All of this has saddled art songs with a reputation for preciosity and snobbishness. |
If anything, I'd presume there may well be a snobbishness about his work amongst academics, precisely because it was so popular. |
One of the company's technical whiz kids contributes a devastating study of vain snobbishness as the ballet master. |
But snobbishness is, in its way, a serious subject, and another, less facetious book could easily be written about it. |
His suffering at her hands would have been unbearable had he not so richly deserved it for his crass stupidity and snobbishness. |
Versions of Dante in English offer the reader almost unparalleled opportunity for learned snobbishness. |