Word: sneer
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...year except one. The exception: New Jersey Senatorial Candidate Clifford Case, who early in the campaign denounced McCarthy as a "distracting and divisive" force in the Republican Party and in the nation. McCarthy was opposed to Case for "reasons I think will be made public before election." With a sneer, he vaguely referred to some "material" about Case...
...must train yourself to sneer at American cameras and to make vague, rueful references to the Leica that fell overboard. The mention of domestic wines is enough to excuse you, pale-faced, from the supper table, and the hesitation of American girls to accompany you almost immediately to "a little hotel you know" sets your head wagging in good-humored amazement...
...SMIRK, SNEER, CONSPIRE, PLOT, DECEIVE, GLOAT, CONNIVE, LEER and DEFAME...
...want to stay alive," a friend advises her, "you must fight, not sneer. You might think that this is Paris, a safe capital, but it is like any place-the jungle." More bent on escape than combat, Kristina runs into an old flame, Jas Ostrowski. A few glasses of vodka make Jas talkative. "Now, the good girls differ only in one respect from the bad ones," he says. "You lose a tremendous amount of time on them." Kristina is ready and eager to make up for lost time when her long-gone husband shows up with the same idea...
...energetic attempt to fling the mantle of sanctity over several more millions of the entertainment dollar. It offers a number of The Robe's sets, at least two of the same scenes, and three of the same stars -Jay Robinson, who plays the Emperor Caligula with a heavy sneer; Michael Rennie, who portrays Peter as a sort of apostolic Anthony Eden; and Victor Mature, a bulky fellow who helps in filling the huge CinemaScope screen...