If this profession of my love for my own name makes me an arrogant and snobbish character, so be it. |
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Colonel Solent was a snobbish, proud man, dressed similarly to his soldiers, but with a blue tunic and red belt. |
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Who likes to hear a snobbish intellectual gasbag show off at a cocktail party? |
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Even the most obvious and patently true observation therefore runs the risk of appearing condescending, arrogant or snobbish. |
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I have met snuffy, stupid, undutiful, conceited, and snobbish priests, but for me one Fr. Francis outweighs them all. |
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At times she's a gangling, anti-social adolescent, and at others a snobbish know-it-all, but she's always riveting. |
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What makes this class of people snobbish rather than simply pretentious is their tendency to sneer. |
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The bad news is that I'm vain, snobbish, a bit of a gossip and am rather divorced from most of the real world. |
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Giles is a philandering upper-class oik, relentlessly snotty and stultifyingly snobbish. |
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In an early scene, Hari is snobbish with Ronald when he is addressed in Hindustani. |
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Fighting the most popular storytelling medium is not only a losing battle and horribly snobbish but unsocial too. |
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I've never met such a snobbish, selfish, unfriendly, rude lot in all my life. |
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Gloria Upson is Patrick's snobbish fiancee with a lockjawed seaboard accent. |
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It's this snobbish attitude toward work place interaction that ruffles my feathers. |
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Truly there is nothing more snobbish than the tabloids when it comes to passing judgment on the way the other half lives. |
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Clothing design should not be about creating pricey and snobbish brands to be foisted on a gullible public. |
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The literary establishment's incoherent critique combines snobbish disdain for popular culture with an ahistorical philistinism. |
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Literary people can sometimes be very snobbish about reading for pure pleasure, for entertainment. |
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Next thing we know, Dewey presents himself in Ned's place at an exclusive and rather snobbish private school before a class of 10-year-olds. |
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He doesn't think he got it from his parents, who as far as he can tell were not snobbish at all. |
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Maybe I should be grateful that they are releasing alternative cuts in any format and just ignore the films I'm too snobbish to buy. |
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Photography shouldn't be snobbish, and smiley pictures can be a great record of a happy holiday. |
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But when he talks about it, it's more with incomprehension than snobbish disdain. |
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Their brief marriage was clearly doomed from the start by her parents' snobbish condescension. |
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That arrogant, lazy smile swept across his stupid snobbish face as he halted, blocking my path. |
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Her upturned profile, proud but not snobbish, promises to cut through the stormy seas ahead. |
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I am fully aware that my reaction is exclusive, snotty and downright snobbish. |
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She is their foil, the object of their farcical delusions and snobbish assumptions. |
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They look like members of a snobbish elite who relish their wealth and their sense of superiority. |
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Emma is a comic figure partly because of the preposterous nature of her snobbish pretensions. |
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It turns out that nearly everyone, Japanese or otherwise, is a philistine in the condescending and rather snobbish world view of the film. |
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The football authorities and club owners were snobbish, patronising know-nothings who treated the players like serfs. |
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And, if you imagined Hollywood stars to be haughty, snobbish creatures, you are way off the mark. |
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His way of life may seem a bit ostentatious, but his energy and enthusiasm is infectious, and there is nothing snobbish or affected about him. |
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Call us selfish, snobbish even, but there's an undeniable delight in stumbling upon something no one else seems to have heard before. |
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He was another of the horrible rich types that are so stuck-up and snobbish that they only care about themselves. |
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They often display snobbish, disdainful or patronizing attitudes. |
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If familiarity breeds contempt, then overindulgence breeds snobbish connoisseurship. |
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Far from showing courage as a satirist, Pierre is a conformist who avoids challenging the sensibilities of the snobbish, transatlantic liberal left. |
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For the general publishing and pop-culture industries, this has not seemed so much like a heroic or contrarian stance as a stiff and snobbish one. |
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Ives totally mistrusted the cosmopolitan musical circles with their classic-worshipping conductors, snobbish patrons, and pontifical music critics. |
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As a student he was something of a young fogey, snobbish, solitary and obsessed with cleanliness. |
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Françoise immediately noticed the snobbish rejection of her difference, coming disdainfully from behind the safety of this woman's beauty. |
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Brittain was bored out of her mind during her girlhood in the beautiful but snobbish and conservative environs of Buxton. |
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Although many people call him devious, pompous, snobbish, plummy and aloof, he is also capable of great charm and warm friendship. |
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Thus the widow is contrasted with the hypocritical scribes and their snobbish greed. |
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Not for snobbish reasons but because it's the only way for me to listen to music directly. |
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He was also a snobbish, aloof and autocratic individual whose fiercely critical editing of field reports angered his subordinates. |
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They became rather snobbish and came to think of themselves as being superior beings. |
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People here don't look like the ones in a station: they seem quite snobbish and talk much less. |
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I always found that snobbish and why do I have to buy an animal if I just need to go in a cemetery to find a lot of abandoned cats for free. |
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May one say that this is so without sounding hopelessly snobbish? |
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Some parents choose schools for what critics term snobbish motives. |
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It is an outrageous comment, which could only have come from someone who is more arrogant, snobbish and out of touch than the prince he is condemning. |
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When the national media deigned to pay any attention to it, it was invariably with snobbish disdain, hee-haw chuckling at the hillbilly music of athletics. |
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While Anita was sociable and well-liked by her peers, Betty was often overshadowed by her cousin and believed to be snobbish as a result of common misperceptions. |
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He is equal parts superior, insecure, vain, snobbish, and fearful. |
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That implement had been around in various forms for several centuries and had filled various functions at the tables of refined and snobbish households throughout Europe. |
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Some of these little magazines are snobbish. |
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It may seem snobbish to point all this out. |
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Quite simply, we're snobbish, class-obsessed power-hungry alcoholics. |
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The other passengers were three Norwegians, three fossil Englishmen, two snobbish do., and some jolly, good-natured, free-and-easy youths. |
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It was an improbable love affair, so saccharine and brazenly put on show that it made snobbish Paris high society reach for the sick bag and embarrassed one of France's biggest media and arms conglomerates. |
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The snobbish disinclination of some of the best and brightest minds to lower themselves to the expediencies of politics doubtless has cost us dearly. |
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Among his Labour colleagues there was much speculation as to whether he would bow to the queen or defy what he surely considered the snobbish, southern tomfoolery of court etiquette. |
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The reality, naturally, in no way corresponded to that ideal the Weimar court was petty, backbiting, and snobbish but in Charlotte von Stein, the wife of the duke's equerry, Goethe thought he saw the ideal embodied. |
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True, it begins with the inculcation and exercise of good manners, but not just any kind of manners, certainly not the snobbish kind designed to shut people out of one's own circle or to assert one's presumed superiority. |
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Donald Maxwell gives good value as her snobbish major-domo. |
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As for snobbish derision, it is of noble ancestry, going back to Hamlet twitting Polonius, Pope, Swift, Wilde, Waugh: a line of scurrilous mirth whose slithering ambiguities make a Charlie of whoever can't keep up. |
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David Hare Most writing about fashion is repellently snobbish, rooted in the 1950s, and designed to prove the writer's imagined superiority to the common herd. |
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The origins of the loathsome Dursleys come directly from snobbish Dahlesque caricatures of people of limited culture and intelligence. |
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All that is aggravated in some quarters by Mr Bush's stumbling syntax and Texan folksiness, which arouse a snobbish hostility among some articulate, metropolitan Britons. Yet their views seem in a minority. |
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He once said that he first made this remark as early as the late 1920s, in connection to stage actors who were snobbish about motion pictures. |
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Le Snobinard in Vieux-Terrebonne offers a pleasant change of scene in a relaxed atmosphere that is certainly out of the ordinary... and not at all snobbish! |
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Nate's snobbish father figures that Jackson, because he IS black, must have been in on the robbery. |
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As with white fraternities, hazing rituals can be snobbish, or bullying. |
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It told of a staid and snobbish English family shaken up by the return of one of its members from a less hidebound life in New Zealand. |
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If she softened her natural vowels a fraction in keeping with her role as a Protestant lady, she did not put on dog or act in a snobbish manner. |
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Retro revisited is creating a storm in the fashion houses: the latest snobbish practice in New York is for girls to get together for evenings in which customisation, crochet and embroidery are very much in evidence. |
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And don't forget the Provençal people are not at all snobbish about food. |
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Will Andrew Mitchell's calling a policeman a pleb and his subsequent PS3million legal bill become the most costly, toffeenosed, snobbish put-down in history? |
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