Word: sneering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sneer at Our Heroes
...most notably, Yorke’s achingly flexible voice.And yet, it is an album that stands up to repeated examination. While “Eraser” lacks the manic fluctuations of favorite Radiohead tracks, and while Yorke’s voice slips rarely into his characteristic Brit-sneer, its expression of its creator’s singular vision—lyrical, musical, and otherwise—makes it one of the most intriguing albums of the past summer.TV on the Radio: “Return to Cookie Mountain”In which yesterday’s next big thing...
...Greer made her point with a sustained, supercilious sneer that gracelessly combined ignorance with exhibitionist pseudo-erudition. "The film-makers maintain that the ray that took Irwin out" - nice touch, that, took him out, like a hit man hired by vengeful Mother Nature - "was a 'bull ray,' or Dasyatis brevicaudata," she writes, "but this is not usually found as far north as Port Douglas." Sniff. Is that a whiff of Google in the air? Biology lesson over, Greer flicks her tail and begins sticking her own barbs into the man. She relives the incident when he fed a crocodile...
...Greer makes her point with a sustained, supercilious sneer that gracelessly combines ignorance with exhibitionist pseudo-erudition. "The film-makers maintain that the ray that "took Irwin out" - nice touch, that, took him out, like a hit man hired by vengeful Mother Nature - "was a 'bull ray,' or Dasyatis brevicaudata," she writes, "but this is not usually found as far north as Port Douglas." Sniff. Is that a whiff of Google in the air? Biology lesson over, Greer flicks her tail and begins sticking her own barbs into the man. She relives the incident when he fed a crocodile...
...freshman, you will do so extensively. At Harvard, freshmen have a reputation for being grinds in section—you will do all the reading in all your classes, take detailed and color-coded notes, and come to section with questions that you will pertly ask. Seniors will sneer...