Sentences with phrase «snobby about»

Now Adam isn't snobby about much.

DO N'T be snobby about tile provenance «Don't rule out the big - box building centres for a good selection of stylish tiles.

What I did read of it, however, seemed to involve a lot of the bookshop owner waxing snobby about how «kids these days» only read a lot of that trash like, say, Tarzan...

While the overall Academy tends to be a tad myopic and snobby about horror fare, the writers and directors do like to champion emerging talent, from Orson Welles («Citizen Kane») and John Singleton («Boyz N the Hood») to Benh Zeitlin («Beasts of the Southern Wild»), even when the movie gets raunchy.

I'm a lot less snobby about comedy than some of my fellow critics and won't write something off for being immature or crude (Due Date and Horrible Bosses cracked my recent list of the top 100 films of the half - decade).

The only way to fight it to not be snobby about «brand name» institutions like Harvard Tufts and so on and recognize that we need to wash out the old guard and make way for the new.

He commends the report's emphasis on advising on nonacademic careers: «I think young women researchers — but men, too — would benefit if professors could be a little less snobby about assuming that academia should be the default first choice for all their students.»

Macerich has rejected Simon Property Group's $ 91 - a-share hostile takeover offer, and its presentation to shareholders is delightfully snobby about how all of Macerich's malls are nice, while some of Simon's malls are not so nice.

Not exact matches

It's not remotely snobby or silly that people care enough about good beer to want to protect the scene from corporate brewers «who are simply looking to cash in without making meaningful contributions to craft beer culture,» Galligan said.

«When a beer lover cares about transparency in brands that has nothing to do with being snobby.

Asked specifically about Emily Thornberry's tweet from Rochester, 47 % of people think she was being snobby, 26 % think she was not.

And perhaps there is a perception that this government is «snobby» about things like vocational qualifications.

This might seem snobby, but it was about being more conscious and intentional about where my animal protein came from.

I've often been dubbed as a «bully» but a lot of people, even more of teachers have called me a class clown before [although my humour is often pure mockery of the snobby bitch in class or just complete satire about a subject that deserved said satire]...

I always wondered about a piece of advice my father gave me years ago — always marry someone in your own class.At the time i thought he was just being snobby — but now I know what he meant was — find someone with the same values as your own in order to be comforatble with them.

However, it's unlikely they would be able to trick Cordelia's family and peers for about a week that the down - to - earth girl from Texas is really the snobby English heiress.

GREY GARDENS Directors: Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer Starring: Edith «Little Edie» Bouvier Beale, Edith Bouvier Beale, Jerry Torre, Brooks Hyers In the current era of watching reality television when it seems normal to watch the lives of trashy people, drunk people, or rich snobby people, one would not bat a lash at watching a documentary about two crazy cat ladies.

Kristen Wiig stars in Bridesmaids which is about «a maid of honor trying to please the snobby, rich bridesmaids at every wedding event before her best friend's nuptials.»

The Woman on the Sixth Floor (Unrated) Class - conscious comedy, set in Paris in 1960, about a bourgeois stockbroker (Fabrice Luchini), married to a snobby, socialite (Sandrine Kiberlain), whose life is turned upside - down when he is befriended by their beautiful, new maid (Natalia Verbeke).

Rather than push more jokes about its narrative formulas, Pitch Perfect 3 proceeds with a halfhearted, ginned - up rivalry between the Bellas and an intimidating, snobby rock band, the filmmakers» ideas of which are downright bizarre: girl - group rhyming names (Chastity, Calamity, etc.) and circa - 2004 punk - pop.

Imelda Staunton's Sandra is easy to dislike, and Bif encourages her to change and encourages the audience to change their minds about the snobby Sandra who has «probably never seen a central heating bill» in her life.

If they had tried treating us with the same respect as they do the others, maybe we'd be a little less «snobby» about supporting them.

This camera is located about halfway between Tilted Towers and Snobby Shores in a big sports complex.

I watch that Shane guy now and then and he recently did something with Bunny (another YouTuber) where she came out about hiding her wealth and a lot of herself as she did not want to be looked at as snobby.

Or, perhaps, it is insecurity about their own place in the «snobby» artworld (as Laurie Anderson described it to me) that leads them to write such nonsense?

Kline, she recalled, was generous «about other painters, which is very unlike many painters... He was so honest and not snobby, not saying: «Why don't you forget it — get a job or something?»

My more snobby relatives insisted on using the word «Menhaden,» as it sounded more sophisticated, but my more salty and down - to - earth relatives chuckled at them, and used the word «Pogy,» which was derived from a northern Algonquin word for fish, while my snobby relatives pointed out to sea and remarked about a school of «fertilizer.»