"I am not snobbish in relation to the royal family; not snobbish of knowing Madonna or disc jockeys — but I am snobbish about meeting historians or the political establishment in different countries."
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Ann's parents are not snobbish outliers to worry about money.
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"It seems like they're a little bit snobbish," McGowan says.
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Snobbish nobles are cast as the courses in your meal.
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Because my wife is a Montrealer, she's incredibly snobbish about bagels.
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Indeed, what's snobbish is to reserve these goods for the few.
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She isn't consistently good -- in fact she's often snobbish, and self-important.
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The most snobbish, qualified high wage earning candidates are now looking for an escape.
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He prints plenty of contumely — mostly snobbish disapproval from Eastern visitors — about his hometown.
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Box office revenues have been dropping, and cinephilia is a marker of snobbish elites.
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"I was a fairly snobbish academician who looked down on biotechnology," he told me.
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And anyone who got kind of serious, or snobbish, would be told to fuck off immediately.
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If there is one thing I'm snobbish about, it is fiction that functions primarily as allegory.
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Regular Americans are being oppressed by a snobbish elite that rigs the game in its favor.
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Stiers' Major Winchester was portrayed as a Boston-born blueblood, often snobbish -- but a talented doctor.
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Clinton was a flawed candidate, viewed as dishonest, politically corrupt, snobbish, someone willing to cheat to win.
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Think men cast as Mary, the plain and prudish Bennet sister, and as the snobbish Miss Bingley.
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Smith is a talented breath of comedy, seeking laughs with everything from his gestures to his snobbish pronunciations.
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The snobbish commentary was rife with rage, negative comments about other people's bodies, and even camel-toe shame.
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He makes short shrift of intellectual condescension toward Puccini, and of serialist composers' snobbish disdain for tonal pieces.
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Some observers suggest that the restrictions on audience behavior are snobbish, elitist, or even manifestations of white privilege.
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When Parker launched his publication, in 1982, he considered himself an outsider in the snobbish world of fine wines.
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The Warner Bros casting directors essentially recruited child actors from Britain's famously snobbish network of top-tier private schools.
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She wasn't mean or snobbish as some small dogs tend to be — just in a constant fight for attention.
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She is the least snobbish person I know, and in a way, I think of her as an American.
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Do you think audience behavioral restrictions are "snobbish, elitist, or even manifestations of white privilege" as some have suggested?
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What has changed are Karen's specific offensive traits: Like all bourgeoisie stereotypes before her, she's snobbish, prudish, and hypocritical.
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I don't believe that the wine industry cares about "oenophiles," a word that is as snobbish as it sounds.
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The marriage of reason was not, in hindsight, reasonable at all; it was often expedient, narrow-minded, snobbish and exploitative.
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But it also meant that he was bruising and snobbish in his estimations of what was good and what wasn't.
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"It connoted something snobbish, which it really isn't," said Carl Myers, a retired general contractor who lives in St. Helena.
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It was the snobbish language of the liberal elite, caught committing the elemental moral crime of negating individual human value.
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As he crosses the city back and forth, the man ardently dismisses the snobbish tendencies of Colombia's electronic music scene.
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As a fierce left-back, I made a hard tackle on an opposing player from Westfield, our rich and snobbish rival.
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Had this been a snobbish section of the Hamptons, or a quiet country house upstate, things may not have worked out.
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He's your average snobbish dickhead no one wants to deal with—Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting but with less muscle.
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The people who defend gun rights believe that snobbish elites look down on their morals and want to destroy their culture.
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Tell people you're vacationing in a trailer (or a caravan, if you're in Europe), and you might get a snobbish raised eyebrow.
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When doling out a compliment, stay focused on the positive—anything else can make you come off as snide or even snobbish.
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Amid suggestions of a larger societal collapse, the one-percenters on the upper floors are snobbish brutes inclined toward drunkenness and debauchery.
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WALLS It's clear that he enjoyed music and that he also detested the snobbish attitudes that can ruin our experience of it.
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Her courtiers are interested in perfumes, dream interpretation, poetry, music, and gardens; snobbish aesthetes, they are fascinated by male and female beauty.
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But she's also so heartless, ruthless and snobbish (referring to Yale as a "second-tier" Ivy League college) that she borders on caricature.
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Among them is Mr. St. Aubyn, who can be spotted listening as an unbearably snobbish Melrose family friend talks with the French ambassador.
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He may have bought a chateau in la France profonde, but it was a "little one", sniffed a snobbish predecessor, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
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FAIRY HOUSES: How to Create Whimsical Homes for Fairy Folk (Cool Springs, $30) may catch the fancy of even the most snobbish among us.
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Trump, billionaire Manhattanite though he may be, has long used the idea that he is sneered at by a snobbish elite to his own advantage.
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While here he's rightfully bemoaning the homogenizing effects of capitalism on culture, it is also easy to see words like these as snobbish and elitist.
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In 22018, streaming was rapidly rising as music's predominant listening format, and the notion of sustaining siloed musical genres felt like an increasingly snobbish concern.
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The progress of their romance is complicated by her pregnancy, a shotgun marriage and life under the eye of Ingrid's snobbish, viperish mother (Thora Hird).
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Newcomers may get the feeling that they have stumbled upon a private club, one that is discreet and insidery (clients are all buzzed in) without being snobbish.
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City Kitchen "Tonight, I'm dining on pheasant bordelaise with peach fuzz dressing," said Ginger Rogers's character in the wisecracking 1937 movie "Stage Door," ridiculing snobbish fancy food.
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Is it possible that Trump's straight-from-the-shoulder style is simply unbearable to the British, perceived by many Americans (and others) as being snobbish and repressed?
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You might think I'm being snobbish or pedantic here, unfairly rounding on a memorial to the very real tragedy going on in Syria, and you might be right.
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Mr Trump's critics, they contend, show snobbish contempt for the tycoon's voters—notably older, often less-educated whites who feel left behind by wrenching social and economic changes.
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Then there is Clement Greenberg's snobbish term, "Tenth Street Touch," which dismissed a lot of artists, including many who did not use a loaded brush or paint the figure.
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We are meant to feel irritated by the family's snobbish refusal to understand the danger of its situation, and by the ways its members distract themselves when real peril looms.
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Mr. Botstein was at Carnegie to lead his American Symphony Orchestra in Bernstein's "Kaddish" Symphony, one of the ambitious concert works that earned him much snobbish criticism in his lifetime.
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Typically, arguments in this vein — like recent pieces from Charles Murray and Clive Crook — do not adduce specific evidence of such snobbish disdain but merely assert its existence via broad generalities.
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It isn't snobbish to think that a life in which you are in touch with the best thinking in the humanities and sciences is better than a life without those experiences.
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While he received some support for his post, many critics dismissed his comments as sexist and snobbish, noting that Ms. Cole had helped save a London bookshop and graduated from Cambridge.
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Isn't it snobbish to fuss over Trump's plans to eliminate all funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting?
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The largely Quebecois crowd roared with laughter as the song poked fun at an influx of snobbish, chain-smoking, "know-it-all" French who are "occupying" the Plateau-Mont-Royal neighborhood.
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In the first two episodes, the hook-nosed, devil-bearded Olaf (a failed actor by trade) suggests Nosferatu resurrected as a snobbish sociopath who could stand to brush up on his Stanislavski.
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Is the amiable-seeming Gene, an amnesiac war veteran played by Rory Keenan, actually Jack Fox, the son of a snobbish Long Island family among whom he finds himself after 15 years away?
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The restaurant took some heat in the food blogosphere when it first opened in November 2016, when the sticker shock caused some locals to label it as "hipster" or "atas [snobbish]" nasi lemak.
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What you're supposed to do is be subtly snobbish about various things — from locally sourced produce at the lower end to unique experiential vacations at the high end — not just slap gold on everything.
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Le Monde wrote in its obituary that Ms. Laforêt was "modest, snobbish and cheeky, all at the same time, with a corrosive sense of humor," quoting her as saying that she loved "anguished people."
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At that point, I had eaten Nashville hot chicken only once in my life, and yet I felt a snobbish disdain for the spices that ostentatiously coated the crust; the granules resembled crimson sand.
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He speaks to us about drinking wine with [Dutch hip hop collective] SMIB, picking grapes in France, and the ways natural winemakers try to escape the snobbish status quo of the traditional wine business.
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There is something snobbish, perhaps, in asking more of Love, Simon from a longer view of queer culture, when there's such uncomplicated joy to be had in accessing something that never existed previously, however flawed.
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Sanders's job is no doubt made harder by the fact that Washington insiders can be snobbish; more difficult is the fact that her boss continually acts in ways that require her to make excuses for him.
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As long as you can write off ethical fashion as frumpy, unsexy, snobbish, fake, or a marketing ploy, you can float along, free of cognitive dissonance, wrapped in a $5 shawl made of polyester and ignorant bliss.
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David Ogden Stiers, the tall, balding, baritone-voiced actor who brought articulate, somewhat snobbish comic dignity to six seasons of the acclaimed television series "M*A*S*H," died on Saturday at his home in Newport, Ore.
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Yes, she&aposs still snobbish, self-centered, and materialistic at times (the novel-burning scene is still as infuriating as ever), but Florence Pugh&aposs Amy is shown to have a level of intelligence rivaling Jo&aposs.
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And while I initially thought the whole idea of connecting to your LinkedIn account to match you with someone with "drive and motivation," was snobbish, I did like its core values: Keep your standards high and don't settle.
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And in the lead role, Long is delightful – out of touch but not snobbish, entitled but still good-hearted, and on the whole very earnest in the way she attempts something that no one thinks she can accomplish.
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For starters, Nick and Rachel occupy roles that will be instantly recognizable to fans of Austen's Pride and Prejudice: They each contain shades of the snobbish Darcy and the penniless Elizabeth, and the novel frames them that way.
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I don't doubt that people have said upsettingly snobbish things about your hard-earned degree, but I also think you're blowing up a few offhand comments, when it's likely that no one really cares where you went to school.
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The Telegraph recently conducted an investigation on elitism in the "high" arts, finding that it is the image of the "stuffy" and "hoity-toity" theatre-going public—rather than the cost of tickets—that gives these forms a snobbish aura.
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But now that white working-class voters are beginning to unsettle the conservative political establishment by flocking to Donald Trump, some conservative pundits are unleashing sentiments about white working-class communities that are a good deal more vicious than snobbish disdain.
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The script, written by the artist and later published in the journal October, careens from snobbish talk about taste and culture to a scathing critique of how 19th-century robber baron gave their money to art institutions instead of the poor.
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John Hillerman, the Texas-born actor who played a likably snobbish British caretaker on the hit television show "Magnum, P.I." and had supporting roles in celebrated 21922s movies like "Chinatown" and "Blazing Saddles," died on Thursday at his home in Houston.
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The Halls and other winery owners in the California region felt like the wine cave was mischaracterized as excessive or snobbish, when in reality, wine has to be stored cool and wine caves are popular around the world to save money.
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Mr. Atsumi, 953, is part of a new generation of Japanese chefs who set out to master French cooking and who now run some of the most acclaimed French restaurants in Paris — notable in a city known for its snobbish dismissal of outsiders.
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So even from the perspective of the enlightened, progressive wizarding faction, then, Muggles are basically just a vast surplus population that occasionally produces the new blood that wizarding needs to avoid becoming just a society of snobbish old-money inbred Draco Malfoys.
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In "Assistant Wanted, Female," Mary's boss Lou Grant (Ed Asner) allows her to hire some help, and she takes a chance on her snobbish, conceited neighbor Phyllis Lindstrom (Cloris Leachman) who has a hard time taking orders from someone she considers her inferior.
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By the time Jane Austen was writing, though, the word was already starting to rouse suspicion: When Mr. Collins, in "Pride and Prejudice" (1813), extols the "affability and condescension" of Lady Catherine, readers were reminded that this clergyman was at once snobbish and obsequious.
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At the same election eve rally, Mr. Bannon blasted MSNBC's Joe Scarborough for attending a worse college than Mr. Bannon did — a snobbish remark in the best of circumstances, made worse by the fact that Mr. Scarborough's alma mater is the University of Alabama.
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She isn't snobbish and is as likely to cite Doris Day as Francis Poulenc, to learn from an old sailor as from a historian, to discuss the "hedge warfare" fought against the Germans in Normandy as to relay Napoleon's opinion of the steam engine ("a child's toy").
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" (Formerly "My Fair Lady") In modern-day London, a feisty urban female youth turned doctoral candidate teaches her rich male capitalist mentor about the depth and the variety of language and expression, causing him to abandon his snobbish ideas about what it means to be "well-spoken.
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In secret meetings with DuBois's snobbish mother, Diana (Phylicia Rashad, an actress Terrence Howard is visibly delighted to be working with in their scenes together), he plots to stop an exposé of the politician in exchange for Diana's help in breaking up Angelo and Cookie's relationship.
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That's because Austen lets you into her head so cleverly: You see all of Emma's happy self-delusions about how kind and helpful she means to be those around her, and simultaneously you see that she is a snobbish busybody taking out her boredom on everyone in her path.
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The generally snobbish and often racist British establishment of the day came to detest the munshi with an almost comical fervor, and, led by Victoria's son and heir, Bertie, who later reigned as Edward VII, persecuted even Abdul Karim's memory when he and his love were both long gone.
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Eisenstein's trip to Mexico, by way of Hollywood, to make a film, "Que Viva Mexico!" was funded by the American muckraking novelist Upton Sinclair ("The Jungle"), whose wife, Mary Craig Sinclair (Lisa Owen), appears in the film as a frivolous, snobbish caricature offended by Eisenstein's cheeky disregard for conventional manners.
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"Let's be honest, the greatest Oscars fiasco in history couldn't have happened to a bunch of smugger, more deserving people," he continued before hitting the "self-satisfied, snobbish and unrelentingly Trump-bashing" Times for an ad it ran during the awards, the paper's first brand-focused spot in a decade.
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Chernow presents a convincing case that neither the rings nor the corners ever touched Grant directly—the Treasury continued to sell gold despite the arranged marriage—and that, in any case, the scandals have been oversold to history by a toxic combination of snobbish New England mandarins and sinister revanchist rednecks.
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And while they both struggle to embrace G.L.O.W. as a creative outlet (Sam thinks it is beneath him, Ruth keeps trying to apply snobbish techniques from scene study class to a medium that rejects method acting), they also end up finding freedom there, on the campy, frayed edges of what Hollywood deems acceptable.
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" As for the seemingly important theme of inclusivity that runs throughout the campaign — model Mayen is a single mother refugee from Sudan, for instance — Saunders simply says, "I don't see this brand as an elitist brand, it can still appreciate a designer hand and it can still be beautifully executed and aspirational without being snobbish.
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" In 19683, the Times reported that a protest of the A.K.P. by hundreds of thousands of Turkish secularists was motivated in part by a "fear" of the life styles of their more religious compatriots—by "snobbish" complaints that "religious Turks were uneducated and poor" and that "their pesky prayer rugs got underfoot in hospital halls.
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Unlike the novelist Nancy Mitford's codification of social division according to a series of U — for "upper class" — and non-U words (looking glass and not mirror; sofa, not couch) that functioned mostly as booby traps for unwitting members of an aspirational middle class, Mr. Haslam's lists are so baldly and so risibly snobbish as to be a hoot.
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It seemed to me that too many members of the educated elite not only felt they were morally superior to those who supported the war but even began to feel a snobbish disdain toward the less sophisticated in matters ranging from not attending the right schools to not knowing about wine or, horror of horrors, wearing polyester suits.
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Bruce has treated us to five, rhyming _ _ _ _ Y - _ _ _ _ Y phrases that cross at the middle letter: 17A/3D: "Useful" = HANDY-DANDY 19A/11D: "Snobbish" = HOITY-TOITY 153A/29D: "Sophisticated" = HOTSY-TOTSY 58A/48D: "Affectionate" = LOVEY-DOVEY 60A/51D: "Weak and indecisive" = NAMBY-PAMBY Themes don't get much more straightforward than this, but this is cute and well-crafted, especially since all answers are adjectival phrases as opposed to, say, HOKEY POKEY or LAFFY TAFFY.
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There is little money; to save on heating costs, mother and son spend hours at a time on the Tube, going around London on the Circle line, where snobbish Sibylla gleefully notes the incomprehension of the average punter—people who, when they see a child in a stroller reading the Odyssey in Greek, admonish Sibylla in customary ways: he's far too young; he's only pretending to read; ancient Greek is a dead language; he should be outside playing football; and so on.
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