Sentences with phrase «sneers for»

Or will there be comparisons and sneers for Rowling's constant attempts to be something other than the author of the Harry Potter series?

Tate Taylor's film of Kathryn Stockett's bestseller about housewives and their maids in Kennedy - era Mississippi, which boasts Oscar - caliber performances by Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, sidesteps the pitfalls of movies like Mississippi Burning while providing sneers for the «Mad Men» - deprived.

It's a fairly bold sneer for someone facing down a mob.

Played by Seann William Scott — whose idea of acting is to hold one screwed - up, loutish, stoner - dude sneer for the length of whatever movie he's in — Stifler is a one - note, loud - mouthed, sexist oaf.

If there is a general sneer for the retailer and its business practices, are the consumers hypocrites?

Not exact matches

For decades — centuries — the archetype of the successful business person has been the sneering blowhard, unafraid to bark orders and excoriate the work of underlings.

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...?»

One of the crosses we are called to take up and bear for Christ by God's help is fidelity to conviction in spite of lifted eyebrows and the curt or sneering remarks of friends.

By contrast, although Europe has such outstanding figures as Leszek Kolakowski, Hans Maier and Josef Ratzinger, its public culture is dominated by sneering secularists, who set the tone for the rest of the population and can make light work of the average bishop rolled out to confound them, especially in the case of Anglican bishops who share so much liberal common ground.

It seems not to occur to Mr. Wright that a sneer is perhaps not the best starting point for a spiritual journey.

Remove the sneering & general Incoherent rambling & misuse of «facts» & this Almost starts to sound like a commercial for a more anti-dogmatic approach to faith.

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.

The sneers of Pilate and the jeers of Herod also subsided when, their official duties finished, they returned to their palaces having rid themselves once and for all — so they thought — of this troublemaker.

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.»

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

Grandfather always said «compromise» with a sneer, as along with salvation he had gained a sense of principle that made compromise difficult for him.

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.

... it easier for those of us out west in the Book - of - Mormon belt to imagine Iowa and its caucuses — a state our pioneer ancestors left and a state that rewarded Mike Huckabee's sneering anti-Mormonism in 2008 — awash in undercurrents of anti-Mormonism.

It has given me confidence to speak forthrightly for what Emerson termed with a sneer «the dear old doctrines of the church.»

Luther said he was not trying to sneer and that he «had a thoroughly unaffected love and affection» for the Elector.

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.

King has occasionally compared himself to Theodore Dreiser and Frank Norris, two turn - of - the - century social realists who specialized in urban miseries and workmanlike prose, and he loves to quote Norris» riposte to critics: «What should I care if they single me out for sneers and laughter?

Victorian novels support Bottum's thesis, but that becomes clear only when we escape the Edwardian «sneer» that the Victorians were hypocrites: «The sin of hypocrisy burns like Satan's signal - fire for the Victorian novelists.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

And if you don't like it, well, the hospital — sneer — is the sort of place for puritanical little sheep like you.

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).)

Eunice Goes suggested to me that the sneers against areas such as Hampstead and Islington are part of a wider cynicism about urban - dwelling educated people that has existed for centuries but is becoming more prevalent in our post-factual age, «there is a very long established tradition of anti-intellectualism in England that is more about posturing than reality because there are lots of excellent English intellectuals».

In response to Corbyn's support for the anti-Trump demonstrations that took place across the country on Monday evening, she sneered: «he can lead a protest, I'm leading a country».

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.

When gay public figures are disliked by the media, much of the verbal description of them is couched in terms designed to flag up a sneering dislike of their homosexuality — see for example all the descriptions of Peter Mandelson «flouncing».

One day he was the deputy speaker of the House of Lords and (oh, the irony) chairman of the Lords committee for privileges and conduct which investigates breaches of conduct by peers the next he was the disgraced «sneer of the realm» allegedly prone to bad - mouthing political colleagues whilst indulging in adulterous, illicit, drug - fuelled sex sessions.

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.

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.

(For younger readers, Day was the doyen of interviewers — think Jeremy Paxman without the sneers — while Powell was the leading anti-European of his day.

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).

Witness, for instance, a Cuomo administration response to DeFrancisco's criticism in late January of Cuomo tax policy: «That statement is about as real as his hairline,» sneered a Cuomo spokesman of the senator's dime - store toupee.

One Democrat sneered that the renegade Democrats had been bought off by the Republicans in exchange for the power to chair some Senate committees.