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1. I have no desire to add Coward to that mythology, besides which he was, judging by the biographies and his own diaries, an intolerable man - snobbish, reactionary, racist, lamenting Labour election victories and the decline of Empire, welcoming Gandhi's assassination, oozing sycophancy towards the British (and any other) royal family, and describing the Beatles as "bad-mannered little shits".
2. "Let us move away", he appealed, "from our snobbish caste-ridden hierarchical obsessions with university status."
3. Given the timidity of British cinema in the late 1950s, it is easy to understand the anger with which Lindsay Anderson blasted British filmmaking for being "snobbish, anti-intelligent, emotionally inhibited, wilfully blind to the conditions and problems of the present, dedicated to an out-of-date, exhausted national ideal."
4. His childhood had largely been spent, however, in the more socially elevated household of his snobbish and unloved aunt, Elizabeth Tyler, from whom he may have learnt the polished superficiality of manner which was one feature of his character.
5. "Our club" presumably overlaps while being smaller than "the best circles" of this society, whereas the "they" of "the whole town" is sometimes, but only sometimes, the "we" of "our town"; and "our group" which springs out of "my" special relationship with Stepan Verkhovensky and which gathers round Mrs Stavrogin, Nicholas's mother and Stepan's patroness, is different again and again overlapping; and the "all" buried inside the phrase "our "old man" - as we all used to call Stepan Trofimovich among ourselves" is probably though not certainly synonymous with this "group"; while Dostoevsky delights in sly collective evocations like "civic grief" and in parcellings-out like "the poorest expectant mothers of the town", and in fouling the whole snobbish provincial nest with such carefully calculated absurdities as "almost the whole town, that is of course the entire top stratum of our society".
6. They were petty colonialists with a difficult position to maintain in a highly stratified, snobbish boom town on the world's frontiers.
7. In March 1922 "snobbish clerks" on the Moscow Kursk line, which had been on of the most revolutionary, in 1905 and 1917, were refusing to attend meetings where common signalman and the like were to be found.
8. You not only were arrogant, you were snobbish, and in lots of ways, very impolite and mean
9. If the management of Stringfellows Nightclub in London's West End were to take their snobbish door-policy to its ultimate conclusion and investigate the social backgrounds of their glittering clientele, at least one regular would be out on his ear.
10. I use the word not in its snobbish sense, but as a scientist uses it.
11. The book makes one conscious of Eliot in the sarcophagus of his upper-class eminence; of a sad face of clerical cut - once the face of a delightful shy child - bleakly sprouting from a sartorial apparatus that resembles the mourning clothes of a cabinet minister; of a masterly poseur, an honoured invalid and recluse, of someone snobbish and sometimes selfish and inhumane, who sought relief in literature and in imitation, and who also embodied the opposite of these qualities.
12. To the snobbish traveller coach tours are a subject of derision, but since the inter-war period when coach touring really took off, thousands of people who could not normally afford to travel have seen countries other than their own through the comparative cheapness of coach travel.
13. Am I naive or snobbish in thinking that better standards ought to be enforced by the employers?