Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration's prestige squarely behind continued foreign aid and took aim on those in and out of Congress who sneer at aid as a "giveaway." Snapped he: "We cannot afford to have one of our most essential security programs shot down with a slogan...
...They call us the Silent Generation," he said with a sneer. "The hydramatic men. We don't speak, we don't act, we don't create." He paused. "We are the spawn of a depression decade; we were old in the cradle...
...when she is play-acting within a play, she is particularly funny, whenever she is deceiving her spouse. As the most sophisticated of Horner's conquests, Pamela Brown performs with a consummate knowingness, an ineffable arrogance; where Julie is all gurgle and prance, Pamela is all polish and sneer. The two actresses play rings around Laurence Harvey's over-mannered and frilly Horner. Indeed, the whole production is too much in a foppish would-be (but probably never-was) Restoration style. Dancing pumps may suit The Country Wife better than clogs, but neither is ideal. The play needs...
...long time getting to Comic Paar, a Canton, Ohio, boy whose mother wanted him to become a minister. Instead, he quit school after the tenth grade to become a radio writer and performer, drifted into TV chiefly as a summer replacement. Now, sporting a toupee and a confident sneer of a smile, the new Paar, 39, zanily preens himself, takes pride in guest performers he has shuttled starward (Comedienne Carol Burnett, Singers Diahann Carroll, Trish Dwelley), exchanges mad colloquies with a redhaired, clodpated comedienne named Dody Goodman, and, against his agent's advice, calls himself "the King." (Explains Paar...
Anti-Sentimentalist. Cozzens himself often talks as if he did not give a damn. As an acquaintance puts it: "He is a shy, sweet man who says impermissible things." Cozzens will sneer of a friend: "Oh, he's one of those fellows that want equality for Indians." He will say on the race issue: "I like anybody if he's a nice guy, but I've never met many Negroes who were nice guys." He says what the public-relations-minded would never dare say-not only from self-confessed snobbery or in tribute to the Toryism...