Word: sneers
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...form, liquid and monumental. The song: 4 - Jack White and Alicia Keys duet on a power-pop number that's tenacious but not delightful. Chief villain: 6 - Amalric, who normally plays underdogs, hasn't the stature of a Dr. No or a Salamanca, but he's got the evil sneer down pat. Bond girl: 9 - Olga Kurylenko is more than OK. Fight scenes: 9 - frenetic, if familiar. And Bond - 7: Craig certainly fills the frame of a modern, wounded action hero; but, just once or twice, could he, and this mostly knuckle-cracking, often crackerjack film, crack a smile...
...tensions, distrust and resentments roil beneath the surface, and they can erupt quickly and intensely. Haji Kaadam says Iraqi Army vehicles scream past his checkpoints at reckless speeds and says some Army officers have been demanding that the Sons of Iraq salute them. The Iraqi Army officers, meanwhile, sneer that the Sons of Iraq are either incapable of maintaining security or, worse, provide it selectively...
...Dennis Kucinich. Students themselves aren’t to blame for this zeallessness, though, but the confluence of events utterly beyond our control.Not least of which is one merely logistical in nature. Revolution Books, once a remarkable communist bookshop, has fallen from grace. It limps along aside the capitalist sneer of its neighbor, the overpriced crêperie, open only a few hours a week. How are we ‘careerists’ supposed to get our class struggle going if we can only pick up pamphlets from two to six on a Friday?James M. Larkin...
...Frederick just looked at her and The Stable Boy with a faint sneer...
...that this vapid, reactionary kind of irony is on the wane. Nonetheless, the aesthetic of acerbity is still very much in vogue. The issue for many up-and-coming bands—particularly for “indie” bands—has thus become learning how to sneer without sacrificing creativity.With their debut album “Oracular Spectacular,” Brooklyn band MGMT gets at least half way there. Founders Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden manage to come off as wry while avoiding unconstructive disdain. Over an epically constructed musical mise-en-scène, they...