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It has been argued that Middleton's Inner Temple Masque ( 1619 ) sneers at Jonson ( then absent in Scotland ) as a " silenced bricklayer.
They confront the sensei, John Kreese ( Martin Kove ), an ex-Special Forces Vietnam Veteran who sneers at the concepts of mercy and restraint.
The first young man sneers at her as she retreats and wipes his mouth off his face with his hand.
In Dune, a Sardaukar Colonel sneers at Dr. Yueh's mere mention of the word " pity ".
She is against dating and often " sneers at the idiocy of teenage social life ".
Of this his occasional sneers at the clergy are perhaps a better proof than the morality of much of his work.
Sid then sneers, throws the gun away, and flicks the V's at the audience and ascends the stair case he walked down to the stage from.
Relling sneers at the notion, and insists that Hjalmar will be a drunk within a year.
Paul Gardener ( Jared Leto ), a pompous college reporter, joins the group and sneers at Parker's yarn.
O ' Connor's hero, Hazel Motes, sneers at communal and social experiences of Christianity, sees the followers of itinerant, Protestant preachers as fools, and sets out to deny Christ as violently as he can.
Haken often declares that " Nazi science sneers " at obstacles.
He plays a screaming revolutionary who at one point sneers in Jannings ' face.
Callisto regards Storm with both resentment and respect due to Storm defeating her in hand-to-hand combat, but she sneers at what she considers Storm's " weakness ," namely her conviction not to take a life, or to take revenge on baseline humans that despise mutants.
The Harlequin sneers at the Ticktockman's command for him to repent.
He sneers at Kane's patriotism, causing Kane to question why someone who has benefited most from living in a free country would work to bring it down.
Helen A at first sneers at the Doctor ; but when she discovers the remains of her beloved pet Fifi, she collapses in tears, and finally feels some sadness of her own.
In 1741 appeared a ‘ Discourse on Miracles ,’ arguing that they can at most afford a ‘ probable proof ’ of a revelation ; in 1743 an ‘ Enquiry concerning Redemption ,’ in which he defends himself against some sneers of William Warburton's ; and in 1745, ‘ The Ground and Foundation of Morality considered ,’ an attack on Thomas Rutherforth's theory of self-love.
The first recorded comments on the play are negative ; a letter written in 1587 relates the story of a child being killed by the accidental discharge of a firearm during a performance, and the next year Robert Greene, in the course of an attack on Marlowe, sneers at " atheistic Tamburlaine " in the epistle to Perimedes the Blacksmith.
At the same time, however, the selective function of manners operating in a society that “ resists and sneers at you ; or quietly drops you ” ( 162 ) if you do not follow its rules is addressed.
His strong satiric tendency led him into numerous controversies, the chief that with the critic Thomas Thorild, against whom he directed his satire Nytt försök till orimmad vers, where he also sneers at the " raving of Shakespeare " and " the convulsions of Goethe.
The organizer this time is named " C ", a mysterious man who mocks " K " and sneers at every martial artists.
When Kendrick finds out about the betrayal he angrily confronts her and she sneers at him that she only used him and that there's nothing he could do about it.
When he finds Mary and Joseph, Mary turns out to be little more than a whore, and Joseph, a bitter old man, sneers openly at her claim to have been impregnated by an angel.

sneers and concern
This letter admonished Enright for " involv in political affairs which are the concern of local people ", not " visitors, including mendicant professors ", and said that the government " ha no time for asinine sneers by passing aliens about the futility of ' sarong culture complete with pantun competitions ' particularly when it comes from beatnik professors.

sneers and when
Harker humiliates Bergman by disarming him and having his own men do the same to the SIG ( a pointed bit of dialogue ensues between the film's comedic relief characters, Alfie ( Norman Rossington ) and Dolan ( Percy Herbert ) when Alfie sneers, " Once a jerry, always a jerry ", and Dolan defends the SIG by pointing to Alfie's past as a thief ) and giving them two hours to find the traitor.
The narrator asks, " where are the sneers and jeers, that you loudly let us hear, when our leaders of ' 16 were executed ".

sneers and was
It was literally a cash prize ; rather than endure the embarrassment of media sneers about whether a WFL check would clear, the league neatly stacked cash high upon a table in the middle of the field.
After he had reached thirty years of age, his appointment on a Commission sent out by Frederick North, Lord North to attempt a reconciliation with the Thirteen Colonies during the American War of Independence was received with sneers by the opposition.
The group was received with sneers, and O ’ Connell ’ s sincerity was questioned.

sneers and seen
I have never in my life seen anything like the magical influence that subdued the mobbish spirit of the day, and turned the sneers and jeers of an excited crowd into notes of respect and admiration.

sneers and had
Ares also reveals that Leonidas is dead, having died calling for the Spartan to aid them: Ares sneers that had the Spartan stayed in the city, the Romans would never have taken Sparta.

sneers and .
And in the role of Will Danaher, Philip Bosco roars and sneers sufficiently to intimidate not only one American but the whole British army, if he chose.
The Pirate Lieutenant sneers, and says there is more to being a pirate than sword tricks.
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In professional darts, throwing 26 usually results in sneers or laughter from the audience.
" " Maybe if you change your hair / You'd be good enough ," Donald Cumming sneers in " Fernando Pando.
He then moves to his final perch and sneers.

at and Hearst
Six of the railroads carrying coal to Tidewater from the Pennsylvania fields, Hearst said, not only had illegal agreements with coal operators but owned outright at least eleven mines.
Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.
Another editor pointed despairingly at a bundle of letters that had accumulated for him, saying, `` But Mr. Hearst, what shall I do with this correspondence ''??
The Hearst press followed the Chief's progress at the various state conventions with its usual admiring attention, stressing the `` enthusiasm '' and `` loyalty '' he inspired.
A spin-off, " People's Park Annex ," was established at the same time by activist citizens of Berkeley on a strip of land above the Bay Area Rapid Transit subway construction along Hearst Avenue northwest of the U. C.
Under William Randolph Hearst's will, a common board of thirteen trustees ( its composition fixed at five family members and eight outsiders ) administers the Hearst Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and the trust that owns ( and selects the 18-member board of ) the Hearst Corporation.
William Hearst died in 1951, at age 88, and was succeeded by Richard E. Berlin as chief executive officer ; Berlin had served as president of the company since 1943.
When released on May 1, 1941, Citizen Kane — based in part on the life of William Randolph Hearst — did not do much business at theaters ; Hearst owned numerous major newspapers, and forbade them to carry advertisements for the film.
In November 1898 Hearst, with Lua Getsinger and others, stopped off at Paris briefly on their way to Palestine and was shocked to see May Bolles ( later Maxwell ) bedridden with the chronic malady which had afflicted her.
It was at this point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories, including that of the Patty Hearst abduction odyssey.
The change of animals apparently took place at the request of Hearst.
Hearst read the World while studying at Harvard University and resolved to make the Examiner as bright as Pulitzer's paper.
This drove Hearst ; following Pulitzer's earlier strategy, he kept the Journal's price at one cent ( compared to The World's two cent price ) while providing as much information as rival newspapers.
Returning once again to a reworking of the past, this time the supposed murder of director Thomas Ince by Orson Welles's bête noire William Randolph Hearst, The Cat's Meow was a modest critical success but made little money at the box office.
Patty Hearst yelling commands at bank customers
Dr. West firmly asserted that while Donald " Cinque " DeFreeze and other movement members had used a rather coarse version, they did employ the classic Maoist formula for thought control ; Hearst was young and apolitical enough to be at extreme risk and, in his professional experience, that it would have even broken many experienced soldiers.
" Harry never lost the spirit of the law ," Dr. Harold W. Williams, then a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, told The New York Times in 1976, when prosecutors asked Dr. Kozol to examine Hearst.
* Hearst co-authored a novel with Cordelia Frances Biddle titled Murder at San Simeon ( Scribner, 1996 ), based upon the death of Thomas Ince on her grandfather's yacht.
One well-known newsreel found on the internet is a silent film with Pathe footage of the first 1936 landing at Lakehurst and Hearst News of the Day Newsreel footage of the disaster, called a " Pathegram " by Eugene Castle of Castle Films.
The town of San Simeon is located at the foot of the hill where newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst built the famed Hearst Castle.

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