Sentences with word «supercilious»

However, several of the life companies were supercilious, stating that the submarket was too ancillary for a loan of that size.

I am a prolific reader and in more than one bio and autobiography words reign true that the proverbial glass ceiling may never be officially cracked, and those who end up in the corner office may always be threatened as having gotten there by supercilious means.

Be bold and assertive without being arrogant or supercilious.

As American citizens who want to represent themselves in court, pro se litigants often have to cope with supercilious lawyers.

Maybe it's unfair to refer to a lawyer just doing his or her job as snobby, arrogant, haughty, or other synonym for «supercilious».

It was the supercilious, derogatory ad hominem attacks coming from many of those who worried about global warming which motivated me to look into the matter in much more detail.

I hope you are not being sarcastic and supercilious because English is not his first language?

Mr Mann is nothing but a criminal, with a most irritating condescending and supercilious air about him

You leave long rambling and supercilious comments like some monomaniacal automaton.

It is all the usual incoherence, smarmy snark, gratuitous xenophobia and supercilious posturing that one expects from Bart.

What a total shit - head for brains and the only people more supercilious than him are the ignorant dip - wads that voted for him.

I can not determine whether you are thick, uncouth or trying to be gratuitously patronising, condescending, and supercilious.

gary gulrud (13:20:05): silly, indefensible and given in a supercilious tone obstructing other's discussions, you are true to form.

That's right, when your assertions of fact are silly, indefensible and given in a supercilious tone obstructing other's discussions, cast allegations of «bad behavior» and hope to confuse a few of the spoon - fed.

Deliberately supercilious and provocative, thrown in to engage our emotions and reduce our clarity of thought.

Here, «it was very well known» and «proved by countless experiments» and the general «handwave to the past authority of Arrhenius / Tyndall / Fourier», enough to «prove they were right», while refusing to fetch any of these claimed empirical studies — those denying the Dogma were being successfully marginalised further by this wave of supercilious blocking of arguments from AGWs all the while they were hypocrically proclaiming their repulsion to the blocking of discussion on the science and objecting to the malpractices such as hiding open access of data.

Your «dangerous climate change» speaks about 2C differences for a climate which has changed up and down throughout history, and your personal history only amounts to about 20 years of that 65,000,000 years — hardly worth thinking about but a demonstration of some men's supercilious self - deceit.

At which point I concluded that there was no longer any doubt that Nurse was an irredeemable, supercilious, self - important little... pecker.

As her own profile as an artist interested in these vexed cultural intersections has grown, her work has risked looking as effortless as a mirror held up to the most supercilious aspects of today's «bling» lifestyle.

The default voice is especially annoying when I want to hire a hulking man - mountain and he sounds like a supercilious butler.

(and my work might well be among them, so don't think I am being supercilious!)

And he distrusted the kind of person who'd take one look at another man and say in a lordly voice to his companion, «Ah, my dear sir, I can tell you nothing except that he is a left - handed stonemason who has spent some years in the merchant navy and has recently fallen on hard times,» and then unroll a lot of supercilious commentary about calluses and stance and the state of a man's boots, when exactly the same comments could apply to a man who was wearing his old clothes because he'd been doing a spot of home bricklaying for a new barbecue pit, and had been tattooed once when he was drunk and seventeen * and in fact got seasick on a wet pavement.

The word «supercilious,» from two Latin words meaning above the eyelid, refers to the disdainful raising of an eyebrow to express contempt.

But he has a far bigger concern than sharp elbows and supercilious stares, for somewhere in this mix is a cunning and savage killer who has left a trail of bloody victims.

Thank you for your ever so slightly supercilious response.

A famous and supercilious account of militants in New York and elsewhere, with responses by five educational leaders.

The vocabulary that's important to learn is not the fancy esoteric elitist $ 5 SAT - type vocabulary words like supercilious, engender, harangue, obdurate, or ensconce.

The news from Massachusetts is just the latest reminder that federal coercion and supercilious intimidation may not be a winning strategy for pursuing that kind of change.

Her stance towards teens is neither precious nor supercilious.

Much to their critics» - led by US tennis boss Jack Kramer (a tremendously supercilious Bill Pullman) annoyance - this proved a great success.

They're virgins, and after an overdone meal has been served to them by two supercilious waiters, Florence and Edward repair to the bed for what ought to be a magical moment.

Even though Payne's intellectual vanity abhors outright rhetoric, his supercilious vision of America as a «brightly photographed banality» is plenty political — and obscene.

When others appear in the flat - especially the supercilious, hurtful Jeremy (Greg Cruttwell), the landlord, they are like visitors from adjacent circles in hell.

His brother, Oliver (Ryan Phillippe), is a supercilious Columbia student who regards Igby as a species of bug.

JohnB — your pretentious comment evinces a common confusion among the supercilious.

For a movie revolving around two plane crash survivors traipsing through snow covered mountains in order to survive, probably not a good idea to take the cliché of «falling off a cliff» so gosh darn literal where it came to the story's more supercilious narrative constructs.

Wonderstruck is sometimes sweet and well - intentioned, but more often indulgent and supercilious.

Probably the most entertaining example, however, was Domhnall Gleeson whose clipped enunciation and persistently supercilious air as Gen. Hux made «The Last Jedi» that much more fun.

Martin's supercilious affectation and Oxford ways contrast smartly with Phil's homey wisdom and, for instance, her endearing affection for tawdry romantic fiction and her non-familiarity with international travel.

H also proves a credible low - key foil for the more lively performances of Williams» bully Roosevelt, Luke Wilson as the overly emotional mini-cowboy at war with coolly snide mini-Roman Steve Coogan, and Ricky Gervais as the supercilious museum director with an inability to finish sentences or lighten up with the museum's dwindling visitors.

They're buying from hotheaded weapons dealer Vernon (Sharlto Copley, resplendent in a tacky wide - collared shirt), who's assisted by the supercilious Ord (Armie Hammer), the hippie - haired Harry (Jack Reynor), and the gruff Martin (Babou Ceesay).

Although he has a bigger role in Shaun of the Dead, the previous film in Pegg and Wright's Cornetto trilogy, his brief turn in Hot Fuzz as the supercilious chief inspector is hugely enjoyable.

Set in the modern - day, this live - action version centers on the social circles of a private New York high school where a supercilious young man named Kyle (Alex Pettyfer) is running for student body president.

Suffice it to say that years ago, the world's great dreamers brought a parallel dimension into being, but the current dreamer - in - chief, a supercilious cynic called Nix (Hugh Laurie), is having nightmares.

Partially as a result of Ronnie's killing Cornell and commissioning the bungling Jack «the Hat» McVitie (Sam Spruell) to murder the Krays» supercilious financial adviser (David Thewlis), Reggie begins to crack.

The real test comes when Max is told by a supercilious intelligence officer that his loving wife is a German double agent.

She works for the supercilious and fabulous Kyra (Nora Von Waldstatten) who prefers on occasion to communicate with her via text than in person.

Hardly a shining endorsement for the prince of supercilious self - importance, yet Spielberg persevered under the presumption of a phantom Kubrickian mantle, and what should have been a thinkpiece on our responsibility to the things upon which we project our love became an ode to a washing machine that couldn't eat spinach.

But all the excitement, the tension, the power of this scene is completely ruined by this distracting and supercilious juxtaposition of middleweight artiness.

Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) is nettled by Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his supercilious air of intellectual superiority — and vice versa.