Sentences with word «snobbishness»

I think what you're writing about touches on a certain snobbishness in the literary world.

Don't get me wrong; it's not about snobbishness and elitism.

It's not snobbishness; just smart growth, he says.

For a time Charlie's trampishness gives way to the opposite which is already prefigured in his top hat, coattails, vest and cane: aristocratic snobbishness.

In my experience, we are less likely to slide over into snobbishness when «they» — those we have defined as inferior — are in the room us, thinking as clearly and acting as maturely as we are.

Back on my haunches, dishcloth in hand and I'm stung by the socio - economic snobbishness and spoiled - brattiness inherent in that internal 3 minute tirade.

«The rich dating the poor» is nothing new, but it has long been associated with snobbishness, disgrace and disrepute for a long time, because the great differences of social class, status and life conditions between both sides in this kind of dating formed a sharp contrast.

Both are cataclysmically shaken by Helen, whom Byrne embodies as the height of conniving evil snobbishness, and who Annie initially spars with during a hilariously embarrassing engagement party toast - off in which they vie to lavish the most over-the-top praise on Lillian.

That is, of course, pure snobbishness.

There is a literary snobbishness at play here, clearly.

Portraying shelter animals as «damaged goods» and implying that breeders are the only desirable option reflects a certain nasty snobbishness, in my opinion.

I thought that such snobbishness was a thing of the past.

Yet for some reason, a certain snobbishness causes some to disregard either of those as discounting.

There is a certain snobbishness or parochialism in a view that provides eternal life only for the elite.

Satire implies the anger of a Swift or the snobbishness of a Waugh.

I get really angry about the snobbishness of being brought up in Scotland.

Having someone from a council estate as our head of state would get rid of the snobbishness.

The conversation ran the gamut from school closures to student safety to Rick Santorum's allegation of «snobbishness» about Barack Obama's college attainment goals, but chatter about the role of standardized testing data in education ruled the day.

When I get the chance to quiz someone who seems disproportionately passionate about the snobbishness of literary critics or the rabble's appetite for trash, there's usually some highly charged personal history behind their indignation.

A bunch of ever - so - mandarin college kids in a small Vermont school are the eager epigones of an aloof classics professor, and in their exclusivity and snobbishness and eagerness to please their teacher, they are moved to try to enact Dionysian frenzies in the woods....