Sentences with phrase «sneered back»

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.

«Juvenile Delinquent,» he sneers back.

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.

They fell into second place for one day in July («They're cracking,» sneered the critics) but responded with four victories in a row in August beat back the mild challenge of the Cardinals and in September coasted home.

Stop sneering, stop patting yourself on the back and stop trying so hard to force others to accept your view and your posts might become readable.

Boles hit back, saying that the question was typical of the party opposite who «sneer at people's aspirations», and that there was a difference between property developers building a block of flats on gardens and ordinary families getting extensions.

«Once again we're going to have to clean up that mess,» he said, the sneer briefly flickering back to life.

That came after he was lauded by some and accused by others of «sneering contempt» (and far worse on Twitter) for daring to suggest that the Conservatives should turn their backs on seats like Clacton and let them fall to Ukip.

That cheap sneer (fruit cakes and closet racists, backed up by his sister - in - law using a quote from Operation Black Vote)-RRB- did UKIP a lot of good.

With the way she sneers at my hand on my girlfriend's back, she has reminded us we should be ashamed.

«Women always have to fight back,» Richard sneers at Jen.

Restraint seems an odd word to apply to a film this crowded with car chases, gunplay, sneering bad guys, panicky good guys and one gleefully gruesome instance of ad - hoc, back - alley, gunshot - wound surgery.

The twist of «Breaking In» is right there in its title: while a crew of standard issue bad dudes (led by Billy Burke's Eddie as the one who gets to be the leader by virtue of his ability to sneer a lot) quite easily get into the house, it's Shaun who's locked outside, desperate to break back in to save her kids.

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?

Starring Matthew McConaughey «s sneer, «Free State of Jones» tells the true story of Newton Knight, a man who deserted the Confederate Army during the Civil War and created his own militia of other deserters and freed slaves who fought back against the Rebs and their predations on poor local land owners.

Heathcote and Lee have next to nothing to do beyond sneering at Fanning, though Lee breaks through with a few subtle moments that she must have snuck behind Refn's back.

No one sneers or snarls quite like Alan Rickman and, looking back on a cinematic decade of «Harry Potter,» his Severus Snape now stands as the franchise's most fascinating figure after being revealed in the eighth film as misunderstood double - agent motivated by long - lost love.

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.

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.

I bit back the retort that the Emperor had raised my status to equestrian; mentioning Vespasian seemed inappropriate and my middle - class rank would just cause more sneers.

I presented a list of simple statements for you to accept or deny because you had failed to make any rational argument to back up your sneers.

If, on the other hand, you switch from recalibrated to originally published ages, and push data which is beyond 1940 back in time or maybe extend the reconstruction beyond 1940 (when there aren't nearly enough proxies no matter how you slice it), and limit only to alkenones, and do whatever else you need to get what you want... then you can flood the internet with innuendo and sneering.]

I'll never get my time back, and it's time I would have preferred to spend writing about music and other things: as your fellow man of science David Appell likes to sneer, I am a mere Shirley Temple fan.