Word: snideness
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Moreover, if Adams House is representative of the undergraduate body as a whole--and no snide one-liners about that, please--it looks like owners of hardened silos all over campus are in good shape. The House Committee wanted nothing to do with it. And residents had a lot of different reasons for shooting down the referendum...
...friends at the Loeb, your attention we beg, Don't let Beckett prevent you from breaking a leg. For Ozment who o'ersees the vaunted CUE guide. Don't cower--go on, be subjective, be snide. If professors don't like what you say of their course. One look at their students will rid their course. One look at their students will rid their remorse. For Sociology youngsters Skocpol and Starr. Tenure--so close and yet ever so far. And to Carlo Rubbia we must give our praise. For chasing those atoms for days and for days. Now Georgi, Glashow...
...realize at once Vinnie Miner hides a jackpot full of eccentricity behind her vencer of conventionalism. She studies literature, but the literature of children's rhymes: she does not degrade herself with snide retorts to her academic detractors, but she imagines them torturously consumed by progressive pneumonia: she lives alone without visible regret, but she imagines a dirty dog Fido, or Self-Pity, as her constant companion. And now Vinnie, ahem, Professor Vinnie Miner, who wouldn't even lower herself to see the musical Oklahoma, finds herself making love to a hoky sanitation engineer from Fulsa...
...classic Democratic primary to fill the U.S. Congress seat being vacated by Senate hopeful James M. Shannon, a barroom brawl well-matched enough to be interesting, and chock full of snide advertising, nasty charges and heated countercharges...
Condescension informs much of the literature about Los Angeles, or something darker (The Day of the Locust). It seems to beget in the outsider the tendency to be snide, to say, for example, that if Houston is the buckle on the Sunbelt, L.A. is the melanoma. "Double Dubuque," H.L. Mencken called it. Westbrook Pegler proposed that the city be declared incompetent and placed in the charge of a guardian...