Word: sneering
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Although Hochanadel's day in the sun was muted by the Harvard loss he still can legitimately tell his grandchildren that he hit a home run over the Green Monster. And that is nothing to sneer at, especially when the vast majority of baseball fans can't even entertain the thought of a cup of coffee in the big show...
Much of this backlash is predictable, driven by the yearly migration of pack journalists racing from one trendy locale to the next and then turning back to sneer at the place they just left. Some of it comes from the I-told-you-so quarter, composed largely of reactionary fogies who flaunt the fact that they don't know a modem from a mousetrap. "The modern world is not dying for want of more information," Russell Baker harrumphed in a New York Times column last month, assailing, among other things, the word cyberspace itself ("... if you were given a choice...
...first of half a dozen scheduled debates with Nethercutt, Foley even managed to muster something that resembled a sneer as he suggested that his opponent would help "move the speakership of the House from eastern Washington to Georgia," an allusion to would-be Speaker Newt Gingrich's district, in exchange for "the lowest position on the House Agriculture Committee," Nethercutt's presumed assignment. His face deeply flushed, Foley shouted, "I fight every day with greater influence on issue after issue for the people of this district...
...take it personally. Your restaurant manners were impeccable; your gratuity was generous to a fault. Then why did the waitress sneer at you, and why were the waiters so ill tempered? In fact, what was it with all the snarly help, all the way along your Rocky Mountain holiday this summer? They couldn't all have got out of bed on the wrong side, could they? No. That would assume they all had beds. On the contrary, many of these people, out of necessity, were sleeping in dirt. It would put you in a bad mood...
Fans might sneer at that. Oh, they enjoy the onslaught -- catching those souvenir gopher balls, urging the home team on to a nine-run rally in the last at-bat. Yet they suspect that the quality of baseball is declining and that players make too much money at a kid's game...