Word: snobbishly
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...facebooking someone in your section is much more interesting than merely ‘looking her up,’ as it suggests you’ll know who she’s friends with and whether she went to a “small, expensive and snobbish private school” or “a public school that might as well have been a private school,” and so on. Another account seems more plausible, however. We ought simply to consider the most important feature of technology: that it’s functional. Unlike...
...well begin with Jerome's e-mails to his father," it begins, updating Forster's blasé opener, "One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister." Thereafter, Smith revamps Forster's Edwardian battle of wills between the liberal-minded Schlegel sisters and the snobbish Wilcox clan into a modern academic feud that sweeps up the families of Howard Belsey, a white, English, radically-minded art-history professor at a prestigious New England liberal-arts college, and guest lecturer Monty Kipps, a black, traditionalist art historian who campaigns against affirmative action and other sacred cows...
...spite of Mondovino’s esoteric and reputedly snobbish subject matter, even an audience who can’t tell Chianti from Kool-Aid can follow this portrait of an ancient, often bizarre international subculture. Like its distant cousin in fiction, Oscar contender Sideways, the film holds up for its entire 135 minutes by tempering a little wine geekery with far more interesting (and frequently unflattering) character studies...
...those headphones are like two snobbish middle fingers that never tire or require stretching, extended to all. Who needs the sounds of the birds and the bees, or even friends, when 40 gigabytes of unprotected mp3 files divided into 261 different playlists to suit every mood are available with a simple touch of Apple’s signature “click wheel...
...there is a wonderful level of participation that seems to suggest that students are saying, ‘Yes, we appreciate that we have a responsibility, we’ve been given gifts to be here, we don’t take them lightly, we’re not snobbish about it, we’re not arrogant about it. We accept this great responsibility that comes with this great gift and we’re going to exercise...