Sentences with phrase «while sneering»

The entire book is nothing but self - centered complaining from two women who can not see how good their lives are, while sneering down their noses at women who have made choices different from their own.

Dieters flock to the gurus that promise 12 to 15 pounds of weight loss in the first two weeks, while sneering at the idea of losing a paltry 2 pounds of fat per week.

Now that Sturgeon has demanded a second referendum, the Westminster Right swings between snickering at the supposed naivety of the silly «nats» and raging at their refusal to enthusiastically partake in our brave new Brexit Britain - all the while sneering at the supposed subsidy junkies north of Hadrian's Wall.

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

He's a psycho that enjoys sadistically kicking people in the head with his boots on while he sneers his face.

The one character who started out as the voice of reason in the background of a few chapters, Dominique, is actually a fraud herself; while she sneers at the lifestyle of these social climbers, she's all too happy to spend all of her vacations lapping up their beach house and the immaculately tended grounds.

Not exact matches

Oddly, intellectuals and academics across America sneered at Eisenhower while he was president.

But the Republicans keep laughing and sneering at the poor while they do their damdest to shove this country deeper into the hole.

While those in power smile smugly, the public shrugs, the cynics sneer and the bored yawn, it is likely that some fellow Madisonians and Tocquevilleans will respond as one might to a sermon: «Amen»

I think we should forget about Mourinho and concentrate on keeping Alexis rather than sneering at attempts to lure him away while making no real effort to keep him ourselves!

I don't generally care how you raise your kids unless a) they're mistreating mine, b) you're complaining about their behavior while feeding them candy or caffeine, or c) you're sneering at me for giving my girl M&M s as you feed your child organic fruit snacks (which are still candy).)

Yesterday, the Scottish Tory leader accused the SNP leader of once again trying to «leverage and weaponize» Brexit, while David Davis sneered that they were beating the «tattered drum of independence».

A Conservative parliamentary candidate has been accused of «sneering» at voters — after he ridiculed a man for visiting Costa Coffee while claiming to be working class.

(For younger readers, Day was the doyen of interviewers — think Jeremy Paxman without the sneers — while Powell was the leading anti-European of his day.

Labour will have a story to tell the voters about how it took the action to alleviate recession and avoid depression while the Conservatives sneered from the sidelines and proposed policies that would have made it worse.

The truth of Alan Rickman's sneering Professor Snape is finally uncovered in perhaps the most moving scene of the entire series, while Ralph Fiennes at last shows off the full range of Voldemort's genius and madness and Maggie Smith's Professor McGonagall reveals herself as the badass we've always suspected her to be.

In short, the plot wavers between interesting and insanely confusing, if only because I do not have the attention span to look between Jean Dujardin being the goofy lead and the villain putting on a sneer while delivering his seminal evil genius speech.

by Bill Chambers There's a montage about a third of the way into Michael Cristofer's Gia that marries the peak of Gia Carangi's modelling career to Billy Idol's «Dancing with Myself,» and while I think Cristofer means to underscore Gia's loneliness, he's more successful in drawing a correlation between her bogus moxie (call it «cipherpunk») and, to crib from Robert Christgau, the «cartoonishness of [Idol's] sneering persona.»

The twist of «Breaking In» is right there in its title: while a crew of standard issue bad dudes (led by Billy Burke's Eddie as the one who gets to be the leader by virtue of his ability to sneer a lot) quite easily get into the house, it's Shaun who's locked outside, desperate to break back in to save her kids.

Victoria, however, inevitably remains a passive figure in this entire process (one can't decide to be Queen, after all), while her elders are powerless to oppose her before and after the fact, which renders Strong's sneering villainy particularly impotent.

The exasperated straight man is re-imagined as a sneering jerk full of jealousy and rage (Downey Jr. maintains a cold, sweaty stare throughout), while the lovable klutz is a dangerously irresponsible lout.

The other thing it has going for it is that Mario is more mainstream than Zelda and while there have been many people who have sneered at the high praise it has received deep down inside all of us gamers Mario taking away the top spot at any awards show (even if it was undeserving.)

While it's a relief that depiction of Tommy Wiseau, failed artist, and The Room, his failed art, isn't a sneering bad - movie podcast come to life, it's also disappointing to see the movie slip into a routine of easy jokes and easier outs.

In Diablo, Scott offers a Teflon copy of Clint's wildness, affecting the latter's sneer, occasionally chewing one of those little cigars that reliably dotted Clint's mouth in the Dollars films, and even quoting one of Unforgiven's most chilling lines during a pivotal scene, but these gestures fall poignantly short of their inspiration, while reminding one of the considerably better films that they could be watching.

Tate Taylor's film of Kathryn Stockett's bestseller about housewives and their maids in Kennedy - era Mississippi, which boasts Oscar - caliber performances by Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, sidesteps the pitfalls of movies like Mississippi Burning while providing sneers for the «Mad Men» - deprived.

While SSO is great for the enterprise, and something like Facebook login can work well for a public facing portal, eFrontPro also comes with its own native authentication system, and it's nothing to sneer at, either.

The i8 immediately quashed conceptions that hybrids should be sneered at in regards to performance, while the i3 has proved popular in urban areas around Europe.

While Lib has many admirable (even heroic) qualities, she is also arrogant and extremely derisive of the village's inhabitants, mocking their dilapidated homes and meager food and sneering at their beliefs.

My point being that Select will continue to fling open doors of discoverability to new authors while legacy authors sit on the sidelines sneering at all those idiots giving away their books.

Some adored its challenging circle - line puzzles, while others felt sneered at by designer Jonathan Blow when they failed to solve them.

But while it may be easy to sneer at the stats, the reality is a far different situation.

It's a game that is as accessible as it is fun, and while the hardcore fighters might sneer at its lack of depth, to me it fits the bill just right.

While the quality of these works is nothing to sneer at, the show stealer was the notable inclusion of minimalist works by Korean artists.

While every time I mention some oldster's comment about how much more bays used to freeze over some denier sneers at me with some historical event that shows I'm full of it, I think ordinary people are capable of taking it in.