Sentences with phrase «snobbery at»

It makes you wonder — is there some kind of innovation snobbery at play?

Not exact matches

CNN media analyst Brian Stelter, host of the show Reliable Sources, spent most of his broadcast on Sunday talking about how the media missed the boat on Trump, and how this was at least in part because of a certain snobbery on the part of mainstream media analysts and journalists.

We need to be careful about what CS Lewis calls «Chronological Snobbery» where we think we know better simply because we are further along the timeline than those who came before us, but at the same time, there is something to be said about progressive revelation.

While building up a fearsome reputation for name - dropping and snobbery, with a special penchant for royalty and a passion for genealogy witnessed in the elaborate family trees at the end of his Crusades trilogy, Runciman nonetheless retained a wry detachment that wrong - footed many observers and critics.

But it still nails some of the less - than - savory realities of life as a server at a top New York City restaurant, from the wine snobbery to the palpitation - inducing kitchen drama.

Such was our snobbery that we organized something called the Jacobin Club and listed it with the dean as a fraternity simply to appear at the head of the published lists as the fraternity with the highest grade averages.

Taylor argues that snobbery is a key to our national life and looks at trends in different professions and stratas of society, including hilarious examples from politics.

The Tories, having looked for an angle to hit back at Miliband, linked his union comments, the pasty incident, and Westminster tittle - tattle about his alleged arrogance and indifference to more junior members as evidence of elitism and snobbery.

David Cameron is turning up his nose at anti-business sentiment today in a speech attacking the «snobbery» of those suspicious of capitalism.

There's also a bit of cool kids» club elitist snobbery, where some designers were getting pissed off (or so I heard) that brands like J.Crew and Banana Republic are showing at Fashion Week.

Meanwhile, Annette Insdorf penned a lovely op - ed about August: Osage County — and believes that the harsh criticism directed at the film is an example, «metropolitan snobbery»:

Along the way, the film explores class - consciousness from several angles while poking fun at sexism and snobbery.

All the snobbery lobbed at movies I loved, movies that seemingly everyone but Academy voters loved, was chipped away every time Return of the King won.

If you are not interested in badge snobbery then sit back and buy this for almost loose change and laugh at all the money you have saved by not buying a marque 4 x 4 - and I mean a saving of thousands of pounds here.

More important, though, Saturn targets its cars and its dealerships at that broad middle segment between car enthusiasts and car haters, a group that includes people of any income who view a car as an appliance - not as a personal statement of character, financial success, reverse snobbery or anything of the kind.

Cutting a fine line between «writer» and «author» will have absolutely no meaning to readers and, therefore, should be discarded as the valueless attempt at snobbery that it is.

But if you disarm your screen snobbery and relax, you'll find an incredibly comfortable, well - sized, well - built tablet at a more affordable $ 330 price.

«At the time, there was a real snobbery about self - publishing - a feeling that it was a last resort when no - one else was interested.

That stance reeks of snobbery and flies in the face of those words on the plaque at the Statue of Liberty, and what many Americans still think America is all about.

All in all, the atmosphere at the Whitney was unusually congenial and lacking in rivalry or snobbery.

They're basing the snobbery off the quality of clients / work, which admittedly has been historically better at the big names.

Posner notes that faculty at non-elite schools are still likelier to produce doctrinal work, although the snobbery of federal judges (or their clerks) may lead them to neglect it.

An added benefit is that it could take some of the snobbery and pretentiousness out of law school and the legal profession generally because at two years the JD would become a Master's degree, plain and simple.