Word: sneering
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...sneer at us because we have passed legislation forbidding families with children to live in single-room apartments. We can only conclude, from your snide language, that you think families should be permitted to live in such conditions...
Seven Plays, by Bertolt Brecht. Roguish laughter, a cynic's sneer, tears of compassion, and a lacerated concern with the spectacle of man selling his fellow...
Seven Plays, by Bertolt Brecht. Roguish laughter, a cynic's sneer, tears of compassion, and a lacerated concern with the spectacle of man selling his fellow man keep exciting, if contradictory, company in the works of this remarkable playwright...
Reverses in the Hills. Castro has reason to sneer. For 14 months large groups of rebels have been fighting a desperate battle through the hills of Cuba. It is a battle that Castro is winning. He has poured 60,000 militiamen into the central Escambray hills alone and claims to have captured 80% of the 1,000 rebels operating there. Though the claims are undoubtedly exaggerated, the rebels have been scattered, disorganized and discouraged. Several leaders have been killed, others captured; a few have been smuggled out of Cuba to Miami, where they are trying to reorganize for another attempt...
...show has its palpable good points -for a starter, George Abbott's direction. When the scarlet ladies, decked out by Cecil Beaton with inspired bad taste, stomp the stage, celebrate the flesh and sneer at the clergy, Tenderloin has a fleering, gamy exuberance. Again, when the stage rocks with the round-dance economics of How the Money Changes Hands, or Ron Husmann rolls out The Picture of Happiness, there is sass and to spare. Jerry Bock's score is better than average, and the Sheldon Harnick lyrics are better than the score...