Word: sneered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goes on behind their backs. It may be this lack of respect that drives a few hobbyists to play with full-size trains. You may rage at a plutocrat who swans around in his private railroad car, but unless you have one of your own, it is hard to sneer...
...volunteer." (He receives $400 a day for expenses, far below his normal income.) If the July 6 closing ceremonies are an extravaganza, Wolper says defensively, "the sixth is a big party. This country enjoys that sort of thing. People want to have a good time." And while critics sneer at the 200 Elvis Presley look-alikes, he grouses, "Nobody talks about Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic." Nor, he adds, is anyone giving him credit for the two-day conference of creative thinkers on liberty...
...lover (Sting) and two of her husband's superiors in the diplomatic corps (John Gielgud and Ian McKellen)--have delicious verbal turns of their own. Among its other virtues, Plenty is the year's funniest film, to those with a taste for English mandarin scorn: the word unspoken, the sneer barely repressed, euphemism as an act of smart-club malice...
...help it. You seethe with jealousy. She has just fulfilled your innermost fantasy. So you open the book your face set in a prearranged sneer, ready and expecting to find the work a painfully self-conscious first novel. "It's bound to be maudlinly autobiographical," you reassure yourself. In fact, you are convinced it will take place in the hallways of your old school, it does nothing of the sort. It proves to be breathtaking--and by the 30th page you have even forgotten your envious venom...
...Democratic congressional staffer sympathetic to the council candidly calls it "an anticaucus caucus." Many Democratic leaders sneer that the group is trying to cure the party's excessive factionalism by introducing still more factionalism. "You can't rebuild something that is split by splitting it further," says an official of the AFL-CIO, which suspects that the council is out to reduce labor's influence in the party. South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings calls the group "divisive and harmful." Others suspect that the council is likely to become a vehicle for the 1988 presidential ambitions of some of its founders...