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It all speaks multiple volumes about the mindset among "literary" academics, who have almost come around, one is pushed to say, to the condescending view of the frivolity of trying to seriously study "contemporary literature" once expressed by the snootier of the tweedy academics convinced it was better to stay with the tried and the true, to stay burrowed in the past.

Literary Study 2009

I clearly need to adopt a snootier sounding pseudonym, Maybe Gerontion Pickled-Herring VI, or some such.

Matthew Yglesias » Disabling Embedding 2010

Uma was giving out the Fellowship Award, a sort of snootier Life Achievement Award, to Vanessa Redgrave who is, make no mistake, and without any irony, one of the greatest actresses in the world.

Tallulah Morehead: Baffled by the BAFTAs 2010

Thus Carey is able to argue further that "art" as it is celebrated by its snootier adherents doesn't have the morally elevating qualities they want to claim for it.

The State of Criticism 2008

Uma was giving out the Fellowship Award, a sort of snootier Life Achievement Award, to Vanessa Redgrave who is, make no mistake, and without any irony, one of the greatest actresses in the world.

Baffled by the BAFTAs 2010

Somewhere that was far snootier than what I was sure he already thought of as his humble beginnings.

The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading Charity Tahmaseb 2009

Is he defiantly turning off the millions of moviegoers who hold a deep and abiding love for snootier-than-thou critics of high culture?

Some Interpretations Are More Equal Than Others 2007

The Top 10 White Trash Heroes of Cinema | SPIKE: Redneck and 'white trash' culture tends to get a bad rap by the snootier elements of our culture.

The Top 10 White Trash Heroes of Cinema Bill Crider 2009

The Top 10 White Trash Heroes of Cinema | SPIKE: Redneck and 'white trash' culture tends to get a bad rap by the snootier elements of our culture.

Archive 2009-09-13 Bill Crider 2009

It all speaks multiple volumes about the mindset among "literary" academics, who have almost come around, one is pushed to say, to the condescending view of the frivolity of trying to seriously study "contemporary literature" once expressed by the snootier of the tweedy academics convinced it was better to stay with the tried and the true, to stay burrowed in the past.

Politics and Literature 2007