" - Nikki, 39 "Snob who worked at record store.
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SF has kind of turned me into a coffee snob.
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I was a film snob when I was that age.
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I was, in short, the worst kind of travel snob.
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No snob, Kerry himself favored and helped speed the transition.
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The magazine's album reviews turned me into a music snob.
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More precisely, I was a pint-sized mac and cheese snob.
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Why are you such a neurotic snob asshole about other people?
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I thought he was reckless; he thought I was a snob.
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Often, art fuels snobbery and snobbery always backfires on the snob.
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Marion: How in the world did I raise such a snob?
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"I love paper, my friends call me a stationary snob," Jackie says.
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Capricorn can be a real snob when they lose respect for someone!
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She sells coffee mugs that say "Gun Snob" in bouncy gold cursive.
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I must be the most caffeine-sensitive coffee snob in the world.
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The excellent "Dear White People" is a show with cinema-snob appeal.
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He was an art snob and a humorist till the end, really.
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Though the term began in Britain, Americans have savored its snob appeal.
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He came from a rich family and was kind of a snob.
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For most of my 38 years, I've been an unrepentant literary snob.
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I would drink it even if I were banished as a snob.
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He's a scold, a snob and a suck-up all at once.
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He's a scold, a snob and a suck-up all at once.
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It's the kind of inspirational movie even a film snob could love.
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Read This Next: Criticizing Trump's Diet Doesn't Make You a Food Snob
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I used to be a book snob and refused to read books electronically.
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This product is high quality, and I'm kind of a snob about that.
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But you might feel like an entitled snob every time you use one.
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"I've become a bit of a water snob during my pregnancy," Scalia laughs.
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"I'm not a beer snob but I know what I like," Neilson mused.
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No snob would spell so sloppily or use capital letters with such abandon.
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Sara is, in short, a self-satisfied, selectively generous and frequently withholding snob.
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So he was not really a snob…He could be friends with anyone.
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Yes. I'm a film snob; I love any genre if it's done well.
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Yes, it's a questionable claim from a fabulous snob of a literary character.
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But Ada is only liberal in politics—aside from that she's a snob.
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"The Beer Snob," discussion and book signing with the author Will Siss. Aug.
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"The Beer Snob," a discussion and book signing with author Will Siss. Aug.
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In other words, it's better to be a snob than a hanger-on.
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Regine, Armisen's character, is a cultural snob who won't stop insulting her hosts.
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But I always thought Wharton was a writer second, and a snob first.
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Jonathan Franzen is watching network television, and still he is called a snob!
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A self-described "fiber snob," she prefers to work in natural fibers only.
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I'm a bit of an ice snob, though, and I'm crazy about crushed ice.
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No snob would thrash and flail his way through sentences the way he does.
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Call me a snob, call me a Luddite, call me anything you want, really.
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I will be a snob about this one thing: I like seeing people read.
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Turning down shots has gotten me called a snob, a bitch, and a buzzkill.
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A music snob might gasp, but for Mr. Radding, 51, it just feels right.
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Emily has her flaws: She's a total snob, she's controlling, she's manipulative, and she's difficult.
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When you get stuck in a lo-fi ghetto, you become a hard core snob.
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When you want to up your film snob status: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
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SUNDAY PUZZLE — Samuel "Not the Newsman" Donaldson is being a bit of a snob today.
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"I love to drink wine, and I'm kind of a snob about it," she said.
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Call me a snob, but farmed salmon doesn't hold a candle to the real thing.
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He was an enthusiastic lover of food and wine, very knowledgeable but never a snob.
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When they meet, Red thinks Chloe is an icy snob; Chloe thinks Red hates her.
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" But one little-known fact about the business mogul is this: He's a "macaron snob.
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She is warmhearted, a whirlwind and a wit … but an unconscious snob and a hypocrite.
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The movie wasn't as profound as I was hoping — like I said, I was a snob.
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As someone who was born and raised in California, I am very much a burrito snob.
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SORKIN: I'M A HOTEL SNOB AND YOU KNOW IT. PROUDLY SO. KERNEN: YOU ARE, I KNOW.
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There is enough in there to please the biggest art snob and the most inexperienced person.
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Am I just a book snob, or is there a big difference between reading and listening?
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Visually, the movie will make even the biggest movie-format snob sit back and give respect.
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Emma O'Donovan, a gorgeous 18-year-old Irish girl, is a snob and a boyfriend stealer.
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Why should a fool, a snob, a fraud have life, and her no breath at all?
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To question the apparent preferences of millions of consumers is to risk being labeled a snob.
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His accomplice is a dolt with dandruff issues; their contact in Delhi is a useless snob.
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You enjoyed it, you're not the kind of snob who just shits on fast food indiscriminately.
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George Hodel is still mostly a mystery, but at least one thing is clear: He's a snob.
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They just want you to be a snob and use more expensive prosecco, or, sorry, pétillant natural.
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Though he spoke in a patrician drawl, one forefinger thoughtfully patrolling his chin, he was no snob.
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"It's the only European bank that my snob Harvard friends would have considered working at," Cramer said.
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AL: I'm not exactly a film snob, to a borderline embarrassing fault—I prefer TV and documentaries.
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While you're doing all kinds of neat, nerdy intellectual stuff, try not to be a condescending snob.
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He was an unabashed snob and social climber who also relished the company of peasants and shepherds.
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Camillo's rosato spritz, made with rosé and more bitter Campari, should satisfy even the pickiest spritz snob.
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I am not being a snob; honestly, I don't know where you find crummy olives in Turkey.
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You probably haven't worried so much about the servants, but shame on you, you class-blinkered snob.
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The show cued you early on to see her, as Madeline does, as a self-superior snob.
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The selection of nuts, olives and cheeses is enough to wow even the most particular food snob.
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Not wanting to be a wine snob, I happily sip away while nibbling on a Besan roti.
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This brings up some good questions, though: what self-respecting audio snob even uses an iPhone anyways?
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She says she is a "design snob" and describes many other contemporary arrangements as generic and cheap-looking.
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If you're a horror snob, James Wan's Amityville Horror-inspired screamer is likely not your cup of tea.
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A scold, a snob, a paid hack intent on punishing artists and spoiling the fun of the public.
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"SOME of my friends think I'm a snob," admits Christopher Karp, a 20 year-old aviation-management student.
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If you're a music snob, you're probably thinking, That's stupid, and to that I say, hear me out.
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And I want to show that I am accessible; I'm a more regular person than a fashion snob.
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I operate on Windows, being a PC, and I'm not enough of a UI snob to bootcamp Apple.
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I admit that I identify as an incorrigible barbecue snob, having lived for many years in North Carolina.
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The cocoa and the cannabis both "exhibit terroir"—perfect for the dessert and/or weed snob in your life.
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"Being a snob could actually be socially counterproductive, lessening one's ability to move across different social networks," Vanderbilt notes.
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Younger women tell me Rory was their permission to be brainy, ambitious, and a little bit of a snob.
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Pros: There's something for everyone in Sonoma County, whether you're a wine snob, outdoor adventurer, craft brewer, or foodie.
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If you're a coffee snob, you probably know that freshly ground coffee makes for a better cup of Joe.
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I'm not a coffee snob: I'm not one of those, like, 'I'll only drink Blue Bottle and all that.
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A self-described coffee snob, Cory can be found frequenting the many third wave coffee shops scattered throughout NYC.
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The pair reportedly hated one another on sight, because they each thought the other one was a showboating snob.
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As with any listening bar, you can find snob appeal at In Sheep's Clothing, if that's what you want.
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The press portrayed him as a snob, though he was the son of a Liverpool docker and himself state-educated.
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Here's what Pruitt should've used the money for instead: Every pen snob has her preferred brand, and mine is Muji.
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You see, Khloé is convinced that her mom knows nothing about art, and is just being a snob (she's right).
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I'm a PC racing-sim snob and I'm in danger of becoming a convert to the Church of Turn 10.
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"If you're even a little bit of a coffee snob, you'll want to leave it on the shelf," they wrote.
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" Slighted by a snob while he is reading a Lawrence Durrell novel, he thinks: "Doesn't he think poor people read?
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By then, the transformation and will have been complete: Igor's son, Ivan will have been turned into a terrible snob.
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A man who grew up under the tutelage of an art snob and ended up working as a part-time assassin?
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Call me a snob, but "Master Blaster Flower Power" sounds like a product made up by a junior varsity improv team.
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If you happen to know a Carmex snob, don't beat around the bush — just get them a shit ton of Carmex.
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We get free coffee at work, but I'm a bit of a snob, so my boss and I trade ordering pods.
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As well as doubting whether The Handmaid's Tale's's premise could occur in real life, McCarthy's also a bit of a snob.
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I have a Chemex because I'm a coffee snob and I'm too lazy to clean the grounds from my french press.
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I read Cecil Beaton's diaries and learned that he was not just the cold, egotistical, snob that I thought he was.
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Even the biggest horror movie snob will be impressed to learn that this is the movie that inspired John Carpenter's Halloween.
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I feel sort of defensive of it, and also, I want to position myself as somebody who is not a snob.
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He's a vodka snob, he told me conspiratorially, because he spent time in the Ukraine, and people there know how to drink.
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The better, this-is-just-TV part of my brain assumed that Hodel is an art snob who maybe also murdered women.
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What's a beauty snob to do when they want to detox their beauty routine, so to speak, without sacrificing quality... or luxury?
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So I'm a snob with bodysuits and I'm very particular — even like the crotch area, how you have to button it together.
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Eben Weiss, the author of the blog Bike Snob NYC, offered some advice for the city: Institute a Drive to Work Week.
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Well, one sticker pack is trying to bring a little order to the chaos — the Grammar Snob collection from developer John Haney.
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Instead, you get a clean page layout with four options to identify your level of java snob-hood: from newbie to nerd.
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She snorted at the woowoo label, just as she—a congenital word snob—would have snorted at that woowoo euphemism, passed away.
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Dear Miss Manners: My friend Melody, a bit of a snob, doesn't own a car and often requests a ride into town.
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But that didn't come to pass because Stannis was a bit of a snob about letting hired fighters mingle with his loyal army.
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Name-dropping Pauline Kael, but no other critics, is the film snob equivalent of name-dropping Lester Bangs and no other music critics.
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This person will always have very high self-esteem (a good thing!) and may be a bit of a snob (a fine thing!).
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"You can be erudite and learned, but show that you don't have to be an intellectual snob," Mr Halberstam quotes one as saying.
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With a bushy beard, nerd glasses and a penchant for plaid, his look is more Seattle coffee snob than extreme body modification enthusiast.
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Darcy is also a fine heir to Colin Firth's stiff embodiment of the original English snob in the 2005 Pride and Prejudice adaptation.
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He tells her to get off her high horse and accuses her of being a snob because Henry's not a marquess like Bertie.
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The Grammar Snob sticker app, for $1, lets you add editorial red ink over a text message to fix a friend's bad grammar.
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For one thing, a foodie or beer snob now has much less to complain about when contemplating dining outside a big coastal city.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)The last big effect of owning a Triton 2.53 is that it could turn you into a graphics snob.
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The wine-snob card is a crude straw man, of course, but we know what they mean: The rigmarole around wine is intimidating.
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I say that not because I'm a film snob (though of course I am); it's that most movies and television are so formulaic.
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Yes, Coward was a terrible snob, and there is a certain smugness about "Present Laughter" that it's best not to examine too closely.
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And whether or not you're a splurge snob, it's hard to resist the quality products at the corner shop that stocks your toilet paper.
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Never overpriced or intimidating, Ulta Beauty is the great equalizer; there's truly something for everyone, whether you're a drugstore devotee or a label snob.
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There's also the draw of the snob; we've got this little world that is rich and you mainstream jags don't know anything about it.
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So, the first thing I witness is that even a self-righteous snob like me can lose clarity about the seriousness of an execution.
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Even though sometimes I teach very illustrious wines, at my heart I'm an anti-snob, and I want people to feel comfortable around wine.
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The late comedian, who died at 91, had previously referred to Colbert as "an elitist and a snob" in 2015, according to the publication.
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He is a snob, who feels that the group's rituals—Sunday Funday, for example—are beneath him, and he complains about them at first.
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More charitably, they may be worried that your new fancy house might mean you're going to dump them now that you're a rich snob.
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You act like you're above gossip (like you do with a lot of things, you snob), but really, you love learning new rumors, Virgo.
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It's one of those rare hardcore records that can be enjoyed equally by the most seasoned snob or any ol' n00b off the street.
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Now, I'm no snob or anything, but given the choice, and the level of service (pickup at your door), which would you rather drive?
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You got things like the New Yorker and Frida Kahlo, do you ever worry that people will think you're a pretentious snob or something?
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" He was accustomed, he wrote, to being called a "snob, arrogant dilettante and cad," characterizations he was inclined to dismiss as "so much hogwash.
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Sally was educated at St. Martin's College of Art in London and married Leonard Soames, a businessman who ran a clothing line called Snob.
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The alt-right has no consistent ideology; it is a label, like "snob" or "hipster," that is often disavowed by people who exemplify it.
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Pretty much any professional brewer or self-proclaimed beer snob can talk your ear off about the history, mechanics, and complex flavor profiles of goses.
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Tina Craig, the woman behind Bag Snob, took to the comments under Cao's photo, as well as her own Instagram Story, to address the shirt.
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CICERO, THE Roman statesman whose prose is thought to represent the peak of style in Latin, was also a bit of a snob about it.
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She made me believe that she was the domineering force she played in Deliver Us From Eva and the uptight snob in Daddy's Little Girls.
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Like, while my bandmates knowing about real coffee, I'm a bit of a chocolate snob, and can taste the wax or synthetics a mile away.
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If you want such a fancy meal well then maybe you should just skip the barbecue and head over to T.G.I. Friday's, you food snob.
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According to the New Orleans Advocate, King Cake Snob is an annual contest that is organized by Innovative Advertising, a Mandeville, Louisiana-based ad agency.
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If your girlfriend is a craft beer snob or just simply loves a DIY project, give her the fun experience of brewing her own batch.
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In the 2000s, I shifted into indie rock music snob territory while Jackson went further down the path of R&B-laced sexuality in her music.
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As a vegetarian and dog food-snob, I was nervous about putting something in my dog's bowl that would be filled with chemicals and other junk.
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She added that she's never "confused" by their year-long relationship and that Aronofsky may be an Ivy League guy, but he's not a condescending snob.
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Why take the word of some greasy snob hiding behind a byline when your brain can tell you whether or not a song is any good?
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I'm not some snob with my nose totally upturned to streaming — as I type these words, I'm jamming out to my Ryan Adams station on Pandora.
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Over seven seasons, it also managed to brand itself as a sort of aspirational product, more novelistic, more cinematic, than ordinary television—a design-snob collectible.
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If you're not an audio snob, an older model of headphones will do you just fine, and you can usually score them for a discounted price.
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By the Book The author of "Kitchen Confidential" says one of the benchmarks of great food writing is to be very knowledgeable, but never a snob.
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And Albert Schmidt, Louis Begley's aging, endearing snob, was the tonic who lent the fizz to "About Schmidt" and two subsequent novels from 1996 to 2012.
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Above all, High Fidelity makes it clear that being a music snob — and a complicated, emotionally fraught asshole — are not the exclusive provenance of white men.
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Ever since the nation's most notorious sex offender had the bright idea to play records nearly simultaneously, DJing has become the last bastion of the snob.
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You're no snob, Cancer, but please be real with yourself about whether you would want to bring the people you've been partnering with to a work event.
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Price: $10.50 on Amazon If you are fortunate enough to know a sock snob, consider this celestial pair from Madewell's collaboration with legwear brand Hansel from Basel.
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"You can continue to be a coffee snob with Rising Sun Coffee without any of the anti-white guilt you might experience going to Starbucks," he said.
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The chef claimed that he's not a wine snob and that there are no wrong observations when tasting wine, but he was still up to Jimmy's challenge.
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"He quite often turns his nose up at people — he's a snob," says Flint, who's a former marine who was injured in a climbing accident in 1996.
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Helpless before marzipan, she is greedy, temperamental, afraid of the dark, prone to black moods, black humor, black teeth (all that marzipan), vain, vindictive, an inveterate snob.
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As the innovator and alien of the zodiac, it's unusual for you to be closed-minded about meeting people, Aquarius—however, you can sometimes be a snob!
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Like Jefferson, John Quincy was a wine snob, but while Jefferson sipped French and Italian vintages, Adams had a special passion for Madeira, a fortified Portuguese wine.
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Once I'd sampled several varieties of apples, I started to feel like I was shedding my human skin and becoming a pretentious wine snob, but with apples.
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" He added, "Young readers will be effortlessly educated even as they are entertained by Grandma's adventures in fox hunting, snob baiting and all-around small-town showboating.
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Unswervingly straight, Edvard was also such a snob that he wouldn't even condescend to address Andersen, his lifelong correspondent and eventual benefactor, in the familiar "Du" form.
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With each disembodied quote, with each one-way transmission, he is reduced to a Luddite and a curmudgeon and a hater and a snob and worse. Franzen!
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Brewing kit If your girlfriend is a craft beer snob or just simply loves a DIY project, give her the fun experience of brewing her own batch.
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Corden, as is his wont, played the traditionalist here, and if you're going to be a theater snob about it, he came off slightly the worse for it.
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I come here not to denounce coffee snob culture (I have paid $5 for a pourover and did not complain about it) but to raise up tea culture.
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Stanley, a jazz aficionado and something of a record snob, was horrified — doubly so when his son made moves to pursue the devil's music on a professional level.
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It makes sense once you consider McClure is a self-professed 90 grunge-rock snob who says he learned to write songs by mimicking his shaggy-haired heroes.
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As of September 26, that swarm had included 142 mini-quakes with richter-scale magnitudes of 1.4 to 4.3—hardly a tremble to the average California earthquake snob.
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We've all encountered that whiskey snob who insists on adding a couple of drops of distilled water to "open up" and enhance the flavor of their amber restorative.
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He found V. S. Naipaul a snob, Roald Dahl churlish and anti-Semitic, Alfred A. Knopf a bit of a spoiled baby given to tantrums, Mr. Rushdie entitled.
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Then I finished the northwest corner, and with it the slightly city-slicker-snob clue at 21A, "Likely inexpensive place to get one's hair done," SMALL TOWN SALON.
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"We knew we needed a snob-appeal label," he told Crain's New York Business in 1989, because he was hoping to compete with designer brands like Pierre Cardin.
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Call me a cultural snob, but sometimes I like to turn away from anything with mass appeal, which is why, for instance, you won't find me hunting Pokémon either.
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Nobody wants to be a snob or a "hater" but, from punchline to NBC star to president, what is our shabby Mussolini but poptimism's logical extreme gone aggressively sour?
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But the joke is on you, fast-casual food snob: when it comes to counting calories, fast-casual restaurants pile them on even more than fast-food restaurants do.
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Saviour Balzan, a veteran editor and longtime adversary, called her a "spiteful snob" who reveled in ridiculing people she viewed as inferior, particularly those who supported the Labour Party.
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" Because King Cake season stretches from early January (specifically Three Kings' Day) through Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras), King Cake Snob designed a Facebook ad that said "We're Back, Baby.
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In one of his best performances, Walter Matthau plays a bankrupt snob who schemes to marry a clumsy heiress and botany professor played with sneaky charm by Ms. May.
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Mercer Island, for example, isn't a wilderness preserve — it's a rich snob-zoning enclave where most of the land is set aside for lots of at least 8,000 square feet.
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I'm kind of a snob in that when I have a political conversation with someone, I'm super into fact-checking everything I say, [and careful not to] say anything offensive.
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It's one of the few coffee makers on the market to be certified by the Specialty Coffee Association — meaning, if you're a self-proclaimed coffee snob, you'll taste a difference.
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Yeah, it's annoying at times, and incongruous — but it's also fun, at least until one my friends discover the new Grammar Snob sticker pack and starts red-lining my chats.
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Baron (Baron Vaughn), the company's "social media guru" who writes tweets while listening to opera feels like Corporate's take on the overeducated and overcompensating Harvard snob, Toofer, on 30 Rock.
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I'm not a coffee snob, and the hot coffee was fine for me, although I'm not sure if it would be worth paying for over free coffee in the office.
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I'm aware that those are not necessarily household names, and I'm not trying to brandish my film snob credentials (which are of doubtful authenticity in any case) by invoking them.
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Anyway, Wheeler — a word snob who has a gift for stating home truths that nobody else dares utter — soon has the audience in the palm of his 11 ½-sized hand.
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A. Theater will always be my home, but I remember Julie Harris and Frances Sternhagen beating advice into my head when I was being a little theater snob in the '90s.
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So yeah, I am absolutely biased towards this band, but I'm also a massive music snob, so it's extremely convenient that Vile Creature is so fucking good at what they do.
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For Ryan (Jake Choi), a Chinese-American fashion stylist in New York City and a self-described snob, cultural heritage is a burden he must rise above to further his career.
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Robusta might have a bad reputation in coffee snob circles, but it isn't inherently bad, according to Will Frith, a specialty coffee expert based in Saigon (also called Ho Chi Minh).
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I measure my daily coffee intake in gallons and consider a good cup to be one of life's greatest pleasures, but I'm probably not what you would call a coffee snob.
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And they've just completed a series of plates, to be released this spring, that will include witty images of human archetypes such as the Playboy, the Little Soldier and the Snob.
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" Taylor's book takes its title and inspiration from William Makepeace Thackeray's "The Book of Snobs" (1848), in which that Victorian novelist defined a snob as one "who meanly admires mean things.
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I work with so many people in the enthusiast press, and I don't want to throw anybody under the bus—I sound like a snob, but I don't mean to, genuinely.
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Cherry Jones may have played the president on the Fox series "24," but she admits to being a "theater snob" who always thought she would do her best work on the stage.
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Freeman began wondering if there might be a business opportunity for a dedicated coffee snob like himself to sell his version of the perfect cup of coffee to like-minded caffeine junkies.
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In the June 7 episode, he played an unruly (and unsettling) dummy to Steve Martin's ventriloquist, and (in a filmed bit) an exaggerated British etiquette snob who berates children about their manners.
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He drops out of grad school to teach kindergarten; and his love life has stalled since his ex-boyfriend and former academic adviser, a dashing snob and commitment-phobe, broke his heart.
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She is at some pains, though, to dispel the widespread notion that the books can't be much good because their author was a toff—a snob, a name-dropper, a mossbacked Tory.
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The bottom lineFishing gear isn't cheap, and I'm not a snob, but after burning through $100 rod-and-reel combinations every year or two, I'm looking forward to seeing this setup last.
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In 20083 they published The Official Foodie Handbook, a lighthearted tome that explains that the foodie is not a gourmet, since she need not be a snob, a professional, or a man.
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As Leo is the sign of royalty, some astrologers might misinterpret you for being a snob who doesn't know what hard work means, but this characterization couldn't be further from the truth.
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You're a perfectionist and you've got taste, Virgo, but don't be a snob—now's the time to be open-minded and value different ideas, and most of all, to trust your intuition.
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I deigned to name one of them Ophelia, mostly because I was a dramatic snob at that point and it seemed fitting to name this cat after a famous lost girl of literature.
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At worst, you're being a contrarian snob asshole, the sort of person who used to say "I don't even own a TV" before everyone agreed TV was actually artistic and literary and cool.
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I would soon drop out of school and work my way east, as a newspaper reporter, with a mad conviction that I knew what awaited me, a tyro snob, lacking only proper opinions.
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When I first dipped into the novels of Anthony Powell a few decades ago, he seemed to me a fussily minor snob, sharing Waugh's upper-class milieu but without Waugh's ferocious comic cruelty.
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She's a weed-smoking, Instagram story-addicted millennial whose 2015 sophomore album Pageant Material introduced a dreamy Lana-goes-to-Nashville aesthetic that was irresistible to even the most hardened anti-country snob.
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I do my best not to be a snob, but when more knowlegeable cohorts than me gag at the latest tropical house cover storming the charts, I'm comfortable taking their word for it.
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I first dreamed up the "beer suicide"—a glass of all the draft beers at a bar mixed together—last fall, in an attempt to piss off a beer snob friend of mine.
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Back in 1969, the state passed an "anti-snob" zoning law that empowered state officials to alter local zoning laws in communities where less than 10 percent of housing stock was deemed affordable.
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Don't worry, though, Annie's not some indie snob, she's also feelin' herself to the pop sounds of Ariana Grande, Lil Wayne, and Zedd, which may or may not be good music to smash to.
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And if you think about it, you probably have more than one of them in your life: your pizza rat, your brunch wife, your snacking snob, or even your fast-food partner in crime.
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They're never the headphones an insufferable snob like me would choose for their audio quality, but in practice, they are so easy to use that they've become the archetype of simple wireless headphone pairing.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden was called a "snob bereft of elementary quality as a human being" by North Korea's state-run KCNA news agency Tuesday night, after he criticized leader Kim Jong-un.
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It's clear from the way he describes the joint to an American journalist named Anne (Elisabeth Moss) that he's a snob—the kind of bougie, self-important Art Guy it's hard not to hate.
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Based on their data, you're not just being a snob when you dismiss the profile of anyone who mentions Creed: clashing tastes in music, books, movies, and TV shows can suggest deeper political incompatibilities.
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"I remember when we first came to him for a meeting, he was sitting in the lobby of his own hotel, which, of course, is called 'Trump,' " Aras Agalarov told the Russian magazine Snob .
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That Champagne and rosé go good with ice is no surprise to Bill Irvin, a restaurateur and self-described "wine snob" who spent last summer plopping cubes into his rosé to beat the heat.
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I couldn't tell if it was these specific games that weren't doing it for me, or if I was too much of a farm-sim snob to enjoy fan-made takes on the genre.
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It's not that I'm a product snob, but very few formulas have delivered the lash vibe I'm after — which, thank you for asking, is bold, dramatic, and longer than the Duggar family's Christmas wish lists.
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Scroll through the gallery for my deeply confused minute-by-minute recap of a show that has already been through years of countless villains, outfit changes, and time jumps while I was being a snob.
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I had to earn spending money by serving food in the dining halls," wrote Alice, whose son is now a freshman at U.S.C. "I realized being rich did not necessarily mean one was a snob.
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" He added: "To hear that your father is racist, a snob, a poster boy for the aristocracy in the '70s didn't sit very well with the rather charming, rather lovely and kind man that I knew.
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If. So, IF she is a snob, then go, be yourself, be as helpful as you can, know it's finite, don't stay longer than 30 minutes, and call it an act of love for your husband.
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Shekhar Kapur ("Elizabeth"), who directed the pilot and several other episodes, developed a restless, roving shooting style meant to rescue Shakespeare from snob cults and snoozy English classes and put him back into the city crowd.
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Enemy Number One: The pedant or self-styled grammar snob, who has been with us for at least 400 years judging by the examples presented here, wringing his hands and lamenting the decline in linguistic standards.
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There is perhaps no kind of liquor snob who takes their snobbery more seriously than a whiskey lover, who will likely talk your ear off about the intricacies of the barreled beverage if given the opportunity.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads I'm no snob for typography — a dilettante at best, really — but the Nobel Prize's logo redesign is a God-awful way to modernize the 123-year-old symbol of human ingenuity.
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And above everything else, Florida Georgia Line is patently anti-snob—naturally, this posturing is one reason why the group's success in proliferating the hotly debated sub-genre of "bro-country" has been analyzed often by critics.
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But my inner cocktail snob couldn't help but note that spirits were measured with a jigger, while juices and infusions were not; and my Manhattan variation (with a syrup made from local carob) was not sufficiently diluted.
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Rick Santorum, a former Republican senator from Pennsylvania and an unsuccessful contender for the GOP presidential nomination, once called Obama, who holds a diploma from Harvard Law School, "a snob" for wanting more Americans to attend college.
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With its gorgeous gold-embossed cover, funky pattern-on-pattern Victoriana-style artwork and charming paper engineering, it's a book with the feel of a talisman — one that will seduce kids and their design snob grown-ups.
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"I enjoy training them more than anything, because they're people who feel like I feel about fitness and the importance of it," says McClellan, who is hosting a workout at Fitness Snob Studio in D.C. on Feb. 19.
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Some of these are harmful — especially ones based on innate, genetic things nobody can change about themselves — and some of them aren't (a snob versus a slob will be a comedy storyline until the end of time, probably).
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She was both a horrific snob, who made conquests of noted artists, and an encouraging muse who pushed her romantic partners to greatness (if only by making them scared they'd join her extensive trash heap of ex-lovers).
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Underneath her smile, he had heard, Verdon could be a difficult collaborator, a high-class snob with an ironclad pedigree and an almost pathological aversion to the kind of heigh-ho Broadway jumping around she called animated wallpaper.
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This is a movement by and for the coffee-snob, but according to Day, even a coffee dilettante like myself should be able to use the Blue Bottle dripper to produce a perfect cup of joe every time.
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A 30-plus-year New Yorker and a self-described "hardcore Manhattan snob," Ms. Goding, 50, said she never spent a night in Brooklyn prior to moving to the borough last October with her partner, Charles McMickens, 58.
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I think it had to do with the feeling that there was subversion going on, and the things -- (CROSSTALK) RIVERA: I did not have to do with race to the extent that President Obama was an insufferable elitist snob.
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And no, not because I feel like I'm smarter or better than them, or I'm some New York snob who only eats kale chips, or some hyper-PC college student who can't listen to people who disagree with me.
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And when that home is the UK, talking about "How we do things in England" puts you at risk of sounding at best like a snob, and at worst like Marlow, the imperialist-leaning narrator in Heart of Darkness.
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Whether you're a beer snob itching for a new brew or a DIYer who likes the idea of not having to leave the house, the SUB is a great way to try new flavors and simultaneously support local breweries.
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And truth be told, I had become something of a snob when it came to open-air revelry in Paris, my tastes soon inclining toward church squares of more intimate dimensions: St.-Sulpice, say, or St.-Étienne-du-Mont.
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The unrepentant snob Basil Fawlty, the beastly glamour-pusses Edina and Patsy, the fatuous narcissist Alan Partridge, and the thirsty buffoon David Brent: these classic British characters are all flawed in the unapologetic manner of contemporary edgy American comedies.
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I wasn't really expecting this level of performance, to be honest, since I'm a bit of an audio snob with a number of audio receivers and passive speakers, each of which costs more on its own than the Big Blue.
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When the woman couldn't get it right (she was "very proud of her cooking and was a real food snob"), she essentially accused Newberry of leaving something out of the recipe to keep her from replicating them in all its glory.
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I've tried to be a music snob for years and now I just have to admit that I love DC Talk and Relient K. You reach an age where you just don't care like you did when you were 22.
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For one thing, I'm as thin-skinned as anyone else, and don't enjoy being excoriated on Twitter or mocked as a theater snob or told on Facebook to just "relax" — as if my being uptight were what made the show bad.
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Still, I doubt I'm the only listener of my generation who has at times succumbed to the lure of rock-snob dogmatism and worshiped false idols of authenticity, as if Sir Elton's splendid artifice were something to be outgrown or outsmarted.
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The other members of the Doorn household include his second wife, Princess Hermine, a woman of lively temperament almost 30 years younger than her husband, and his secretary, von Islemann, an aristocrat and, like his master, something of a snob.
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Sure, America knows 2017 Trump as somewhat of a Twitter snob — only communicating with his followers through 140-character-long snippets and midnight rants — but his apparent lack of a MySpace leaves a glaring hole in his efforts to dominate social media.
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Murray Carpenter, the author of the book Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us, says the rise of the coffee snob is part of the relatively newish, generational interest in fancified versions of vices like craft beer and whiskey.
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I'm not normally a fan of teaming up with people in fitness classes (I consider working out me-time; does that make me a snob?), but there was something really nice about having someone next to me every step of the way.
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A year earlier he had published a translation of Ruskin's The Bible of Amiens, an important step in developing his own writing style, but to the rest of the world he was a "frivolous social snob," as William Gass once put it.
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Thanks to its team of engineers from all over the world, the Volta strikes the perfect balance of cycling-snob craftsmanship, commuter-friendly features, and high-tech bells and whistles (to be clear, the bike features neither a bell nor a whistle).
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To follow up this interview conducted in 2015, when Rubyfruit Jungle was being rereleased with a new cover, Broadly spoke to Brown about overcoming oppression, learning to love genre writing as a "literary snob," and the immediate, overwhelming success of her debut novel.
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It is full of moments that are quotable because they are so relatable, from Alvy shutting down an art-house cinema snob by conjuring Marshall McLuhan out of thin air to his speech equating his and Annie's relationship with a dead shark.
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After sharing years of tender affection with her childhood friend and beloved, Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw becomes a duplicitous snob and rejects her true love because of his low social status, poor breeding, and unkempt manner; Heathcliff, in turn, becomes incensed and runs away.
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We learn how to behave in the rowdy taverns of ancient Ur ("the perfect place for the craft-ale snob") and at a Greek Symposium, where the wine poured from the krater bowl was closely regulated by the host, although with mixed success.
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Mr. Sinno, a self-described "pretentious writing snob" (his lyrics teem with allusions to Sappho and Sylvia Plath), described the students as "all extremely woke," and outlined a syllabus that includes Bertolt Brecht, Judith Butler and the French rap duo the Blaze.
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This is the first hint that Candice won't be as bored as she imagines with nothing but library books, an iPod with her father's "ancient" music, and the kid across the street for company: a year younger, "a book snob" and a boy.
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"To hear that your father is racist, a snob, a poster boy for the aristocracy in the '70s didn't sit very well with the rather charming, rather lovely and kind man that I knew," Mr. Bingham told The New York Times last year.
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But it's also absurd for a great nation to leave its long-term economic trajectory so fully hostage to the whims of the Palo Alto planning commission and a motley assortment of New York community boards and snob zoning groups on Long Island.
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If you're the jerk who never helps clean up the habitat, are a snob to your neighbors, or just generally suck, people are going to look at your low rep score and be hesitant to help you out or trust you with community resources.
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It is implied that Franzen himself is wounded by this decline in relevance, and the sales numbers themselves are used to imply a growing division in public opinion: that Franzen is increasingly dismissed as a "snob" and that he's losing touch with the public.
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Margot laughed along with the jokes he was making at the expense of this imaginary film-snob version of her, though nothing he said seemed quite fair, since she was the one who'd actually suggested that they see the movie at the Quality 16.
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Nor had she said that she'd stopped loving him, even when she'd become so shrill and angry under the tutelage of whatever Owl she'd seen back in the day—just that he was impossible, uptight, set in his ways, a rich, self-satisfied snob.
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Sansa may be stuck up, Bran may have come back an imperious snob ("I see quite a lot now"), and Arya a stone-cold killer, but they are family, and nothing—certainly not Littlefinger, who must see that his welcome is wearing out—will part them again.
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In William H. Gass's "Middle C," a job at a record store (the High Note) in rural Ohio gives a young, mediocre piano student named Joey Skizzen an education that grows "by octaves," and launches this "snob in motion" on a path to becoming a professor of music.
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"I can do things on TV that simply cannot be done in stores," says Lane, who might be a snob about some things but certainly not about his customers, who have included everyone from Britney Spears to Barbara Bush; the latter famously wore Lane's "pearls" to her husband's inaugural ball.
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Most pop music appeals harmonically to humanity's consistent desire for familiarity by using the same four chords—a fact that literally any self-respecting Music Snob will repeat very loudly at a party whose playlist is deemed disappointing for its lack of Justin Vernon (spoiler alert: he uses them too).
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I was repeatedly told on social media that I was an elitist snob, that Ph.D.s were worthless and did not prove anything, that five years of research were simply my "opinion," that no one cared, that doctorates were no sign of intelligence and that I should be ashamed of myself.
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While Starbucks coffee can be an everyday indulgence for urbanites in the West, with a price tag of 30 yuan (US$4.43) for a medium latte in Shanghai, it is still a brand with plenty of snob appeal – a status symbol for the emerging Chinese middle class and a "liquid luxury" for an average worker.
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He (and this giant sound snob would have to be a man, in pull-on boots) would perhaps linger longest over the steampunk components and curiosities to be found in a spacious loft on the top floor of an industrial building in Dumbo—the showroom of Oswalds Mill Audio, and the lair of its principal and founder, Jonathan Weiss.
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Written in a very casual way and peppered with personal anecdotes, the book takes us through the basics of what art is exactly (which isn't really that basic), the art market and the real value of art, the differences between "looking" and "seeing," the importance of being present and undistracted, and the dilemma of connoisseur vs. snob.
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I'm a total music snob and it takes something pretty fucking magical to get me to come out to see a band play live these days, so I don't blame the other 4,800 people on the metal cruise for not bothering to see some random band with no music available for people to hear aside from a handful of shitty live YouTube videos shot on cell phones.
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And while that has not stopped people from calling me a food snob in the past — apparently if you roll your eyes and say, "There's no such thing as a 'crustless quiche,' it's just called a frittata," you're asking for it — my desire to connect over a good dinner or craft beers goes much deeper than just wanting to keep up with the culinary Joneses.
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In class-conscious Britain, the tweet from one who lives in an upscale town house in the upper middle-class London borough of Islington and is married to a High Court judge with a "Sir" before his name was taken as the contemptuous action of a snob pandering to British stereotypes about white van owners and the fact that the St. George's Cross flag is associated with far-right groups.
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A highlight reel of Mr. Gottlieb's juiciest revelations includes swipes at the Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul (a narcissist and "a snob"), the historian Barbara Tuchman ("her sense of entitlement was sometimes hard to deal with"), William Gaddis ("unrelentingly disgruntled"), John Updike ("I was disturbed that he wouldn't accept advances") and Roald Dahl (an "erratic and churlish" author who made "immoderate and provocative financial demands" and anti-Semitic remarks).
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I'm a relatively recent graduate of Princeton University where I studied Music and Computer Science, and I currently work as a technology consultant on-site at the S.E.C. in D.C. I'm also an avid singer (baritone), composer (mostly choral music), and music snob (currently a lot of Roomful of Teeth and future bass.) I began doing New York Time crosswords at breakfasts in college with some friends and quickly got addicted.
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And I have a fairly cheap cheese that is not actually that cheap because I have it shipped to me, in part because I want to have a low-status food in my house because I do like it, but also because I'm trying to prove to people that I don't just like foods that are high status, because I want to make sure that people know I'm not a snob.
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"Price doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the quality or taste of a wine," Jon Thorsen, author of the "Reverse Wine Snob," tells CNBC Make It. In fact, there's an "incredible amount of good wine" available in the $10 to $20 range, Ray Isle, executive wine editor for "Food & Wine," tells CNBC Make It. Of course, if you're a cheapskate and only want to pay a couple of bucks, finding a great-tasting bottle may prove more challenging.
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When tied to his tendency to be cruel and judgmental, the snob angle could work well, and could turn away working-class white voters because, while some of them may be interested in voting for whom they consider to be a smart, business-savvy go-getter, they won't be as interested in voting for the silver-spoon candidate who has shown no interest in them in the past unless they were giving him more money or they somehow snuck into his country club.
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But you can sense the delight she takes, after laying out some of the rigid proscriptions that ruled New York society ("A lady will not cross a ballroom unattended"; "A lady never sits in the aisle seat if she is with a gentleman"), in pointing out that even a snob like Caroline Astor ("I have never entertained a foreigner in my life unless he comes to me with a letter of introduction") had to adjust her standards to accommodate her own daughter's divorce.
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