Sentences with phrase «sneered at because»

It's now sneered at because Blair «lied to us all» and is a «ghastly figure» — well, he's not to my mind.

And because I believe the pie is one hell of a lot bigger than traditional publishers or agents think it is, I will support and encourage you or anyone else who wants to give it a go and not sneer at them because they weren't traditionally published.

Not exact matches

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).

My boyfriend has even convinced me to try Mahi Mahi and Salmon; he's good at convincing because three years ago I would've sneered at the idea of fish in my diet.

And here was some bald, middle - aged, condescending chicken nugget, sneering at me for being single... presumably because I wasn't going weak at the knees by simple virtue of the fact that he was a single RAF pilot.

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.

A good teacher is nothing to sneer at, and certainly they are not into teaching because they «can't do» the real thing.

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.

I've also had other writers actively sneer at my larger casts and declare they would never read my books because of that.

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.

Maybe it's because looking back on one's life is a luxury that her hard - working, taciturn characters would either not have time for, or sneer at.

They sneer at the idea of basic copy edits, because, well, they don't need it.