Sentences with phrase «with sneering»

Timing was everything with this, and doing it with no sneering, insults, or other such boorish behaviour is icing on the cake — congratulations!

They are all over the place with their sneering and illogical nonsense.

This is a meaningless phrase with a sneering or pejorative nuance.

(And I'm also 8,000 percent done with the sneering at romance novels in general, but that's a whole separate rant.)

No political thriller made today would have the courage to strip its story to the bare bones; instead, it would have to be padded out with sneering, cackling bad guys, guns, chases and escapes.

She quickly makes a connection with the fish - man (portrayed in fully - gilled prosthetic regalia by Doug Jones), who likes the hard - boiled eggs she brings in from home, a relationship that alarms the fish - man's handler, an agent named Strickland, played with sneering menace by Michael Shannon.

in town, a witless bitch named Tabitha Dickinson played with sneering disdain by Lindsay Duncan.

Though, the fact that the film isn't entirely without obvious merit confuses things even further: Krauss is wryly brilliant as Krauss and delivers the film's biggest laugh with his Herzog - ian reasons for using a wheelchair; Gael Garcia Bernal has a great time as a lecherous member of Laura's delegation, spinning his suitcase with the sneering verve of a cartoon villain who twirls his mustache and gleefully acts smarmy before being felled by his own beleaguered bowels; Herzog's shots of Diablo Blanco, portrayed by Bolivia's real - life Uyuni salt flats, are among the most stunning in any film released this year; Shannon has fun in the impromptu photo shoot that takes place toward the end of the film; and as expected, there's a fascinating push and pull in the battle between human and nature at the heart of the film's central premise.

The whole party - scene setting, complete with sneering guys with chains and women in brightly - colored wigs, is apparently intended to make you gawp at its carnal adventurousness.

The 22 - year - old WBO and IBF featherweight champ combines the roguish strut of Mick Jagger with the sneering braggadocio of Sid Vicious.

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.

Claiming that your new fitness app is going to «solve the obesity problem in the U.S and save millions of lives» will likely be met with sneers by skeptical journalists.

Grandfather always said «compromise» with a sneer, as along with salvation he had gained a sense of principle that made compromise difficult for him.

It has given me confidence to speak forthrightly for what Emerson termed with a sneer «the dear old doctrines of the church.»

and have to see him running at the ref time and again to mouth him with a sneer before, begging for a second yellow before he can win the game.

«They are the strutting gods of the hour who are disdainful of any guidance, who deride any counsel, who mock every piece of advice with a sneer.»

the important professor Keith Porter asked me with a sneer.

The graph was greeted with sneers and chuckles from the mainly climate modeller audience — why??

So, let's stand together and agree to stop saying «basic» with that sneer (except when it comes to Ugg boots and jean mini skirts in the dead of winter, that still earns some serious side - eye), find those pieces that get your fashion wheels churning, and start warming to the idea of filling your closet with charming and interesting not - so - basic basics you love!

Alan Rickman is sublime at giving us a glimpse at last into the secret nurturing heart that potions professor Severus Snape masks with a sneer.

The actor looks so good behind the wheel with a sneer on his lips that you almost don't care that Dirty Mary is an inert series of conversations in and around cars.

Visitors call the California capital a «cow town,» with a sneer.

Yet for all that Pam Grier / Sarah Connor / Atomic Blonde machisma, there's also a surprisingly feminine energy to a movie spilling Grand Guignol buckets of blood, and with a sneer by Josh Brolin that could curdle whatever's left.

shows her at her full power, stealing scenes left and right with a sneer and a scowl.

The Palm Beach Post's politics blog reports how some «parent - led groups» (again with the sneer quotes!)

Among her best: Gandhi, the Beatles (early and Sgt. Pepper era), Einstein with hair standing on end, Bob Marley with dreads and cap, Jailhouse Rock Elvis (and later Elvis with sneer and white jumpsuit), Che Guevara with beret and distinctive facial hair, Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly (the dress and accessories are stellar) and Madonna in pink conical bra c. 1990.

Dean's father said with a sneer.

A resolute high Modernist, he was out of sympathy with many of the aesthetic waves that came after the great achievements of the New York School, notably Pop («a very great disaster»), Conceptual art («scrapbook art») and postmodernism («modernism with a sneer, a giggle, modernism without any animating faith in the nobility and pertinence of its cultural mandate»).

Kramer characterized postmodernism in the visual arts as «modernism with a sneer, a giggle, modernism without any animating faith in the nobility and pertinence of its cultural mandate».

But everything's lumped in from the outside into «Richmond» - said with a sneer.

They're constantly hungry, but offers of a Cruskit with Vegemite or piece of fruit are met with a sneer.

Not exact matches

The power trip goes to her head — «This is your life now,» she sneers to another girl suffering from cramps — but the reign of terror ends with the arrival of HelloFlo «care packages» containing tampons, pantyliners and even candy.

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

But the Minister of the Crown still sees kindred spirits in punk rappers with an anti-establishment sneer.

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.

A naked statue of Donald Trump, complete with a distended belly and jowly sneer, is to go on display at a Haunted Museum after a paranormal investigator bought it at auction.

Conversely, of course, the slightly sneering treatment given to these minor characters highlights the relative respect with which the others on this list are portrayed.

In fact any form of «dualism» with regard to the constitution of human nature has frequently been sneered at as philosophically dated and theologically distasteful.

«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.

(Also said with a loud sneering emphasis on the word «anything».)

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.

Spiced with the requisite sneer or two at Mr. Bush's putative social and verbal ineptitude.

Almost echoing Tertullian's famous sneer, «What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem?»

Often this tension was felt to have been so painful that one or another heretic sought to suppress either the Hebrew or the Hellenic element, as with the efforts of the second «century Marcion to get the Church to excise the Old Testament from the Christian Bible, or, from the opposite side, the sneering rhetorical question from the puritanical pen of the early «third «century Tertullian, «What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?»

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 was spoken with eyes narrowed, arms folded in an accusatory pose and an unmistakable sneer across the face.

Those words — «a friend of sinners» — were spoken with an upturned nose and a self - righteous sneer.

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?»

One suspects, however, that what really stings Posner and Segall is Scalia (along with Roberts, Thomas, and Alito) sneering at the priests of Baal in the theocratic majority of Obergefell.

No, it is not that, although that is the empirical expression, not to be sneered at, of the true reality of the Church, which is the supernatural organism, the divine society, in which Christ Incarnate still dwells among men, making them one with Him and thereby one with God.