Sentences with phrase «sneering into»

He gets under, and indeed into the skin of the notorious crime lord, sneering into the camera, his near whisper of a voice scaring the be-Jesus out of us in nearly every scene he's in.

But just as «Yankee - Doodle» was transformed from an English put - down into a self - respecting assertion of independence, so the exceptional nature of the American experience can be turned from a sneer into a notable element in the nation's escutcheon.

Not exact matches

«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.

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

Groups that may receive sneers — charismatic prayer groups dismissed as «happy clappies», or Rosary groups that are seen an old - fashioned — bring new people into the Church in unexpected ways, offering hope and healing to the lonely, the disaffected, the confused.

The film's world had been plunged into the deepest darkness of winter, families were torn apart, evil was sneering and shameless, everything was falling apart and when the young woman dies, it looks like all is lost.

For, most confusingly, his John Knox persona suddenly turns into the reincarnation of Bishop Thomas Crammer, when, not forty pages later, he starts defending the hierarchy, albeit of the Anglican variety: «Pope Benedict XVI,» Wills sneers, «when he was still Cardinal Ratzinger, wrote in 1998 that it is an infallible teaching of the church that Anglican bishops and priests are fake bishops and priests, dispensing fake sacraments, because they are outside the apostolic succession.»

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.

But increasingly these legitimate criticisms and concerns have spilled over into an almost automatic sneering and mockery directed towards anything and anybody associated with Corbyn and his supporters.

Some had seizures, their limbs flailing and their faces twisted into a lopsided sneer.

Alan Rickman is sublime at giving us a glimpse at last into the secret nurturing heart that potions professor Severus Snape masks with a sneer.

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.»

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.

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.

Over on the Dark Side of things, Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis) has plans to swing the fight and the balance of the Force in his favor, assisted by the oft - sneering General Hux (Dohmnall Gleeson) and of course the former Ben Solo, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), whose loyalties are called into question.

Complete with an inspirational mentor (David Oyelowo) that teaches her about her inner talents, and every single chess metaphor it's possible to cram into two minutes of video, the movie looks to track the rise of its real - world subject, chess champion Phiona Mutesi, as she overcomes dismissive sneers and an omnipresent inspirational soundtrack to rise to success on the world stage.

It's like an American indie reworking of Hollywood high melodrama — initial pettiness and sniping grows into passive - aggressive war between bitchy frenemies in close quarters — but instead of the theatrical thrill of showboating spectacle of divas dueling with sophisticated wit and sneering delivery we get something uncomfortably intimate and personal.

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

While it's a relief that depiction of Tommy Wiseau, failed artist, and The Room, his failed art, isn't a sneering bad - movie podcast come to life, it's also disappointing to see the movie slip into a routine of easy jokes and easier outs.

Asked to share her feelings about the recent suicide of a group member, a mom named Nina (Anna Kendrick) who threw herself off a highway overpass into heavy traffic, Claire sneers at the resulting chaos: «Way to go, Nina!»

A good teacher is nothing to sneer at, and certainly they are not into teaching because they «can't do» the real thing.

On twitter the other day, Smart Bitch Sarah remarked that it's sad that the discussion about ways to publish has turned into an official death cage match where each side has to sneer at the other.

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.

And I ran... straight into the sneering embrace of a perfect killing machine.

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.

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.

Also present are a number of paintings joyfully delving into Chinese - American kitsch: San Francisco's Chinatown, Bruce Lee, azure Himalayan demons and Wong himself, sneering in a cowboy hat with a votive candle - style portrait of Jesus on its brim.

As usual with any Post article that discusses global warming and climate change, the comments are already dominated by sneering, arrogant deniers who ignore the actual content of the article and launch into their scripted, robotic, idiotic diatribes.

Reading his mind, Voldemort sneered, «I wasn't trying to kill you, oaf; I was trying to make you into a horcrux but I had a stinking hangover and I stuffed it up.»

But everything's lumped in from the outside into «Richmond» - said with a sneer.