Sentences with phrase «who sneer»

Couples counsellor David Waters says, «According to research, people who sneer, ridicule or talk down to their partner are on a fast track to relationship destruction.»

For those who sneer may I point out I spent a whole day at the Royal Courts of Justice too.

Those then are the people who sneer at Indie authors shunning the price for editing!

The thugs who sneer that the president is «one of those ac - a-demics who never served a day in his life» may lose the battle for the White House, but there's little doubt that from the start they've already won the war for narrative tone.

Tory MP Kevin Foster last night said: «These comments sum up the attitude of a left wing metropolitan elite who sneer at those who take pride in our nation being a global power and sitting at the world's top tables.

In one respect, his presentation of Byzantium seems aimed at Gibbon, who sneered at Eastern Christian claims to be the protectors of reason and civilization.

He said: «They have a leader who will not sing the national anthem, a shadow chancellor who seems to admire the IRA more than he does the British Army, a shadow foreign secretary who sneers at the English flag and a shadow home secretary who seems to advocate unlimited immigration.

Labour shadow ministers who sneered at the idea they might offer Proportional Representation to the Libdems, on the eve of the election, will now have to face the fact that only permanent coalition politics or electoral reform can give them a chance to rule in future.

Labour MP on Thornberry: «Would be extraordinary if we ended up with a shadow defence sec who sneers at her own flag.»

Unfortunately the film is terribly miscast on almost all levels, and that includes a racially stereotypical role for Leguizamo as a drug dealer, and the laughably bad Pullman who sneers comically as he barks his orders at his subordinates.

No one will let her forget she's damaged goods — not her mother or her brother, Clifford (Trystan Gravelle), who sneers at her in part to compensate for his own thoroughgoing mediocrity.

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).

Inside Llewyn Davis is spiked with acerbic humour and peopled with memorable eccentrics, among them Mel's elderly secretary, the Italian proprietor of the Gaslight Café folk venue on MacDougal Street, the jazzman blowhard (John Goodman, channelling Doc Pomus and Dr John) who sneers relentlessly at Llewyn as they cross the bleak Midwest, and his monosyllabic valet - driver (Garrett Hedlund).

Moviegoers who sneered at Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999) for its lack of «realism» had probably better stay way from this film as well.

Alas, it's becoming more difficult for new writers to avoid being shuttled into dead - end and horribly expensive self - publishing «services» that are endorsed by the same traditional publishers who sneered at Author Solutions and their ilk just a couple years ago.

Some might think it's tacky, but I've never met a bride or groom who sneered at the sight of an envelope stuffed with cold hard cash.

Not exact matches

His character could have easily been a sneering, sexist buffoon who clashes with his female publisher, but Hanks applies a smart, dignified restraint.

Gawker is a vicious tabloid, run by a sneering Englishman named Nick Denton who delights in humiliating people.

I laugh and sometime sneer at those who think new Fed Head Jerome Powell will impose monetary discipline by raising interest rates at least up to the real rate of inflation and reduce the Fed's balance sheet according the schedule as laid out by Yellen.

If Core wanted Bitcoin to be digital cash, they would not sneer and jeer that anyone who wants to «buy coffee with Bitcoin» is an idiot.

re Rush L's comment - anybody who doesn't share the exact same ideology as you has to be slammed and sneered at.

«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.

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.

It is popular among the elite Bible scholars and academy - trained theologians to sneer at the uneducated lay person who seeks to teach Scripture and theology to others as being «untrained» and therefore, unable to accurately teach others what God is like, what He says in Scripture, and how to live life in light of what we learn.

Paul Griffiths's sneering review of our book, By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed («Against Capital Punishment,» December 2017), illustrates how much bile — and how little charity — is often to be found in those who speak the loudest of mercy and humanity.

It's a useful book for students who need accurate information for the argument / debate / shouting match at the student bar, for families tackling big issues in passionate kitchen debates, and for quiet perusal before replying to the sneers of office colleagues — or even to the well - intentioned «But surely you can't believe...?»

It doesn't get us anywhere merely to sneer: the young man who denounced the ageing and muddled ladies of a rather sentimental group - whom he had never met - as «feminiNazis» had hoped to raise bellows of raucous laughter from his young hearers but was greeted with silence.

In a satirical magazine launched in 1721, the school's self - appointed jester sneered, «I have known a profligate debauchee chosen professor of moral philosophy; and a fellow, who never look'd upon the stars soberly in his life, professor of astronomy... and, not long ago, a famous gamester and stock - jobber was elected professor of divinity; so great, it seems, is the analogy between dusting of cushions, and shaking of elbows; or between squandering away of estates, and saving of souls!»

Bible scholars and academy - trained theologians often sneer at the uneducated lay person who seeks to teach Scripture and theology.

I say it again, re-read her post ---- she if she wasn't sneering at people who had posted earlier.

By contrast, although Europe has such outstanding figures as Leszek Kolakowski, Hans Maier and Josef Ratzinger, its public culture is dominated by sneering secularists, who set the tone for the rest of the population and can make light work of the average bishop rolled out to confound them, especially in the case of Anglican bishops who share so much liberal common ground.

They sneer and scoff at all the ignorant masses who «live lives of emptiness and insignificance.»

DEADLY DESERTS Paul Griffiths's sneering review of our book, By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed («Against Capital Punishment,» December 2017), illustrates how much bile — and how little charity — is often to be found in those who speak the loudest of mercy and humanity.

I suppose you two would have sneered at the widow who gave all that she had, a mite, and wondered why she wasn't giving more.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

It's the same self - righteous sneer heard in the words of those who dragged the woman caught in adultery to Jesus: «What should we do with such a woman?»

People sneer at the former communist true believers who have now become capitalist managers, and they make snide comments about foreigners who migrate from Eastern Europe and are willing to work for less money than Germans are.

It often meant putting up with sneering spectators or worse, as when he was slugged by an irate tavern - keeper who saw his business floating away.

Join that with a terrible lapse in education quality, and with the segment of our population who actively sneer at education and you have a flock of voters waiting to be told how to vote by whoever tells them what they want to hear.

To Christians who proudly wear their favorite fashion brand, or look askance at PC users, or sneer at drinkers of boxed wine, or belittle Christians who prefer Grisham, Koontz, and Clancy to Coetzee and McEwan, Paul would have much to say.

King has occasionally compared himself to Theodore Dreiser and Frank Norris, two turn - of - the - century social realists who specialized in urban miseries and workmanlike prose, and he loves to quote Norris» riposte to critics: «What should I care if they single me out for sneers and laughter?

Good for you who booed and sneered at the AOB brigade.

Bearded Benitez, who of late has been dispensing sneers and put downs with the frequency that Clattenberg dishes out red cards to Evertonians, has started to show his softer side.The Daily Mail is reporting that Rafa and Stevie G «today cleared the air» over the decision to sub Gerrard off in the Merseyside derby, much to the visible frustration of the club's captain.

Nothing to sneer at that statement, as this is a man who won his first World Cup title when he was just 17.

Some may sneer at that, but can we name a player who in recent time helped Leeds achieve what Beckford helped achieve?

I chose a hospital for both of my own births but I don't sneer at those who elect different choices.

Boles hit back, saying that the question was typical of the party opposite who «sneer at people's aspirations», and that there was a difference between property developers building a block of flats on gardens and ordinary families getting extensions.

Hydrocracker's new production of Harold Pinter's The New World Order is a strong riposte to anyone who has ever doubted the necessity of Shakespeare's epilogues or sneered at people fainting during Titus Andronicus.

People like you two, and Caroljrdd, who are johnny come lately commenters, here only to sneer (and not even very effectively) will never be respected because there's no substance behind your dumb comments.

Yesterday he made a speech at 8.47 pm at night, when most sensible people were already a pint and a packet of mini Cheddars down, about a local issue that is causing a good deal of distress to his constituents risking, in doing so, the muttered barbed and sneers reserved for the mighty who've fallen.