Word: snobbish
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...they are soft and girlish and ladylike and misnancyfied and snobbish. I don’t like them. I don’t think they’re manly and the kind to succeed...
...Garth bigotry; indeed, the first time my freshman year roommate blasted “Rodeo” (It’s bulls and blood / it’s dust and mud / it’s the roar of a Sunday crowd) in our cramped dorm room, I felt every snobbish joint in my body stiffen, and I slipped on my headphones and pumped up Radiohead, or something similarly trendy...
...Talent” Hallett always knew that she would stay on the East Coast and Baltimore proved perfect with its off-Broadway plays, harbor, and close proximity to family and ex-Crimson friends in the nation’s capital. Tired of reporting on Harvard’s snobbish set, Vicky chose the metro beat because she feels the pulse of everyday life and demands its story—the hardhats at the old construction site, the mothers in the grocery store, the mayor and her coterie...
...very few writers to have a whole, book-length cruise missile of a memoir fired at him by a fellow writer. In 1998 Paul Theroux, in a striking fit of Oedipal peevishness, published Sir Vidia's Shadow, painting his former friend and mentor as a self-obsessed, avaricious, pathologically snobbish brute. Perhaps he is. If so, he is not the first major writer to be one. Generally, nice guys don't do too much for world literature...
...audience has a way of not taking artists really seriously unless they are in some way "transgressive." To expect transgression from Thiebaud is to miss out on his pictures. He wants to offer people an intelligent pleasure, a spectrum of feeling that isn't snobbish or exclusive--and that acknowledges that there are some kinds of completely valid art, maybe more than we want to think, that go deep just because they look simple. They have concealed themselves behind the pleasure they offer...