Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This term 'bedside manner' is generally used with a sneer, as if there were something sinister about it. But it comes from kindness, sympathy, gentleness, and the capacity to inspire confidence...
...still rules the show with a firm hand. "I'm an egomaniac," he says. "The cast hates me, but better they should hate me and give a good show than love me and we're off the air." For conventional radio comedy he has only a sneer: "Anybody with the price of a joke-book can write a gag, but only the best can write character. Character is gonna get people addicted to this show, and character is gonna keep Sy in convertibles...
...make matters warmer for those trying to take Paris or leave it alone, Christian Dior hustled to the U.S. last week to accept an award from Dallas' Neiman-Marcus Co. for his "outstanding service" to the clothing industry. For the counter-revolutionists he had a well-bred sneer. "The women who are loudest for short skirts will soon be wearing the longest dresses. I know very well the women. The short skirt was never a good fashion- very vulgar. The American women will accept the new fashions. You can never stop the fashions...
Down the Garden Path. Outside his own Christian circle, Lewis is not particularly popular with his Oxford colleagues. Some resent his large student following. Others criticize his "cheap" performances on the BBC and sneer at him as a "popularizer." There are complaints about his rudeness (he is inclined to bellow "Nonsense !" in the heat of an argument when a conventionally polite 25-word circumlocution would be better form). But their most serious charge is that Lewis' theological pamphleteering is a kind of academic heresy...
While you fellows have been tinkering around with all the petty issues of UN and those Russians, you have utterly failed to attack one of the most heinous practices in this fair land of ours. What is it, you may ask with a sneer. Of course it is the custom of the intentional pass--in baseball. Now listen: I enjoy baseball, love to see the Red Sox play. I go out on a warm June afternoon to see Williams slug away, and what inevitably happens? There are men on second and third and Williams is up. Even the little thrill...