Word: snobbishness
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...Everything we know about Cleopatra comes from later Roman writers," including Plutarch, says Higgs, "and it's nearly all negative." That "prudish and snobbish" Romans would see Egypt's queen as a barbarian and a seductress is unsurprising, he adds, given that "she had taken away from them both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony." Still, says Higgs, even Cleopatra's critics acknowledged that she had some admirable qualities. Apart from her beauty, she is said to have been a humorous and charming conversationalist. Intelligent and savvy, she was a skilled diplomat who spoke several languages-and was clearly loved...
There are two ways to approach the annual “Art in Bloom” festival at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). For the artistically snobbish the event—which invites New England Gardening Clubs to interpret the MFA’s paintings in flower arrangements—is a chance to scoff at the genteel world of Gardening Clubs and Ladies’ Societies and their decidedly bourgeois tastes...
...Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. But, as she writes, she was a born and bred member of the city's white upper crust "growing up on the wrong side of the revolution." Her father Martin McWhorter was the renegade son of a family of Ivy League-educated members of the snobbish Mountain Brook Club, where the city's financial and social leaders congregated. McWhorter's quest to understand how he became an increasingly active opponent of Martin Luther King Jr.'s crusade set her off on an ever widening historical journey...
...despite the explosive nature of the material, not once has anyone hesitated to express a view, no matter how radical or revolutionary. Our only "discussion" stumbling block reared its head Tuesday, when someone questioned the snobbish futility of a bunch of elitist Harvard students sitting around a table halfway across the globe and attempting to "pretend we know what it's like." To which someone else shot back that America was the "last hegemonic power on earth" and that we "screw with a lot of countries we might as well know who we're screwing with." As usual, no holds...
...difference between the two parties. The Bush and Gore attack ads, though, were short, sweet and to the point: Gore is a liar who favors Big Government; Bush is a fool who favors the rich. These may not have been the most ennobling messages, but it would be snobbish to call them irrelevant...