Sentences with phrase «of snobby»

That's kind of snobby and arrogant, Bill, that you «don't deal with credit unions» on a «matter of principle».

A lot of literary people are kind of snobby, in the sense that they have MFAs and that sort of thing and feel that traditional publishing is the only way to go... And literary fiction just has a smaller audience... there are no zombies, no werewolves.

As with many prestigious award winning books, this one has everything that makes it stand out in the eyes of a snobby, musty committee of literary judges: it's got a Victorian setting, a unknown journey, gratuitous and inexplicable violence, and opium.

I would never consider him to be one of those snobby high brow critics that only seemed to like art house pictures.

When we first heard the name Elite Singles and got ready to start our review, our first impression was that it might be a private meeting of snobby people who were «too good for the rest of the world».

I've often been dubbed as a «bully» but a lot of people, even more of teachers have called me a class clown before [although my humour is often pure mockery of the snobby bitch in class or just complete satire about a subject that deserved said satire]...

Patb, it is so typical of a snobby person response.

Opinion: What lurks beneath Alberta's B.C. wine ban and B.C.'s proposed tax on Albertans» vacation homes is more than the sum of their snobby parts

Not exact matches

According to new research from UBC's Sauder School of Business, snobby sales staff can actually drum up more sales in prestige stores.

Macerich has rejected Simon Property Group's $ 91 - a-share hostile takeover offer, and its presentation to shareholders is delightfully snobby about how all of Macerich's malls are nice, while some of Simon's malls are not so nice.

But if many blokes encountered the condemning and snobby attitudes of some politically correct middle class Christians, they'd run a mile.

The main character, Violet, outrageously quirky - snobby in the Stillmanian mode, kind of a contemporary version of the Nick Smith character presented in METROPOLITAN, turns out to be the daughter of impoverished writers.

In fact, she was more or less intolerable: a snobby, stuck - up rich girl who drank too much and was incessantly rude to anyone outside of her immediate social bubble.

I love Boulevard Raspail market but I find it to be a bit... hmm «snobby» and overpriced sometimes (it is after all located in one of the most expensive neighbourhood in Paris).

It's almost like it has this magnetic pull, even the snobbiest of food lovers out there seem to swoon over the stuff.

He called over to his friend, in a rather snobby and snarky tone of voice, «Oh... look.

Tagline: «the snobby side of parenting.»

Mrs. Q has been accused of being a «snobby suburban mom» and bringing a socio - economic bias to the blog.

Sold more in actual stores we all frequent, not out of the way boutiques that most moms consider snobby shops.

This is particularly true in the case of Wes Streeting, who gave a statement to the Sun suggesting the ban was motivated by a «snobby attitude towards fast - food restaurants and people who work or eat at them».

Asked specifically about Emily Thornberry's tweet from Rochester, 47 % of people think she was being snobby, 26 % think she was not.

In an effort to poke fun of the situation we've started «You Might be a Snobby Fashion Blogger if...» (with 5 items) and imagine it will grow over time.

Im a foot person, hate snobby people, am a sucker for game shows, love 80s music, trance / techno music, love dogs, hate okra with a passion, tired of movie remakes because there is no more originality in Hollywood.

Are you tired of the New Mexico dating scene and dealing with the broke, snobby and downright unsavory matches that you come across?

I always wondered about a piece of advice my father gave me years ago — always marry someone in your own class.At the time i thought he was just being snobby — but now I know what he meant was — find someone with the same values as your own in order to be comforatble with them.

But charm alone can't distract from the usual campus shtick (the battle with a snobby classmate, the first taste of marijuana).

In the vein of «us poor guys against those rich s.o.b.s» begun with Animal House comes this slapstick laden farce of the same hijinks on a snobby golf course.

So every time you see some snobby critic giving Age of Ultron a bad review and blaming it on Superhero Fatigue, just laugh in their face as there's no such thing.

To settle their ongoing debate on whether achievement is hereditary or the product of one's environment, snobby millionaire Philadelphia commodities brokers Randolph (Ralph Bellamy) and Mortimer Duke (Don Ameche) conduct a social experiment to put their theories to the test.

But then I take off my snobby critic hat and sit back and enjoy the awesome display of fatuity.

I'm a lot less snobby about comedy than some of my fellow critics and won't write something off for being immature or crude (Due Date and Horrible Bosses cracked my recent list of the top 100 films of the half - decade).

Somm was such a juicy score because it welcomed people into an often closed, perceptibly snobby world and showcased the wholly impressive might of the industry professionals and their incredibly articulate, immaculate palettes.

GREY GARDENS Directors: Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer Starring: Edith «Little Edie» Bouvier Beale, Edith Bouvier Beale, Jerry Torre, Brooks Hyers In the current era of watching reality television when it seems normal to watch the lives of trashy people, drunk people, or rich snobby people, one would not bat a lash at watching a documentary about two crazy cat ladies.

Kristen Wiig stars in Bridesmaids which is about «a maid of honor trying to please the snobby, rich bridesmaids at every wedding event before her best friend's nuptials.»

Having a penchant for melancholic characters, Sofia Coppola creates the perfectly endearing, yet unlikely duo when she subjects the aging, washed - up actor, Bob Harris, and snobby, educated young cynic, Charlotte, to the culture shock of Tokyo.

Jeremy Strong who plays the villain of the new snobby library owner, comes off as a laughable character who probably was not intended to be.

It even offers the often effective coming - of - age story line in regards to Duncan (played by Liam James) as a miserable 14 year old stuck at a beach house with him mom, her obnoxious boyfriend and his snobby daughter.

The biggest and scariest (and snobbiest) zombie - slayer of them is Lady Catherine de Bourgh (Lena Headey vampy in an eyepatch), while the men are mostly wimps, including that wet dishcloth Mr Bingley (Douglas Booth) and the ineffable creep Reverend Collins (Matt Smith, pictured below).

This is yet another comedy where an uncouth, ill - bred young man challenges the upper - crust, snobby rich folks at their own game, making a mockery of it, and all the while beating them at their own game.

Rather than push more jokes about its narrative formulas, Pitch Perfect 3 proceeds with a halfhearted, ginned - up rivalry between the Bellas and an intimidating, snobby rock band, the filmmakers» ideas of which are downright bizarre: girl - group rhyming names (Chastity, Calamity, etc.) and circa - 2004 punk - pop.

While the overall Academy tends to be a tad myopic and snobby about horror fare, the writers and directors do like to champion emerging talent, from Orson Welles («Citizen Kane») and John Singleton («Boyz N the Hood») to Benh Zeitlin («Beasts of the Southern Wild»), even when the movie gets raunchy.

I'm guilty as charged for being snobby because this is one of the best action films of the 2010's.

it'll be a nice change of pace from his snobby oscar - bait movies.

Tonya didn't possess many of the qualities the snobby figure skating world expected from its stars — she was more athlete than ice capades — but her talent was undeniable when she became the first American female skater to ever land a triple axel at the 1991 World Championships.

Bush has a minor role as Chloe the stuck - up girlfriend of rich pretty boy Jonny (Ed Westwick), who has an American accent as ridiculously accentuated as the snobby British accents which perhaps were intentional.

The young actress, clearly in the midst of an image makeover despite reprising her «Wizards of Waverly Place» role this very year, briefly appears as a snobby clubgoer with no interest in and little patience for Gringo.

Jones turns up as the new help in a holiday home owned by Westwick's dad, the always splendid Bill Nighy, and must do battle against a snobby colleague (who turns out to have a heart of gold obviously), some vulgar Americans (who get their comeuppance obviously) and her own personal demons (who don't hold her back from achieving her dreams obviously).

The arrogant Turner resists giving handouts and his conversations with his peers in the Royal Academy recall those of the wealthy, snobby bet - making businessmen of Trading Places.

In the next installment of The Elder Scrolls Online, Bethesda engulfs us with high fantasy as we are taken back to the Summerset Isles: home of the regal, elegant, proud (some might say snobby) High Elves.

This is where we encounter such one - note nonsense as her snobby, rich, conservative parents (Samuel West [Darkest Hour, The Riot Club] and Emily Watson [Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Everest]-RRB- sniffing at Edward's more humble background, and his mother (Anne - Marie Duff: Suffragette, Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism) serving to embody the opposing wacky nonconformity, which was apparently possible in postwar Britain only if you suffered from a traumatic brain injury, as she does.