Sentences with phrase «sneered at for»

Millenials are often sneered at for not caring about long - form news, or even any news.

There's a reason for the fact that European political leaders have sneered at it for centuries, and why Ike and Patton found Montgomery insufferable and (to be blunt) rather stupid.

Remember at E3 when Bethesda said they supported Ninty and we all sneered at them for bringing over a 7 - year - old game?

Underwater archaeologists were sneered at for so long.

okay, don't sneer at me for asking this question, but... could you use packaged frozen chopped spinach here?

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).)

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.

Not exact matches

So, can I sneer at the Buddhists for their arrogance in thinking * their * way is correct?

It's a useful book for students who need accurate information for the argument / debate / shouting match at the student bar, for families tackling big issues in passionate kitchen debates, and for quiet perusal before replying to the sneers of office colleagues — or even to the well - intentioned «But surely you can't believe...?»

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.»

Let me stress again that I do not for a moment sneer at compassion; it is right to rejoice in the knowledge that God is all - merciful.

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.

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

It is naturally very easy for the clever and well adjusted to sneer at simple people «finding Christ,» «knowing the saving power of Jesus,» and to forget that behind the «corny» expressions that may be used there lies a rather awe - inspiring truth.

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.

My dad (a skinny - minny) sneered at them and said he doubted he'd care for them, what with the pineapple and the «diet» angle.

Good for you who booed and sneered at the AOB brigade.

But does he have to sneer at players for not looking and acting the way they did 50 years ago, when every golfer was white and they all broke bread with him?

and have to see him running at the ref time and again to mouth him with a sneer before, begging for a second yellow before he can win the game.

Advancement in modern football tactics, combined with an ever - growing desire from fans and clubs» paymasters for the the game to be played the «right» way, has led to crossing becoming a tactic somewhat sneered at.

I chose a hospital for both of my own births but I don't sneer at those who elect different choices.

A surprisingly good election campaign for the woman whose career low point was appearing to sneer at «white van man», she put in some good performances on TV and radio, including standing in for Diana Abbott when she was withdrawn from a Woman's Hour debate.

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.

A Conservative parliamentary candidate has been accused of «sneering» at voters — after he ridiculed a man for visiting Costa Coffee while claiming to be working class.

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.

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).

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.

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).

For those uninterested in the lost art of criticism, Ferrell and Kilcher frolicking in the woods and wistfully musing will be easy to sneer at — any signs of the lovey - dovey in cinema are often easy shrug - offs for the more «intellectual» critFor those uninterested in the lost art of criticism, Ferrell and Kilcher frolicking in the woods and wistfully musing will be easy to sneer at — any signs of the lovey - dovey in cinema are often easy shrug - offs for the more «intellectual» critfor the more «intellectual» critic.

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.

He just lounged around in white suits and loafers, sneering at Molly Ringwald's character for being trashy.

When they sneer at her inelegant, home - made outfit, she yells, «If you can come up with $ 5,000 for a costume then I won't have to make one!»

No one will let her forget she's damaged goods — not her mother or her brother, Clifford (Trystan Gravelle), who sneers at her in part to compensate for his own thoroughgoing mediocrity.

Vaughn and Goodman wisely deviate from Millar's story, which has shocks for the sake of shocks and is almost a sneering look at comic book heroes.

Usually, that statement is said with an angry sneer and directed at a designer that sacrificed single - player quality for some half - baked multiplayer implementation.

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.

The other thing it has going for it is that Mario is more mainstream than Zelda and while there have been many people who have sneered at the high praise it has received deep down inside all of us gamers Mario taking away the top spot at any awards show (even if it was undeserving.)

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.

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.

With the exception of Henry's despicably racist father, Pappy (Jonathan Banks, dead - eyed perfection), who spends most of the movie sneering at Laura and hurling epithets in the Jacksons» direction, Rees has a remarkable gift for seeing her characters whole.

While SSO is great for the enterprise, and something like Facebook login can work well for a public facing portal, eFrontPro also comes with its own native authentication system, and it's nothing to sneer at, either.

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.

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.

Hardcore track drivers may sneer at the retractable top M4, but BMW certainly found a market for past M3 Convertibles.

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.

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.

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.

Those then are the people who sneer at Indie authors shunning the price for editing!

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.