Word: snobbishness
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...more important than the building is the puzzling reputation and outsider's impression of the house. Eliot has long been called cold, snobbish, prepish, "the clubby house," and "the home of the pseudo-intellectual." All of these titles are, in a sense, true. But they are far exaggerated and have stereotyped and labeled Eliot far more than the actual state of affairs justifies...
Perhaps because of the small sampling, votes for the other Houses were not so neatly categorized. Non-residents labeled Eliot as "wealthy," "aristocratic," "snobbish," "white shoe," and "conservative," but Eliot members agreed only in the "aristocratic" and "snobbish" categories...
...table is set with chipped crockery and kitchen silverware. Then, aiming at the kitchen and rearing back, a waiter bellows at the top of his voice: "Menú econímico for one!" That attracts the attention of everyone in the dining room. Trying to ignore the snobbish glances from other diners and the sneers of waiters, the customer bolts the food. If he tries to make amends by leaving a tip, the waiter gives him the final cut: "Keep it. You need it worse than...
...introduction to the poll, Allen explains that answers like the above are included in the interest of completeness, "even the few that appear to be down-right snobbish, unfair, or provinicial...
...vacuum cleaner all too often drowns out the play, but Director Tyrone Guthrie, a veteran of the Old Vic, never allows that to happen. The story of All's Well, lifted from Boccaccio, is about Helena, a poor physician's daughter married by royal command to a snobbish young count. The groom runs off to the wars before the wedding day has even reached the cocktail hour. The rest of the play tells how Helena plots her way into her husband's bedchamber and eventually his heart...