Sentences with phrase «snobbery by»

She comes an upper - middle class gift thanks to Marlo's wealthy douchebag brother Craig (played with perfect upper class snobbery by Mark Duplass) as a «night nanny.»

London mayor claims anti-gentrification movement bred of inverted snobbery by left - wing yuppies.

Not exact matches

«This is often misinterpreted by the masses as snobbery.

Good thing Kerry Egan didn't get too discouraged by his snobbery.

In this context we should like to warn against the snobbery of certain circles who imagine that natural science, technology and social planning have nothing to do with culture, which in their view can only be created by individualistic elites.

By metropolitan standards they, like their Master, were «uneducated»; but we need not take this piece of intellectual snobbery too seriously [John 7:15; Acts 4: 13].

And he attacked those who say the «big society» can only work in «leafy areas» by accusing them of «snobbery», insisting Britain's deprived places could benefit too.

They have retreated to place called conceit, fuelled by their own snobbery, selfishness and comfortable ignorance.

For a start you're not questioning why working class socialist labour voters went Ukip in the first place, it wasn't some guardian reading, snobbery that the working class are think, therefore are bigoted, so they must vote UKIP as they're nasty right wingers who dint like immigration, the decrease in wages among blue collar workers, due to immigration, is by the bosses seeking immigration to pay lower wages to make themselves more profits, Appeasing implies going along with something through fear of something worse, to agree with controlling immigration, because ex labour voters are going UKIP isn't appeasing it, why would us being afraid of losing is our votes to.

By late afternoon the Sun newspaper had already decided on its front - page headline for the morning — The Great Train Snobbery.

The waking up early and sense of direction parts would be minuscule, overshadowed by broadway musical song lyrics, the ability to walk in heels, and whiskey snobbery.

With this comes a stiff - upper - lip sense of duty exemplified by Harry, Ron and Hermione, and the snobbery, elitism and sense of entitlement that goes with it.

As Patrick's father, David, a thwarted pianist whose snobbery is topped only by his cruelty, Hugo Weaving (best known as Agent Smith from «The Matrix») manages to be terrifying from the first moment he appears, lying stock still in his coffin in Episode 1.

John Woo has been applauded - generally by the sort of person whose pretentiousness takes the form of inverted snobbery - as a maestro capable of transforming bombs and bullets into a gorgeously kinetic oriental ballet, or poem of violence (perhaps his apologists are confusing him with Takeshi Kitano).

In an article for the Telegraph, Bashaarat claimed that although vocational qualifications are «highly rated» by universities, many parents remain «in the dark» about the pathways the that BTECs open up for learners and added that the qualifications were «victims of intellectual and class snobbery».

«That's why I'm determined to tackle the minority of schools that perpetuate an outdated snobbery towards apprenticeships by requiring those schools to give young people the chance to hear about the fantastic opportunities that apprenticeships and technical education offer.»

«That's why I'm determined to tackle the minority of schools that perpetuate an outdated snobbery towards apprenticeships by requiring those schools to give young people the chance to hear about the fantastic opportunities apprenticeships and technical education offer.»

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.

The writing world has always been dominated by snobbery; the writer of popular fiction versus the «literary» author etc etc..

There is, and has been for a long time, snobbery in the literary world, born not out of talent but by envy and ego and exclusivity.

The first was a testimonial by Mark Bastable published in The Telegraph and titled «How I overcame snobbery to self - publish an e-book.»

A blogger who goes by Dizzle takes exception to my the «absurd snobbery» of my suggestion last week that Robert Scoble has abandoned the Kindle for the iPad because he only skims his reading material, as opposed to Kindle fanboys like me who immerse themselves in books.

If you're using the PX4 outside its target use - for multimedia editing, say, or the aforementioned jazz snobbery - you'll find the EQ isn't quite flat enough when using the «flat» preset or by messing around with your system's EQ manually.

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If you're using the PX4 outside its target use - for multimedia editing, say, or the aforementioned jazz snobbery - you'll find the EQ isn't quite flat enough when using the «flat» preset or by messing around with your system's EQ manually.

An article on the topic of the gated communities in the premier issue of Housing News Roundup, an electronic news and feature report published by the Urban Land Institute, notes that security is a main attraction of these developments, but so is snobbery.