Tocqueville's arias to excellence and warnings about mediocrity have misled people into thinking him a snob.
If stating that and being confident about my analysis of companies makes me sound like a snob then so be it.
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Gillette, brought up with money, is a bit of a snob himself.
And to be honest, and I don't know if I'm just being a snob, but I'm not as entranced by funny cat videos anymore.
And yet, the fruits of a snob's study aren't always appreciated.
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People who had lived in a sophisticated city such as San Francisco, I was certain, would hold a snob's view of "boonyack" towns such as Boise.
Mr Brown is a more natural and skilled politician, and has sought to portray his rival as a Harvard snob and himself as a man of the people.
He may have been a cad, a bounder and a terrible snob, but that is the essential armoury of a diarist.
If I was a real snob, why would I be doing this with my life?
"I used to be a car snob, and I used to be too vain to drive anything that doesn't shine, " said Marci Solomon, an electrician who has a 100-mile commute to and from work.
This is thanks in part to the climate and in part to the soil, a mixture of limestone and clay and thousands of fossilized oyster shells (a wine snob could probably even name the type of oyster).
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Bag Snob: Described as a "selective editorial on bags, " Bag Snob's staff evaluates all manner of clutches, totes and "sob bags" right down to the hardware to come up with its top picks.
At the same time there is a little bit of snob in each of us.
I'm not saying that being from West Virginia makes me a populist anti-snob.
On finally hearing an answer, he gave a sigh of comedy-snob satisfaction.
Thus, the Morris technique, odd though it may be, is a brilliant way to convey snob cynicism toward Reagan--yet the author's neat literary trick is utterly missed by the critics.
Director King Hu's "Come Drink With Me" (1966), which any genre snob will tell you is a seminal masterpiece, begins like a familiar Western.
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The snob mentality never helped anyone land a job in the midst of an economic crisis.
Snob--one component of a Russian media entity that also includes a website, a social network and live events, all open only to paid members--is not, as you might guess, a celebration of wealth and status but a rather serious and highbrow forum for ideas and culture.
It has been quite a few years since any self-respecting coffee snob took auto-drip seriously.
The word "snob, " notes Gessen, has a slightly different connotation in Russian--the only language in which the magazine is printed.
Anatoly Iksanov told Snob magazine the attack was the "natural consequence" of a chaotic situation created by dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze.
The most critical date in Bordeaux history, however, is 1855: It marks the start of a real wine hierarchy and arguably the birth of the wine snob.
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Obviously a political party cannot win elections, outside of certain rarefied locales, on snob appeal alone.
But as any true video snob knows, the best-quality picture can't be found on a mere television set, high-definition or not.
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