Word: sneer
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...please don't sneer, you Harvard Square Cultural Elitists, you snobs who hissed violently at the TV commercials, who rolled your eyes when your pre-adolescent sister begged you to take her to Cocktail...
While Americans may sneer at the far more expensive addiction of Europe's farmers to subsidies and trade barriers, some of Uncle Sam's industries cannot live without a stiff fix from Washington. U.S. shipyards enjoy the protection of a 50% tax imposed on nonemergency repairs of U.S.-owned ships in foreign yards. Another boost to maritime interests is a law that prohibits foreign- built vessels from carrying goods from one American port to another. In Geneva, U.S. negotiators say they want to exempt shipping altogether from the new GATT regime. Extensive textile quotas, which the Uruguay Round proposes...
...Clifton Lazenby is a formidable Macbeth. He delivers his lines with exacting clarity and intensity, revealing the most cunning and devious side of the character. Lazenby's strong presence makes his occasional lapses into "indication" of evil--a rubbing of the chin, or a devious sneer--thankfully unnecessary...
...easy to sneer at this process whereby the daintier elements of the press can enjoy sex while still claiming to have preserved their virginity: they simply wait for their less fastidious brethren to report something, then report -- with distaste -- that it has been reported. But it's harder to know how to avoid the problem. The fact that a story claiming that Bill Clinton has had six mistresses appeared on the front page of the New York Post is of legitimate news value to the readers of the New York Times. At some point the Times must have faith that...
Frivolous, you say; self-indulgent too. Never mind, say I. People who sneer thus are merely afflicted with geography envy; they are wedded to the misconception that a glorious autumn must be followed by a dark and dreary winter. There are those, nurtured on another coast, who believe nothing great can be accomplished where palm trees grow outdoors. The technical innovations in electronics and biotechnology begotten by labs at Stanford and Berkeley, not to mention the invention of the Jefferson Airplane, put the lie to such wrongheaded thinking. Important things do happen here...