This is a place with no need for pretension, shameless self-promotion or global snobbery. |
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The writer adopted a toplofty attitude toward his creatures, but he had the intellectual force to transform snobbery into satire. |
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Unfortunately it won't receive a fraction of the attention got by each dollop of Carey's inverted snobbery. |
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Intellectual snobbery is so over, I chided myself, before launching into an orgy of sheer, joyous banality. |
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From the sink estate to the shooting estate, Kane blasts snobbery and inverted snobbery with equal vigour. |
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Then, when I was in a band, there was inverted snobbery, because the British still want their rock heroes to be working-class. |
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To understand showbiz you have to realise that there is a great snobbery, a pecking order if you like, and movies are at the top. |
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From snobbery to inverted snobbery, fox-hunting has become a useful backdrop for those with a different agenda. |
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There is nothing amusing about snobbery, racism, bigotry, misogyny and xenophobia. |
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Clever ad campaigns have helped, and now there is a strong streak of inverted snobbery to Skoda ownership. |
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But times are fresh and proof is mostly based on wild innuendo and moral snobbery in these dawn days of post-America. |
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I didn't want to add to the pretension and the snobbery, the clubbiness that I loathe in the wine world. |
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Worse still, is this a symptom of snobbery which my school, despite my best efforts, succeeded in indoctrinating me with? |
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It was part of my intellectual snobbery to avoid the obvious and predictable wherever possible. |
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Haynes' film then becomes a melancholy commentary on the bigotry and snobbery of fifties Middle America. |
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But the atmosphere is something between a scout camp and a country club without snobbery. |
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Horse riding suffers from the taint of elitism and snobbery which is a legacy of the past. |
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University students go home in their droves over the holidays, pouring scorn on familiar sights with the snobbery of the citified nouveau riche. |
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There's no stuffiness about him, nor any of the officiousness or snobbery that one might expect from a man in his position. |
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To some, this indicated a fickleness, a shallowness, an inverted snobbery, an unseemly arrested development. |
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There are still some cases of snobbery and elitism in Oxbridge admissions, but this situation won't be helped by government quotas. |
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The big literary awards, I came to believe, had much to do with politics, snobbery, and taste, and were no guarantee of quality. |
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Men want to take the joy out of wine, and replace it with snobbery, superciliousness, and another opportunity for sexism. |
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This reticence, according to another fashion expert, is partly reverse snobbery. |
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Any new fan who inquires further into the obstacles he met will I hope be shaken to the core by the venomous snobbery that stood in his way. |
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Ms Lauren reads my mind and posts questions on a topic I've been thinking about recently, snobbery. |
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He knows Tom is not one of their breed and treats him with the condescension and snobbery that his privileged class affords him. |
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If it is not wide-ranging and erratic, captious and unpredictable, it is not taste but snobbery. |
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It's bordering on elitist snobbery, and is already as boring as the series. |
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But snobbery aside, could it be that a fashion for interrogatory esotericism does not stop with dusty academics? |
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Today, snobbery about musicals and their hijacking of the worldwide stage is water off a duck's back. |
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Pacific oysters are not as esteemed as natives but turning down a plate of spanking fresh Pacifics is simply misplaced snobbery. |
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The snobbery and hatred of meritocracy that have been revealed this week are simply inevitable further by-products of monarchy. |
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Such inverted snobbery has turned him into that rare creature, a critically adored novelist who actually sells books. |
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His theory is that the Party's besetting sin over the past few decades has been snobbery. |
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He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away. |
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Sorting out the divide between academic and vocational subjects, and ending the snobbery towards technical training features in all three parties' education manifestos. |
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The Scottish mindset, not averse to a bit of inverted snobbery now and then, collectively ignores the game and its perceived hoity-toity primness. |
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He expresses loathing for its stuffy, class-ridden collegiate atmosphere, and incomprehension for the very British phenomenon of inverted snobbery. |
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Wine has had a tendency to carry with it a stigma of elitism and snobbery. |
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Both went to Oxford University and chafed at the snobbery of English elites. |
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He liked the idea of Turner as a snob who became a revolutionary only after getting the snobbery beat out of him. |
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He started on a downbeat note, reminding us of the Establishment's crawling opening party to launch the channel, which was full of snobbery and intellectual pretension. |
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Despite being a genuinely ill hypochondriac, he wrote about aristocrats, chamber music, church steeples, Parisian high life, snobbery, and interior design. |
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Epstein has defined the essence of snobbery as not merely the wish to impress others but the effort to make oneself feel superior at the expense of others. |
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She is herself a consummate woman of the world and, more precisely, a connoisseur of snobbery in all its nuances. |
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He took a swipe at elements of both the media and the law, accusing them of snobbery. |
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Her downcast Diana eyes were nauseating, her snobbery was guiltily enjoyable. |
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I was grateful for the facilities and made some lasting friends, but I shared most normal people's disdain for much of the pomp and snobbery. |
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There was some snobbery about information that was written down to begin with. |
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Honestly, there is intellectual snobbery in every profession, and if you don't have the titles behind your name, you don't get through the door. |
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The sensitivity on this point is not by any means wholly or even mostly a matter of snobbery. |
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Due to this snobbery, they considered themselves as kings to rule over the earth or god-like beings. |
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Crush any trace of snobbery, fashion and envy beneath the weight of your fundament. |
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Or was she in fact a maligned victim of elite snobbery by toffee-nosed, Georgetown cocktail-swillers? |
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There is a lot of pretentiousness and snobbery associated with literature. |
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What is this if not inverted snobbery and the politics of envy? |
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Such style and courtesy, and great drinks, are a world away from the arrogance and snobbery of modern day party bars which invariably close after six months. |
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Wit, charm, and even vulnerability shine through his snobbery and self-deception says Kirk Davis Swinehart. |
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He is, after all, just a children's writer, and amidst the rarefied snobbery of the publishing world, there will be lurkers determined to dismiss him as a fluke. |
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Instead, I shall bask in all this glory and hope it brings me new found arrogance, snobbery and untold riches so I can retire to Pismo Beach and be a happy miser. |
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Not that we should apply any inverted snobbery to an issue that deserves to keep it's focus and not blown off course with arguments about class and status. |
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Fans of such cheap television will accuse me of snobbery and elitism. |
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I like a movie that makes fun of New York snootiness and snobbery. |
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The whole cult of celebrity is so boring but the snobbery is just as bad. |
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Fortunately, the town is safeguarded against a slide into the inevitable snobbery by the crowds of backpackers who continue the over century-long tradition of hiking in the Tatras. |
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Mr. André Arthur: So my question is, are you victims of snobbery? |
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Cartoonists would have a major problem should snobbery and bigotry and phoniness ever die. |
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Her first-hand experience of anti-Semitism and class snobbery there played a role in her becoming a passionate fighter against racism and inequality. |
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But now, like many ancient words the meaning, due to snobbery, Is Pleb, a coarse and ignorant yob who's not averse to robbery. |
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For you to mischaracterize AFSA's stance, and then use that straw man as proof of the legendary snobbery of the Foreign Service just isn't fair. |
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She is far from immune from fashion snobbery, and has been known to rail against fat people wearing stretch jeans, and anyone at all wearing flip-flops, but she speaks sense on the subject of ageing. |
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I went to Marseille, however, because it prides itself on its reputation in France as an unforgivingly working-class city with no time for pretension, the opposite of Parisian snobbery and elitism. |
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He was a snobby Princeton senior who distrusted his own snobbery. |
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In the latter he neatly skewered the hypocrisy, apostasy, materialism and social snobbery that characterized the prevailing attitude towards religion among North American high society. |
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I can find only one answer : it's in the association between money and pseudo-intellectual snobbery leading to the death of art, to nihilism, as many writers affirm. |
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He found that day boys were looked down on by boarders, and that Bede College was the subject of snobbery within the university. |
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Using the right word is not a luxury or a snobbery, it's a necessity. |
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His dislike of the residents of the wealthier neighbourhood was simply inverted snobbery. |
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Childlike in his need to satisfy his appetites immediately and to hold the centre stage, Chatwin also possessed the very adult faults of vanity, snobbery, hypocrisy and pretentiousness. |
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In the early books, one was carried along by De Vries's unstoppable gags, his gift for spotting cant, fatuousness, and snobbery, and his grandly silly dialogue. |
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Throughout my 40-plus years in optics our progress was always being hampered by an outmoded, inverted snobbery. |
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As a piece of inverted snobbery this takes the biscuit from champagne socialist Fulford. |
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Today surgeons often still use the title Mr as a mild form of inverted snobbery. |
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When the rest of us look down on the upper class, it's called inverted snobbery. |
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In a separate interview, Ms McDonald said there had been an element of snobbery around work in the firm's restaurants, leading some commentators to dub roles there as McJobs. |
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He was generally happy there, although he was shocked to encounter for the first time social snobbery and political conservatism which were rife among his fellow pupils. |
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Mr Prest demonstrates a preoccupation with inverted snobbery that has bedeviled our country when he endeavors to segregate any and all into his definition of a class system. |
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