Word: sneer
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Holmes, Hammett's Eyes were driven by no moral obligation; they had a job, and they tried to do it competently. With an irreverent sneer at their proper predecessors, they succeeded and survived because they were tough, not because they were notably intelligent. Things happened to them: they faced pistols, boredom, and bad stomachs from too many foul meals eaten on the run. Hammett's Sam Spade soon found an acceptable running mate in Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe who would tell the girls: "The first time we met, I told you I was a detective...
...disarmament proposal was "a pure propaganda maneuver," then it is apparently too bad we did not think of it first. It may be worse than just too bad, if we, as you have done, attempt to sneer at it or to laugh it off as impractical...
Orval Faubus could not resist a parting sneer at his old foe. Said he: "Ashmore has received a promotion to use his brainwashing talents on a far wider scale...
...nature of a Catholic's religion. And this is frequently compounded by an insufficient awareness in Catholics themselves of the implications of their position as members of the Church and at the same time students of the University. This dual misunderstanding often leads to the skeptic's sneer at the intellectual vacuity of Catholicism, and breeds in some Catholics a shy defensive attitude, or even a position of religious relativism...
...congratulate one another, a worrier may still brood. Now that an evening of parlor singing can be bought at a record store, eliminating the need for any actual singing in the parlor, why not a night's recorded conversation, eliminating the need to talk? Possible titles: Sneer Along with Mort Sahl, Rant and Rave with Senator Eastland, Analyze with Famous Freudian and Moan and Groan with Joseph Alsop...