For all his keenness of mind, of humor, Norman had the fast-dyed snobbishness of his family and friends.
Literary snobbishness is no more attractive than any other kind; and it is to be hoped that she sins of ignorance rather than of malice.
I had a veritable snobbishness of disdain for a youngster who had to be amused.
I attributed to others a snobbishness wholly my own, and for that once clothes came perilously near costing me all human joy in human friendship.
Never had Legrandin's snobbishness impelled him to make a habit of visiting a duchess as such.
Snobbishness (he said) did violence to this sacred film of faith and might shatter it, and hence (he pointed out) was especially hated by Lords themselves.
This ecstasy ofsnobbishness deluded me as to the women only--for, as I looked at the men, I at once felt myself their superior.
This New York that dabbles its slime of sordidness and snobbishness on every flower in the garden of human nature.
Partly, of course, my own snobbishness, which led me to attach the same importance to those people that the snobbishness of the small and silly had got them in the way of attaching to themselves.
And I cursed the day when New York's insidious snobbishness had tempted my vanity into starting me on that degrading chase after "respectability.
This shows how far I had let that attack of snobbishness eat into me.
I, my common sense smashing the spell of snobbishness that had begun to reassert itself as soon as I got into his unnatural, unhealthy atmosphere.
One despairs at times of humanity, seeing vulgarity and snobbishness riding triumphantly upward; but where the tone of the younger generation is as high as I have lately found it, there is still much hope for the future.
Nevertheless, your mother has some really fine paintings in the collection," proclaimed Booth amiably, also descending to snobbishness without really meaning to do so.
He berated himself in secret for his snobbishness and in public made atonement by being expansively polite to Mrs. Coburn.
There is, I suppose, more snobbishness induced by the manner of crane-hooking than in any other pit function.
Is it simply a habit that we cannot throw off or is there a certain snobbishness about it that appeals to the flunkeyism of men?
That is perhaps why it has disappeared when snobbishness is felt to be inconsistent with the world of stern realities and bitter sorrows in which we live.
The snobbishness itself should not be set down to her discredit, but should be charged up to that class feeling, as old as property, and fostered and developed by almost every familiar fact in our daily environment.
My conviction that Shakespeare was not abnormally vicious, and that the first series of Sonnets proved snobbishness and toadying and not corrupt passion, seemed to Oscar the very madness of partisanship.
I chaffed him about this one day and he admitted the snobbishness gaily.
It was not so with Susan, for she had little self-consciousness and no snobbishness at all.
He was simply the average man of small intelligence, great vanity, and abject snobbishness or terror of public opinion.
And what more absurd than snobbishness in an outcast?
It was an interesting typical example of the profound snobbishness of the male character.
The dilettanti's snobbishness and sentimentality prevent them from admitting that, in a democratic age, when an author is genuinely appreciated, either he makes money or he is the foolish victim of a scoundrel.
He was in full possession of the conventionally snobbish ideals of the suburb, reinforced by more than a tincture of the stupendous and unsurpassed snobbishness of the British Army.
Who could have foreseen this arrant snobbishness in the excellent child of nature, Mrs. Tams?
They remembered perfectly well the omniscient snobbishness of Thomas Mavick when he held a position in the State Department at Washington and was at the same time a secret agent of Rodney Henderson.
We used to be irritated at what we called the snobbishness of English critics of a certain school; we are so no longer, for we see that its criticism is only the result of ignorance--simply of inability to understand.
He loved her so abjectly that he lost her; and it was undoubtedly his overpowering sensuality and snobbishness which brought him to his knees, and his love to ruin.
His snobbishness carries him to astounding lengths.
To my mind the whole sonnet is too extravagant to be sincere; it is only to be explained by the fact that Shakespeare's liking for Herbert was heightened by snobbishnessand by the hope of patronage.
In Shakespeare's time English snobbishness was stronger than it is to-day; it was then supported by law and enforced by penalties.
Shakespeare's position, too, explains how this nativesnobbishness in him was heightened to flunkeyism.
English snobbishness is like a London fog, intenser than can be found in any other country; it is so extravagant, indeed, that it seems different in kind.
The solemn philosophic framework, the idea of treating snobbishness as a science, was original and sound; for snobbishness is indeed a disease in our Society.
