Word: sneering
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Organizers have spiced up the format of snowboarding's other event, giant slalom, to be more fan-friendly. But the sport's true believers sneer at this trick-free speed show--one reason the U.S. team won't be much of a factor. Europeans will dominate, as they do in speed-skiing events...
...business leaders has grown extraordinarily. In the 1980s and '90s, Lee Iaccoca, Sam Walton, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Jack Welch and their ilk became our new heroes. Businessmen seemed to combine a buccaneer's spirit with a slide-rule mind. "Washington" (the word had to be said with a sneer) was, by comparison with the worlds of our titans, disorganized and inefficient, quite hopeless...
...speaking of grimaces, when the townspeople first boo Point and Elsie, check out for the sneer of chorus member Jim L. Maltese...
...think that there was a tendency to try to make sense of it more quickly than possible. The repudiation of irony was an attempt to make sense of what happened. It was a presumption that people were interested in how other people were doing and the preemptive sneer of bad irony didn’t have a place,” says Jedediah Purdy `97, author of For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today and another upcoming zeitgest-chaser about globalization. Purdy has thought a bit about irony, and he has thought it through a bit more...
...kept trying to be nice, but the director would yell at me ‘Sneer,’” he said...