Sentences with phrase «through sneers»

Sometimes in direct attack, as in the Roman persecutions of early centuries and the Nazi and Communist movements of our time, sometimes through sneers and the opposition of hostile public opinion, Christianity has had to defend itself against those who believed the false or utopian ideas of its founder to be dangerous.

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As he sat down in front of my desk, his eyes seemed to bore a hole straight through me, and a sneer formed at the corner of his mouth.

is this: When he sneered at and abused himself beyond the tolerance of the crowd, it was not done through weakness but through strength, a defiance of God.1

And that has puzzled honest hearts and has been the sneer of the wicked down through the ages.

A few goals here, a few there, and suddenly Chelsea2 have a few more points in the league, another away goal in Europe, and José Mourinho isn't sneering and flailing his way through press conferences like a man doing a bad impression of José Mourinho.

If they could get through my name without a sneer I'd be happy.

Thanks to a team of Dutch researchers, never again will self - hatred overcome a young man as he wanders the aisles at Staples, that nasty, sneering voice in his head demanding to be told why he has spent an afternoon considering various shades of Post-it Notes rather than figuring out how to save the world through love.

Cronos style vocals with venom piercing through the cold forest after midnight with a moonlit, fire - reflected black metal sneer.

Mr. Nicholson pops his eyes, sneers, laughs maniacally and, in the film's liveliest sequence, sings and dances his way through the Gotham City museum of art, happily defacing the paintings.

No Tonya Harding stands still, her steely gaze cutting through all the sneers and putdowns she's had to endure since grade school.

The Magna Carta springs from a visionary stone mason (shades of the Masonic conspiracy myths), and the fate of two kingdoms is at the mercy of a mercenary with interesting scars (Mark Strong, who sneers his way through the role).

Urban waltzes through cliché land himself pouring on the evil sneers and squints, but it's not entirely his fault; his character is just poorly developed.

As a standalone piece, separate from the Alien franchise, this film could have met with applause from fans of somber science fiction, instead of the sneers of those who love the characters and direction as delivered through Aliens.

Heathcote and Lee have next to nothing to do beyond sneering at Fanning, though Lee breaks through with a few subtle moments that she must have snuck behind Refn's back.

Posey has become so good at playing herself that she's great fun to watch, sneering her way through the

A nonprofessional Baker discovered from Instagram videos, Vinaite careens through the film with abandon, sassing and sneering at nearly everyone who comes in her path.

Empty style, hollow themes, and at least one terribly miscast lead, all filtered through the eye of a sneering aesthete.

Dan Stevens is a dream in the eponymous role, guiding us through Adam Wingard «s hallucinatory and unapologetically violent landscape with the cold - hard gusto of a seasoned pro, forcing smiles, guffaws, sneers and drop jaws in equal, calculated doses.

Super bugs» — infections that sneer at conventional drugs and run unchecked through the population — used to only plague actors in science fiction movies.

When the art comes with the pretensions to play of Calder's Circus or Daniel Buren's pretence of seeing through it all, my giggle may even turn to a sneer.

Come to think of it, you two have similar personalities, which is to say both of you seem driven to prove your own intellectual superiority through the use of a sneering, arrogance that can be, in a word, off - putting.