Sentences with phrase «of sneered»

That said, I was floored by the revelation that Rachelle Gardner, agent extraordinaire, and someone who has kind of sneered at self - published work, has now... self published.

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.

When some politicians try to sway public opinion, they employ the tricks of the debating chamber: cherry - picking data, ignoring the consensus opinions of experts, adept use of a sneer or a misplaced comparison, reliance on the power of rhetoric rather than argument.

It's just a piece of sneering waffle that hides behind the complexities of General Circulation Models — or computer programs to the rest of us.

There's a real paucity of films about our venomous culture of self - hate and the tyranny of appearance, and a time or two Miss Congeniality seems on the verge of saying something with its odd voyeuristic device of having Gracie wander around with a P.O.V. camera, but in the end the picture is all lip service paid to the altar of sneering asides and being a magnificent prick.

Hamming it up to the rafters, Fox comes off as more of a sneering, crazy - eyed weasel with facial tics and 0 % body fat than a menacing psychopath.

As a standalone piece, separate from the Alien franchise, this film could have met with applause from fans of somber science fiction, instead of the sneers of those who love the characters and direction as delivered through Aliens.

Phillippe has established himself as a credible dramatic actor in films like Igby Goes Down and Breach, but he regresses here to the kind of sneering playboy roles he vacantly inhabited before he proved he could act.

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).

That's true, mostly, of the sneering Machiavellian schemer...

Empty style, hollow themes, and at least one terribly miscast lead, all filtered through the eye of a sneering aesthete.

I'm tired of the sneering about how if it's written by a woman, it clearly can't be SF / F, it must be a romance novel, whether or not there's an actual romance in it.

Some of the stigma associated with self - publishing originated with the popularity of vanity presses, but with so many successful and talented indie authors making a name for themselves in the publishing industry a lot of the sneering is dissolving.

Instead of sneering about the romance genre, Steel and Sparks should be thanking romance readers for supporting their work and buying their books.

The viewer can be inclined to cringe or snigger but Parr's skilful vision is social commentary devoid of sneering.

Your brand of sneering (I particularly liked the implicit comparison of scientists to monkeys), based on complete ignorance of what the real issues are, can not be described in any way as simply «asking the hard questions».

It's just a piece of sneering waffle that hides behind the complexities of General Circulation Models — or computer programs to the rest of us.

Instead, you emit a series of sneers.

A bit like when he was accused of a sneering review of Donna Laframboises's — not having read the book, he simply had nothing to say but splutter.

I didn't read all his posts about the paper, for two reasons: first, there are so many, and I find them so full of sneering and thinly veiled innuendo that they're sickening; second, there's really very little to be learned from him.

Come to think of it, you two have similar personalities, which is to say both of you seem driven to prove your own intellectual superiority through the use of a sneering, arrogance that can be, in a word, off - putting.

Every attorney is concerned about «the fear of the sneer from the peer.»

(Speaking of sneering, let me relate a sneer of my own.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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....

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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!»

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.