Word: snobbishly
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...novel, which re-creates England as a theme park on the Isle of Wight. The park is the brainstorm of Sir Jack Pitman, an overweening press lord, and his staff members, one of whom has doubts: "How do we advertise the English...a people widely perceived...as cold, snobbish, emotionally retarded, and xenophobic? As well as perfidious .." No fear; the evil ooze of marketing rules the waves...
That sounds snobbish, and indeed Dream Life could be slotted as the most typical of art-house flicks anyway: marginal lifestyles, some authentic yelling, ambling plot and well-deployed shakiness of production values...
Mere prattle without practice, say the incensed Stratfordians, who form the vast mainstream. "The idea that you have to go to Oxford to be a great writer is snobbish," says Jonathan Bate, author of The Genius of Shakespeare. Bate points out that Shakespeare, as the son of a local merchant and town official, would almost certainly have attended the Stratford Free School. And Elizabethan grammar schools offered a formidable education in Latin, including oratory and letter writing in the style of characters from classical myth and history. Students also had to be able to expand and embellish on existing literary...
Ironically, no adjustments are needed outside the U.S. With restaurants in more than 114 countries, McDonald's still represents Americana. When I return to France, my niece's children, who are wild about what they call "Macdo," clamor to go there. It has a somewhat snobbish appeal for the young, who are enamored of the American life-style...
Thus, woven into the story are amusing but nevertheless tender accounts of what it meant to grow up in a world built entirely on a pretense of keeping up appearances. But just like all those lost and mentally unstable Lowells and Winslows (the author's equally snobbish relatives on the paternal side), Cousin itself is never quite sure what it is. At times it is a barrage of various bildungsroman tales, the coming-of-age stories of various Lowell and Winslow family scions. At other times it is a relentless catalogue of family members moving in and out of prep...