A heretical substitute For the Christian gospel, gnostic interpretation has nothing to do with serious New Testament scholarship, which Spong
snidely calls twisting our brains into a 1st-century pretzel.
Yet, when you pick up the square-shaped piece of paper, the other side
snidely says, " As you picked this up, you can pick up the litter off the streets as well."
Hayek is
Snidely Whiplash, the hired gun from the Austrian School.
When the BBC showed civilian victims of Allied bombing in Iraq, Tory MPs shrieked "treachery", while
snidely referring to the Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation.
Pillow tossing would be something interior designers might
snidely deem 'decoration', something obviously quite different.
Walmart's history, they naively and somewhat
snidely claim, is antithetical to the art Walton has acquired and the values that that art represents.
High and low are constantly at odds with one another--the husband
snidely refers to the lover not as "Percy Shelley," a poet better than himself, but as baseball legend "Dizzy Dean," the truer rival, as showmanship and celebrity-culture make for a more fitting parallel with the world of Broadway.
"Did you read that in Bella," her solicitor husband
snidely asks.
Zuckerberg's character
snidely called them on-screen the "Winklevi."
When the narrator of Henry James' novella, "The Aspern Papers", takes a gondola ride through 19th-century Venice, he rather
snidely refers to the city outside his boat as "the bright Venetian picture".
But the strongest link is Gruen's use of melodrama--though her
Snidely Whiplash-type characters--seemed much more at home in Water's 1930s travelling circus than in a modern-day language research lab.
Snidely describing him as "part military dictator, part sheepdog," she tries to paint him as a dubious digger after career gold, self-serving and self-promoting: "Sam Steele arrived in Dawson determined to burnish his reputation there, so from the start he exaggerated the wickedness he discovered while publicizing his own achievements."
A friend of mine
snidely commented "good luck, that corn is in everything." His sarcasm only spurred me to take the challenge personally.