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1. refectory this evening,’ said the supercilious young monk
2. Such thinking has prompted a twentieth-century mindset defined by the supercilious designs of social engineers seeking to modify, if not micro-manage, human behavior on the basis of implausible, formulaic theories
3. After a few seconds, a supercilious frown crossed his tanned, smooth face
4. The supercilious sneer never left his face
5. The supercilious gentleman received me from his throne - a newly-fashionable rocking chair in a stylishly bare room
6. The gangly one with glasses was concealing his insecurities behind a supercilious facade, and four obvious Christians were betrayed by their prim, pursed lips and disapproving manner
7. As Jesus paused, silently but thoughtfully contemplating this scene of commerce and confusion, close by he beheld a simple-minded Galilean, a man he had once talked with in Iron, being ridiculed and jostled about by supercilious and would-be superior Judeans; and all of this combined to produce one of those strange and periodic uprisings of indignant emotion in the soul of Jesus
8. recognizable, contained some explanation to this gift, and though his immediate impression was that the Ashburns had left these here for some supercilious reason, he dismissed the idea upon seeing Judge Burns’s signature seal on the back flap of the envelope and hurriedly removed the neatly folded, crisp sheet of lightly scented, thick paper on which the note was written in the same shaky, familiar fashion
9. Scully, with his smug supercilious attitude! Neither man could wait to see him squirm, but wait they did as the direction of their inquiry changed once more
10. Their views, at any rate, ought not to be regarded, as they too often are, with supercilious and unreasoning contempt
11. His leaders, recognizing the act as a traditional and rehearsed part of the display, stood their ground calmly and made no move to retreat as the supercilious inspector had done
12. And then the deliciousness of being able to write to all those relations grown of late so supercilious, to Cousin Mienchen who came and played the rich, and tell them the glorious news
13. The disregard and disdain of supercilious officials towards the layman and Egyptians in particular
14. His supercilious glance, which would have been consummate with a monocle
15. Always that supercilious attitude
16. Rami, with his supercilious airs was both victim and victimizer
17. From the inside of his omnipotent conveyance Loofah watched the world slide past with supercilious detachment
18. Yet there with my soul I fed, I fed content, supercilious
19. If you consider, I said, that when in misfortune we feel a natural hunger and desire to relieve our sorrow by weeping and lamentation, and that this feeling which is kept under control in our own calamities is satisfied and delighted by the poets;--the better nature in each of us, not having been sufficiently trained by reason or habit, allows the sympathetic element to break loose because the sorrow is another's; and the spectator fancies that there can be no disgrace to himself in praising and pitying any one who comes telling him what a good man he is, and making a fuss about his troubles; he thinks that the pleasure is a gain, and why should he be supercilious and lose this and the poem too? Few persons ever reflect, as I should imagine, that from the evil of other men something of evil is communicated to themselves
20. Her manner was supercilious, as always, but Papa did not mind, or pretended not to
21. He was tall, and had flared nostrils that gave his face a supercilious look
22. He sat slowly down, blew out his chest, passed his hand caressingly down his beard, and looked with drooping eyelids and supercilious eyes at the crowded hall before him
23. Picture him seated upon a rock, his absurd boyish straw hat tilted on the back of his head, his supercilious eyes dominating us from under his drooping lids, his great black beard wagging as he slowly defined our present situation and our future movements
24. He still had the Gallic twinkle in his black eyes and the Creole zest for living but, for all his easy laughter, there was And the air of supercilious elegance which had clung about him in his striking Zouave something hard about his face which had not been there in the early days of the war
25. He was a man wildly overqualified for a job in early-evening television who used his sarcastic wit and supercilious delivery to protect himself from the deadening routine of regional broadcasting
26. He bowed, produced a supercilious grin that made my skin crawl, then started to wave his arms over his head, stirring up the crowd, chanting, “B of A
27. One email, which was written with a tone of supercilious authority, in my view, argued against my view that we were in a window of opportunity:I have gone back to 1985 looking at periods when a NASDAQ rally has occurred on conspicuously light volume including a dearth of major accum[ulation] days
28. Besides this, in his behavior to women Anatole had a manner which particularly inspires in them curiosity, awe, and even love- a supercilious consciousness of his own superiority
29. Though a small woman, and unmartial as a dormouse, she could face down the rowdiest drovers drunkenly demanding a raise, and the most supercilious blue blood sneering at the notion of paying bills due commoners, and never flinch
30. “If the Grey Angels went on crusade every time there was a little plotting,” said a second, supercilious voice, “they’d never stop
31. Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity, some efforts of Mrs
32. I can't express how mortified I was at this supercilious callousness
33. What was worst of all, there was something humiliating in it, and on their side something “supercilious and scornful
34. Though he looked down upon every one, he was a good comrade and not supercilious
35. There was even a supercilious note in his voice
36. The startling, incredibly supercilious tone of this man who had once been his valet, was extraordinary in itself
37. The reason of this rupture was still a mystery to Varvara Petrovna, which made it all the more offensive; but the chief cause of offence was that Praskovya Ivanovna had succeeded in taking up an extraordinarily supercilious attitude towards Varvara Petrovna
38. He only arrived on Sunday; and on Tuesday I saw him in a carriage with Artemy Pavlovitch Gaganov, a man who was proud, irritable, and supercilious, in spite of his good breeding, and who was not easy to get on with
39. When on the way to Petersburg I told you that I meant to found a journal and to devote my whole life to it, you looked at me ironically at once, and suddenly became horribly supercilious
40. He looked angry, severe, and supercilious
41. " The invalid pointed with a supercilious smile to his little bag
42. I have several times had occasion to write about patriotism, about its absolute incompatibility, not only with the teaching of Christ in its ideal sense, but even with the lowest demands of the morality of Christian society, and every time my arguments have been met with silence or with the supercilious hint that the ideas expressed by me were Utopian expressions of mysticism, anarchism, and cosmopolitanism
43. Serious, old, clever, good men, who, above all else, stand like the city on a hill, and who involuntarily guide the masses by their example, make it appear that the legality and beneficence of patriotism are so obvious and incontestable that it is not worth while to answer the frivolous and senseless attacks upon this sentiment, and the majority of men, who have since childhood been deceived and infected by patriotism, take this supercilious silence to be a most convincing proof, and continue to stick fast in their ignorance
44. Besides this, in his behavior to women Anatole had a manner which particularly inspires in them curiosity, awe, and even love—a supercilious consciousness of his own superiority
45. The second condition of “comme il faut”-ness was long nails that were well kept and clean; the third, ability to bow, dance, and converse; the fourth—and a very important one—indifference to everything, and a constant air of refined, supercilious ennui
46. Ilinka—who had surprised me by giving me a bow not only cold, but supercilious, as though to remind me that here we were all equals—was just in front of me, with his legs resting in free and easy style on another bench (a hit, somehow I thought, at myself), and conversing with a student as he threw occasional glances in my direction
47. “Congratulate you,” he began, with his nasty, supercilious grin, which of late had been getting on my nerves severely
48. Thus, where the rich of the Langdon sort are supercilious, the rich of the Roebuck sort are nervous and often become morbid on the subject of assassination as they grow richer and richer
49. Warren’s broad a had a supercilious cadence—“toughening effect on the skin
50. ” “You dear, self-sacrificing thing!” With this last she cocked a supercilious eye
