Word: snobbish
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...religion of truth and beauty. Eustace Tilley, the magazine's monocled symbol, is clearly an Arnold disciple turned dandy. To be impeccable, graceful and hard-hitting all at the same time is demanding work. So is hanging on to a upper-middle-class audience without seeming frivolous or snobbish...
...Connolly's diary-anthology of essays and epigrams, The Unquiet Grave, won acclaim from Critic Edmund Wilson as one of the best books out of wartime England. After Horizon's demise in 1950, Connolly became a critic for the London Sunday Times. Snobbish and witty, he once said that "the books I haven't written are better than the books other people have...
...Little Snobbish. This fall Cohen is writing jokes for the casualty's replacement, Professor Scott Fraser, a more polished lecturer. One example, from a talk on "drive reduction" theories: "When they found a Japanese soldier recently who'd been living alone on a desert island for 29 years unaware World War II was over, he was going steady with a coconut tree he called Shirley...
Cohen's efforts have met some professorial resistance. "I may be a little snobbish," sniffs Professor John Cantel-on, "but I don't think you are necessarily going to turn a Caspar Milquetoast with a Ph.D. into a scintillating lecturer." Adds Religion Professor J. Wesley Robb: "What happens to learning when a class becomes enamored of an actor...
Ronald's wife Marion (Geraldine Page) mouths snobbish insults, knocks back the gin and flirts with a swinging architect, Geoffrey (Tony Roberts), whose wife Eva (Sandy Dennis) moves through the room like a zombie's zombie. The truly running gag of the act -and it is more laugh provoking than it sounds-is the spectacle of Jane dashing in and out of a drenching rain in quest of a six-pack of tonic water...