Sentences with phrase «sneered at as»

Or is anyone who disagrees with Connolley simply to be sneered at as some inferior?

Cash flow matching has often been sneered at as an investment policy.

«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.»

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.

In fact any form of «dualism» with regard to the constitution of human nature has frequently been sneered at as philosophically dated and theologically distasteful.

Labour and some in the Liberal Democrats might sneer at it as crowd pleasing stunts but they shouldn't ignore how much traction issues like this have on the average doorstep.

Not exact matches

I laugh and sometime sneer at those who think new Fed Head Jerome Powell will impose monetary discipline by raising interest rates at least up to the real rate of inflation and reduce the Fed's balance sheet according the schedule as laid out by Yellen.

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.

re Rush L's comment - anybody who doesn't share the exact same ideology as you has to be slammed and sneered at.

I like that, and I would include sneering at the «religion» of atheism as being juvenile and stunted too.

«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.

It is popular among the elite Bible scholars and academy - trained theologians to sneer at the uneducated lay person who seeks to teach Scripture and theology to others as being «untrained» and therefore, unable to accurately teach others what God is like, what He says in Scripture, and how to live life in light of what we learn.

The more the elite press sneered at Bobby as «ruthless,» the more it seemed to me that white ethnics were flocking to him.

As he sat down in front of my desk, his eyes seemed to bore a hole straight through me, and a sneer formed at the corner of his mouth.

Finally, Hans Urs von Balthasar has it just right in The Glory of the Lord: «We can be sure that whoever sneers at [beauty] as if she were the ornament of a bourgeois past — whether he admits it or not — can no longer pray and soon will no longer be able to love.»

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.»

There are lots of reasons for rejecting religion, for hating the Catholic Church, for sneering at Christians as hypocrites.

Marxism sneers at religion as an «opium» devised by the wealthy to keep the poor meek and content in their misery.

The remark may been intended as a sneer at Boehme, but it is an exact description of all works of literary art without exception.»

The kids stared at Splash with that steady sneer now known as «cool.»

Nothing to sneer at that statement, as this is a man who won his first World Cup title when he was just 17.

Much as I am consecutively annoyed, intrigued, baffled or sneer at these farcical stories, they do actually give me something to fill the doldrums betwixt the ending of one season and the start of the new one — so let the good times roll.

We got ours as a gift after the boys were born, and I sort of sneered at them originally, but they turned out to be amazing.

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).)

It's easy to sneer at middle class London Remainers, but their votes count as much as anyone else's - and the mood music from the Tories is that they can't be bothered to fight for them.

With that review now over, the city has decided the best course is to integrate the two agencies, and leave Mr. Banks in charge of both — even though a Cuomo spokesperson sneered at Mr. Banks, a former Legal Aid attorney, as part of the city's «management problem.»

It is in the nature of cynical Britain to sneer at such sentimental American notions, but it does remind us that there are many, many people who could do my job as a politician and probably do it a great deal better, but no one else can be a father to my children.

My, how we sneer at the Tories» lack of electoral success in the north, yet as the report points out, 43 % of voters in the south said they would never vote Labour (the same figure for voters in the north who would never vote Conservative).

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.

The truth of Alan Rickman's sneering Professor Snape is finally uncovered in perhaps the most moving scene of the entire series, while Ralph Fiennes at last shows off the full range of Voldemort's genius and madness and Maggie Smith's Professor McGonagall reveals herself as the badass we've always suspected her to be.

The public are either sneered at or cast as victims, and throughout the psyche of the celeb - addict remains elusive.

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Unfortunately the film is terribly miscast on almost all levels, and that includes a racially stereotypical role for Leguizamo as a drug dealer, and the laughably bad Pullman who sneers comically as he barks his orders at his subordinates.

I, Tonya is a proudly redneck affair, a comedy - drama based on true events whose protagonists know that they are being sneered at and mocked by mainstream America as «boobs».

I couldn't help but conjecture that Burton was himself answering the many who are enriched, as are we all, from his contributions to the culture of Western civilisation and yet sneer at the source of the same.

The year is 2003, and though Dan's sneering remark at the conclusion of the sequence refers to the end of Ammar's «jihad,» it might also be taken as an allusion to the quagmire just then beginning.

Inside Llewyn Davis is spiked with acerbic humour and peopled with memorable eccentrics, among them Mel's elderly secretary, the Italian proprietor of the Gaslight Café folk venue on MacDougal Street, the jazzman blowhard (John Goodman, channelling Doc Pomus and Dr John) who sneers relentlessly at Llewyn as they cross the bleak Midwest, and his monosyllabic valet - driver (Garrett Hedlund).

Whether the sneering demigod will be as impressive a force of nature without Joss Whedon to pump out superior dialogue (in the vein of his «mewling quim» rant at the Hulk in The Avengers) remains to be seen.

Sometimes the two types of performances exist side by side: It's easy to sneer at Sandler getting in drag to play the braying, Bronx - born Jill in Jack And Jill, but there's visible effort (and sometimes startling, sweaty detail) in that character, as opposed to the surly, condescending version of a straight man that the Jack character lazily embodies.

Though, the fact that the film isn't entirely without obvious merit confuses things even further: Krauss is wryly brilliant as Krauss and delivers the film's biggest laugh with his Herzog - ian reasons for using a wheelchair; Gael Garcia Bernal has a great time as a lecherous member of Laura's delegation, spinning his suitcase with the sneering verve of a cartoon villain who twirls his mustache and gleefully acts smarmy before being felled by his own beleaguered bowels; Herzog's shots of Diablo Blanco, portrayed by Bolivia's real - life Uyuni salt flats, are among the most stunning in any film released this year; Shannon has fun in the impromptu photo shoot that takes place toward the end of the film; and as expected, there's a fascinating push and pull in the battle between human and nature at the heart of the film's central premise.

Moviegoers who sneered at Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999) for its lack of «realism» had probably better stay way from this film as well.

Unlike other metahorror films like Cabin in the Woods and Tucker and Dale Versus Evil, it doesn't sneer at its genre or telegraph itself as a comedy.

Smaug sometimes comes off as a sort of Satan-esque figure, threatening to destroy Thorin using the dwarf's own lust for wealth, a lust that is constantly hinted at and sneered at by various different characters in the film.

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.

Self - anointed Porsche - philes may sneer at the 911 by Singer, dismissing it as heathenish desecration.

The dedicated workers in Manhattan will continue being able to afford their expense account dinners at Nobu, readers will have a financial incentive to look to authors like yours truly, and my author competitors will be able to sneer in smug superiority as they serve my non-fat latte whilst eye - rolling my sad self - publishing desperation move.

The one character who started out as the voice of reason in the background of a few chapters, Dominique, is actually a fraud herself; while she sneers at the lifestyle of these social climbers, she's all too happy to spend all of her vacations lapping up their beach house and the immaculately tended grounds.

Particularly, a lot of those writers do sneer at indies as failures.

As all too many investors discovered to their bitter cost, after ignoring / sneering at Amazon.com (& other successful online retailers & businesses) for so many years.