Word: snickeringly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some ways this is the customary Murdoch blend of incipient farce, domestic tragicomedy and intellectual soap opera. Baroque pratfalls occur as usual, but neither the release of laughter nor the expected snicker of superiority (what odd and frightful people!) follows. Blaise knows that his psychological theorizing is mostly cant, yet he does have a knack for helping his patients. His visits to sharp-tongued Emily's apartment are mixed blessings-it is a hate nest in which the girl spends a good deal of time demanding money to have her teeth fixed. Harriet at first seems too kind...
...taint of going nuclear. In a wave of empathetic machismo following the test, Buenos Aires' independent daily La Opinion declared: "India is more respectable now." New Delhi insists that its nuclear "devices" will be used for peaceful purposes only, such as petroleum and natural-gas exploration. Most experts snicker at the disclaimer. "A bang is a bang. The technology is the same," insists a Canadian official. Adds Professor George Quester, director of Cornell University's Program on Peace Studies and author of The Politics of Nuclear Proliferation: "No one has yet bought himself a big firecracker and been...
...Audiences could once turn to the screen for fables of certainty; directors like John Ford obliged them with sagas of just men fighting for a righteous citizenry. Now we are not even asked to lament nostalgic visions of an idealistic America. With-it Hollywood hacks would simply have us snicker at the degradation that seems to be surrounding...
...fifty metres round and eighteen high," bounded by hard rubber walls, pulsing with shadowless yellow light, oscillating between extreme heat and cold--"abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one." A first reaction: as if among an audience, hearing a doubtful line, you are tempted to snicker, until looking around you see all the rest staying silent and sober, and the glint in the speaker's eye refusing to lighten his dead...
...political structure has normally excluded solutions to public problems which would significantly alter the distribution of power. But the mere act of shaking up that structure is not sufficient. Not every form of polarization is desirable. Wallace's victory is something neither to rejoice about, nor even cynically to snicker...