A shadow foreign secretary who sneers at the English flag.
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"Yes, it's me, you bastard," Ri sneers, with jaded indifference.
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"Now the price is you work for me," Hades sneers.
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"You have to accept that you fell short," she sneers.
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I heard sneers and whispers about me in the hallways.
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"That bitch is always spreading lies about our leaders," he sneers.
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"This campus can't handle opposing thought," Silvio sneers at a flabbergasted Lionel.
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Nowadays, Frank yells and sneers and badgers everybody equally, including the audience.
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In Brooklyn, Williamsburg residents greeted the company's arrival , in 2014, with sneers.
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" Taking her cue, the mother sneers dryly, "It looks like a turd.
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Telling all this to the Brightside hunters, though, produced sneers and scoffing.
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"It's really not that hard," she sneers at the person behind the camera.
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"I'm just saying what everyone is thinking," he sneers after one crass remark.
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The text of the speech read that "Trump sneers" at the American creed.
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Mr Obradovic sneers at Mr Vucic as "the last believer in the EU".
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" You see the same thing when Ted Cruz sneers at "New York values.
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Gretchen Carlson, played by Naomi Watts, sneers and glares at Ailes's condescending sexism.
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"Camille, go to the bathroom and check it," sneers a red-teed adolescent.
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Although he refuses to use chemical treatments, he sneers at labels like organic.
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I remember Justice Thomas' denials, and the senators' sneers and the pundits' dismissals.
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It sees Gomez both alluring and eerie, batting her eyelashes while she sneers.
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"Republicans use Yahoo for hugging trees, protecting little itty-bitty insects," Stein sneers.
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"You should have killed me when you had the chance," she sneers about Rourke.
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"Maybe I have a special power where I can make you disappear," she sneers.
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Nor does it help that Cyrus basically sneers every line, repeatedly calling Sidney senile.
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Raw carrot sticks might earn sneers, but baked carrot fries will be a hit.
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Nobody sneers at me being in the women's section — this time or ever anymore.
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All that's left of the far left is a babble of sneers and slogans.
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On the surface, Ramdev's blissful demeanor is worlds away from Trump's growls and sneers.
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At one point, Hilary Swank sneers at Betty Gilpin, one of the "regular" people.
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The French woman sneers that "these people" have no taste, that they are bourgeois.
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"My guess is you've never thought of yourself as a traitor?" the millennial activist sneers.
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Though he sneers at some of the religious customs of Gilead, he's still extremely powerful.
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He heard both the sneers from the gallery and the enthusiastic applause from the stalls.
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" A recent entry: "A passer-by sneers / parking cop waves a warning / under green streetlight.
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But the real sneers are on "Omertà," which is one long-stretch verse, no chorus.
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"An activist should die for a cause, not a photo," one man sneers at Adam.
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There had been no sneers, no ass-grabbing, no frogmarch to the door by angry Irishmen.
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Online outlets reported extensively on that assertion, with some sneers, but with lengthy, meticulous arguments nonetheless.
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"Well, this is your life now," BoJack sneers to Beatrice as he prepares to leave her.
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"Where is your God now," he sneers to Nat, walking his wife back to their shack.
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Mr Duterte sneers at the trapos—short for "traditional politicians" and a pun on "old rags".
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"You can't kill me," the bound Lord Bolton sneers at her, before being devoured by dogs.
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To the sneers of her classmates, she wore it to school every day for a year.
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Sneers, snickers, sidelong glances and outright stares revealed the reality of walking the world while fat.
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Salinger constantly sneers at Jessica for "cheating" by getting her superpowers through luck, rather than earning them.
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All without proper funding, and having to put up with sneers and snide remarks about women's football.
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To her left, a thin adolescent girl sneers while holding her hand up against her flat stomach.
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One clubber sneers, "Is it Ku Klux Klan night?" at Moby, while another simply spits on him.
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Yet there is a part of him that sees beyond his immediate feelings and sneers at them.
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The constant sneers and shaming from her uncles and other relatives had become too much to bear.
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She's angry, vengeful, contemptuous: "She thinks you love the beach, you're such a damn liar," she sneers.
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If you spoke of fashion, it had to be either with apology or with the slightest of sneers.
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Throughout her political career, Evans has occasionally faced sneers and rude questions from local and regional GOP members.
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"Did you just name drop Jesus Christ like you know a guy who knows a guy?" she sneers.
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" A fat guy in ugly patterned shirtsleeves sneers, "Young lady, the hoodie cannot hide you from your guilt.
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"We don't want you here," sneers a man clad in Confederate flag pullover and Confederate flag cowboy boots.
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Maeve, determined to find her daughter, sees Dolores and sneers at her grandiose monologuing about liberty (which, same).
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So the column was a defense of Benedict's argument, in part, against secular sneers and liberal-Catholic sniping.
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There exists between service workers and their customers an inherent imbalance of power: We meet sneers with apologies.
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I'm doing what's right for me, and ignoring all societal sneers at numbers on my hideous driver's license.
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"It's no one's job to protect you," Kelly sneers, and hisses the word "snowflake" from behind her teeth.
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"You're no Vader," Snoke sneers, and criticizes Kylo's mask as a poor attempt to emulate the powerful Sith.
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It leers at him, it sneers at him, it cracks family-friendly jokes in an inexplicable New York accent.
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Mr Trump sneers at the global good, and his base is tired of America acting as the world's policeman.
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Their teenage daughter Abby (Liv Hewson) sneers at authority and the idea of her (Hollywood beautiful) parents having sex.
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Not that you would utter this phrase to Gavin Kroff who sneers at what he calls tired old clichés.
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Tom Hanks is preternaturally gifted in Sully — the film practically sneers at the investigators that dare question his brilliance.
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The bagel is the product of New Jersey's The Bagel Nook, which looks at your rainbow bagel and sneers.
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On these shores, those same qualities have often been greeted, with sneers or shrugs, as showy, shallow, mannered, pretentious.
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"I would tell you what year it was but I don't actually remember," a narrator semi-sneers early on.
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So when the Canadian diplomat sneers at the end, "It's pathetic, what they've reduced you to," you really feel it.
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I received hate mail, occasionally sneers in public, and sometimes a treat — like a loogie — in letters addressed to me.
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It powerfully endorses the vision that Mr Trump sneers at—indeed, it concludes, this order is vital for America's security.
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If a man sneers at the expense, he simply does not get the pleasure of sticking his dick inside me.
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Cruz sneers about "New York values," as if support for gun control and abortion rights weren't majority views in America.
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The structure was reportedly taken down after it was mocked by Chinese social media sites and drew sneers from the public.
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"Oh, so what / Your mother did a number / So I get gloves of rubber / To clean up the spill," she sneers.
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They speak to the same white working-class rage, use similar vocabulary, and thrive each time the establishment sneers at them.
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Obi-Wan feels the long-distance grief, but not too much to help Luke with his lightsaber training while Han sneers.
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My prophecy took my Twitter followers by surprise and earned me a few sneers, and, for my sins, I was ratioed.
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Once you get past the tripping incidents, there is likely a productive player hiding under the sneers and mop of hair.
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Deckard sneers that androids give up in the face of death, and he calls them stupid, because they're so easy to kill.
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When I asked if the guy made it or not, I was answered with a mix of laughs, sneers, yeses and nos.
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Walk into a few stores in Bryn Mawr, on the upper-crust Main Line, and the mention of his name draws sneers.
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Indeed, his only false note is a crying jag, as the sneers and grins of his natural cockiness yield to implausible sobs.
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In "Late," Aunt Lydia (the always towering Ann Dowd) sneers at Ofglen (née Emily) that she's "a thing" and an affront to God.
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One, a liberal elite that is offshoring their jobs to China, and the other from a liberal elite that sneers at their traditions.
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For most English fans, their entire lifetime has been one of "so many jokes, so many sneers, and all those all-so-nears".
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But the new Swearin' has all the familiar pleasures: tense punk guitars, urgent rhythm and Ms. Crutchfield's sure-footed sneers. Merge. Oct. 5.
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Ms. Theron vamps and sneers, Joel Edgerton struts and blusters, and everyone works hard to sustain a mood of jokey, wised-up menace.
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It looks at masculinity through the point of view of Saul, a young historian who sneers at "authoritarian old men" like his father.
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While our youth-obsessed culture sneers at quiet luxurious sedans, my son, who covets every supercar made, is smitten with LaCrosse's limolike ride.
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"We must make an example of him," Benton sneers regarding Harp, in a battle that, even two episodes in, produces plenty of collateral damage.
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Some thoughts on William: - William's first reaction to Aketcheta is telling: "I never learned whatever tongue Ford saw fit to give you," he sneers.
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He has spoken approvingly of the extrajudicial killing of suspected criminals, and sneers at Westerners who "want to rehabilitate instead of just killing" criminals.
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" She wrote: "Neither I nor any Sanders supporter I know 'sneers' at votes by voters who are black, Latino, white Southern or anything else.
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Through glossy sneers and gritted teeth, her quippy remarks light up the screen, reminding you why you bought a ticket in the first place.
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Defending a project that would have run Fifth Avenue through Washington Square Park, he sneers at the "cabarets and speakeasies" he plans to raze.
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"I will not submit to you," she sneers as Henry promises her his loyalty after bringing her family and her country to their knees.
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What with the cross talk, interruptions, insults, sneers and overly rehearsed zingers, the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday surely bewildered more voters than it enlightened.
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Alongside getting to see flat Earth celebrities, people seem just pleased as punch that they get to talk flat Earth without sneers or rolled eyes.
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The young tend to assume a kind of tribal kinship among their friends, and you worry that Zach's Rollerblades will attract sneers to your clan.
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"This takes the biscuit," sneers John (Christopher Sears) as he looks around the humble motel room their road manager (Christopher Flockton) has procured for them.
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George W. Bush drew liberal sneers for asking the country to go shopping, but he also often emphasized the importance of volunteering and especially mentoring children.
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"Go on ride away / in your Silverado," she laments, curses, sneers, poking at tradition but, in the keening pedal steel, finding something beautiful in it, too.
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As Kildare, the dogged police inspector on the tail of a hyperactive serial killer, Mr. Nighy performs a symphony of sneers, squints and suspicious lip-pursing.
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"Latvia seems more your speed," Macron sneers, as the leader of Latvia, played by Alex Moffat, struggles awkwardly to play with a ball and cup toy.
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In the movie, she sneers at other reporters and fist-pumps at length in the newsroom when her story about Jewell starts to make national news.
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Why doesn't Mr Assad send his son, Hafez, to the front, sneers a student who has failed his university exams to prolong his studies and avoid conscription.
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The studio Primal Fetish has an entire line of videos in which brothers repeatedly coerce their sisters into sex, replete with sneers of disgust and pained whimpers.
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" A little earlier, George sneers that the scientists like Nick will create a "race of men" that "will tend to look like this young man here [Nick].
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Indeed, macroeconomists were sufficiently hurt by the sneers of microeconomists that they spent several decades trying to make their field as much like micro as they could.
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Early in "American Gods," a new Starz series based on Neil Gaiman's acclaimed 2001 novel, an old grifter played by Ian McShane sneers at America's existential anxiety.
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As much as Drake wants to keep insisting he's a rapper, his decade-defining anthem is a dynamic pop song that simultaneously twinkles, thumps, sneers, and aches.
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In life, Landon was wounded by gossip—"the spiders of society/ They weave their petty webs of lies and sneers"—and by the "cold mockery" of the critics.
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"Do you want to be a baby mama or a wife?" she sneers at Williams, "Oh baby, I'm already a fiancée!" the quick-witted reality star claps back.
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The crowd then pops up sporadically throughout the rest of the show, sometimes throwing things at the screen and egging on the doe-eyed Janet with ecstatic sneers.
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"If you're not going to be able to talk about sex, I don't know how you're going to interview other people about all kinds of shit," she sneers.
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The influx of luxury lofts and high-end stores still prompts sneers from some locals and creatives who turn to Shoreditch's street graffiti and art galleries for comfort.
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Then, Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) famously sneers, "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die," at the series' first doomed hero, Ned Stark (Sean Bean).
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Had his life not been tragically cut short this past weekend, who knows how many more snarls, grimaces, sneers, smirks, and roars he would have gone on to render.
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"This entire debate of sexual exploitation…is peculiar to certain industries, involving glamour and money," sneers the Organiser, a journal considered the mouthpiece of India's biggest Hindu-nationalist group.
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In a clip of the interview edited by FACT Magazine, Paxman sneers at the web, calling it "just a tool," and a "different delivery system," but Bowie steps in.
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They're confounding and compelling at once, occasionally veering into Mark E Smith territory if anything, all sneers and bite-backs and no time to turn back and explain themselves.
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They'll gamely eat everything you throw their way, sharing their opinions in sneers, smiles, slurps and snarls as you move on to preparing the next course/ And that works.
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"You think the attention you receive is deserved," Lara sneers, before schooling her on the fact that it's all contingent on her proximity to her husband's wealth and power.
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The world sneers at strongmen like Mr. Kim, Mr. Putin and Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, regarding them as uncivilized thugs, and Mr. Trump feels similarly disrespected.
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"I'm an associate of Mr. Stussy's is all you need to know," Varga sneers, before offering the thin historical coincidence of there being 24 Hitlers in the phone books.
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In one particularly cruel moment, Noel Gallagher, the Oasis singer, sneers at the aging Collins's invitation to jam with him in an island bar, prompting Kate Moss to apologize.
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But where Mr. Lewis and Ms. Siff deliver magnetism, composure and loads of restraint, Mr. Giamatti's performance unravels into what feels like a steady stream of sneers, snorts and growls.
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Such errors by Trump and the White House demonstrate haste or sloppiness, but the ensuing sneers might strengthen Trump's populist image of him draining the Washington swamp of elite eggheads.
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In the 1930s, runaway brides ran amok with banter and high jinks; in the 1940s, femmes fatales did their men wrong with lipstick sneers and a bullet to the heart.
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"There she goes, playing the victim again," one Taylor sneers at another in the video, immediately after singing a song about how everyone else is to blame for everything she's done.
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"You're All I've Got Tonight," a hit nonsingle, is definitive: over a tightly wound, slowly building, vaguely menacing amalgam of snarling guitars and glittering synthesizers, Ocasek sneers an arch come-on.
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Someone's had a disaster involving an entire pot of blush and a breastplate, while down the hallway the whoops, cheers, and sneers of a collection of queers rip around the walls.
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In short, they look for a version of American conservatism that sneers a little less at the secularism and loose morals of coastal elites and a bit more at their cosmopolitanism.
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When a distraught Shiv asks him if the Pierces have put any booze in the guest rooms, he says no, and sneers, "It's just Emily Dickinson and low thread count sheets."
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The latter, in Hong Kong, is "just a Hello Kitty-like character" detached from its American roots that has been picked up by protesters for its cynical sneers and funny faces.
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"C'mon, aren't you a little bit curious to watch the world burn?" sneers one revealed villain toward the end of the film, in a line that's mostly cribbed from Heath Ledger's Joker.
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The sneers of New York tycoons who considered Trump a fraud, and of their media friends, couldn't drown out the volume of the television, of The Apprentice and later The Celebrity Apprentice.
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Gareth Liddiard's biting poetic absurdities and witty sneers turned him into an icon back home in Australia, where The Drones are regarded as one of the greatest indie bands of all time.
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Esco has shared the project's first single "Code of Honor," featuring his brother-in-arms Future, of course, as well as Schoolboy Q. Future harmonizes and Q sneers on a spiraling beat.
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One of the shortcomings of mid-period Paramore was the way Ms. Williams was de-emphasized — she is best when allowed to emote largely uncamouflaged, and when her singing veers toward sneers.
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As the adult Mean Girl that everyone falls for at some point, Ms. Lively looks and plays her flashy part convincingly, deploying small seductive smiles that can quickly morph into soul-destroying sneers.
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"I see that taking credit for my success in the midst of defeat is a kind of balm," Taylor sneers when Bobby tries to save face by saying he made Mason's win possible.
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An imprisoned Fred, his power ripped away from him, sneers to Luke that when the birthrates started to tumble and America's values started to erode, Luke did nothing, whereas Fred actually did something.
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The story of how Lambrusco earned sneers is an old one and hardly bears repeating, except that many people are still stuck on the notion that Lambrusco is sweet, fizzy and mildly alcoholic.
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The term "influencer" still prompts sneers; there's a stigma associated with vloggers and social-media stars, a perception that they're freeloaders with no work ethic, who tweet all day and have no real skills.
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"You've never had servants," she sneers, when Greg's girlfriend objects to her behavior—for her, the world is made up of masters and subjects, and if you're not consistently cruel you'll lose your spot.
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As a person who sneers at people who only look at a score instead of reading a review after I spent hours on the thing, I kind of see this as a good thing.
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"Grow my hair / I wanna be, wanna be, wanna be Jim Morrison" he sneers derisively on "Anyone Can Play Guitar," a snotty and barbed grunge-pop number from Radiohead's 24 debut album Pablo Honey.
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But Mr. Devoto left before "Spiral Scratch" was released, and Mr. Shelley took over lead vocals and most of the songwriting, trading the band's early sneers for songs about romance — often romance gone wrong.
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Mr. Trump's arrival was greeted with sneers by the Palm Beach elite, and he opened up Mar-a-Lago's membership to Jews and African-Americans, who had been excluded from other members-only establishments.
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If you're not familiar with Stott's tar-like electronic music, this'll make for an abrasive but fitting introduction: the percussion is serrated, the melody sneers, a synth drips like acid from an overturned test tube.
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He sneers at Risen ("irresponsible"), others who are "hopelessly agenda-driven" (the former Times reporter Tim Weiner, The New Yorker's Jane Mayer) and those who are "consistently anti-Bush" (like the former blogger Andrew Sullivan).
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" It's hard to imagine future generations not being haunted and spellbound by Cave's gravelly wails and ghastly whispers on "Loverman," the evil sneers of "Red Right Hand," or the ferocious howls of "From Her to Eternity.
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Even when her task seems impossible, when she fails on the most public stage imaginable, when she is sick, and tired, and subjected to another round of jeers and sneers from the boys' club at Westminster.
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Over the course of his career, Eminem has proudly released raps with lyrics laced with misogyny and homophobia, referring to women as "sluts" who deserve to be treated violently and to men with anti-gay sneers.
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It is a book that almost sneers at the notion of the photographic print (long held to be the standard of the photographic process), especially the gallery print, and outright rejected the accepted grammar of photography.
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And the same holds true for this Hamilton episode, in which two (hilarious) women take on the roles of Hamilton and Burr with gleeful sneers, with a black man stepping into the role of America's first president.
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But it's hard to brush off your grandparent's passive-aggressive comments about food, or your sibling's sneers about your body, because criticism from the people who you care about (and who care about you) often hurts the most.
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At the conclusion of the 1964 film, George Banks, having just been fired in a most humiliating fashion, thrusts his son's coins into the hand of his boss, Mr. Dawes Senior: "Guard it well," Banks sneers, in parting.
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Capture the Flag sneers and thrashes for 37 minutes, right down to its closer, "The Chalice and the Blade," in which the band takes a prehistorical approach to societal gender roles, with allusions to androcracy's barbaric usurping over gylany.
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" The reviewer runs through a laundry list of Lewinsky's public appearances (the Herb Ritts shoot for Vanity Fair, the Jenny Craig ads, the big Barbara Walters interview) and sneers that "with every public relations gambit she becomes less sympathetic.
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Although the twistedly nutty story is about romance and revenge with a medieval edge, the killer chair is a rather cuddly little creep, with shiny buttons that look like wet eyes and strategically placed creases that gives its face ugly sneers.
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Despite growing up on Spam, she now sneers at Vienna sausages; when she returns to the dim sum place of her childhood, her immediate remark is how bad it was (though she soon finds herself pleasantly surprised by its dishes).
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As Dani Blum wrote for Pitchfork, the song "offers only a garish caricature" of rap music: "'They call me racist / Only thing I like is green and blue faces,' she sneers, managing to corrode and embarrass herself in one line."
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As the images streamed out of Charlottesville, Va., this month showing white nationalists protesting the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, many could not help noticing the product illuminating the faces twisted into sneers of hate: Tiki torches.
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Is the only "real man" an alpha male, one who denies his own vulnerability -- sometimes denying it so forcefully that he mocks or denigrates (or maybe just sneers at) those he sees as less than perfect, as too vulnerable, as insufficiently tough and guarded?
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For many Americans, especially non-Christians, the thought that Christian morality is a useful guide to much of anything these days is risible, particularly since so many evangelicals have thrown in their lot with a relentlessly solipsistic American president who bullies, boasts and sneers.
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Moral didacticism has been on its way out for ages now, and the idea of ending each story with a neatly wrapped message, complete with a bow on top, is likely to elicit sneers from the more critical set (which, let's face it, includes me).
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JG Thirlwell (under names like; Foetus, Clint Ruin, Wiseblood, Manorexia, etc.) is a New York composer and musician who, for over 30 years, has been making a dark carnival racket that, sophisticated and visceral, sneers at any delineations of the borders between high and low culture.
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For the Ready Player One adaptation, Cline and Penn had the good sense to cut some of Wade's most egregiously smug moments, like the scene where he sneers his way through an impromptu Swordquest trivia-off with another gamer who's out to solve the same puzzle he's on.
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"Should I just round up the sons of the most important families in town?" the sheriff sneers at Veronica, who has woken up in an unfamiliar bed with no memory of the previous night and walked straight to the sheriff's office in her virginal, suddenly ironic white dress.
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It was passed first to conservative Catholic outlets, whose palpable Benedict nostalgia was soon matched by fierce criticism from Francis partisans, plus sneers from the secular press at the retired pope's insistence that the sex abuse epidemic was linked to the cultural revolution of the 1960s and the 1970s.
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" It's a provocative payoff to an earlier exchange between Sara and Kreizler, which seemed like simple black comedy at the time: Angry at the doctor for his attempts to glean insight into murder by probing her own psychology, Sara sneers, "I don't believe I have it in me to kill a child.
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Then he brought the San Francisco band Romeo Void to Boston, and co-produced their four-song "Never Say Never" EP. On the kinetic, not-safe-for-work dance track "Never Say Never," the singer Debora Iyall sneers at an admirer, while the orderly bass guitar and the chaotic saxophone fight for domination.
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After a movie and a half's worth of wondering about and pining after her missing family, Rey finally comes to terms with the truth in The Last Jedi: her parents were just a couple of random deadbeats who, as Kylo sneers, probably sold her off for drinking money, and are now in a pauper's grave.
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A menacing, haunting presence is established from the track's first note, as the drum & bass-inspired track, overlain by a chorus of synths that sound like ghostly sneers and moans, fidgets and turns every which way like a person trying to lose an ill-intentioned band of poltergeists in a haunted house's maze-like hallways.
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Sure, drama-hungry pundits may have questioned her involvement — "Why does she want the spotlight now?" one sneers — but following Weiner and Abedin on the campaign trail in Weiner, it's readily apparent that Weiner's would-be constituents, not to mention his staffers, love Abedin, both for what she represents (forgiveness, loyalty, strength) and for what she does.
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Tapping into a vein of bratty bravado, he careens past toothless PG-13 peacocking into the kind of unrepentant sleaze that made him successful in the first place, culminating in a breathtaking stretch on the bridge where he sneers about fucking your girl, guzzling cocaine, and buying his mom a station wagon all in the same breath.
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Mahraganat (also sometimes called "electro chaabi") has since become embedded in urban Egyptian culture—a crazed, computer-produced mish-mash of booming local rhythms and Auto-Tuned raps, which drives many Egyptians crazy and earns sneers from some local musicians but nevertheless offers a platform for joyful street wedding celebrations, dirty new slang terms, acrobatic breakdancing and faux-hawk hairstyles.
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She both obsesses over The Pickwick Papers—a picaresque novel like her own—and riffs on her dislike of A.S. Byatt's best-seller Possession: As I skimmed it my face was contorted by sneers, and after skipping to the end to make sure the heroine really was the direct descendant of the vigorously adulterous dead poets and heiress to their fortunes, I resolved to write a novel myself.
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And while it's undoubtedly true that rampant overdevelopment and real estate speculation are making it hard for everyone but the very rich to get a toehold here, what draws us relative newcomers to Brooklyn aren't just "the fixed-gear, fair-traded and cruelty-free" signifiers he sneers at — that may be what's sold as BrooklynTM, but it's not what makes people decide where to build their actual lives.
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On the rollicking and cheerily defiant "Last Man Standing," he sneers, Well Momma didn't raise nobody's dum-dumNot trying to win a medal for being the most humdrumAnd you know Daddy likes his alone timeThat's why he doesn't have any friendsBut watch and see, you'll be looking at meLast man standing in the end It's hard to think of another recent artist who, at the peak of his success, jerked so sharply away from the decisions that had led him to that point.
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