Word: sneer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dali emerged from the underbrush of ten-dollar words long enough to sneer knowingly at his contemporaries. "Modern artists are afraid because of their lack of technique," he said, "to face up to the dazzling perfection of the Renaissance . . . The Holy Mother of God is more important than a fruit bowl and a knife...
...faults, Burnham observes, a little condescendingly, the U.S. businessman is basically loyal to American ideals and will take his proper place in the struggle against Communism. Says Burnham: "I have no sympathy and little patience with those inverse Philistines . . . who sneer so easily at business and businessmen . . . There are motives more injurious than the search for profit; and [businessmen] did not need slave camps to people their frontiers. If this country is 'basely materialistic' in its 'philosophy,' then let it be noted that such materialism is the cause of less suffering and more joy than most...
...When St. Paul preached 'There is no more Jew or Gentile; you are all one in Christ Jesus, who is all and in all,' did they sneer at Him: 'How would you like to have your sister marry a Gentile?' If they did, do you suppose that He compromised Christianity for the sake of popularity or money...