Finally, he stopped in a hallway decorated only by a dark portrait of some old lady sneering aristocratically down her nose at me. |
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Schumacher is arrogant, triumphalist, sneering and a routine breaker of the rules. |
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There are no idiot dads acting like bumbling lunkheads in front of their sneering, wisecracking wives and children. |
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Thus it's easier to regain the high ground by laughing or sneering, or complaining about art getting in the way of commuters. |
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His stunning voice has always had a caustic force behind it, almost as if he's sneering and laughing all at once. |
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He was contemptuous and sneering in pointing out that we were in the wrong carriage. |
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Can negative ninnies like my mother, who raise their families in dark, sneering realms of impossibility, be taught to embrace the possible? |
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The sneering henchmen that talked to her earlier walked forward and handed him a switchblade from his pocket. |
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As far as I can see, it's the privately educated sneering at the under-educated. |
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Pointing out that media poshos sneering at council houses isn't much of a groundbreaker. |
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His eyes speak volumes and a sneering curl of his lip or raising of the brow conveys as much as a page of dialogue or explanation. |
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Surely the whole event reeked of the political correctness that you've made a fortune from sneering at? |
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Like geeky music snobs sneering as their favourite indie band climbs the charts, they view success as a sign of impurity, popularity as poison. |
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It's a sneering analysis of the British political apathy that was prevalent at the time, and a blimmin' good indie-rock choon, too. |
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The attacks were generally very personal and adopted a sneering tone towards particular individuals. |
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She would be unlikely to advance her interests by sneering contemptuously at the people of her own state. |
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He's like Alan but with better hair and without the sneering, punchable arrogance. |
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It's a deuced bit better than becoming a sulking musical conservative, sneering at anything after middle-period Beethoven. |
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I suspect that it's sneering anyone who'd consider watching it, and I don't think programme makers should gob on the hand that feeds them. |
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Alan Rickman has a lot of fun reprising his role as the sneering Professor Snape and Robbie Coltrane is routinely excellent as the genial Hagrid. |
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While pictures often portray the man sneering down his nose at the camera, in person he is strikingly soft-spoken, almost courtly. |
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Far from sneering at our obsolete goods, they'd be raving about all our fabulous antiques. |
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Both know how to ask worthwhile questions and to draw an interviewee out without sneering at them. |
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Top-hatted footmen guard the entrances, sneering politely at the clientele and keeping the passing rabble at bay. |
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Far better that he languishes forgotten, which would punish him, rather than give him attention by sneering at him. |
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Here we may be sneering at the devaluation of the single currency, but in Germany they're laughing all the way to the export markets. |
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The far more disturbing aspect is the sneering tone of accusation that can creep into the latest revelation. |
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They utilised different acting styles as appropriate, from the naturalism of a Geordie volunteer to the highly stylised sneering manner of the GPU agent. |
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He had his arms folded and was sneering like a petulant brat. |
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Such is the lazy refrain of third-rate comedians, sneering metropolitan commentators and people who have never visited but believe everything they read or hear. |
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He is a sneering blond man, with close-cropped hair, and a muscular build. |
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The sneering desperation in his voice is familiar, a relic of smart-alecky emo. |
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His voice was crisp and business-like, as usual, when he wasn't sneering. |
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Their efforts will deserve credit, not sneering from the sidelines. |
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She spent most of the time sneering down her nose at people. |
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He'd found some young man in clothes that were too big for him, sneering and making obscene gestures while some very beautiful but very whorish young women danced around him. |
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There was the sneering velvety croon, power guitar chords and sharp melodies which seemed destined for success at home, in the United States and beyond. |
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In the meantime, today's Russia is fostering sneering attitude to low-paid research scientists. |
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Three months ago, what was on display was the well-developed British talent for carping, sneering, and nitpicking. |
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This is why we on the left must reject the sneering insinuations of the liberals that in our no we find ourselves with strange neo-fascist bedfellows. |
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The event is not coldly cynical or sneering, but humorous and engaging. |
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You hardly hear it now, but in 1979 it was a sneering term for a person who has acquired wealth recently, and is vulgarly ostentatious or lacking in social graces. |
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Brahms and his friends publish a manifesto on their views to which the Neudeutschen send a sneering reply filled with personal invective. |
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Hence Bassline lives up to its name, marrying big beats with Northern sneering swagger. |
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Fans of Boynton's board books might be taken aback by the sneering tone. |
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And his retort to Paxman's consistent sneering was priceless. |
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The BT was formed over 25 years ago by embittered ex-members of our tendency and has been marked by utter disdain for special oppression, not least a sneering contempt for the fight for black freedom. |
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Everything is thrown in their faces: aggressive nicknames, ruthless laughter, plunder, sneering, ridicule, the scar that never heals, the manhandling, the crudeness. |
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George Osborne Oik As posh as David Cameron but without his common touch, he is happiest when sneering malevolently at inferiors from the Government frontbench. |
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There is an unhelpful conflation of what Charlie Hebdo now represents – namely sneering and dismissive attitudes towards immigrants across Europe – and the reason for which it has been granted the award. |
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If they truly believed that Congress were a den of criminal oligarchs, sneering at those who elected them, they would not take children there for civics field-trips. |
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In the sheepshearing scene, Perdita, daughter of Leontes and Hermione, dresses as Lady Liberty, and Ethan Hawke portrays Autolycus as a canny, sneering, but irresistibly charming troubadour of the Townes Van Zandt variety. |
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This is not to suggest that there might not be circumstances in which it might be presented in a sneering, derisive, nasty tone but that is not what the Panel considers the present usage to be. |
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I don't think I'm sneering at Anna but we all got a bit sneery towards the cat near the end as it got paid more than the rest of us put together. |
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In that case, those same sneering anti-Christians must be choking on their Brie at the thought of Mr Succop's kicks clanging off the goal posts, right? |
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Alexander and Clegg defended the policy, saying it would help those on as little as £15,000 a year, and dismissed some who questioned the policy as sneering. |
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Harriet Harman may not be the most gifted of advocates but he could at least have made an effort to listen to what she was saying rather than sneering. |
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Both are snoots sneering down from a pedestal of their own construction. |
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He referred in sneering terms to the neo-conservatives of the United States and basically spent his whole speech running down United States foreign policy. |
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Remarkably, qualification is now a genuine possibility for a New Zealand side who have confounded sneering pre-tournament predictions by emerging unbeaten from their opening two matches. |
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Salvador Dali exhibitions toured the country with great success and the word 'surrealism'now began to appear in the press in a positive light, without the sneering comments. |
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I thought I caught him sneering at Kevin and me, in our crufty pants and shoes, but I couldn't be sure. |
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The chattering classes love nothing more than sneering at our elected politicians. |
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There are moments of profound existential angst, howls of despair at the absurd futilities of war and a sneering disgust at the soul-destroying wastage of human potential. |
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Like Shakespeare by Another Name, Rodney Bolt's History Play shows a sneering dismissiveness toward the Stratford player, used as a beard by a superior mind. |
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