Word: sneering
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...supercilious sneer from most 'Cliffies greeted yesterday's announcement of a future AFROTC unit for women here. "Maybe at some gym teachers' school" was the typical response to the idea of uniforms and weekly drill for the girls on the Quad...
Your magazine has often handled news of England with a sneer, and for the past year, the sneer has become a snarl. Your article "The Conspiracy" hit a new depth of prejudice. You use supposition, ridiculous insinuation and obvious malice to come to an appalling conclusion . . . This is not a time for separating the free world, but a time for strengthening our alliances...
...males in the cast give generally the most impressive individual performances, with Bruce MacDonald given highest honors because he cannot only sneer and hop, but sing. Benjamin Neilson, as the other Earl, is not troubled by this latter difficulty, but carries himself well and obscures none of the humor, which is all that counts. The Lord Chancellor, Arthur Waldstein, has an even less prepossessing voice, and occasionally his froggish hops seem uncertain and feeble, but he does manage some of Gilbert's speedier lyrics, all the while conveying a most Chancellorial wizenedness. Perhaps less sure of himself on stage...
...voice? Or merely a noise produced, like the voice of a cricket, by the violent stridulation of the legs? Words occasionally can be made out, like raisins in cornmeal mush. "Goan . . . git . . . luhhv . . ." And then all at once everything stops, and a big, trembly tender half smile, half sneer smears slowly across the CinemaScope screen. The message that millions of U.S. teen-age girls love to receive has just been delivered...
Aaron's interpretation of the broadcast as having humor is correct, but the script's humor is a very subtle, Wellesian sneer. In the original, the farmer on whose field the first rocket landed was slow and countrived, but in Aaron's he is more of the village idiot...