Word: snickeringly
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...cannot help but feel a certain emptiness when listening to him now. Perhaps it's because his idealism has sustained itself so much better than ours has. One finds oneself restraining a cynical snicker at Seeger's message, which, in jaded moments, seems to be saying no more than. "We are all very nice people, and we all love each other, and, yes, there are some bad people, but if we join hands and sing real loud, we can defeat them and create a utopia where we will play with our children and dance with each other...
...through high school kids would ask me where I was going to go and snicker, knowing that whatever I said, the answer was almost predetermined: Harvard, One friend, to my extreme annoyance, always greeted me as John, son of Dean. On the other hand, I never had anything against the place except its proximity, and always thought it must be rather interesting...
...walls, filled with Nittany Lion stickers, Penn State schedules, art-deco posters of Paterno, autographed pictures of the local stars, speak for themselves. Soon, inevitably, the men watch as the provincial "punks" snicker, scoff and snort about whichever bowl Penn has "bullshat its way into this year," and about whichever regional favorite of theirs could "boot the Nits out of the Top Fifty." After allowing enough time for the rhetoric to billow up and fog the windows over completely, the men call, silently, for bet-backed talk or a little silence from the visitors. The bowl stakes, as well...
...been so long since one of the juvenile leads of '60s New York art was seen, at a party, to peer at one of Alexander Liberman's painted steel sculptures and snicker, "Huh! Vogue fingernail red!" A common prejudice: for years Liberman has borne the reputation of having too much grace under too little pressure. He is accused of having a "designer's eye." Spelled out, this means that Liberman is good at reeling off elegant solutions to undemanding formal problems but has no very striking imagination of his own. Besides, he is editorial director of Conde...
...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...