Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dramatic critic. Perhaps he would now like to be known as a critic of life?or perhaps that is a bit too serious for him. Perhaps he will tell you that life to him is merely a grotesque and occasionally beautiful picture at which he likes to look and sneer in a perfectly gentlemanly manner...
...become the fashion to sneer at musical child prodigies. The market has been drugged with them. It has been said that the child prodigy grows up into a mediocrity, that such precocity is unhealthy, etc. Of course, most prodigies do not turn out geniuses in maturity, or the world would be flooded with geniuses, which it is not. But little mention has been made of the remarkable extent to which great musicians have been infant prodigies, as almost all have been...
...purpose. We have been concentrating too much in Washington. It is up to us to see that we continue to be a Federal Union. The country is yet young and it will be years before this great experiment of government of ours functions ideally. Consequently we must not yet sneer at the founders and fathers of the country. Give it a chance...
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer...
There are very few more touching spectacles than that of row after row of eager theatre-goers, patiently waiting for something to happen to their emotions. Some are defiant. They set their teeth, adjust their faces to a sneer of quiet superiority, fortify themselves against any attack. Others go with their tongues hanging out. If it is a farce, they control their risibilities with an effort until the curtain rises. If it is a tragedy, they will be provided against any lachrymal emergency with pocketfuls of anticipatory handkerchiefs...