Sentences with phrase «sneer about»

Sneers about front - yard grottoes and dashboard figurines?

Take that you c... And don't ever stand over me sneering about fake injuries.»

«He gets paid near on a million pounds, lives by talking about politics but sneers about politics,» Clegg said today during his weekly LBC phone - in show.

Sneering about Boris Johnson for example.

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.

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

Sneering about the quality of their journalism here achieves nothing.

Likewise, we have the Rush Limbaugh's sneering about.5 degrees celsius increase, telling the boobs «do you care if it is.5 degrees celsius warmer?»

Not exact matches

The scientist must not sneer at the guy sitting in his back yard enjoying the sunset, saying, «He doesn't know anything about nature.

«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.

Its stories will do more than attacks on National Councils, hand - wringing about liberalism's ineffectual leftovers, and snide or spiteful sneers can do to explain why «we» have lost the world we have lost.

Please, don't let us marginalise faith in God, or ignore what Christianity offers, or sneer at the possibility that men and women can know about the deepest and greatest things.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

People sneer at the former communist true believers who have now become capitalist managers, and they make snide comments about foreigners who migrate from Eastern Europe and are willing to work for less money than Germans are.

«It's not something that just to be sneered at as something that's not politically correct and we shouldn't be talking about it.»

We've got articles sneering at Pedro now the wind has changed and the rumour mill suggests (quite possibly incorrectly at this stage) that he is joining Chelski, and now we've got articles about Chelski fans» rants on the internet.

I think we should forget about Mourinho and concentrate on keeping Alexis rather than sneering at attempts to lure him away while making no real effort to keep him ourselves!

Rather a lot wrong with the idea that the intelligent get to sneer at others, and that how your child does is about you and your own status.

As a new parent, I picked up all of the popular books ad magazines offered dire warnings about co-sleeping and sneered at breastfeeding past six months, but now I've gotten pretty good at knowing where to avoid.

I don't generally care how you raise your kids unless a) they're mistreating mine, b) you're complaining about their behavior while feeding them candy or caffeine, or c) you're sneering at me for giving my girl M&M s as you feed your child organic fruit snacks (which are still candy).)

Eunice Goes suggested to me that the sneers against areas such as Hampstead and Islington are part of a wider cynicism about urban - dwelling educated people that has existed for centuries but is becoming more prevalent in our post-factual age, «there is a very long established tradition of anti-intellectualism in England that is more about posturing than reality because there are lots of excellent English intellectuals».

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.

He spoke repeatedly about how much he loved Barclays, making even the most pro-bank Tory sneer.

This leads to flashbacks of Heath's childhood — such a «terribly serious boy» — silently tormented by concerned women hovering on all sides, and his pre-Downing Street days in the whips» office, constantly interrogated by sneering colleagues about his weekend activities.

It's extraordinary how the politics of envy are in the DNA of the Labour Party — hence the sneering comment about David Cameron's «exceptionally privileged background» — coupled with constant «parroting» that Cameron went to Eton as if that was something illegal they've unearthed.

Yesterday he made a speech at 8.47 pm at night, when most sensible people were already a pint and a packet of mini Cheddars down, about a local issue that is causing a good deal of distress to his constituents risking, in doing so, the muttered barbed and sneers reserved for the mighty who've fallen.

The idea being put about by the Liberal Democrats that Ed Balls was sneering or not serious is simply not true.

Witness, for instance, a Cuomo administration response to DeFrancisco's criticism in late January of Cuomo tax policy: «That statement is about as real as his hairline,» sneered a Cuomo spokesman of the senator's dime - store toupee.

Moreover, if people are supporting Ukip in such large numbers — even after the media's massed guns have been rattling at it for weeks — it is probably time to drop all the sneering and think about why.

Labour will have a story to tell the voters about how it took the action to alleviate recession and avoid depression while the Conservatives sneered from the sidelines and proposed policies that would have made it worse.

All those sneering gags about Ed Miliband that David Cameron had planned for this week will fall flat as the edges of the Prime Minister's authority over his own party continue to fray and his future now firmly lies in the hands of Ukip's «fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists».

Later we'll be sneering at Cameron and Obama and insisting that everything they do and say is programmed, cynical and insincere and nothing about them is genuine (because we tend to judge other people by our own behaviour).

Although it may be easy to sneer at the most ardent adherents of «Raw Foodism,» Wigmore's atavistic philosophy has influenced how most mainstream Americans eat and think about eating.

I was invariably given inappropriate, ineffective advice by the medics I consulted about what to do about the weight gain — advice usually accompanied by sneers and insults.

About me: You always need, A helping hand, To help with your fears, You always need a precious life, Always never to sneer (much), What you need is a sister's touch, Calmness kills your storm, Would you be, a dear, If me let be right here?

by Bill Chambers There's a montage about a third of the way into Michael Cristofer's Gia that marries the peak of Gia Carangi's modelling career to Billy Idol's «Dancing with Myself,» and while I think Cristofer means to underscore Gia's loneliness, he's more successful in drawing a correlation between her bogus moxie (call it «cipherpunk») and, to crib from Robert Christgau, the «cartoonishness of [Idol's] sneering persona.»

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.

Pride of place goes to Jas Mitra (Freida Pinto, of Slumdog Millionaire), a nurse working at Hammersmith hospital but about to experience a revolutionary apotheosis, and Marcus Hill (Babou Ceesay), a mild - mannered English teacher continually being knocked back at job interviews by sneering white supremacists (eg «you want to teach English?

As Bond is off galavanting about, the situation on the home front is turning rather dire as MI6 has become absorbed by a larger network of secret service agencies, the CNS, spearheaded by Andrew Scott's sneering and highly enjoyable Max Denbigh.

by Walter Chaw Another exercise in incoherent pomo douchebaggery from Zack «I'm Going to Mess Up Superman, Too» Snyder, Sucker Punch is maybe about female empowerment but works more like Tank Girl with a budget: the flexing girl - muscles and punk / fetish / sneering sexuality aren't fooling anyone.

Remarkably candid («I don't even know what this movie's about,» sneers location manager Ad Paroo with far more bitterness than quoting him can convey; «Don't «woah» me!»

Complete with an inspirational mentor (David Oyelowo) that teaches her about her inner talents, and every single chess metaphor it's possible to cram into two minutes of video, the movie looks to track the rise of its real - world subject, chess champion Phiona Mutesi, as she overcomes dismissive sneers and an omnipresent inspirational soundtrack to rise to success on the world stage.

Actors flail about and sneer their line readings like children acting out Power Rangers scenarios.

There are moments you wish for Cinderella to give the sneering stepmother a much - needed slap to the face, but that is not what this film is about.

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.

Asked to share her feelings about the recent suicide of a group member, a mom named Nina (Anna Kendrick) who threw herself off a highway overpass into heavy traffic, Claire sneers at the resulting chaos: «Way to go, Nina!»

In comparison with other»80s genre favorites (including Zemeckis's next film, «Back to the Future»), «Romancing the Stone» does look rather low - rent — the sneering Colombian villain's much - touted «private army» seems to consist of about five sweaty extras in moth - eaten fatigues.

But early on, when information about the intended targets and even the number of killers was unclear (as they appeared and reappeared in different locations and shed the trench coats they had worn for their initial shootings), there emerged a widely accepted story line: Two marginalized students had been subjected to sneers and social rejection and in revenge were shooting athletes and Christians.

Surely the well - informed followers of this site have heard something about the furious resistance to the Common Core testing among parents in New York State, especially Long Island, not a Tea Party hotbed — and Arne Duncan's sneering at those parents as suburban mommies who were upset because they were forced to confront the fact that their precious snowflakes are dumdums.

They are typically oh - so proud of those credentials and sneer at people (like me about that playground) who don't share those credentials, people who simply see and understand.