Word: snideness
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...tension of each confrontation between Gaston and the Renauds' is relieved, but not diffused, in several minor scenes. Eric Ronis, who plays the butler, is single-handedly responsible for some of the most humorous episodes in the play. He is cynical, sarcastic and almost painfully snide. As a whole, Traveller Without Luggage moves smoothly from scene to scene, escaping the tiresome emotional overload which seems inherent to the story-line of the play itself...
...have presented another snide, patronizing reference to the minimal part played by Britain and the other Allies in the Normandy landings. I was beginning to think that the U.S. had grown up and was no longer a braggart. How sad to find that you still need to hog the glory...
Other writers, though, say the hippies have lost out. "I'm really offended by a tone that pervades much of the Let's Go writing--it's the slightly snide, know-it-all rich kid tone," says Schor...
...gliding menace; the deserted nighttime streets are washed chrome-shiny by rain. The high-school scenes, which are neither coarse nor condescending, put every other current teenpic to shame. Carpenter's cast mixes vigorous old pros with young comers; Keith Gordon is a hilariously intense Jekyll-and-Snide. The movie-Carpenter's best since Halloween-is at heart a deadpan satire of the American male's love affair with his car. This Christine is one lean mean funny machine. -By Richard Corliss...
Asking whether Harvard belongs in the top five is like asking whether the U.S. is one of the top five nuclear superpowers. Snide, you say? Maybe, Arrogant? Probably. But it's the veritas nonetheless. Harvard may not be the best of all possible collegiate worlds, though that's a distinct possibility, but who are our real world "competitors...