Word: sneering
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Even the intimate duets were impersonal. Moving ever so slowly, hanging by the knees from a partner's shoulders, the dancers stared blankly from zombie-like deadpans. Occasionally the master himself relaxed into a sneer, but for the most part it was only by the glistening of sweat or the trembling of a thigh or a bent knee that one could be sure the dancers were human, and not just sinuous, supple machines...
...letterpress printers no longer sneer at offset. In their own shops, they have seen the offset presses rise alongside the giant letterpress machines as versatile, helpful and increasingly indispensable purveyors of the printed word...
Even if their acting range runs far beyond the short course from sneer to leer, they live and die halfway down the marquee...
...arrives at an industrial park to put the touch on his brother, who runs the place. He treads indifferently on the sensibilities of a couple of employees, listens stonily while his brother tells him he is worthless. But once he has the check in hand, he leaves with a sneer for his brother and, as a parting note, adds gratuitous slander of a girl they both knew years ago. That is all there is, or needs to be. In its small, nasty way, the story is perfect. O'Hara knows better, most of the time, than to rummage about...
...Vishnevsky dismissed the budding U.S. atom-bomb shelter program. "If we could only open the eyes of those moles." he wrote recently, "they would surely see that there is no sense in hiding underground. But moles are unseeing creatures and moles of bourgeois origin suffer from class blindness." The sneer was less than convincing, for the writer must have known what most of the U.S. does not: the Soviet Union has been at work for more than a decade on a shelter program of its own, spending an estimated $500 million a year (current U.S. figure...