Word: sneering
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...girl (Michelle Monaghan). "This guy happens to be really good at what he does, but it's a prison," says Abrams. "This woman is a light and gives him a sense of hope." Providing the darkness is Hoffman, who sheds his Capote lisp for a really scary sneer...
...Those who sneer at the chicken tikka masala for being inauthentic?and many do?would do well to read Collingham's lovely new book. Tracking down the origins of popular Indian dishes like the biryani, korma, vindaloo, and dhansak, she makes the surprising discovery that most of Indian cuisine is, in fact, a mongrel creation. As she shows, many of the dishes that seem most quintessentially "Indian" to Western palates are reworkings of Middle Eastern prototypes brought to India by immigrants and invaders. Over the centuries, Turks, Mongols and Persians rode down into India, bringing their love of meat...
...review Michael Crichton for this issue?” one Arts editor says with a sneer, as if the name “Crichton” were as repulsive to the lips as “Kevin Federline...
...much fine material, put to such shoddy use. Like Woody Allen's Zelig, Heaven raids archives for vintage film clips; like Warren Beatty's Reds, it calls on witnesses to describe and argue about its theme. But both sources are compromised by the directorial sneer. Keaton rarely lets a remark or a film sequence run complete; instead she bends its intent to her skewed reading. The interviewees are photographed through cookie-cutout shadows, distracting the audience as well as the subjects. These are the techniques of a filmmaker short on trust, and the condescending tone rankles throughout. Sitting through Heaven...
...proud of who they are. Sometimes that simply means raising queer visibility; sometimes that means throwing a party; sometimes that means educating people about issues like campus policies; and sometimes that means talking about sexual practices or identities that are normally only mentioned with a snicker or a sneer...