Word: snobbish
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Fresh from a New Jersey village, the young Quaker girl seemed hopelessly out of place at the snobbish weekly. But from her very first day in 1895, the trim, bright-eyed mail clerk named Edna Woolman Martin somehow felt "a proprietary interest" in the affairs of Vogue as it chronicled the genteel caprices of New York society rounding out a comfortable century of progress and optimism...
Eccentric Human Nature. He was the son of a stuffy, snobbish Royal Academician named William Collins, whose only aim in life was to climb to the top of the ladder, kicking off old friends at every rung. Wilkie rebelled violently against his father's way of life-particularly because the elder Collins always deemed his social climbing to be a form of Christian uplift. Consequently, Wilkie developed a lifelong aversion to religion, preferred low society to high, and liked to dress for dinner in camel's-hair coats and pink shirts. He was shortsighted and short of stature...
...several years later, but the members have always stuck to the original decision. H. V. Kaltenborn '09, a charter member and the first treasurer of the Club, remembered that at the time "I was very happy they decided to be sensible" and adopt this policy. "There was a very snobbish attitude toward Radcliffe then," he confided. "It wasn't considered quite the thing to do to go out with a Radcliffe girl...
...naysayers who consider such occupations futile, and orders them to "go bury themselves in the earth and get eaten by worms to see if that is less futile." Tom Wolfe swings a bludgeon against lawyers, pedants, critics, Communists, boosters, money-changers, sophisticates of all sorts, artistic women and snobbish men. He showers indiscriminate love on all of the world's loveless...
William Faulkner has called Henry James "one of the nicest old ladies I ever knew." But allowing for all that was overly fastidious, snobbish and unworldly about him, the James who emerges from the autobiography looks much more like a staunch culture hero. More than any other 19th century U.S. literary figure, with the possible exception of Poe, he pioneered the idea that the art of fiction was not peripheral and frivolous, but central and serious. Master of an elegantly involuted style which Critic Cyril Connolly has dubbed the "Mandarin," James sometimes carried it to the point of "euphonious nothings...