The word
"sneer" means to make a facial expression that shows scorn, contempt, or mockery. It is a curled-lip expression combined with a mocking smile or snicker.
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In the Church, it is now easy to get a laugh and sense of common unity among young males in any audience by references to «elderly nuns in crimplene playing guitars» as a sort of general way of
sneering at the 1970s - style liturgy.
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.
The whole party - scene setting, complete
with sneering guys with chains and women in brightly - colored wigs, is apparently intended to make you gawp at its carnal adventurousness.
The Howey post / data has caused (in public) a lot of
sneering from traditional publishers, agents, and traditionally published authors, and in private some rabid vituperation, where I had to either shut up or bite a few fool head off, in a shit - fight where I was right, but winning would just make needless vengeful enemies and gain nothing.
I think overall I agree with you, and have suspected it to some degree myself, but equally, just as there are people
who sneer at women who publicly breastfeed, they same is happening to women who bottle feed.
Do
n't sneer at such people for seeking after snails.
Among those showing off their best nonchalant
sneers on video and in person are Dave Franco, Miles Teller, Aaron Taylor - Johnson, Logan Lerman, Ansel Elgort, Nick Robinson (Jurassic World), Ed Westwick and Rami Malek (Mr Robot), according to The Hollywood Reporter.
«There will be cynics who
sneer about bananas or brothers.
The sign of a poor manager (for me) is one who denies his mistakes, who seeks to find reason beyond his own culpability, and who
sneers when questioned.
However often
people sneer at Victorian art, it has an irrepressible capacity for revival and reinterpretation.
Tate Taylor's film of Kathryn Stockett's bestseller about housewives and their maids in Kennedy - era Mississippi, which boasts Oscar - caliber performances by Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, sidesteps the pitfalls of movies like Mississippi Burning while providing
sneers for the «Mad Men» - deprived.
Now that Sturgeon has demanded a second referendum, the Westminster Right swings between snickering at the supposed naivety of the silly «nats» and raging at their refusal to enthusiastically partake in our brave new Brexit Britain - all the
while sneering at the supposed subsidy junkies north of Hadrian's Wall.
Some CFD people
do sneer at the climate models.
After the controversial «Kingsman», here's another lad - oriented British spy spoof packed with snappy suits,
sneering villains and Bond - ish retro chic.
The philosophical hero of The Good Fight is the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who in the aftermath of World War II rallied liberals to a «moral realism» in defending the free world (
without sneer quotes) against communism.
Restraint seems an odd word to apply to a film this crowded with car chases, gunplay,
sneering bad guys, panicky good guys and one gleefully gruesome instance of ad - hoc, back - alley, gunshot - wound surgery.
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.
The new BlackBerry Passport has received some notably snarky,
even sneering reviews in the United States media.
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.
The kids stared at Splash with that steady
sneer now known as «cool.»
It's funny to see those titles that
others sneered at now making enough money for the good writer to make a living... plus that writer maintains control (something that I think horrifies most publishers, and even a few agents).
I hope I can now take a plastic bag from the supermarket without
getting sneered at, secure in the knowledge that in 100 years the bag will crumble to dust.
David Cameron's defiant,
sneering response to the Liam Fox affair is about as reassuring as some cheery words of optimism from the captain of the Titanic.
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.
The description comes a day after George
Osborne sneered at a question about when he had last been in a Greggs shop during a grilling at the Treasury committee.
Instead of a silly grin, he has flat, faintly
sneering lips; instead of a bulbous, pear - shaped face, he has a broad nose and disconcertingly wide - set eyes.
He gets under, and indeed into the skin of the notorious crime lord,
sneering into the camera, his near whisper of a voice scaring the be-Jesus out of us in nearly every scene he's in.
Millenials are
often sneered at for not caring about long - form news, or even any news.
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.
Thanks to a team of Dutch researchers, never again will self - hatred overcome a young man as he wanders the aisles at Staples, that nasty,
sneering voice in his head demanding to be told why he has spent an afternoon considering various shades of Post-it Notes rather than figuring out how to save the world through love.
«Fun isn't something one considers when balancing the universe,» Thanos
then sneers.
Join that with a terrible lapse in education quality, and with the segment of our population who
actively sneer at education and you have a flock of voters waiting to be told how to vote by whoever tells them what they want to hear.
Half - buried in the nearby sand was the shattered,
sneering face which had once been part of the statue.
We actively seek our perspectives which challenge assumptions and bust filter bubbles (see, for example, our some of our first responses to the seismic events of 2016: Why I voted for Donald Trump or
Stop sneering at Leave voters, they knew exactly what they were doing).
This is one of those stories that will inevitably invite
sneering comments about hipsters, the Bay Area, and maybe Portlandia.
The controversial leader even made
sneering references to «Negroes you ain't never seen before,» apparently looking to dissuade blacks drawn to Williams» campaign.
(Picture
husband sneering at my comfy fleece PJs and saying, «un vrai tue - l'amour.»)
in town, a witless bitch named Tabitha Dickinson played with
sneering disdain by Lindsay Duncan.