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'The sun had just gone down; and it was a lovely sunset, and the sky looked like a great, beautiful slice of underdone beef; and I said so to him, and he said, sniffily, that he was afraid he didn't see the resemblance.

The Conservatives rejected it sniffily: there is no country called Europe, so no need for an elected President of Europe.

This was one of the great Wales victories, totally unexpected at half-time when England were sniffily superior, confident and perhaps even arrogant.

Arriving just seconds after the toe-rag had fled, I duly rang 999 and halfway through the call, the police handler sniffily told me that I should be aware that 999 was for lifethreatening incidents only!

Me, sniffily: 'Hmm, why haven't they got a bidet, though?

Voltaire sniffily dismissed it as not holy, not Roman and not an empire, though it did last 800 years.
Unlike the EU, the nation-states that rose from the imperial ashes provide a direct connection between the people and the expression of their democratic will.

The paradoxical nature of the School as a whole is certainly not missed by Jeffries, at one point describing them as 'Marxists without a party, socialists dependent on capitalist money, beneficiaries of a society they sniffily disdained and without which they would have nothing to write about' (p167).

For some critics, starting with Brecht and leading to the student insurgents, the Institute never quite earned its nickname "Cafe Marx." Instead, it was a refuge for mandarin intellectuals "working in retreat from a world they could not change and a politics they had no hope of influencing"--the same privileged minds who, taking a cue from the late British philosopher Gillian Rose, might be best understood as "conservative sheep in radical wolf's clothing." Such contradictions abound, making the group, however, no less fascinating, and even akin to certain left-leaning intellectuals today: "Marxists without party, socialists dependent on capitalist money, beneficiaries of a society they sniffily disdained and without which they would have had nothing to write about."

Just as I'm sniffily condemning Ilona's behaviour as mean-spirited she pops up with another tip: 'Stop caring what people think.

Liz said sniffily she'd rather be described as a Kendallite.

Variously, officials from the club that sniffily calls itself 'More than a Club' - seriously, they sell t-shirts saying as much at the Nou Camp - hailed Suarez for his supposedly courageous apology.