But, typically, more than a few self-appointed culture mavens and media snobs were snickering under their breath. |
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He was from Barker, she learnt, forced to go to the private school much like she was, sharing her hatred for the snobs of their area. |
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Unlike the fivesome's debut, this record speaks not only to the pop-savvy nostalgia snobs, but to oblivious youth culture as well. |
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Theirs is a sequel film received lukewarmly by media snobs though quite popular based on box-office numbers. |
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The same juvenile impulse that once inspired liberals to dress down as slobs now inspires them to assume the role of high school snobs. |
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There were occasional genuflections to the original, for the edification of purist snobs. |
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Imagine overeducated music snobs debating the nuances of piano noodlings that he cranked out in one take! |
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These kiddies are young and you won't be finding too much to appeal to the music snobs, but that there's some potential. |
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How many food snobs would still be raving about white truffles if they were ubiquitous? |
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There have always been classical and opera snobs who look down on the inferior world of pop and rock. |
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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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They plug into portable devices and laptops, and will impress even insufferable music snobs. |
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What is it with music snobs only being able to appreciate good throwaway pop ten years later? |
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There is obvious pleasure in exposing wine snobs, even more than Literature snobs. |
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Broadsheet snobs can dismiss me all they like, but I'm selling papers and they're not. |
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We'll sound like snobs if we say the country club and if we say our club we'll sound like I-don't knows! |
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A respected international footballer speaking decent Spanish and enjoying life in Madrid should shut up both the snobs and the Europhobes. |
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And with the stuck-up snobs corralled up on the third floor landing, I skipped my way down the stairs, almost singing to myself. |
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It is being run by champagne socialists and intellectual snobs and the Mayor is a eunuch. |
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Even the most pretentious of wine snobs, not that I know any, can expect to be amazed at Bacar. |
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Indie snobs think anything that isn't difficult to like in some way is somehow inferior to pop. |
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They tend to be illiberal, boorish, uncultured, arrogant snobs. |
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It has come to signify a group of intolerable, conceited, ruthless snobs. |
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Enterprising Antipodeans are going into business to service this army of beverage snobs who scour the capital looking for a piccolo or a flat white. |
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Dancers as objects of arts in display cases and dancers imitating visitors, pretending to be art snobs and dancing in slow motion. |
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And C: Golf is an real sport and not, as previously assumed, a pastime for aging, somewhat anglophile snobs. |
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Conrad, the most academically qualified player in the Hurricanes, if not the Super 12, shatters the image that snobs like to have of the rugby boofhead. |
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I run a business, if it flops I'm accountable and suffer the consequences, so why not have the same rule for the snobs who run the biggest companies? |
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They were all rich snobs that thought people like myself lower than dirt. |
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He suffered neither fools nor snobs gladly and lost millions creating prototypes of aeroplanes that other companies would benefit from afterwards. |
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Why should she care if it was governed by arrogant snobs like Veronica? |
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It points out how primitively produced goods are preferred by snobs because they are different and more expensive rather than because they are better in any way. |
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We called them stuck-up snobs, and they called us lowdown hicks. |
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I think they are snobs and do not want to be associated with Swindon. |
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The nice thing about your mother is that she doesn't really care what you do, ideally, because some mothers are snobs, and that causes great problems. |
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The most common criticism is that they are snobs who criticise ordinary members of the public about their clothes and humiliate them on television. |
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But I'd argue that among rock snobs of all ages, quiet is the new loud. |
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The range of drinks available, and the local approach to them, makes Italy the most sophisticated drinking culture in Europe, and there are hardly any wine snobs. |
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I wish I had, because my dread about being trapped with cruise-ship bozos would have been replaced by a more accurate dread of being trapped with ocean-liner snobs. |
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He was from the other end of town, the one I considered to be full of snobs. |
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The more they look like braying upper-class snobs with contempt for ordinary people, the more doomed they are. |
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I know that rosé is not taken seriously by wine snobs and, yes, it tastes like mouthwash back in England. |
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Common to both the machos and the snobs is intense homophobia. |
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Golfers need to relate to real people and not act like silver-spoon snobs. |
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Wine snobs denigrate aromatic, off-dry whites like this ripe, musky, hot-house grape-stashed muscat, with an intriguing hint of aniseed on the finish. |
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Forget the image of stuck-up snobs looking down their noses at the novice. |
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In the 18th century, chocolate is considered for a long time an exotic colonial drink reserved for the Court, clergy and the elite, snobs and businessmen staying in the modern salons of Europe. |
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Adopted by the snobs of that time, its use quickly increases. |
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Unfortunately we became known on the audition circuit as pretentious snobs who never hired anyone anyway, so why bother putting in the effort to prepare an audition? |
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Man bag is a neologism that us style snobs avoid. |
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We are a national of social climbers and snobs who constantly judge others but are terrified of being judged ourselves. |
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If a robusta is capable of having positive flavor atributes and is used to create an interesting specialty coffee should it be shunned by anti robusta snobs like me? |
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Imps see pixies as uppity, giggly snobs, sniffing too many snootfuls of pollen. |
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Were you tarred with the same brush as those canting snobs who doomed a poor old man to a living death? |
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Evidently, the joke's on all the hipsters and music snobs who've long dismissed Leon Redbone's retro jazz and Tin Pan Alley vaudeville schtick. |
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The myth of the Loyalists as seen through Canadian eyes is that they were a lot of upper-class snobs who thought they owned the country and lorded it over later immigrants, as some of their offspring indeed attempted to do. |
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The long-term goal is to double the number of American outlets to 15,000 not least by opening coffee shops along highways and to have an equal number abroad. No doubt the coffee snobs will blanch at the prospect. |
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Not the snobs who judge everything with a thousand references. |
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Since Lucan's day, snobs have been greatly emarginated. |
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To others, the complainers were fogies and snobs. |
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It should appall wine snobs, beer swillers and even teetotalers. |
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Well, for a start we're not Parisians – we're not snobs. |
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The glaur, the wind, the awful clothes, the bores and the snobs are all worth putting up with. |
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Most of the people in the club are snobs who look down on people who attended public schools. |
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And while some snobs might think aubrieta is just too common to be given garden space, the way it can colour a vast, dull area never fails to impress me. |
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This coming from rich snobs who were spoon-fed and claim expenses. |
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