Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gloom brigade that was ruining the foreign market for Italian films, the Italian government forced its state-subsidized movie industry to lower standards and raise skirts. Nevertheless, in Gold of Naples, Director De Sica has managed to say with a smile what he could not have said with a sneer. The four stories are variations on the same theme of human bondage that De Sica develops in all his serious films, and he plays his variations with no less passion and poetic irony because he is playing them for laughs...
...usual, but her talents as an actress were confined to delivering an occasional shy smile. And Mel Ferrer once more exhibited his really astonishing capacity for looking bored. The one man who might have rescued the show from tedium, Raymond Massey, was not allowed to do anything but sneer in his role as Prime Minister. To be sure, they all appeared quite handsome in their fine uniforms, which were broadcast in color, but it is still very tempting to suggest that they return to their Cinemascope studios and try again. The only trouble is that they just possibly might...
...supercilious sneer from most 'Cliffies greeted yesterday's announcement of a future AFROTC unit for women here. "Maybe at some gym teachers' school" was the typical response to the idea of uniforms and weekly drill for the girls on the Quad...
Your magazine has often handled news of England with a sneer, and for the past year, the sneer has become a snarl. Your article "The Conspiracy" hit a new depth of prejudice. You use supposition, ridiculous insinuation and obvious malice to come to an appalling conclusion . . . This is not a time for separating the free world, but a time for strengthening our alliances...
...males in the cast give generally the most impressive individual performances, with Bruce MacDonald given highest honors because he cannot only sneer and hop, but sing. Benjamin Neilson, as the other Earl, is not troubled by this latter difficulty, but carries himself well and obscures none of the humor, which is all that counts. The Lord Chancellor, Arthur Waldstein, has an even less prepossessing voice, and occasionally his froggish hops seem uncertain and feeble, but he does manage some of Gilbert's speedier lyrics, all the while conveying a most Chancellorial wizenedness. Perhaps less sure of himself on stage...