Word: snob
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Yeats wished for his girl a sense of ceremony and tradition in A Prayer for My Daughter. I'd repeat that wish for you, as long as you did not turn into a snob, like Yeats. In This Side of the Truth, Dylan Thomas, probably hoping to protect himself, wished that his son Llewelyn would hold all judgments in abeyance. "Each truth," he wrote, "each lie, dies in unjudging love." That I will not wish...
...Harvard school is number one in the country," says Robert M. Maxwell, dean of Princeton's school of design. "It's not just a snob school--it seems to be very concerned with education. Harvard still stands for social responsibility in architecture...
There is, of course, no question which treatment he prefers. For 16 years Balthus was director of the French Academy at the Villa Medici in Rome: never a sinecure for the meek, and perhaps not since Ingres's day held by a more indurated snob than Balthus. One can follow his appetite for grandeur as the name evolves: plain Balthasar Klossowski to start, then Balthasar de Klossowski, then Klossowski de Rola, and now, in his eighth decade, the "Comte de Rola." The fact that he has been able to fend off inquiry about his origins for so long...
...renovation plans, complied with each building ordinance and applied to the city landmarks preservation commission for permission to keep his new awning. Then the underdog syndrome took over. While Choi started getting fan letters, Bernstein got 60 obscene phone calls. A writer from Gourmet magazine called her a snob. Customers like a little cause célèbre with then-caviar. Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea after...
...from his desire to be loved. By contrast, Hester's willingness to sacrifice her goals in the name of higher things--namely the love of her daughter--differentiates her from Brill. By the novel's end. Hester reveals Brill for what he truly is: a self-important, elitist, intellectual snob...