Word: sneer
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...Boroff its terms are predetermined: "Boy meets girl at Harvard in an atmosphere of stylized distaste. The cold sneer directed at Radcliffe girls is a fixed part of the Harvard physiognomy. In the end, after the requisite sparring they marry...
...pass without some kind of rejoinder in the commentary. When unable to fight their adversary with established facts and statistics, the editors resort to snide remarks and rhetorical tricks. All else failing, they even adopt Lenin's old technique of refutation by quotation marks: e.g. Soviet women are "emancipated" (sneer...
Protestants may be galled by the pretensions of the Roman Catholic Church, but they can ill afford to sneer at Catholic social doctrine, because it is vastly superior to Protestant vacillation between pragmatism and perfectionism. So holds Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, whose perennial willingness to stick out his political and theological neck is one of Protestantism's glories. To make his point, he analyzes Pope John's recent encyclical, Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher), which broadened Catholicism's alignment on the side of the welfare state and endorsed a measure of "socialization" (TIME, July...
...about his work. He has said, truthfully but with ill-seeming defensiveness: "The obstinate habit I have formed of refusing to adopt a synthetic period style, or join any literary racket, has given my poems what would be called a 'handmade, individual craftsmanship quality.' " This is the sneer of a writer who feels that he has received less than his due, and the same poorly disguised pain is visible in his dedication of Collected Poems, To Calliope...
...first in pencil and then in ink. A stickler for just the right detail, he frequently consults his favorite reference, the Sears, Roebuck catalogue, or poses before a Polaroid Land camera (with a self-tripping shutter) to get the authentic look of a clenched fist, a tyrant's sneer, a trouser seat viewed from the rear...