Listen up, men who get sniffy about what the Drafthouse did.
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Economists tend to be a bit sniffy about the prescience of markets.
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Some people in the finance industry have a sniffy attitude towards academics.
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The editors of periodicals were once sniffy about accepting material previously available elsewhere.
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" Simon Danczuk, a centrist Labour member of Parliament, has condemned the "sniffy metropolitan elites.
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Chinese leaders are sniffy about polities that espouse rule of law as a founding principle.
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Usually the virus results in mild symptoms similar to a cold — sniffy, sneezy, sore throat.
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Political professionals can be a bit sniffy about gerrymandering's importance as an explanation for government dysfunction.
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Yet well-established "quant" hedge funds in London or New York are often sniffy about its potential.
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It feels dated now to talk about the sniffy attitude the art world traditionally took about fashion.
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Some swanky shops and restaurants deploy a sniffy "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" attitude.
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His hilarious description of Middle America's sniffy take on what one might call Astorgate had me pounding my thigh.
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With little in-house engineering nous, it has mostly bought facilities set up by others (or so sniffy rivals decry).
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And New York critics were sniffy about the spaced-out, cars-and-surfboards culture that they believed underpinned Californian art.
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America's internet users woke up Friday morning to see lots of elliptical Twitter references to a #CruzSexScandal, typically sniffy disapproving references.
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Contrary to what sniffy foreign gourmets may believe, the United States does have its own cuisine, Freedman argues in this sprawling history.
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I think it's very easy to be — particularly for someone sitting in Cambridge, in my position — very sniffy about almost all these images.
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The trailer made it look like a sniffy BBC costume drama your parents might watch on Sunday night, all perfect postures and drab colors.
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Traditional economists, by contrast, are sniffy about such experiments, arguing that they bear little relation to the kind of decisions made in the real world.
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Astronomers whose careers are devoted to making observations tend to be sniffy about such highfalutin departures from well-understood physics as gravity-modifying fields and quintessence.
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Bar associations can be sniffy, pointing out that some paralegals take only a two-week crash course before being thrust into the field (though others train for two years).
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A breakfast to discuss substance abuse included complaints from participants that, despite a local unemployment rate of merely 2.7%, employers were still being far too sniffy about hiring ex-felons.
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A performance art piece with an Ivanka Trump look-alike vacuuming a carpet in spike heels and a pink bell-sleeved dress drew a sniffy response from the first daughter.
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Both companies know full well how long it takes to rebuild consumers' trust in the wake of a scandal; some Europeans are still sniffy about British beef 19 years after Britain stamped out mad-cow disease.
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Another paper, Tagesspiegel, was more sniffy about her credentials, opining that Trump's dependence on family members - also including her husband Jared Kushner, a chief presidential adviser - was like a "vote of no confidence" in everyone else he was surrounded by.
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The 1971 Hal Ashby movie "Harold and Maude" got some sniffy reviews, not least from Vincent Canby in The New York Times, but it went on to make money and acquire a rabid cult following; it is now beloved by many, sometimes guiltily so.
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In the early weeks of his campaign, Bloomberg's heroic ads were contrasted by a steady drip of video footage from his decades of appearing at various accursed Ideas Festivals and oligarch-in-conversation events, all of which reliably revealed the billionaire as a sniffy and dismissive man with the sort of strange, soft ideas that rich people tend to form over the course of several uncontradicted decades.
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I have no desire to see anyone hurt; and can only apologise if anything I've done has had that effect; it was not my intent That apology is hard to square with Ms Bland's account of the interview which started, bizarrely, with Mr Dean scrolling through her Spotify play list and criticising her choices, had him calling her an "underachiever" and ended with him being sniffy about the way she sat.
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And those two words taken together, they represent such a clash of personalities: gamboge — a yellow pigment made from gum resin — for the benefit of that sniffy, finicky-fingered mincer of a sliver of a fine art man who cannot for the life of him bear to use the word yellow because it is far too tainted by the degrading fact of its near-universal popularity, and unflinchingly because … well, how could Gamboge ever be chosen Unflinchingly?
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On 28 December 1989, The Province newspaper in Vancouver, Canada, reported that Gibson intended to crush a rat named Sniffy between two paint canvasses with a 25 kilogram concrete block in downtown Vancouver. On impact, Sniffy would leave an imprint on the canvasses, forming a diptych. Gibson said he had acquired Sniffy from a pet shop which sold living rats as food for snakes and lizards. The performance was planned to happen on 6 January 1990, outside the old central public library on Burrard Street.
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George Leonard Fett (July 7, 1920 - November 6, 1989) was an American cartoonist best known for his comic strips Sniffy and Norbert.
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He demands he receive $40,000 collateral. Breezy panics, and claims to Bunco that he has no large checking account. Courtney pretends that he will write the check and take the money from Breezy later. When Bunco, Courtney and Sniffy realize that Cookie and Breezy found a chest of real riches, Bunco and Sniffy begin a scheme to rob them of the jewels.
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Terrace, Vincent (1999). Radio Programs, 1924–1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows. McFarland & Company, Inc. . p. 61. He also portrayed the character of Sniffy on the Mutual daytime drama, We Were Always Young.
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Breezy overhears their discussion and confides in Courtney, who then inserts some sleeping powder in Duke chocolate bars and gives them to the black guards. Sniffy becomes suspicious, so Courtney knocks him out, and then Breezy, Cookie, Maureen and Courtney escape via plane. When the plane is airborne, Sniffy and Bunco reveal themselves from their hiding spots and demand that Breezy and Cookie jump from the plane. Breezy starts fighting with Bunco, however, in the commotion, the treasure chest falls out of the plane becoming lost.
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Numerous books have also made reference to it. Several television shows have also focused on it. For the tenth anniversary of the performance, Radix Theatre, under the direction of Andrew Laurenson, created the Sniffy the Rat bus tour.
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He, along with Susan Milne and Paddy Ryan, were chased up Burrard Street by a mob. The three of them escaped through the Hotel Vancouver. Later that day, Sniffy was purchased from the pet shop by Peter Hamilton of the Lifeforce Foundation. Immediately afterwards, cartoonists, writers, and the general public commented on the event.
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The inhabitants of Fett's comic strip world were, for the most part, dogs. The original title character Sniffy was named after Fett's own pet beagle. Other dogs included Caesar, Charley and Queenie. Clyde (a cat), Big John (a mouse) and other animals, birds, insects and plants were included in the strip as years went by.
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Astralwerks do seem pretty sussed, and they're just letting us be us. They're just as sniffy as us, going, 'Let's just check it out,' and not trying to convince people that you're the best thing since sliced bread, y'know. Let's just try sneaking in the back door a little. I don't know how American numbers work.
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Julian Close left the band in 1987 and worked behind the scenes at EMI for several years, eventually becoming Head of A & R. He went on to run the Silent Records label, and more recently Tube Recordings. He received an acknowledgement in the Motive sleeve notes as "Sniffy". Nowadays, Julian runs Tube Management, an entertainment company incorporating a record label, music publishing and management.
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While there, Cookie and Breezy become very popular. "General" Courtney (Herbert Corthell), who is also staying at the hotel, poses as a general with much fortune. He plots with "Sniffy" Higgins (Val Stanton), who poses as his valet, to entice Breezy into a con game to steal the Duke fortune. Courtney hires a woman named Maureen (Veda Ann Borg) to pretend to be his daughter.
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Sergeant Penny, Custody Officer at the time, discovered this and, rather than turn a blind eye to it, sent a report 'upstairs' as a result of which Tosh was carpeted. He survived, of course. He was far too good at sniffing out villains for a sniffy little man like Penny to put down. In the end, Tosh left Sun Hill in 1998, accepting a position in the Coroner's Office.
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He told a crowd of over 300 people that he had returned the rat to the pet shop from where he had rented it. He encouraged the crowd to go to the pet shop and rescue Sniffy before it was sold as snake food. He later told CBC that he had full intentions of killing the animals. As he tried to leave the area, Gibson was surrounded by activists.
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Freddy is convincing Sniffy the skunk to read Robin Hood when Mr. Boomschmidt arrives at the Bean farm with Boomschmidt's Stupendous and Unexcelled Circus (formerly Boomschmidt's Colossal and Unparalleled Circus). He has a "snorter" of a dilemma, as he puts it. Mr. Boom invites the Bean animals to his small circus to observe. The show is interrupted by Mr. Condiment's lawyer, who claims that performer Mademoiselle Rose is endangered by the circus animals.
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Boyhood friends and comrades in the Army, Ted Peters (Richard Attenborough) and Dave Robinson (Bill Owen) are back in civvies. Ted becomes a taxi driver and hopes to marry Joy Goodall (Sheila Sim), a pretty chorus girl. Dave, seeking easy money, joins a gang which has its headquarters in a suburban palais-de-danse. The gang is headed by a man called Gregory (Barry Jones), and includes Paul Baker (Barry K. Barnes), and petty crooks Sniffy and Pogson.
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After taking Bunco and Sniffy hostage, Breezy tells Maureen and the General his true identity. The swindlers are arrested, and Breezy returns to the Navy base. Cookie tells everyone the news that Bunco was a federal fugitive, and for capturing him, he and Breezy have won a $10,000 reward, which they use to repay their friends. Later, Cookie drives Breezy and Maureen to become married, and they give a ride to a hitchhiking Courtney along the way.
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Opinion about the impending event was publicly broadcast via newsprint, television, and radio. On the morning of 6 January, a group of animal rights activists from the Lifeforce Foundation stole the device Gibson was going to use to crush the rat. Lifeforce's Peter Hamilton said that it was done to protect both the rat and Gibson. Because of this development, Gibson arrived at the corner of Robson and Burrard at 1:00 pm without Sniffy or his art making device.
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The dwarfs names were chosen from a pool of about fifty potentials, including Jumpy, Deafy, Dizzey, Hickey, Wheezy, Baldy, Gabby, Nifty, Sniffy, Swift, Lazy, Puffy, Stuffy, Tubby, Shorty, and Burpy.Bob Thomas, Disney's Art of Animation: From Mickey Mouse to Beauty and the Beast (Hyperion, New York, 1991) The seven finalists were chosen through a process of elimination. The leader of the dwarfs, required to be pompous, self-important and bumbling, was named Doc; others were named for their distinguishing character traits. At the end of the October story meetings, however, only Doc, Grumpy, Bashful, Sleepy and Happy of the final seven were named; at this point, Sneezy and Dopey were replaced by 'Jumpy' and an unnamed seventh dwarf.
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