| 单词 | snobbishness |
| 例句 | Far away from her cigarettes and her snobbishness, her cliquish friends, her atrocious spelling. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Five Hours” is a soliloquy by a widow who recalls her life as she watches over the coffin of her husband, in the process revealing a provincial snobbishness and a bitterness about fascist society. Miguel Delibes, Prolific Spanish Writer, Dies at 89 2010-03-18T05:38:00Z And nothing in your letter hints at snobbishness before. Can I Confront My Dad About His Possibly Secret Relationship? 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Perhaps it is my persistent Glaswegian inverse snobbishness. How I lost my festival virginity to Howard 2010-08-21T23:09:00Z He chalked this reticence up to "snobbishness," saying the French largely dismissed Impressionism as "something for tourists" and preferred other 19th century movements like Realism or Symbolism. Monet show to reconcile French with snubbed master 2010-09-17T22:05:00Z It’s accessible yet ambitious, and the combination — together with his openness to theatrical possibilities and lack of snobbishness about his art — has won him a lot of fans in the dance world. The Next Thing for Mr. I-Can-Do-Everything 2011-03-06T01:45:21Z I wouldn't call it "snobbishness"; people write for different reasons. Wilbur Smith, author – portrait of the artist 2013-01-15T15:21:04Z Elisabeth is a new mom — a writer and a reluctant suburbanite, recently transplanted upstate from Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn — whose narrative voice is characterized by an unflagging snobbishness and a somewhat joyless, acerbic outlook. A Babysitter, Her Employer and $46 Hand Soap 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z There was a lot of prejudice and snobbishness among comics about the American way of doing stuff, which was ironic considering that the whole concept of a Comedy Store was an import from the US. Robin Williams appreciation by Nigel Planer: 'He wouldn't be happy until the furniture was laughing' 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z We're a refreshing change from the cynicism and snobbishness of the major sites, and the one-eyed or amateurish nature of niche blogs. Blog jam: Beard Rock 2013-03-13T10:00:00Z This was in part due to the "snobbishness" of London reviewers, who thought sport was not a suitable subject for theatre. Harold Brighouse's The Game: Pampered stars, bankrupt clubs ? a tale of football in the 1920s 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z Both shows delight in their innate snobbishness involving food, wine and coffee. However, they are not without grounding characters. You are what — and where — you eat: From the Lanford Inn seafood buffet to those “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” organic strawberry donuts 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Is there too much snobbishness around popular fiction? Wilbur Smith, author – portrait of the artist 2013-01-15T15:21:04Z A. There are a number of Brooklyn restaurants that take reservations without displaying Manhattan snobbishness. Hey, Mr. Critic: Egg and Cheese on a Bagel: The Quest for the Best 2011-01-27T17:38:26Z I was, to put it bluntly, at my apogee of cinematic snobbishness. I've never seen ... Forrest Gump 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z In fact, the company’s primary goal is to eradicate snobbishness. Fresh, local and unpretentious: A Swedish city with a stirring culinary scene 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z It emerged in 2002 already poking fun at its own snobbishness, with the single “Losing My Edge,” the hilariously fibbed bragging rights of an aging, anxious hipster. Music: James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem Talks About Discoveries 2010-05-28T21:35:00Z The effervescent Hayes tossed off a quip about the perceived snobbishness of the Hamptons. To Become Oscar Levant, Sean Hayes Revisited His First Role 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z A delightful aspect of this portrait is Borges’s complete lack of snobbishness. A Road Trip With One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Writers 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Beloved by Americans, Impressionist master Claude Monet has long been a victim of a sort of Gallic snobbishness in his native France. Monet show to reconcile French with snubbed master 2010-09-17T22:05:00Z I think probably because we grew up on council estates in the north-east, we both kind of came from ITV families, so we never really had this inherent snobbishness that ITV is trashy. Ant and Dec: just the two of us 2013-02-23T09:00:00Z A stylish and well-informed writer, Thompson brings a snobbishness of her own to her sympathetic account of Mitford’s life. The Arbiter of Aristocracy: And No, It’s Not Downton’s Dowager 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z "With every twitch, every startled glance and impatient gesture, Blanchett finds the human within this monster of snobbishness," he said. Blanchett tipped for Oscar glory 2013-09-27T11:21:54Z He had a kind of general snobbishness and a great fear about the kind of culture that’s possible in a country that cares only about money. Peter Carey, Australian at Home in New York 2010-04-26T22:21:00Z Q. My wife and I wish to reconnect with friends who moved to Brooklyn and had a kid a couple of years ago, and to demonstrate our lack of Manhattan snobbishness. Hey, Mr. Critic: Egg and Cheese on a Bagel: The Quest for the Best 2011-01-27T17:38:26Z Certainly Mr. Ford tweaked the industry, appealing to the snobbishness that so often fuels it. New York Fashion Week: ?Less Is More? Is Mattering Most 2011-02-09T00:07:01Z As we soon gather from the villagers’ gossip, the recently deceased Eliko was a despised loner, ostracized for his perceived snobbishness and lack of piety. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z “This part of the world is just mobile first, but there’s no snobbishness around mobile because mobile is just the default gaming platform for close to a billion people here.” Forget next-gen consoles. The biggest gaming platform is already in your pocket 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z There are several things that have put me off television apart from pure snobbishness. Hugh Grant never wanted to be Hollywood's 'romantic Englishman' 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z The Sunday Times said Harry heard a tone of snobbishness in the last two words, “this girl”, and that Harry no longer felt he needed looking after. Prince Harry took offence at brother's advice, says book 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Hughes’ upbringing offered little opportunity for snobbishness or extravagance. This secret donor has given USC $400 million 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z "I want this investment to start to end the snobbishness in some quarters about the quality and importance of a vocational education," he added. Chancellor pledges £400m further education funding 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z "There is this snobbishness where people are prepared to man the barricades against a Tesco but if it's a Waitrose, a fair amount of them will change their mind." 'My Waitrose is being replaced by a Lidl' 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z There were comments about the snobbishness of some of the more fashionable parts of London. Londoners troll New York Times with deluge of 'petty crimes' 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z “There’s a certain snobbishness about it, a failure to distinguish being different from being superior.” Catalan secessionists face steepest challenge in Barcelona's bruised beltway 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z And her contact with the university didn't reveal any "snobbishness". Family's first student starts at Cambridge 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z There’s a snobbishness in our literary world that equates laughter with shallowness. 'I fell out of bed laughing': writers on their favourite funny book 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z For Phillips, ideas of the vulgar were linked, being Jewish, to his preoccupations with snobbishness and superiority. The Art of Vulgarity 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z But to many students on the outside, the clubs are laden with a legacy of upper-crust snobbishness. Are Final Clubs Too Exclusive for Harvard? 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z This moment is less about high or low culture, snobbishness or populism, but about interaction. True-crime stories: a centuries-old craze from Ben Franklin to Making a Murderer 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z For a movie whose characters spend a lot of time decrying snobbishness, it manages to be elitist at almost every turn. Pixels and Armada just pushed geek nostalgia over the edge 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The snobbishness and exclusivity of Oink were exactly what this new group was looking for: a place to show off their dismissive, elitist attitudes about both technology and music. Going for a song: the hidden history of music piracy 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z The Labour Party is hardly immune to such prejudice and indeed can argue some ideological underpinning for it's snobbishness - a sort of false consciousness of the Christmas lights. Potent and provocative symbol of the flag 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z But more than what’s outside, it was the snobbishness within that was a big part of River House’s appeal — like Studio 54 for the ascot set. After Years of Frostiness, a Selective Co-op Tries a Friendlier Facade 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z We’re classic fine dining, but not in a sense of snobbishness. Josiah Citrin celebrates 15 years at Mélisse 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Pluses: Channeling a Parisian hôtel particulier in Greenwich Village, this place is elegant without having an ounce of snobbishness. Check Into New York City's Latest Boutique Hotels 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z There is too much snobbishness on the part of certain leading managers about shopping in the lower divisions. Premier League: Ten talking points from this weekend's action 2013-01-21T09:00:06Z “She is wonderfully natural without any snobbishness or ambitions.” Where is Russia’s First Lady? 2013-01-13T05:00:00Z There was also a lack of awareness of opportunities in ICT, which was exacerbated by a snobbishness pervading the education system, participants were told. Innovations in ICT teaching: a Guardian roundtable debate 2012-07-09T23:10:01Z Mr. Vibart, who supposed that her shyness was due to an attempt to avoid giving an impression of snobbishness in thus announcing the nobility of her ancestry, asked of what she was contadina. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z "That kind of American," a Londoner on board said to us, "has all the arrogance and insolence of a lord combined with the ignorance and snobbishness of a cad." Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Wadding is the homage which snobbishness pays to symmetry! The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z But it is equally interesting that the results of the mental test correlate to so high a degree with the estimates of various other traits, notably humor, snobbishness, conceit, beauty, neatness and refinement. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z I felt less hurt at his snobbishness after that. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z It takes more than mixed blood and hookworm and snobbishness to account for the present social conditions of Central America. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z Acutest self-reproach assailed him; he accused himself inwardly of many faults and follies—of ingratitude, of snobbishness, of a ridiculous self-conceit. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z It may resemble the Inns of Court in other ways, but it does not, as they do, encourage snobbishness by placing a taboo upon the tradesman. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z With the "undesirable" traits of snobbishness, conceit and vulgarity, the coefficients are so low as to be quite unreliable and perhaps represent only chance. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z They receive from their world what snobbishness receives everywhere. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z And being acquired, when it is not the form of their own social order, it appears only too frequently as a counterfeit; engendering insincerity and snobbishness, and marring individuality. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z The Democratic press vented its snobbishness by constant articles calling attention to Mr. Lincoln's poverty, and asserting that he was not a gentleman, and had "never traveled and had no pedigree." A History of the Republican Party 2011-10-14T02:00:29.980Z His kindly, merry face, his hearty, unconventional speech, all showed him to be a big, warm-hearted man without a bit of snobbishness about him. The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z Only if beauty, snobbishness, or vulgarity are the traits which are crucial, are judgments of the photographs reliable enough to be worth considering. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z The uncertainty of work, and the absolute dependence of the worker on wages, make snobbishness dangerous; that often proves a boomerang their observation shows. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z He didn't give a single whoop for all this talk about the snobbishness and insularity of English undergraduates. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z “We have our faults, and perhaps our weaknesses, but I never would have said snobbishness was one of them.” Luck at the Diamond Fields 2011-10-06T02:00:43.067Z You perhaps know what a dangerous quality snobbishness is in a girl’s school. The Motor Maids' School Days 2011-09-17T02:00:33.303Z But if you belong to this aristocracy, beware of snobbishness. Talks to Freshman Girls 2011-09-04T02:00:03.470Z This was pure advertising propaganda, a way to one of those newspaper squibs which delight both the snobbishness and the sentimentality of Americans. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z Long before the Sans left college snobbishness was on the wane.” Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z As freshmen, the nobler element of girls had made some effort to stem the rising tide of snobbishness in their class. Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z I have never known a man who was more completely free from snobbishness and pretence of all kinds. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z The snobbishness of culture is the most contemptible of all, for culture knows better. Talks to Freshman Girls 2011-09-04T02:00:03.470Z It was called “The Millionaire’s Club,” and was known to be the abode of snobbishness, although Molly, who had been there once to a tea, had been entirely unconscious of this spirit. Molly Brown's Freshman Days 2011-07-12T02:00:31.110Z To attempt to estimate the relative importance of these subjects from a social point of view, is to expose one’s self to the charge of snobbishness. Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London 2011-06-30T02:00:33.287Z She had heard enough from the three callers of the evening before to arraign them in her mind as leaning very hard toward snobbishness. Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z Mr. Poultney Bigelow's change from a certain attitude of admiration, in his case with no taint of snobbishness, was typical of that of many of my own people. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z “Well, he is really nice,” complained Rebecca, who could not easily be cured of snobbishness. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z That kind of snobbishness does not play so well here. Australia's 'First Bloke' 2011-06-13T10:26:57Z But parents must carefully avoid all suggestion of snobbishness in their young sons and daughters. Book of Etiquette Volume I 2011-04-28T02:00:13.993Z He had none of the snobbishness of an impoverished parvenu, who is ashamed of being obliged suddenly to retrench, and hides his economies as a crime. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z But Berkeley, fattened by prosperity to a gross snobbishness, rejected the idea as vulgar and unfitting. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z There was a taint of snobbishness in her reverential awe of the Earl's handsome daughter. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z There is no air of snobbishness; such is the dexterity of our author that we do not feel like Jeames Yellowplush, that we are awkward menials watching the doings of the titled and the great. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The youngster had a well developed case of snobbishness. Book of Etiquette Volume I 2011-04-28T02:00:13.993Z Such characteristics and tendencies in America as we have sketched have resulted in a peculiar brand of snobbishness that has so developed as very largely to undermine our fundamental conception of morality. Your Negro Neighbor 2011-02-14T03:00:35.203Z She will never understand the vicar's wife and the lesser country gentry, and she will loathe the snobbishness of some of the county people. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z But that—excuse me—seems to me plain snobbishness. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z The club had gained a reputation, not altogether deserved, for snobbishness. The Adventures of a Freshman 2011-01-18T03:00:12.083Z The best soil is a large uncritical public newly come to reading, a little suspicious of the propriety of the practice and in a state of intellectual snobbishness. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z A few years before this Brenda had been remarkably free from anything resembling snobbishness. Brenda, Her School and Her Club 2011-01-15T03:00:31.087Z Even our insular snobbishness does not help us a bit. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z It's not snobbishness; just smart growth, he says. How to Expand Without Losing Your Indie Culture 2010-12-29T17:08:00Z If men could but realize the cramping influence on character of exclusiveness, how quickly would they hasten to divest themselves of every trace of the vice of snobbishness! With God in the World A Series of Papers 2010-12-20T17:12:19.523Z The wines sold at the show, supplied by the Winery, were not only decent, there was no wine snobbishness about them. | Of Honky-Tonks and Supper Clubs 2010-08-16T14:57:00Z To many, the Asian interest remains baffling and even attracts a whiff of snobbishness. Bordeaux vintners raise their glasses to China's wine buffs 2010-04-02T18:16:00Z Our insular snobbishness must be very irritating to American people. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z But in one respect I was richer than he; for he married a fool who dragged him down to the level of her own silly snobbishness. The Joy of Living (Es lebe das Leben) A Play in Five Acts Herr Sudermann, unlike some of the new dramatists, is not lacking in humor; and the snobbishness, stuffy etiquette, and scandal-mongering of a provincial town are well illustrated by the minor characters. Magda A Play in Four Acts It was less an assertion of snobbishness than of faith. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Usually the most even tempered and controlled of girls, she could not keep down her anger when it was roused by Alma's periodic fits of snobbishness. Nancy of Paradise Cottage Sometimes I think it's just a polite term for futility, with a dash of intellectual snobbishness thrown in. The Book of Susan A Novel His conversation was gay, insinuating, without the least snobbishness; his fault lay, on the contrary, in excessive familiarity. Maximina Thus while Keene takes things dispassionately as they come, seeing only the humorous side of them, we find Du Maurier ever and anon attacking some new phase of snobbishness or philistinism or cant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" They suffered from an even bitterer snobbishness than the Good Eggs. Sinister Street, vol. 2 And what was to her merely tact, might be to him pure snobbishness. Thirty With the snobbishness of an old city firm, it declined to advertise its ware with eye-arresting posters, and congratulated itself on the inability to secure new clients. Carnival Moreover, the touch of snobbishness in Mrs Evans’s nature invested Cassandra’s position in the county with a most satisfying importance, while the presence of the needful heir made the picture complete. Lady Cassandra If she stands off a year or so, in self-pity, bemoaning the meagerness of her environment, she may work for a decade thereafter to regain lost confidence and live down a reputation for snobbishness. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity In the latter case, the snobbishness was largely an inherited pride: with the Bad Men it was obviously an acquired vanity. Sinister Street, vol. 2 I, however, do not approve of this snobbishness. "And That's How It Was, Officer" The na�vet� of Mrs. Harding's remark was quite unconscious, and was due to that absence of humour which is the very foundation stone of snobbishness. The New Warden A great deal has been written about him; what has never been sufficiently insisted upon was the inveterate snobbishness of the man. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections The ugliest lesson of life is its snobbishness. Ancestors A Novel And yet I don't think it is snobbishness. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Ay, my lord: I say to you, in all your glory of human understanding and trifling degree of snobbishness, it is a Pig. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 There was even in him a vein of inordinate deference to rank and wealth which would in a less eminent person have been called snobbishness. Studies in Contemporary Biography It was not snobbishness; it was sheer unadulterated admiration of the man to whom he had somewhat reluctantly given his daughter. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections It was the most exclusive little clique and rather inclined towards snobbishness. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" I wonder if any other crowd attains such heights of snobbishness as that at a summer resort? Seven Keys to Baldpate Was his disapproval, after all, but a mark of snobbishness, the snobbishness which, to use a mundane parallel, takes objection to the shape of an unfashionable collar, or the cut of a country-made coat? The Moving Finger Edgar has got rid of his snobbishness and through Mark's friendship is likely to grow up an estimable member of society. Mark Mason's Victory This casts an interesting sidelight on the snobbishness of the medical profession. Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 He bore the mark at once of wealth and snobbishness. Cloudy Jewel To this end let us declare war on all meanness, snobbishness, petty or great jealousies, all forms of injustice, all forms of special privilege, all selfishness and all greed. In Times Like These Such organizations can be made to do vastly more good for their members then the average debating society, with its usual premium on mere forensic skill, or the fraternity, with its encouragement of snobbishness. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College It makes the lead turn in my case to witness the snobbishness which exists nowadays among certain thin-skinned artists and writers. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 She's the kind that you could describe as "and suite," without the slightest snobbishness or exaggeration, when registering your name in the visitors' book at a hotel. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America The intense pretentious snobbishness of the age has something to do with the mysterious manner in which many men, blushing, own that they have been out with harriers. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid “I suppose she is so civil to me because of your uncle Francis,” she used to say to her girls, which was attributing to Lady Fitzroy a degree of snobbishness that was quite undeserved. Not Like Other Girls She found Albertina grown into a huge girl, sunk in depths of sloth and snobbishness, who plied her with endless questions concerning life in the gilded circles of New York society. Turn About Eleanor “She doesn’t look to me like a girl who cared a whit for social recognition,” said Jeff quietly, 73 although his lip had a curl that showed his disapproval of his family’s snobbishness. The Comings of Cousin Ann This same feeling is reflected, more especially among the leaders of the men, in the complete disappearance of snobbishness. Life in a Tank And that is the trade-mark stamped upon most of us—selfishness! snobbishness! The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius My Lord Nelvil has many faults and very few merits, but among the former I do not perceive any snobbishness. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century This smooth snobbishness, said in the affected “society” tone, was as out of place in her as rouge and hair dye in a wholesome, honest old grandmother. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 The solemn philosophic framework, the idea of treating snobbishness as a science, was original and sound; for snobbishness is indeed a disease in our Society.' Gilbert Keith Chesterton She liked him in spite of the tinge of snobbishness which would creep in now and then, try as he did to conceal it. Virginia of Elk Creek Valley One of these was the Honorable Claude Featherstone, a healthy, good-looking youth, without a trace of snobbishness or social pride in his composition. Colorado Jim There was not the slightest snobbishness about Dr. Jones, or it certainly would have manifested itself now when the world was at his feet. Doctor Jones' Picnic She was all the angrier for her own moment of snobbishness—men ought to be above such paltry things, she reasoned; anyway, she was bound to stand by Billy to the inevitably bitter end. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Unfortunately Chesterton is not nearly hard enough on snobbishness. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Her cheery determination to get on, and an evident sense of humour, made Bertha like her, in spite of her snobbishness and her manner. Bird of Paradise Real snobbishness is never vulgar; for it is intended to please the refined. What I Saw in America I say "gentility"—but that is not exactly the word; for there is not the remotest trace of snobbishness in Henry James. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations James looked at her scornfully; his love all through had been mingled with contrary elements; and trying to subdue it, he had often insisted upon the woman's vulgarity, and lack of taste, and snobbishness. The Hero Having accumulated a reputation for snobbishness and aristocratic seclusion, people would not neglect so rare an opportunity to even old scores. The Wind Before the Dawn The author shows a just appreciation of what is good-breeding and what is snobbishness.... Choice Cookery In England snobbishness and social oppression are much subtler and softer; the manifestations of them at least are more mellow and humane. What I Saw in America Her husband is a senior Post-captain, and there isn't an atom of 'side' or snobbishness in her composition. The Long Trick He had heard stories of the snobbishness and independence of some Easterners. The Range Boss I thought—please forgive me—that you were interfering merely out of snobbishness. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel It may be reasonably maintained that the strength of Anglicanism, though it be not in establishment, is in aristocracy, and its shadow, which is called snobbishness. Eugenics and Other Evils But there is a much more subtle kind of snobbishness pervading the atmosphere of any society trial in England. What I Saw in America There is a certain snobbishness in human nature that makes it seek the association of well-known names and shun all of those with an unfashionable reputation. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative I see no good reason for rejecting these convenient alternatives; but nevertheless I have obsequiously bowed to the autocrat and taken a skunner to the words—the only literary snobbishness of which I am conscious. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life Yet along with the drink and the snobbishness went much of finer grain. The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe In fact, he invented a new kind of Victorian snobbishness, an inverted snobbishness. Eugenics and Other Evils It is certainly connected with that snobbishness which is the great sin of English society. What I Saw in America The Reed girls could not discard their snobbishness all at once. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 His pleasure in the friendship of men of rank and family might have savoured of snobbishness had not one understood how much they stood for to him as symbols. Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties I thought I was writing about my country, conceived of myself in a reversed snobbishness, a haughty humility, a proud abasement, as a sort of superior Smetana. Greener Than You Think The picture of swaggering snobbishness which Thackeray was inspired to make of him is proved bad by all that we know. The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] Oh, I have seen some snobbishness among what you call well-born girls. The Girls at Mount Morris His snobbishness, if it is to be so called, was always primarily a snobbishness of mind and character, not of wealth or rank. Dr. Johnson and His Circle In some cases no doubt there were deeper reasons than snobbishness, and it was thought of them which supplied the pathos. The Lady of the Basement Flat Men no longer regard creased trousers, nicely tied cravats, well-chosen collars, and harmonious color combinations as signs of sissiness, snobbishness, or weak-mindedness. The Book of Business Etiquette However, my snobbishness, in this respect, loosens up somewhat before very widespread belief by savages and peasants. The Book of the Damned Take, for example, the one question of snobbishness. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens No one could scoff so loudly and violently as could Forster, at what is called snobbishness, "toadying the great"; though it was a little weakness of his own, and is indeed of everybody. John Forster "She ain't a bad old sort when you come to consider," he said with that patronage, also an attribute of extreme youth or unsubdued snobbishness, and when compared, snobbishness and youth have some similar characteristics. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Betty said it was curious how snippy girls of that age can be sometimes, and then turn out to be such fine women afterward, when they outgrow their snippiness and snobbishness. The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor Might not display savour of ignorance, of lack of perception, of—oh, horrors!—of snobbishness itself? Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story He was willing to like Mr. Twemlow in spite of his snobbishness, but Dickens and Dickens’s doctrine were alone to be judges of how far he was snobbish. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens Claire was not offended, for she knew that there was no taint of snobbishness in this decision; she was just sorry, and, in a curious fashion, remorseful into the bargain. The Independence of Claire So my companions and I parted on the steps of the school-house, in mutual respect; they guiltless of snobbishness, I innocent of envy. The Promised Land All the stupid snobbishness, and mean tuft-hunting so common, are due to the same desire to make use of people in some way or other. Friendship Lockhart vouches for the snobbishness, “the mean admiration of mean things,” the devotion to the slimmest appearances of rank. St. Ronan's Well Otherwise it will certainly fall a victim to that snobbishness and system of worldly standards which is the most natural and easy of all the forms of human corruption. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens People fail to do this when their effusively gracious condescension subsequently develops into snobbishness, or when an austere stiffness of demeanor belies the friendliness which they really intend to manifest. Etiquette This anecdote, not an apochryphal one, is always hailed as an evidence of Beethoven's sturdiness of character, his rank republicanism, while Goethe is slightly sniffed at for his snobbishness. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques Equal forms of snobbishness, a Thackeray would perhaps say. A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions There is more comradeship and less snobbishness in college than there used to be. Jane Allen: Right Guard There was not merely a little of snobbishness in her. Winner Take All One of the most curious peculiarities of the dog mind is its inherent snobbishness, shown by the regard paid to external respectability. Hume (English Men of Letters Series) Leigh listened with growing interest and wonder to her charges of snobbishness and corruption against the Republican clique. The Mayor of Warwick Thackeray's mind was at all times peculiarly exercised with a sense of snobbishness. Thackeray A man or woman of equal character and force became his equal, as Jasper did, as Isopel and David Haggart did, and he accepted this equality without a trace of snobbishness. George Borrow The Man and His Books He was going to make a kite ten feet tall, and, with the snobbishness of a plutocrat, he went strutting away. A Melody in Silver Only we would advise some of our near-sighted Catholics who through that snobbishness which money often gives them, have a sort of worship for non-Catholic universities, to read this indictment. Catholic Problems in Western Canada "I call that beastly snobbishness," said Leigh indignantly. The Mayor of Warwick Had snobbishness been divided for us into its various attributes and characteristics, rather than attributed to various classes, the end sought,—the exposure, namely, of the evil,—would have been better attained. Thackeray He was a proud creature, a proof of what could be done with a bad job, and he had all the snobbishness that is acquired, not bred in the bone. The Shield of Silence So, many city-dwelling families, not from snobbishness but because they do not want their young hopefuls to acquire slum manners and traits, dig deep into their bank accounts and send their children to private schools. If You're Going to Live in the Country This is sometimes called snobbishness, but it is nothing of the kind. None Other Gods There is in this little story perhaps a charge p. 40of snobbishness from which Oxford men are really entirely free. Masques & Phases The snobbishness of flattery, of falsehood, of cowardice, lying, time-serving, money-worship, would have been perhaps attacked to a better purpose than that of kings, priests, soldiers, merchants, or men of letters. Thackeray My cousin's wife was sincere, with all her vulgarity and inborn snobbishness. The Ghost A Modern Fantasy Many marriages are arranged on very different grounds—grounds of convenience, grounds of cupidity, grounds of religion, grounds of snobbishness. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Some one must help her see the utter folly of snobbishness and false pride. The Girl and Her Religion Readers unhappily not of the "Brahmin caste of New England" have sometimes resented as snobbishness Holmes's harping on "family," and his perpetual application of certain favorite shibboleths to other people's ways of speech. Initial Studies in American Letters There is surely no greater mistake than to suppose that reverence is snobbishness. Thackeray If our unique daily is to yield to the snobbishness which ranks Mrs. Humphry Ward among genuine artists, where among dailies are we to look for the shadow of a great rock? Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 I do like old-time folk, and lineage smacking of New Amsterdam; but even my harmless snobbishness is now so completely out of fashion that nobody cares. The Firing Line He had a queer snobbishness about illness, too, that amazed her. Captivity Few men I have known are so free from snobbishness or so indifferent to the petty conventions of society. The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster I have heard that snobbishness prevails in the service now only in a less triumphant degree to what it did in Nelson's time. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon If she had not done so Lord Raygan would have thought her snobbish, though it was not entirely from snobbishness that she had wished to escape the girl of the Monarchic. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl From snobbishness, the corroding vice of English society, he was, though he once jocularly charged himself with it, entirely free. The Life of Froude You see," she went on, flushing a little, and suddenly tossing her head proudly, "you don't understand this, and it may sound most appalling snobbishness to you. Captivity David Graham Phillips has a way, a most clever and convincing way, of cutting through the veneer of snobbishness and bringing real men and women to the surface. The Younger Set Aside from this distinction, there is another social cleavage—the high-wage earners sitting apart from the low-wage earners, through natural snobbishness. Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Would Lord Raygan go so far in his dislike of snobbishness as to welcome an assistant culled from his bride's father's shop as a sister-in-law? Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Certain New York and Boston clubs, as well as those of London, have earned a reputation for snobbishness because the members never speak to those they do not know. Etiquette In Gainsborough he sees ‘a plainness almost amounting to brutality,’ while ‘vulgarity and snobbishness’ are the chief qualities he finds in Sir Joshua Reynolds. Reviews In the universal reverence paid to the Queen there was hardly anywhere a touch of snobbishness. Varied Types The snobbishness of this old gentleman is by no means a prerogative of New York's "old families." The Living Present Her tone tried not to be too patronizing, lest patronage should be considered to verge on snobbishness. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl There was neither snobbishness nor affectation in the little widow, even when she prattled most embarrassingly about her own affairs, or stood frankly wondering at the Tatham wealth. The Mating of Lydia You may say it was pure snobbishness to think of him in that way, and I daresay it was; but there wasn't any other way. The Belfry It was fortunate for me that I was thrown into the society of a rather rough crowd of youths, who knocked a great deal of this snobbishness out of me. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women But she declaimed to Alice none the less in private on the innate snobbishness of people. Lady Connie Moreover, it is likely the theatres would exhibit the snobbishness of the fashionable halls and restaurants and taboo the pipe which every wise man prefers to the cigar or cigarette for serious smoking. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" It is pleasant to meet people who are so secure in their position that they do not feel the slightest need for snobbishness. Sweetapple Cove She had accused herself of snobbishness long ago, before she married him, when, in order to marry him, she had burned her boats. The Belfry For the first time in her life Rose-Marie was experiencing a touch of snobbishness, of class distinction. The Island of Faith There is also, as a concomitant of the nation's growth in wealth of every sort, and mostly perhaps to be found in the capital a class of Jewish parvenu, remarkable for snobbishness, ostentation, and affectation. William of Germany Who could have foreseen this arrant snobbishness in the excellent child of nature, Mrs. Tams? The Price of Love Sang Huin knew the man's snobbishness showed that he was ignorant of suffering and deliberately ignored the dirt from whence all carbon molecules spring into life. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America He had very little to say, and he kept his snobbishness, if any remained, well concealed. The High School Pitcher Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond All at once the snobbishness had slipped, like a worn coat, from the shoulders of the girl. The Island of Faith Then, too, Fred had rather a shrewd idea as to those on whom it was safe or best to vent his snobbishness. The High School Freshmen Dick & Co.'s First Year Pranks and Sports Another reason for her objection to Louis' overtures to the Old Church was that they increased her suspicion of his snobbishness. The Price of Love She knew that her bantering had some snobbishness in it as if she had never lived in a tiny little room with a crock-pot on the floor in Tijuana. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America I remember that from mere snobbishness I work for the Government without a penny of salary, and that my sole reward is to be insulted and libelled by high-brow novelists who write for the press. The Title A Comedy in Three Acts There is more caste snobbishness, I think, in Jane Austen's novels than in any other fiction of equal genius. Old and New Masters The best bred man is the man who finds it easy to get on with everybody on equal terms: but it's part of the snobbishness of human nature that exclusiveness is rather admired than otherwise. Father Payne He was in full possession of the conventionally snobbish ideals of the suburb, reinforced by more than a tincture of the stupendous and unsurpassed snobbishness of the British Army. The Price of Love These schoolmates, who lived in my neighborhood, had mistaken for snobbishness a certain boyish diffidence for which few people gave me credit. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Thus it would seem that below the transcendentalism of modern love lies a rich vein of snobbishness. The Silent Isle City life Dickens and Thackeray most truly photographed in all its features of snobbishness and selfishness. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy To the credit of her character must be set down her shame at her snobbishness. The Second Generation Not a bad sort, I believe, if it weren't for his snobbishness.' The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories Already that one great blank in our land had made snobbishness the only religion of South England; and turned rich men into a mythology. The Crimes of England What one finds it harder to do is to pardon the solemnity, the snobbishness, of the whole proceeding. The Silent Isle The real objection to modernism is simply that it is a form of snobbishness. All Things Considered Del had recovered from her attack of what she had been denouncing to herself as snobbishness. The Second Generation In fact, I think there is less affectation, pretence, and snobbishness, or at any rate as little as will be found in most places of the standing, wealth, and importance of Birmingham. A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" He wasn't a bad sort at all; he was more dazed than anything else; didn't understand the army manner; the army snobbishness. The Visioning But what is a still worse fault in the writer of whom I speak is that he is the victim of a certain intellectual snobbishness. The Silent Isle If the Frenchman saw our aristocracy and liked it, if he saw our snobbishness and liked it, if he set himself to imitate it, we all know what we should feel. All Things Considered For snobbishness is essentially a provincial vice, due full as much to narrowness as to ignorance; and, thus, it is most potent in the small "set" in the small town. The Second Generation Johnson spoke of his interview with an unfeigned satisfaction, which it would be difficult in these days to preserve from the taint of snobbishness. Samuel Johnson And in that bending of spirit to form, the army codes and standards making for the army habit of mind, the army snobbishness and narrowness. The Visioning To marry without love, for the sake of the discipline, is as if a dizzy man should adventure himself alone upon the Matterhorn; the rashness of proved incapacity is not courage, but a detestable snobbishness. The Silent Isle He would not understand those elements in the English which balance snobbishness and make it human: the great kindness of the English, their hospitality, their unconscious poetry, their sentimental conservatism, which really admires the gentry. All Things Considered He'll be better off and more useful as a clerk than he would be as a pattern of damnfoolishness and snobbishness. The Second Generation He was but a parvenu, and his riches had only produced an accumulation of snobbishness. Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist You've just had your eyes opened to the snobbishness of the world in a rather abrupt manner. This Side of Paradise The disappointment was not occasioned by the sentiment ordinarily defined as snobbishness, but by old New York's sense of what was due to it when it risked its dignity in foreign lands. The Age of Innocence She was a loyal little soul, crystal-free from any form of snobbishness. Anne of the Island As for snobbishness, was not the silly-child American brand of it less ridiculous than this unblushing and unconcealed self-reverence, without any physical, mental or material justification whatsoever? The Second Generation It is, as I have said, immeasurably more contemptible than the snobbishness of the novelette which describes the nobleman as smiling like an Apollo or riding a mad elephant. Heretics You're all right—you're a rubber ball, and somehow it suits you, but I'm sick of adapting myself to the local snobbishness of this corner of the world. This Side of Paradise In her five years of social life Mildred had gone only with the various classes of fashionable people, had therefore known only the men who are full of the poison of snobbishness. The Price She Paid It was Susan's first experience of this snobbishness; it at once humbled her into the dust. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise And no feature of his infatuation for Dorothy surprised him so much as the way it rode rough shod and reckless over his snobbishness. The Grain of Dust Many eminent, and deservedly eminent, modern novelists must accept some responsibility for having supported this worst form of snobbishness—an intellectual snobbishness. Heretics To think of that loud independence of Mattie's being only a subtler form of snobbishness! House of Mirth But consider the waste in time and energy incidental to making ten thousand varieties of a thing for purposes of ostentation and snobbishness, where one variety would do for use! The Jungle And what was sensibility but a kind of snobbishness? Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise He might be somewhat snobbish—who was not?—who else in his New York was less than supersaturated with snobbishness? The Grain of Dust The snobbishness of bad literature, then, is not servile; but the snobbishness of good literature is servile. Heretics He is a Frenchman, but he has taken a Dutch name out of snobbishness. George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings Not even a Zola can charge French village-life with the snobbishness so conspicuous in England. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" And what more absurd than snobbishness in an outcast? Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise But snobbishness, the determining quality in the natures of all the women and most of the men he knew, had shown itself one of the incidental qualities in his own nature. The Grain of Dust It is the case of what may be called, for the sake of an approximate description, the literature of aristocracy; or, if you prefer the description, the literature of snobbishness. Heretics She had that 'respect of persons' which comes not from snobbishness, but from imagination and sympathy. Eleanor The second peculiarity of Shakespeare which we must establish firmly in our minds before we attempt to construe the sonnets is his extraordinary snobbishness. The Man Shakespeare It was an interesting typical example of the profound snobbishness of the male character. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise But you forget that snobbishness rules the world. The Grain of Dust Among the crowd, some foreigners with red guide-books in their hands, were walking with long strides to see the sights of Rome, which the code of worldly snobbishness considers it indispensable to admire. Cæsar or Nothing Gurowski says, in his very clever book on America, that snobbishness is a peculiarity of the fashionable set in America, because they do not know where they stand. Manners and Social Usages English snobbishness is like a London fog, intenser than can be found in any other country; it is so extravagant, indeed, that it seems different in kind. The Man Shakespeare He was simply the average man of small intelligence, great vanity, and abject snobbishness or terror of public opinion. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise For all his keenness of mind, of humor, Norman had the fast-dyed snobbishness of his family and friends. The Grain of Dust This has happened through the general decay of snobbishness among us, perhaps. Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance The English snobbishness," he replied, "may not be beautiful, but its origins are sufficiently venerable to inspire respect. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia In Shakespeare's time English snobbishness was stronger than it is to-day; it was then supported by law and enforced by penalties. The Man Shakespeare It was not so with Susan, for she had little self-consciousness and no snobbishness at all. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise This idea made things easy for their ignorance and snobbishness, for it relieved them of the necessity of knowing anything else. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House He complained a good deal about the snobbishness of people generally. War-time Silhouettes Without any snobbishness she considered that her sphere and her husband's could not be compared with the Johnstons'. Together He loved her so abjectly that he lost her; and it was undoubtedly his overpowering sensuality and snobbishness which brought him to his knees, and his love to ruin. The Man Shakespeare That sort of emotion is most characteristic of Americans and gets them the reputation for profound snobbishness. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise And snobbishness has this peculiar and devilish quality of evil, that it is rampant among very kindly people, with open hearts and houses. Tremendous Trifles The prospect stirs a certain snobbishness in her. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago The affectation of snobbishness and a dull practical outlook on life which Jacqueline used wickedly to exaggerate in her conversations with him were more than he could bear. Jean-Christophe Journey's End Holding these truths in our mind, Shakespeare's intense sensitiveness and sensuality, and his almost inconceivable snobbishness, we may now take up the sonnets. The Man Shakespeare In fact, it is not snobbishness at all. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise As I look back on it now, I can't refrain from smiling at my own simplicity—and snobbishness. The Deluge Edestone all this time had been debating in his mind whether this silly prattle was the result of real ignorance, snobbishness, or kindness of heart. L.P.M. : the end of the Great War Is it only snobbishness, a mean admiration of mean things? From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 Shakespeare's position, too, explains how this native snobbishness in him was heightened to flunkeyism. The Man Shakespeare One hears many complaints about the snobbishness of running after things European. Confessions and Criticisms Partly, of course, my own snobbishness, which led me to attach the same importance to those people that the snobbishness of the small and silly had got them in the way of attaching to themselves. The Deluge There is no trace of snobbishness in the offering, which is simply a spontaneous expression of good wishes on the part of a few friends. Old Calabria Appreciation of rank or even of worth becomes snobbishness; appreciation of another's judgment false taste; and patriotism, the most beautiful, the noblest, the most necessary of the great emotions, corrupts into something very vile indeed. First and Last There dwells Art, not snobbishness and empty pastime; there is work, enjoyment, life itself. The Precipice There is snobbishness enough in Rome—English, American, and Italian. Cambridge Sketches This ecstasy of snobbishness deluded me as to the women only—for, as I looked at the men, I at once felt myself their superior. The Deluge During this period he chiefly attacked current vices, snobbishness, and sentimentality, which latter quality, Thackeray's special aversion, he found rampant in contemporary life and literature, including the novels of Dickens. A History of English Literature It is not surprising that, in the conditions which ensue, snobbishness should abound; the surprising thing would be if it did not abound. Seven English Cities Never had Legrandin's snobbishness impelled him to make a habit of visiting a duchess as such. Swann's Way They will only have to fight, later, to conquer the petty snobbishness that stands between them and their entrance into good society. Book of Etiquette, Volume 2 This shows how far I had let that attack of snobbishness eat into me. The Deluge That is perhaps why it has disappeared when snobbishness is felt to be inconsistent with the world of stern realities and bitter sorrows in which we live. Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough But no evil is without its compensating good, and the good of English snobbishness is that it has reduced loyalty, whether to the prince or to the patrician, from a political to a social significance. Seven English Cities There wasn't any sneaking little brag and snobbishness in 'em. A Flock of Girls and Boys It is wonderful that people can parade their snobbishness within sight of Hale-mau-mau. The Hawaiian Archipelago She was a Western woman, and when those Western women do become perverts to New York's gospel of snobbishness, they are the worst snobs in the push. The Deluge Is it simply a habit that we cannot throw off or is there a certain snobbishness about it that appeals to the flunkeyism of men? Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough Of course I know now that Jowett's apparent worldliness and snobbishness were calculated. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography "Seriously though, my green sweater aside, I do hate such snobbishness." Betty Wales, Sophomore A good number of people had come out of curiosity to see what manner of man the Englishman was, well prepared to resent his overbearing snobbishness—they were inclined to believe every Englishman snobbish. The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Complete This New York that dabbles its slime of sordidness and snobbishness on every flower in the garden of human nature. The Deluge A good number of people had come out of curiosity to see what manner of man the Englishman was, well prepared to resent his overbearing snobbishness— they were inclined to believe every Englishman snobbish. The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Volume 1 Again, there was no inverted snobbishness about him. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography "Nevertheless, your mother has some really fine paintings in the collection," proclaimed Booth amiably, also descending to snobbishness without really meaning to do so. The Hollow of Her Hand Customary snobbishness had kept him out of the fraternities and college societies. Quill's Window This smooth snobbishness, said in the affected "society" tone, was as out of place in her as rouge and hair-dye in a wholesome, honest old grandmother. The Deluge And now these superior beings had rewarded my snobbishness by acting toward me in a way that was contrary to every ideal I held of what was right and decent. Captain Macklin Again, there was not the slightest touch of snobbishness in Mr. Chamberlain. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography He berated himself in secret for his snobbishness and in public made atonement by being expansively polite to Mrs. Coburn. The Hollow of Her Hand "All New York" had hied "out of town" with its usual unpatriotic snobbishness, and only the attendants of Mr. Randall Clayton's rooms noted his absence. The Midnight Passenger : a novel And I cursed the day when New York's insidious snobbishness had tempted my vanity into starting me on that degrading chase after "respectability." The Deluge There was no taint in it of self-interest, nor of snobbishness. Captain Macklin The subtler sins of the spirit— thoughtlessness, for example, or snobbishness or priggishness and pride—though we are quick to remark upon them in others, are apt in our own case to pass undetected. Religious Reality It was no go; I could get on with the men well enough, no matter how common they were; but the snobbishness of my breed came out with regard to the women. Cashel Byron's Profession For although it is not a very good illustration of real snobbishness, it is interesting to read in connection with the lives of many great writer. English Literature for Boys and Girls "Bother!" said I, my common sense smashing the spell of snobbishness that had begun to reassert itself as soon as I got into his unnatural, unhealthy atmosphere. The Deluge He's an aristocrat like his aunt, but he hasn't a bit of her,—well,—it is really a kind of snobbishness. Patty's Suitors He hated the idleness and wastefulness, the drunkenness and debauchery, the meanness and the snobbishness. The Metropolis Turnbull, the old idealistic democrat, had so often reviled the democracy and reviled them justly for their supineness, their snobbishness, their evil reverence for idle things. The Ball and the Cross It has been said that by reason of writing so much about snobs that Thackeray came to see snobbishness where there was none. English Literature for Boys and Girls For real snobbishness give me your friends, the common people, when they get up where they can afford to put on airs. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel The Five Towns might laugh at his vulgar snobbishness. The Grim Smile of the Five Towns There is no snobbishness, then, in this Athenian society. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life In saying this, I do not wish to belittle Carlyle, or to accuse him of what may be called snobbishness. Escape, and Other Essays If you consider, dear reader, what profound snobbishness the University System produced, you will allow that it is time to attack some of those feudal Middle-age superstitions. English Literature for Boys and Girls A great many Anglo-Saxon people have a certain snobbishness, to give it a hard name; it is probably the poison of the feudal system lurking in our veins. At Large But he was, nevertheless, the best-known man in the Five Towns, and it was precisely his snobbishness and his philanthropy which had carried him to the top. The Grim Smile of the Five Towns He makes me ill with his snobbishness and silver plate and monthly gloatings over his gains. South Wind Whatever we were free from, we were at all events free from snobbishness. Escape, and Other Essays Eight years' misery, due to that fellow's snobbishness!' The Whirlpool The other partner in the friendly enterprise had a touch of a different kind of snobbishness—the middle-class professional snobbishness, which pays an undue regard to success, and gravitates to effective and distinguished people. At Large It was the only touch of snobbishness of which one could have accused her. The Malady of the Century To have a Duke fighting a duel about her was far beyond the wildest dreams of snobbishness. Arsene Lupin At this time, a touch of what may not uncharitably be termed snobbishness is seen in his letters to his family when he extols the unlimited virtues of his Predilecta and the Countess Anna. Women in the Life of Balzac There is something pathetic in the good man's horror of this snobbishness, to which he himself was a victim. Idle Ideas in 1905 But to be made twice ridiculous even by the incarnation of snobbishness was galling. The Rise of Roscoe Paine They remembered perfectly well the omniscient snobbishness of Thomas Mavick when he held a position in the State Department at Washington and was at the same time a secret agent of Rodney Henderson. That Fortune And yet the demonstrative independence and recklessness of men like Custer were less objectionable to, and less inconsistent with, his American ideas than the snobbishness and almost servile adaptability of the women. A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories The Irish snobbishness developes itself not in pride so much as in servility and mean admirations, and trumpery imitations of their neighbours. The Book of Snobs Who can help loving Thackeray, wittiest, gentlest of men, in spite of the faint suspicion of snobbishness that clings to him? Idle Ideas in 1905 They felt a secret satisfaction when Barker said, "They'd open their eyes wider if they knew what was in that pack-saddle," and yet they corrected him for what they were pleased to call his "snobbishness." The Three Partners Barbara was pretty and full of spirits and, although she was the only child, and a rather spoiled one, in a wealthy family, there was no snobbishness in her make-up. Mary-'Gusta Before the charm and sweetness of it, Oxford snobbishness went down. Tommy and Co. Alas! that the beadle who canes little boys and drives them out, cannot drive worldliness out too; what is worldliness but snobbishness? The Book of Snobs Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Anarchism and Other Essays Never once in forty years of intimacy did his son notice in him a trace of snobbishness. The Education of Henry Adams He is rather sentimental; and, like most sentimental people, not devoid of snobbishness. A Miscellany of Men Yet Ellen, with the true snobbishness of the servants' hall, disapproved of Lily's course while she admired it. A Poor Wise Man If you consider, dear reader, what profound snobbishness the University System produced, you will allow that it is time to attack some of those feudal middle-age superstitions. The Book of Snobs It is a hateful fact, but we must face the fact, that snobbishness was one of the springs to the tragedy here chronicled. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story I don't care whether you call it snobbishness or not, I like life and success, and jolly things to look at, and action. Manalive It isn't because that life is too painful; no, no; it's downright snobbishness. New Grub Street But I would not have you sneer at them, thinking all pretence must spring from snobbishness and never from mistaken self-respect. Paul Kelver, a Novel I suppose it's snobbishness and all that kind of thing, as much as anything. The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll There was a remarkable freedom from snobbishness in this young man; the fact of Reardon's intellectual superiority had long ago counteracted Carter's social prejudices. New Grub Street If our friends like to come and see us, they must put aside all snobbishness, and take us as we are. New Grub Street |
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