Word: sneer
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...forward to stick his face out, daring the hardest slugger in the game to hit him. Duran tried, but too many of his punches fell short. Said Leonard: "I saw him slowing down. I noticed his pace change. I looked in his face and I saw the change. The sneer was gone." Still, Ray Arcel, 81, Duran's cornerman, was stunned when his man quit. "I have never seen him throw up his hands and stop," Arcel said. "I almost fainted when I saw it. I don't even have a vocabulary to express my amazement...
...season puts a lecherous sneer back into...
Wolfe's New Journalistic heritage resurfaced last year in The Right Stuff, a book he worked on for eight years. The book showed Saturation Reporting at its best but the empathy was gone; enter the solemn sneer. Wolfe spent lots of time with the astronauts, talked to them for hours, but never in The Right Stuff does he show them anywhere near the amount of respect that he displayed toward stock car racer Junior Johnson or the girls in the Women's House of Detention, both subjects of '60s Esquire articles...
Major labels sneer at import sales figures: only one of 50 import singles sells more than 500 copies and a good-selling import album does about 2500, compared to the 100,000-plus sales needed for a Big 6 group just to stay afloat, just to earn the chance to make another album...
Jimmy Arias isn't an asshole any more. He doesn't toss his racquet or curse; he pouts only occasionally. More often he follows a miscue with a fierce sneer as he stomps cross court, determined to punish the ball for betraying him. The youngest player ever to receive an Association of Tennis Professions (ATP) world ranking has risen above the junior tennis mentality that constricted my back hand on big break points and has been the downfall of many wunderkind who far surpassed me in talent. He is playing now to challenge himself, to fulfill a greatness he knows...