Sentences with phrase «only sneer at»

Knowing that there are people out there who are going to not only sneer at anything I write just because I'm female (and prone to writing heroines of color, women in positions of power, and queer people), but who will actively work to shout down anything I and authors like me try to do.

I admit that partly stems from the fact that, at the age of nine, I correctly called her now - notorious «My Cousin Vinny» win, a decision I suspect is only sneered at by people who haven't watched the film since 1992 and have consequently forgotten just what a ballsy, entertaining performance she gives in it.

Not exact matches

Yet the impulse among European intellectuals since 1848 has been never to give the market its due, and to feel in fact that one is being ethical only if one sneers at market outcomes.

That unsharable feeling which each one of us has of the pinch of his individual destiny as he privately feels it rolling out on fortune's wheel may be disparaged for its egotism, may be sneered at as unscientific, but it is the one thing that fills up the measure of our concrete actuality, and any would - be existent that should lack such a feeling, or its analogue, would be a piece of reality only half made up.

Labour shadow ministers who sneered at the idea they might offer Proportional Representation to the Libdems, on the eve of the election, will now have to face the fact that only permanent coalition politics or electoral reform can give them a chance to rule in future.

I thought these soft - boiled egghead critics only stooped to sneer at audiences who like The Dark Knight.

It starts out celebrating Amy's independence, but ends up mocking it, and the only reason she sneers at her sister's boring suburban marriage, she admits, is because she secretly wants it.

Super bugs» — infections that sneer at conventional drugs and run unchecked through the population — used to only plague actors in science fiction movies.

More support for my statements that good writers never bitch about more writers entering the field... only crappy writers trying to look good by sneering at others.

Think about this: FIRST, Willis Eschenbach wrote and published on the world's leading climate science site a sneering, mocking piece laughing at how stupid the Kaya identity is and all the people who ever referred to it, and ONLY THEN did he even find out for the first time that it has a name and that it is called the Kaya identity!