nagging, exaggeration, gossip, and snark.

So far, there's 26 cents in the jar, largely a result of the Alabama game on Saturday and the fact that snark seems to be a rather crucial element of my sense of humor.

Barack Obama's snark about folks clinging to their guns and Bibles because they can't handle post-modernity got a mulligan from a star - struck press corps; but among those paying attention that elitist smackdown put the final nail in the coffin of Obama - the - unifier, the trope Obama had exploited since his first appearance on the national stage at the 2004 Democratic convention.

On Tuesday night, two of the Premier League's Uniteds, Manchester and Newcastle, came together to gift the country something really quite special: A six - goal humdinger dotted with penalties, seasoned with snark, littered with defensive incoherence, and containing not one, but two blown leads by the red side of the argument, who really should know better.

If you don't like all the fluff of your typical parenting tome, take a little snark and get down to business already with this book on your shelf.

The amount of horrible snark and ignorance you will see on those groups is breathtaking.

Modeled on Crooked Media's Pod Save America (but without the snark and HBO deal), Sajaa and Justin Tracy decided to make use of their respective backgrounds in government and in music to produce Spotlight 19.

While I don't follow a paleo diet (and don't plan to), I somehow got hooked on Julie's blog a long time ago — probably due to her excellent snark and widespread use of coconut flour.

Deadpool is depressed for much of the movie, a brave choice for a franchise founded on the twin pillars of extreme snark and dick jokes.

Thanks to Tony Stark, Thor has learned a great deal about sarcasm and irony, and this sense of humor and snark has rubbed off on the God of Thunder.

Kenneth Turan of Los Angeles Times: «A superhero movie whose characters have integrity and dramatic heft, filled with engaging exploits and credible crises all grounded in a vibrant but convincing reality, laced with socially conscious commentary as well as wicked laughs that don't depend on snark, this is the model of what an involving popular entertainment should be.

In his review for The Times, Kenneth Turan wrote, «A superhero movie whose characters have integrity and dramatic heft, filled with engaging exploits and credible crises all grounded in a vibrant but convincing reality, laced with socially conscious commentary as well as wicked laughs that don't depend on snark, this is the model of what an involving popular entertainment should be.

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HOWARDS END Cohen Media, All - region Waiting on line for a movie when I was 17 or thereabouts, I started snarking on Howards End because it had a lot of furniture and overdressed actresses and all those things a Beavis or a Butthead hates.

A superhero movie whose characters have integrity and dramatic heft, filled with engaging exploits and credible crises all grounded in a vibrant but convincing reality, laced with socially conscious commentary as well as wicked laughs that don't depend on snark, this is the model of what an involving popular entertainment should be.

Alternatively, he's never afraid to add spice to scenes that need it, reliably calling on inventive line - readings and spur - of - the - moment snark from Downey Jr..

Styled like a forgotten Nixon - era classic and set in the autumn of 1971, James Wan's latest sheds all traces of Cabin in the Woods snark: no cell phones, natch, but no sarcasm either, as based - on - real - life heroes Lorraine and Ed Warren (Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson), a married pair of self - described demonologists, deliver a college lecture about possession to a respectful class of longhairs.

At the time, any stance that even remotely suggested traditional publishing wasn't actually on its death bed, or that ebooks weren't going to be as transformational as digital music or, god forbid, that maybe the iPad wasn't the publishing savior every tech fetishist insisted it would be — any sense of optimism that the industry could survive, maybe even thrive, was met with scorn and snark.

Jay — I kind of let the snark out on this one.

And a big thank you to author Mainak Dhar, who sponsored last week's sweepstakes on behalf of his recent releases of bestsellers Alice in Deadland: The Complete Trilogy and Hunting the Snark.

As a romance reader, I want my heartfelt romance and HEA as much as the next girl, but I prefer mine on the side of snark, thank you very much.

And if you're wondering if a vending machine book costs less than the real deal (OK, OK, I should put my snark in check; the machines are really nifty - looking, supposedly they cut down on CO2 emissions, plus it would be great to gain access to out - of - print books)... The Associated Press reported recently that EBM books will have a «recommended sales price of $ 8 per copy, although the final decision will be left to each retailer.»

That doesn't mean we don't enjoy the snark of others, though, and The New Dork Review of Books» post on «My Top Five Literary Nemeses» (think: Dan Brown and Celebrities Who Publish Fiction) made me chuckle.

But what's more important is what happened to A Walk In The Snark: (which I kept at its normal price of 2.99) it went from around 85K and on two lists (Motherhood and Emotions and Feelings), down to about 60K.

As a # 1 bestselling author of two books on Amazon (A Walk In The Snark and The Mancode: Exposed), my experience has been vastly different.

Blithely ignoring the absence of reasoning that would support the effect he hopes to find, Hanson soldiers on looking for his snark.

«The Hunting of the Snark» is hidden object + maze + puzzle game based on Lewis Carroll's famous story of mysterious creature, Snark, living on the lonely island.

In other words I entered the Motherwell show with a bit of snark based on a sense of familiarity.

com phenomenon is filled with more than just succintly - worded snark and daily updates on the lives of celebrities.

I'd seen examples of his early cubistic caricatures (not to mention his later collage - cartoons, whose extravagant art - historical indulgences, leavened with snark, revealed his mischievous side), but not those featured on the Jester covers.

On Joe D'Aleo's site, this letter was accompanied with this little bit of snark:

It is devoid of snark, very fair minded in recognizing potential problems with unwarranted «tenacity» on all sides, and does a great job is isolating the actual substantive matters which apply for anyone aspiring to be an honest broker in these disputes.

llewelly, «snark on» I take it you are referring to the current high level of trust and mutual respect between those in the US engaged in climate science and those in the US who are making policy / snark

The first paragraph of anon's comment refers to snarking in this POST and many others, not in the comments, and refers to the openness of scientists, rather than the various assorted greenies, liberals, capitalist free - marketeers, denialists, doom mongers, and amateur climatologists, sociologists, psychologists and economists of every possible political hue and level of expertise (and wisdom) that clutter up the comments sections on this website.

A while ago Eli pointed to a 2005 article by Thomas Knutson and Robert Tulyea on hurricane modeling as an example of fine climate snark

So, like, I'm trying to capture this whole testosterone - free, egg - head, bird - brained deal, that's going on over at HotWhopper's blog in a comment that features some of that snappy snark you guys are so famous for.

As for my blatant snarking, I do it in part for the purpose of avoiding sanctimony — the practice of appearing on the surface respectful or pleasant while harboring disguised foulness.

No snark here, but which graph would you cite that has a degree of authority, i.e one not manufactured on wood for trees using dubious end points and data.

They heap on piles of disjointed words, snark and pseudo intellectual tangents meant to confuse the issue.

As you might expect of honors bestowed by a Snark, many of the categories in which awards were given were on the biting, sarcastic side.

Here are some of the Snark's initial suggested categories, the leaders in the clubhouse based on the Snark's review thus far, and my own thoughts:

Or, even better, Gary Norton's piece on Daily Kos, which is written with the appropriate degree of snark and disdain.

He dreamed that he stood in a shadowy Court, Where the Snark, with a glass in its eye, Dressed in gown, bands, and wig, was defending a pig On the charge of deserting its sty.