Word: snickeringly
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...gossips, titillated by frequent glimpses of Alice and Raymond strolling in deep communion by the river's edge, let their speculation run free. When Alice's poilu husband Gaston came back from the war a hero, the cheers that greeted him were mingled with many a knowing snicker, snickers directed both at him and at the baby boy his wife bore...
...voice, suddenly lashes into a dissonant mirror-inversion, then subsides into a completely disconnected rhythm that momentarily garbles the beat. The listeners lose all contact with the original tune, but they can dimly perceive other things: a favorite forgotten song, a hymn, a twinge of sadness or an insolent snicker...
...further than his material. His is a common, clean response to the common feelings of common life. There are few, if any, symbols in his work; there is no prediction of doom. Frequently he allows himself a laugh at his characters, but is a healthy laugh and not a snicker...
...said Sorokin, wants to "send sex back to the barroom, the back alley and the whispered snicker . . . But neither can we afford to stand idly by while the conclusions of some well-meaning but misguided investigators are cited to justify the destruction of the moral system which has created and sustained our own free democracy...
...Snickers & Shudders. Today Osborn lives on a Connecticut farm, relaxed and happily at peace with the world until he sits down to draw. Then he spears humanity's Dilberts with the savage drawings that have appeared in such magazines as LIFE, FORTUNE, Look and Holiday. "This," he scrawls in the preface to Low & Inside, "is about the steady plight of man; the anarchy of his laughter and the terrifying lawfulness of his tragedies." Whether readers should snicker or shudder at his insane world, even Osborn doesn't know. "Humor is a funny business," says...