Word: snideness
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...sure you will counter by contending that you are doing whatever you can to help Harvard win. Perhaps. But there’s a right way and a wrong way to rattle an opponent. A high volume of noise is far more effective than a few snide remarks...
...Writers are often quite different in the flesh than in their books. And, on the eve of the release of Theroux's 47th, it was striking how much an author frequently chastised for snide condescension toward numerous realms and races appeared genuinely genial and warm-hearted. Was this really the same man taken to task for stereotyping Chinese train companions as venal, and writing of Africans that "the best of them are bare-assed"? (See the top 10 of nonfictin books...
Alice was considered the first female celebrity of the 20th century, but her ordeal occurred well before 24-hour news and carnivores with cameras. Chelsea Clinton's did not. Which explains why Chelsea appeared to be the Garbo of presidential children; after some snide remarks in the press about her awkward adolescence, Chelsea was shielded in the élite Quaker fortress of Sidwell Friends School and fiercely protected by her parents. When Rush Limbaugh called her "the White House dog," T-shirts appeared saying LEAVE CHELSEA ALONE. Which, remarkably, most people...
...story. He also provides a relatively detached critical insight into the more volatile personalities at work; this distance offers some respite from the roiling, overheated emotion of the female protagonists. Tadashi, amusingly, does not neglect to insert his own opinions into the other narratives, in the form of slightly snide footnotes and cross-references to previously mentioned information.Boyle clearly has a gift for the compelling. As the self-appointed narrator of this tale, Tadashi illustrates the life of the so-called apprentices who sign up to learn from Wright at Taliesin (both his home and studio) and instead find themselves...
...pork." In fact, "pork" is often defined as earmarked spending. And sure, many of the controversial earmarks in the current budget bill do sound porky, like $332,500 for a school sidewalk in Franklin, Texas, or $75,000 for a Totally Teen Zone in Albany, Georgia. McCain has twittered snide comments about $2.1 million for the Center for Grape Genetics ("quick peel me a grape"), $209,000 to improve blueberry production and efficiency in Georgia, $1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa. But those earmarks sound porky because they sound wasteful, not because they were earmarked; if a Department...