Sentences with phrase «sneering at him»

Like bankers on a balcony, sipping champagne and sneering at a growing crowd of protesters angrily chanting from the gutters below, Verizon has taken to openly giving the finger to the throngs of Americans online desperate to defend net neutrality.

Facebook is in many ways a great company and Insider sneering at Zuckerberg is largely jealousy.

At the time JQ was sneering at Abbott as «delusionist» and «vorticist».

Coordinating Lead Author Overpeck, who was eager to minimize anything to do with the Medieval Warm Period, quickly agreed with Osborn's recommendation, also sneering at the non - «expert» - ness of the suggestion that the Law Dome series be shown to readers:

Talisker can be assured that it was his shrill and ill - conceived contemporary «bedrock left - wing perspective» that we were «sneering at», not Orwell's.

Possibly Hickman has also started to realize that simply cutting and pasting from WWF / Greenpeace press releases and sneering at «deniers» is going to become increasingly problematic for his career if facts continue to be inconvenient.

it isn't sneering at them without addressing their scientific points.

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.

Instead, you leave the Abstract Expressionists on the fourth floor and walk straight into a room full of Pop Art bearing the title «On to Pop,» a conceit so jejune that the curators seem to be sneering at the seriousness with which the Abstract Expressionists approached matters of form and content.

No, he's not sneering at you, but he is up to something.

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.

How often have we seen reclusive authors condescendingly sneering at the mob from the top of their ivory towers, smirking at the mere prospect of marketing their books themselves?

(Picture husband sneering at my comfy fleece PJs and saying, ``

(Picture husband sneering at my comfy fleece PJs and saying, «un vrai tue - l'amour.»)

My point being that Select will continue to fling open doors of discoverability to new authors while legacy authors sit on the sidelines sneering at all those idiots giving away their books.

While Lib has many admirable (even heroic) qualities, she is also arrogant and extremely derisive of the village's inhabitants, mocking their dilapidated homes and meager food and sneering at their beliefs.

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.

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.

(And I'm also 8,000 percent done with the sneering at romance novels in general, but that's a whole separate rant.)

Etc., etc., on and on, with each side espousing the virtues of whatever they've committed to and often sneering at the other side, who are clearly not clever enough or intelligent enough to realize the virtues of the Right Choice.

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.

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.

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.

A nonprofessional Baker discovered from Instagram videos, Vinaite careens through the film with abandon, sassing and sneering at nearly everyone who comes in her path.

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.

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.

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

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.

Dieters flock to the gurus that promise 12 to 15 pounds of weight loss in the first two weeks, while sneering at the idea of losing a paltry 2 pounds of fat per week.

On Tonight's programme we'll be inviting Chucka Umunna to join us in sneering at George Osborne.

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.

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 gaffe is symbolic of the sense the public has that politicians are secretly sneering at them.

Now that Sturgeon has demanded a second referendum, the Westminster Right swings between snickering at the supposed naivety of the silly «nats» and raging at their refusal to enthusiastically partake in our brave new Brexit Britain - all the while sneering at the supposed subsidy junkies north of Hadrian's Wall.

The Hard Left sneering at defeated NEC opponents is utterly nauseating.

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).)

Willow Brooks was just starting to breastfeed her 4 month old son Angelo when Judge Gregory Lenehan looked down upon the mom, sneering at her and telling her «don't breastfeed in the courtroom.»

It's the best we can do to raise our little ones to be better adults than the ones sneering at them at the grocery store.

The fact that ppl here are sneering at the list just goes to show how much our expectations and mentality have dropped after years of mediocrity

I think we should forget about Mourinho and concentrate on keeping Alexis rather than sneering at attempts to lure him away while making no real effort to keep him ourselves!

Pedro 2015 flails around, arms raised, sneering at the ref.

We've got articles sneering at Pedro now the wind has changed and the rumour mill suggests (quite possibly incorrectly at this stage) that he is joining Chelski, and now we've got articles about Chelski fans» rants on the internet.

But the sneering at converts, qua converts, is a bit much.

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

One suspects, however, that what really stings Posner and Segall is Scalia (along with Roberts, Thomas, and Alito) sneering at the priests of Baal in the theocratic majority of Obergefell.

If he was sneering at Darwin a bit (one does not need a mirror to know that one sneers), did he remember uncomfortably that a sneer is derived from an animal's lifting its lip to remind an enemy of its fangs?

But the Republicans keep laughing and sneering at the poor while they do their damdest to shove this country deeper into the hole.

I say it again, re-read her post ---- she if she wasn't sneering at people who had posted earlier.

It's a world - weary Tyrion Lannister sneering at the ridiculous motives of those around him.

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