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The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
Who can refute a sneer?
A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.
What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.
A sneer can often reveal far more about the sneerer than the object of their derision.
It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film.
Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.
People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
It's all very well for the Kinks and Damon Albarn to sing those songs and sneer at Mr. Nine to Five, but again, they're white men, so they didn't have it very hard.
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
People who like progressive music tend to sneer at the idea of a kind of punk aesthetic, and people who like alternative indie rock or punk rock tend to sneer at what they see as the pretentiousness and pomposity of progressive music.
Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt is marked by one lip corner pulled up and in a dismissive sneer.
The punditry snicker, the politicians sneer, and the editorialists scoff, but the American people speak and Donald J. Trump rises - commandingly so - confounding the powerful institutions of Washington D.C. and New York and earning him the ire of both.
Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer.
