Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Volpone" is a long and beautifully bred sneer, tuned within an octave whose extremes are its own deft slapstick and the high cyniscism of "Caprice". Ben Jonson gave the Fox his being and his taste to trick the would be inheritors, who licked his hands for the delicious death sweat. Since then "Volpone" has been through the adaptation of Stefan Sweig and the translation of Ruth Langner. Even now, in the buzz of Mosca the Gadfly, the pandering servant who wins gold for Volpone to dirk him in the end with his own weapons of pen, ink and attested parchment...
...Marie Xavier Raphaël Antoine Melchior de Polignac, Due de Valentinois, and Comte de Polignac, stepped forth before suspicious, hostile eyes. Proud, race-conscious Monégasques (Monaco natives) despise Prince Pierre as a mere naturalized citizen of Monaco, and a black-hearted Frenchman under his skin. They sneer at the means by which he became Crown Prince-married into it, faugh...
Again paraphrasing President Coolidge, though in more vigorous language, Dr. Stresemann added: "It is cheap to sneer at the Kellogg Pact renouncing war. The Kellogg pact is what the governments and peoples themselves will make of it. I do not doubt that history will see in it an important advance toward better international relations...
...exercise of his profession, he is curiously without legal protection, or social position. According to the whim of the moment the man he interviews may paste him at the first question, or sneer, or smile. If the reporter develops as a result of this a cynical contempt for all the other estates, a perpetual grouch, an inferiority complex, it is not surprising...
Edwardian. This son, Nicholas, married a spirited girl who brought to Babyon Court a virile zest for life, but lost it in the murky shadows of the portrait gallery. Frightened by the black sneer of Hariot and Isabella, she rushed from the gallery, fell stumbling down the broad staircase, and lost her unborn child. She never had another, for Nicholas, last of the Babyons, was old and bitter and resigned, given to eerie moods...