Sentences with phrase «of snobbery on»

In amongst the various complaints about Felix disinfecting the playing cards and insisting upon coasters, there is an undercurrent of snobbery on the part of Felix and a bitter reaction on the past of Oscar.

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CNN media analyst Brian Stelter, host of the show Reliable Sources, spent most of his broadcast on Sunday talking about how the media missed the boat on Trump, and how this was at least in part because of a certain snobbery on the part of mainstream media analysts and journalists.

There is a minority of Christian circles that practice «spiritual snobbery» and look down on people who are not «in the know» as they consider people should be.

You choose to think it's snobbery on my behalf and that speaks volumes of your judgement and your attitude to other women as well as a lack of imagination as to what issues I and other women might be going through.

[42] Earlier in the day, she had received much criticism after tweeting a photograph of a house in the constituency adorned with three flags of St George [43] and the owner's white van parked outside on the driveway, under the caption «Image from #Rochester», provoking accusations of snobbery.

Derek Simpson, Unite's joint general secretary has today spoken out in support of Michael Martin, speaker of the House of Commons and accuses the Tories of a witchhunt based on snobbery.

For their part, the Speaker and his supporters argued that he faced an unprecedented campaign of snobbery and slurs since taking on the job.

Her argument for atheistic empiricism is devoid of the highbrow snobbery — call it «intelligentsiasis» — that infects some attacks on religious faith.

While concentrating on a relatively small number of individual films, the author of Flesh and Excess steers clear of any auteurist snobbery, and brings to the subject a joyfully amorphous critical stance, deftly avoiding the canonising practices of much film criticism.

It hasn't been clear sailing all the way, mind: popular historian Stephen Marche recently took to the NEW YORK TIMES to debunk such «prophets of truthiness» — Emmerich and Orloff are but a new, high - profile strain of Oxfordians, a group who name nobleman Edward de Vere as the true author of Shakespeare's texts, even the ones dated after his death — for advancing a lunatic conspiracy theory based on little more than class snobbery.

The five - part series «Patrick Melrose» follows an upper - class Englishman on a 40 - year journey of recovery from horrific childhood abuse, addiction and the soul - killing snobbery of his milieu.

I think it is also true, that «The Major Publishers» need to climb down from their high horse of literary snobbery and realise that the majority of the reading public, just want to a good tale, and not an over edited, over indulgent, wordy story based on a subject that most ordinary, averagely educated people can not, and have no desire to grasp!

On the contrary, those whose snobbery requires the green light from yesterday's monopoly holding publishers must only need it as a stroke to their egos — not as anything to do with the craft of writing.

As the snobbery surrounding audiobooks dissipates, and as technology advances, I don't doubt that audiobooks will continue to be increasingly impactful on a listening audience, as new ways of storytelling are explored.

This goofy snobbery of «you must spend xyz on editing services I just so happen to offer» is just bizarre.

The world is big enough for both types of writers, and I think the snobbery (which admittedly can be on either side) needs to stop.

And don't get me started on the snobbery of some trad - published authors.

«There's a snobbery that you have to turn the clocks back an hour and put your mom jeans on when you move to the suburbs,» says Sarah Daniels, one half of the real estate team that hosts HGTV's Urban Suburban.

That stance reeks of snobbery and flies in the face of those words on the plaque at the Statue of Liberty, and what many Americans still think America is all about.

Now as in the 19th century, amateurism and lack of real commitment as well as snobbery and emphasis on chic on the part of women in their artistic «hobbies,» feeds the contempt of the successful, professionally committed man who is engaged in «real» work and can, with a certain justice, point to his wife's lack of seriousness in her artistic activities.

How did name - dropping «Chelsea» — and here the mention means west Chelsea, not the neighbourhood as a whole — come to indicate just the right amount of arriviste culture and instrumental snobbery that a television import, from the UK no less, could risk a $ 60m production budget on such a reference?

Some of it was excellent — like the paintings of a woman who worked on scraps of her husband's canvas — but Chicago had to overcome her own snobbery to really begin to see it.

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Stereotypes about Parisians are well known: the snobbery, the love of stinky cheese, the baguette under the arm and the cigarette on the lips.

An article on the topic of the gated communities in the premier issue of Housing News Roundup, an electronic news and feature report published by the Urban Land Institute, notes that security is a main attraction of these developments, but so is snobbery.