Word: sneering
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...would lose control of his muscles and leap like a jitterbug. His cavorting was invariable: he curved his fingers like claws, walked on the outside of his feet and jerked his legs in the air. Sometimes he twisted his head to one side, curled his lips in a sneer, and rolled his eyes upward, mumbling and clucking to himself. The only way to stop an attack was to lie down and go to sleep...
...highbrow readers will cast the book aside after one look at the jacket. Intelligent folks just do not read Western novels, with pictures of covered wagons and cow-punchers on the outside. So Walter Van Tilburg Clark's "The Ox-Bow Incident" would get no more than a sophisticated sneer from the educated elite...
Heading the list of factors-for-the-good is the cast. Seldom have audiences witnessed a more perfect chronic sneer than that of Laurence Olivier; seldom a more perfect break-down that the first proposal scene. Greer Garson is the second edition of Myrna Loy,--and the second edition can act. Honorable mention goes to Mary Boland, whose past career has been a rehearsal for the part of Mrs. Bennett, and Melville Cooper, whose depiction of stuffed shirts is rapidly approaching...
...Dixon Ryan Fox and Hamilton's William Harold Cowley. Neighbors Fox and Cowley, both of whom voted for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936, issued a joint statement: "Emphasizing the admitted iniquities of a small number of businessmen, the administration allowed itself to underrate and even to sneer at the contribution of business enterprise to our national welfare. . . . It may have been the manner as much as the measures of the administration which produced this impression, but in any event this impression has in our judgment been disastrous...
...mind us, Velma, we just dropped in to sneer at your towels...