Sentences with phrase «sneering from»

That may get some sneers from the skeptics — but the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (a separate entity from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative) is forging ahead, doling out $ 50 million in funding to 47 researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, and the University of California, San Francisco.

It's funny how the seemingly small things cause the greatest angst for kids — a sneer from a sibling; a curt remark from a teacher or being left off a classmate's birthday party invitation list can leave a child feeling insecure, even sad.

Labour will have a story to tell the voters about how it took the action to alleviate recession and avoid depression while the Conservatives sneered from the sidelines and proposed policies that would have made it worse.

It's pretty without being ostentatious, so you can safely pick your kids up at school without attracting sneers from other parents in line.

Papers are important (despite the sneers from McIntyre whenever this is brought up), because they do impose a discipline on the authors that simply doesn't exist on blogs.

BTW, the «stated before» sneer from Gates — the relevant comment was posted at almost the same time as mine, so Gates» comment is just superfluous

Every attorney is concerned about «the fear of the sneer from the peer.»

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The power trip goes to her head — «This is your life now,» she sneers to another girl suffering from cramps — but the reign of terror ends with the arrival of HelloFlo «care packages» containing tampons, pantyliners and even candy.

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This book is a personal and at times blistering critique of the «ignorant screeds» of the New Atheist meme machine: the «sneer pressure» from the likes...

It doesn't get us anywhere merely to sneer: the young man who denounced the ageing and muddled ladies of a rather sentimental group - whom he had never met - as «feminiNazis» had hoped to raise bellows of raucous laughter from his young hearers but was greeted with silence.

Often this tension was felt to have been so painful that one or another heretic sought to suppress either the Hebrew or the Hellenic element, as with the efforts of the second «century Marcion to get the Church to excise the Old Testament from the Christian Bible, or, from the opposite side, the sneering rhetorical question from the puritanical pen of the early «third «century Tertullian, «What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?»

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?

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.

Pat Robertson's quip from the 1992 Republican National Convention pushed me over the edge: «Feminism,» he sneered, «encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.»

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.

David Cameron's defiant, sneering response to the Liam Fox affair is about as reassuring as some cheery words of optimism from the captain of the Titanic.

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.

Instead of a Tory government that sneers at Wales, we need a UK government that admires and learns from Wales.

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.

David Cameron sneered: «We have lost a Shadow Secretary of State for Defence who believed in our nuclear deterrent - and instead we've got someone apparently who takes funds from Leigh Day.»

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.

I hope I can now take a plastic bag from the supermarket without getting sneered at, secure in the knowledge that in 100 years the bag will crumble to dust.

The graph was greeted with sneers and chuckles from the mainly climate modeller audience — why??

(I can't watch Dr. Gregor's videos - his sneering voice is incredibly off - putting and prevents me from taking him seriously.

Some of the characters, too, are more fully conceived than others: her sneering, Sid Vicious - style punk singer is a cringe - inducing embarrassment, and the comically nasal drawl she gives the stockbroker who lays out the principles of Futurism emanates from nowhere on Earth outside a beginners» acting workshop.

I couldn't help but conjecture that Burton was himself answering the many who are enriched, as are we all, from his contributions to the culture of Western civilisation and yet sneer at the source of the same.

Po learns that he was adopted, and the evil peacock Lord Shen (Oldman, in his finest sneering mode) is the cause of his separation from his biological parents.

by Bill Chambers There's a montage about a third of the way into Michael Cristofer's Gia that marries the peak of Gia Carangi's modelling career to Billy Idol's «Dancing with Myself,» and while I think Cristofer means to underscore Gia's loneliness, he's more successful in drawing a correlation between her bogus moxie (call it «cipherpunk») and, to crib from Robert Christgau, the «cartoonishness of [Idol's] sneering persona.»

Even Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe), who comes out on the winning side and never questions the righteousness of his cause, radiates unhappiness and woe from every sneer.

Malcolm McDowell returns from television hell to play a sneering, nasty Eurotrash villain again.

The Magna Carta springs from a visionary stone mason (shades of the Masonic conspiracy myths), and the fate of two kingdoms is at the mercy of a mercenary with interesting scars (Mark Strong, who sneers his way through the role).

As a standalone piece, separate from the Alien franchise, this film could have met with applause from fans of somber science fiction, instead of the sneers of those who love the characters and direction as delivered through Aliens.

Then there are those, like Dar Adal (F. Murray Abraham), who insist on working from the shadows, distrustful and sneering of the common people.

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.

by Walter Chaw Another exercise in incoherent pomo douchebaggery from Zack «I'm Going to Mess Up Superman, Too» Snyder, Sucker Punch is maybe about female empowerment but works more like Tank Girl with a budget: the flexing girl - muscles and punk / fetish / sneering sexuality aren't fooling anyone.

A few characters, like Skeeter's ailing mother (Allison Janney), are given a trajectory from racial obliviousness to semi-enlightenment, but for the most part, whites in this movie are either pure - of - heart crusaders or sneering bigots.

Light is further egged on by Ryuk (voiced with trademark menace by Willem Dafoe), although the prosthetic - rendered demon has little to do besides sulk in corners and sneer; his real corrupting influence is girlfriend Mia (Margaret Qualley from The Leftovers), a cheerleader who turns into a psychopath quicker than it takes most pots to boil.

The otherwise humourless Young Guns begins with a hilarious sepia - toned introduction — evocative less of western serials than of a MAD MAGAZINE spoof of them — to the film's six main stars (Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Casey Siemaszko, Dermot Mulroney) via close - ups of each in which they invariably sneer, spit tobacco, lower their bandanna, and tip their hat — you half expect the screen to go wavy and see Ralphie from A Christmas Story transfixed in reverie.

But when their sneering ruler Mehmed II (a hammy Dominic Cooper) comes to demand the eldest son from every family as a hostage, Vlad seeks the help of an ancient vampire who offers him a terrible deal that might just save his people.

The thugs who sneer that the president is «one of those ac - a-demics who never served a day in his life» may lose the battle for the White House, but there's little doubt that from the start they've already won the war for narrative tone.

You might think the only thing missing from this culturally diverse group is a woman, but Haley Bennett (and her distractingly terrible hair dye) plays a key role as a recently widowed town person intent on revenge against the heartless robber - baron Bogue, played by a sneering Peter Sarsgaard.

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.

Meanwhile, after destroying the Republic (and, here, after a whiz - bang space battle of an opening sequence), the First Order — led by Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and General Hux (Domhnall Gleeson, adopting the wicked sneer of a baddie from a Saturday morning serial)-- is prepared to destroy the Resistance in one, fell swoop.

Tom Felton would grow from a sneering little mean boy into a first rate villain as Draco Malfoy.

Apart from the Irish - born Gambon, Bob Balaban, as a crass Hollywood producer who makes Charlie Chan B - movies, and Ryan Phillippe as his sneaky, snooping valet, are the only non-British actors in a large and eclectic cast that includes Jeremy Northam (as Ivor Novello), Alan Bates, Clive Owen, Emily Watson, Helen Mirren, Richard E Grant (in full - on sneer mode) and Kelly McDonald, as the naive young Scottish maid who gives the film its moral centre.

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.

But despite sharing his uncle's deep - rooted disdain for wildlife, which he hides from Bea, it is Thomas who we begin to feel sorry for as the increasingly belligerent Peter goes from likably cheeky chap to sneering sadist as he tries to torture his enemy by repurposing McGregor's animal traps, electric security devices and explosives as weapons of ever - escalating destruction in the mode of «Home Alone.»

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.