Word: snideness
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...fact, Lottman himself remains scrupulously objective and un-engaged throughout The Left Bank Aside from an occasional snide remarks--for example, writing about rightist author Pierre Drieu La Rochelle: "Drieu's biography reads like fiction, which is why it can be preferred to his own books" and an at times unflattering portrait of Malraux Lottman refuses to editorialize. Instead, he paints a marvelously detailed picture of the writers and artists of Paris's Left Bank, their milieu and the confused, often ambiguous way they dealt with the events of their time...
SIDNEY BRUHL lives in the wilds of East Hampton with his dotty wife Myra and her brown Mercedes. She's very rich; he's written four Broadway flops. She screams when the telephone rings; he's snide, dry, urbane and British. She has a weak heart; he collects antique instruments of destruction. And they don't get along too well either. It all seems so obvious...
...response to Reggie Jackson's snide explanation of why he didn't choose the Orioles ("the only trouble with Baltimore is it's in Baltimore") [March 29], I have this to say: The only trouble with Reggie Jackson is he's Reggie Jackson. Baltimore is a much better place without him, and the Orioles certainly don't need him to remain serious contenders. We have proved that fact in the past two seasons...
...same students have produced The Salient, a right-wing newspaper that appe..rs twice monthly, combining extensive editorials and selective news coverage with snide cracks about Tip O'Neill's waistline and anything even resembling federal regulation...
...years in Congress, some feminists criticized her ambivalence on such issues as day care and abortion. Indeed, Grasso was always a reluctant feminist. Yet so solid was her reputation as a politician that when she ran for Governor in 1974, sex was not an issue, aside from a few snide remarks about a "Governess." The state was ready, in Grasso's words, for "somebody with determination who wants to work and does not want to put up with all the trappings of office." She won in a landslide...