Sentences with phrase «without sneer»

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

(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.

Devised by acting - writing comedy team Lowe and Oram and co-scripted by Amy Jump, director Ben Wheatley's professional and personal partner, the movie pokes fun at the social limitations of these lumpen Midlanders without sneering at or patronizing them.

Not exact matches

The remark may been intended as a sneer at Boehme, but it is an exact description of all works of literary art without exception.»

The sneering reply that Vince's contribution to the debate was simply «spreading alarm without substance» tells the audience outside Westminster why a Prime Minister, with an attitude like this to critics, ends up with so few friends in the House and, now that his pack of cards has come tumbling down around the voters» ears, even less sympathy outside.

The two had crossed paths at a party gathering in Rosendale without incident, but how would they react on the big stage, with stares, glares, sneers?

I hope I can now take a plastic bag from the supermarket without getting sneered at, secure in the knowledge that in 100 years the bag will crumble to dust.

Whether the sneering demigod will be as impressive a force of nature without Joss Whedon to pump out superior dialogue (in the vein of his «mewling quim» rant at the Hulk in The Avengers) remains to be seen.

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.

«God, you righteous man, pretending that you can live without war,» sneers Ultron at Captain America.

But not without a nasty fight pitting parents against — if you will pardon the sneer quotes — «parents.»

It's pretty without being ostentatious, so you can safely pick your kids up at school without attracting sneers from other parents in line.

Customization isn't frowned on in the truck world, which means you can upgrade to bigger and better wheels and tires, for instance, without being sneered at by collectors.

The good news here is that a rousing hashing of these issues, as we saw on #EtherIssue, can be accomplished without the seething, sneering exchanges that once were self - publishing's most animating feature.

It has auto racing that fans of Need for Speed would sneer at, car crashes that are snoozers compared to Burnout, a story without the choice or depth of a BioWare game, shooting that pales next to Call of Duty, fighting that has nowhere near the tightness of control of Soul Calibur, and yet it is still widely considered one of the finest games ever made.

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».

it isn't sneering at them without addressing their scientific points.