Word: sneer
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...March, are rugged and heavily forested with spruce, larch, birch, juniper, maple and walnut. In the forests lurk leopards wild boars, wolves and tigers. Still a menace to the northern peasants, tigers were so much a part of Korean life 30 years ago as to justify the Chinese sneer: "The Korean hunts the tiger one half of the year and the tiger hunts the Korean the other half...
Ringo meets these youths in every bar. They sneer at him, strut, and mutter that "he only has two hands, hasn't he." Then they very quickly draw and die. "Gunfighter" tells of Ringo's attempts to escape from these youths and from his own ability, and of the youth with an incipient moustache who is responsible for his final failure to escape...
...Paramount) is an uneven mixture of effective thriller, bathos, and the kind of melodramatics that calls on an audience to hiss the villain. In Broadway Actor Lyle Bettger, a vain-looking blond with a built-in sneer, the movie also offers a likely candidate for the most hissable heavy since Erich von Stroheim...
Dali emerged from the underbrush of ten-dollar words long enough to sneer knowingly at his contemporaries. "Modern artists are afraid because of their lack of technique," he said, "to face up to the dazzling perfection of the Renaissance . . . The Holy Mother of God is more important than a fruit bowl and a knife...
...When St. Paul preached 'There is no more Jew or Gentile; you are all one in Christ Jesus, who is all and in all,' did they sneer at Him: 'How would you like to have your sister marry a Gentile?' If they did, do you suppose that He compromised Christianity for the sake of popularity or money...