Yet sweetness and light are in precious short supply (indeed, the very phrase provokes sniggers).
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He thinks it will keep the more believing Ark-goers from shooting him dirty looks when he involuntarily sniggers at the displays.
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"It can be a range of harassment - from sniggers, homophobic, transphobic jokes to the extreme of violence and sexual abuse," she said.
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Some time in the past Ali obviously rejected any pressure to be a woman: she slums around in baggy clothes and sniggers impolitely through lectures.
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Two and a half hours of political jokes was more than the audience could process, and many elicited sniggers from only the most plugged-in.
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And those women that push back on this tired stereotype are often met with anything from strange looks and quite sniggers to physical and verbal abuse.
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" Jones mostly sits off to the side, chiming in every few minutes like that one student at the back of class who sniggers every time the teacher says "orgasm.
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"At the risk of schoolboy sniggers, if you were there, flying through the clouds of Uranus, yes, you'd get this pungent, rather disastrous smell," planetary scientist Leigh Fletcher told Science News.
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Indeed, the "Golliwog's Cakewalk" (from "Children's Corner") is a direct hit, with its cheerful celebration of popular culture and the cheeky quote from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," followed by the minstrel's scoffing sniggers.
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PEBBLE BEACH, Ca. (Reuters) - After a string of U.S. Open screw-ups which angered the players and drew sniggers from fans, the United States Golf Association (USGA) admitted on Wednesday it was "critical" they get it right this year.
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I took it to a coffee shop — a laptop in a New York coffee shop, imagine that — and was met with sniggers from the next table over, where someone started humming the theme to the recent reboot of Mission Impossible.
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We groaned as we went through the usual baptism of fire for any new immigrant, the cocked-eyebrow and puzzled look as you struggle to get your words across, the constant sniggers and cries of "sorry, I didn't get that," little snipes at the outwardly different and the distinctive.
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A man (Rajeev) settled in Singapore, visits his native village. His aunt tries to fortify family bonds, and seeks the hand of Rajeev's younger sister (Nadhiya) for her son (Vijayakanth). Rajeev sniggers at the suggestion and is nasty while pointing out how out-of-place it is. Vijayakanth vows to marry Nadhiya.
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They were both happy with the arrangement, ignoring the sniggers from other residents of the street. Relationships between Alec and the Duckworths soon became very strained and they finally agreed to dissolve their partnership, with Alec paying £30,000 for Jack and Vera's share of the business. However, Alec allowed them to continue living and working at the Rovers. This arrangement didn't work out, and when Jack and Vera wanted to spend Christmas in Blackpool, Alec refused.
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Lucian sniggers and then smashes the boxes with his sword, with the line; If someone gets in our way, we take them down. Lucian realizes the strength of the vampire, and must upgrade his weapon by taking it to Professor Sheridan. After a confusing moment with the Professor's maid, Lucian barges his way in. Returning to the Mansion, Lucian refuses to help Bea free the prisoners, claiming they would not even try to fight back against enemies.
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In a demonstration of Speight's satirical skills—after a successful libel action brought against Speight by Mary WhitehouseMark Ward "A Family at War: Till Death Do Us Part", The Main Event (Kaleidoscope brochure) 1996—he created an episode, first broadcast on 27 February 1967, in which Alf Garnett is depicted as an admirer of Whitehouse. Garnett was seen proudly reading her first book. "What are you reading?" his son-in-law asks. When he relates that it is Mary Whitehouse, his son-in-law sniggers.
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" The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review, saying: "While the words "instant holiday classic" might be pushing it, Elf is at the very least a breezily entertaining, perfectly cast family treat." A. O. Scott of The New York Times also gave the film a positive review, saying: "Elf is a charming, silly family Christmas movie more likely to spread real joy than migraine, indigestion and sugar shock. The movie succeeds because it at once restrains its sticky, gooey good cheer and wildly overdoes it." Anna Smith of Empire magazine gave the film a three out of five stars and said: "Farrell's man- child invites sympathy and sniggers, making this amusing despite some flimsy plotting.
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Thom has stated that she finds herself talking about and explaining Tourette's everyday in her day-to-day interactions: "It doesn't always feel like a choice, more a tool for living...Often this is very functional, like explaining at the start of a phone call that I have Tourettes, answering a question or addressing sniggers on public transport." Thom regularly experiences discrimination as a result of having Tourette's. She has recounted one particularly bad experience in multiple interviews, when she went to see comedian Mark Thomas perform at Tricycle Theatre. Other audience members complained about the noise she was making as a result of her vocal tics and the venue's staff asked her to move into a sound booth, so she wouldn't be heard by other customers.
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While many of his unemployed supporters considered the fact that Murphy had been elected as victory in itself, neither they nor Murphy had anticipated the task he faced inside the Dáil. His maiden speech was greeted by sneers and sniggers from the professional politicians in the Dáil and set the scene for what was to follow. The suspicion and disdain with which Murphy was regarded with by established parliamentary members meant that initially he could not get answers to even to the most basic of his queries – such as how much unemployment relief money was to be spent in Dublin. In contrast, the same politicians had no problem in addressing trivial concerns like those raised by Fine Gael's Jack Belton when he asked about the "hardship imposed on cricket clubs because of the cost of cricket balls".
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This was recorded as a present for the composer who was then in his last illness. Albert Sammons and Raymond Jeremy, both of whom had taught Watson Forbes, had taken part in the work's original performance of 1919. In 1934 and 1935 the Quartet championed the work of Mary Lucas, performing her quartets at the First Performance Society (presented by London Musical Club), in November 1934, and in January 1935 at the Blackheath Music Society.See The British Library, Music Collections, Programmes and handbills relating to Mary Anderson Lucas, . In March 1935 with Raymond Jeremy they gave the first performance of the Arnold Bax String Quintet in one movement. Their championing of British music continued in the first performance of the Three Divertimenti of Benjamin Britten, at the Wigmore Hall in February 1936, a performance which was met with sniggers and cold silence, undermining the confidence of the composer.
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West made his London stage debut in February 1989 at the Orange Tree Theatre, playing Michael in Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles, of which critic John Thaxter wrote: "He invests the role with a warmth and validity that silences sniggers that could so easily greet a lesser performance of this difficult role, and he lets us share the tumbling emotions of a juvenile torn between romantic first love and filial duty." Since then, West has appeared frequently on stage; he played Valentine in the first ever production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at the National Theatre in 1993 and later spent two seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company playing the title roles in Richard II and Hamlet, both directed by Steven Pimlott. In 2002, West made his stage directorial debut with The Lady's Not for Burning at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester. He succeeded Michael Grandage as artistic director of Sheffield Theatres from 2005–2007.
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