Word: snobbish
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...current four. This allowed for much more diverse houses, because it required many more blocking groups to be randomized, thereby diluting the character of any given house. But houses still retained strong personalities. For instance, before I came to Harvard, I remember being warned that Adams House was unbearably snobbish, artsy and avant-garde. When I got here, I found these warnings to be exaggerated; Adams does have these traits to a certain extent, but it's much more mainstream than I had expected. What I found out from older students, however, was that Adams really was that...
Then we have Atsuko Yamamoto (Joan Cheng), a snobbish prude who stubbornly clutches to her Japanese roots and refuses to acknowledge that her Japanese-American husband has completely forgotten his cultural heritage. Cheng fleshes out the part to perfection. She is delightfully funny when she plays out the bitchy side of Atsuko...
...three women, it is not just the food that appeals; it is the shared meal, the meaningful conversation, the good wine. Perhaps at times they sound a bit precious or snobbish, these women with their negligees and aperitifs, but Fisher, Child, and Waters have all promoted everyday eating as sensuous and delightful, as a necessary celebration...
Look. It is one thing for snobbish European intellectuals to take American trivia seriously. Disneyana is the favorite mirror of America -- succeeding Luigi Barzini's insufficiently satiric suggestion of baseball -- for every European thinker from Umberto Eco on down. It was Eco who in his 1975 essay "Travels in Hyperreality" gave a deep and dark and ironic account of Pirates of the Caribbean as "more real than reality." Heavy implications followed...
...what with victory in the Falklands and Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister. Now they are unhappy about what they don'thave: a thriving economy, job security, falling crime rates, ethnic harmony. No wonder a Gallup poll in July found that 54% feel their country is a snobbish, class-ridden society, 75% are convinced that the royal family lead indolent, jet-set lives, and only 3% predict that Britain will remain a world power in the next decade. Such responses may explain why, when asked if they would like to leavethe country, 47% said they would pack their bags before teatime...