Sentences with phrase «sneered at by»

Some adored its challenging circle - line puzzles, while others felt sneered at by designer Jonathan Blow when they failed to solve them.

Samui may be sneered at by purist travelers, but on its own terms the island is great fun.

Basically, right now, and probably for another year, anything with Amazon or Kindle in the title is going to be sneered at by the so - called establishment.

Customization isn't frowned on in the truck world, which means you can upgrade to bigger and better wheels and tires, for instance, without being sneered at by collectors.

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.

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

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.

«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.

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.»

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.

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

Exactly the sort of domestic arrangements sneered at and scorned by Bachofen's contemporaries, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

That said, every time I hear someone sneer that the news of Pakistan or India's imminent implosion has been grossly exaggerated, I am reminded of a lecture by Carl Sagan in the Forum of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, many years ago.

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).

The Islington South MP, who courted controversy after sneering at the White Van Man in 2014, said Labour's national executive committee has attempted to rig the leadership contest by attempting to stop Mr Corbyn from standing.

Then we'll be joined by Stephen Twigg who'll be helping us sneer at Michael Gove and implying that Gove solely is responsible for the failure of education policy that has led to illiteracy, innumeracy and unemployabllity of British youth.

The 1.5 - kilowatt solar - panel system will produce enough electricity for you and your plug - in hybrid car, and the dwelling is built off - site, which reduces construction waste by up to 75 percent (remember that the next time you sneer at the local trailer park).

But he does suggest that the scientists» ability to understand climate change — whose impact is far more pronounced in the Arctic — is hampered by their tendency to sneer at anecdotal evidence.

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.

Jackman even fucks this up by overdoing it — every sneer at the kid feels forced, and this despite the kid being an abrasive know it all cunt.

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».

Once again, instead of Falcone elbowing us to sneer at her pit stains like the film's one over-the-top snob (played with zest by Debby Ryan), he aligns us with Deanna's friend and classmate Helen (Gillian Jacobs), who stares down the haters and cheers her buddy on.

The Dark Lord Voldemort, played with a deliciously contemptuous sneer by Ralph Fiennes, is fast approaching the peak of his powers, and Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) forgoes a final year at Hogwarts to seek and destroy the scattered remains of his archenemy's soul.

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?

Set on the trail of a missing Goya by policeman and love rival Martland (Ewan McGregor), Mortdecai and his prim lady wife (Gwyneth Paltrow, inevitably) travel the world sipping cognac, sneering at the locals and staying one step ahead of a gang of Russian thugs.

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.

Devised by acting - writing comedy team Lowe and Oram and co-scripted by Amy Jump, director Ben Wheatley's professional and personal partner, the movie pokes fun at the social limitations of these lumpen Midlanders without sneering at or patronizing them.

When RCA sneered at transistor radios, Sony captured the audio market by first putting out tinny pocket transistors for teenagers, then expanded its base with steady technological improvement.

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

If you want to read something that makes you feel like eating a bowl of prunes, wearing a monacle and sneering at the world, then perhaps you should pick up something by Mr. Giraldi.

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.

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.

In the beginning, the first e-books were sneered at and denigrated by agents, publishers and company - approved authors.

Alas, it's becoming more difficult for new writers to avoid being shuttled into dead - end and horribly expensive self - publishing «services» that are endorsed by the same traditional publishers who sneered at Author Solutions and their ilk just a couple years ago.

I do wonder though, with this upsurge of interest by the big players in epublishing, how long the «real» authors will be able to sneer at the e-authors.

Nintendo repurposed their arcade «Laser Clay Shooting System» into this launch title for the NES, allowing home users to engage in America's two favorite pastimes: murdering fowl with firearms and being laughed at by a cruel, sneering dog.

While the quality of these works is nothing to sneer at, the show stealer was the notable inclusion of minimalist works by Korean artists.

Sneering at, or ignoring, your earnest high - minded mandarin gatekeepers — «we're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact - checkers,» as one Romney aide put it — is another part of closing the deal.

That this is accompanied in webby's case by prattling, preening and incompetence outside the ambit of any rational science at all — along with the obligatory smarmy sneers — seems par for the course for space cadets more generally.

Muir Russell himself sneered at the idea when asked by Roger Harrabin.