How To Use Elitist In A Sentence

But either way, placater or elitist, he has headed us down an evil road by deepening a war we couldn ` t afford eight years ago when it started and certainly can ` t afford after the Bush-Cheney fiasco in Iraq. The Student Operated Press
Perhaps tools like moviolas might have more efficiently weeded out the dabblers - it's hard to say since moviolas were part of a more elitist type of technology and denied many an opportunity.
Pluralists have even tried to adapt Schumpeter's account, but have neglected his strong elitist account of input politics.
Our second annual spring trip to the Upper Catch and Release Area of the Miller's River, my father caught this nice brown trout, and caught flak from the elitists because he was using the fly rod with a spinning reel and rooster tail and catching fish, while the elitist fly fishers were getting skunked all morning. Field & Stream
“Elitist” to a GOP/Bush leg humping suckhole means “reader” .. Think Progress » Perry: Anyone Who’s Not A ‘Rank Political Hack’ Realizes That Bush Was A ‘Very, Very Good President’

Obama is a stuffed-shirt, retrousse-nosed, po 'boy, the worst kind of elitist! On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
There was a time when success was considered elitist and mediocrity was the norm.
ACOSTA: During the primaries, Obama got tagged with the label elitist after a series of gaffes that suggested a lack of empathy for blue-collar voters. CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2008
Today such sentiments tend to be treated with scepticism, if not depicted as elitist.
The elitist system owes far more to successful networking. Times, Sunday Times
The basic charge is that these men, critics of capitalism, were racists and elitists.
The medium is also significant because his artworks are anything but elitist.
Not to mention needing a daddy with deep pockets to fund the path into one of the richest and most elitist sports on the planet. The Sun
So this is what we are up against in the fight to preserve and vivify the life of the mind in the university-not a handful of old elitists, as leftist academics charge, but a mob of middle-aged managers.
The exploration of literary texts is not an elitist activity, distinct from the study of other means of communication.
Those who evade this inherent conservatism of literacy in the name of multicultural antielitism are in effect elitists of an extreme sort. The Theory Behind the Dictionary: Cultural Literacy and Education
Worse, since drill-n-kill programs make an end-run around reputedly incompetent teachers, it is children in public schools -- rather than private, elitist charter schools -- that end up suffering computer disempowerment. Miguel Guhlin: Nurture Human Talents
To make this elitist system work, there had to be a constant supply of visible saints.
In the effort to avoid the charge of elitist arrogance they are in danger of abandoning the only commodities which they have to sell: detachment and objective judgment.
The aim is to make it less elitist and less secretive. Times, Sunday Times
It is they who are the true snobs, they the elitists, they the censorious kakistocracy. Times, Sunday Times
Beneath this undercurrent of grumbling is the philistine assumption that it is elitist or irrelevant to consider art which does not excite the mass market.
My pee was just not good enough for the elitist pissoir. Alan Black: The See-Through Curtain Between the Flying Classes
Somehow I don't think turning into the polar opposite of an "elitist" is a solution to that whole issue. Clinton takes on TV pundits at distillery stop in Kentucky
She was an inspired gardener who wrote like an angel, but she was elitist to her fingernails.
The old snobberies of rock purists and classical elitists make less and less sense now.
Gerard Way stares me right in the eye, speaking with a slightly bitter snap in his tone that is only managed by those scorned by elitists in the past.
Why do the public still fund these elitist sporting facilities anyway ... if we're getting out of trains ... surely we also can also bin hyped stadiums for brain dead yobs to go watch "footy" - MATE! AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
If he were white, we'd be getting the elitistist eggheaded ivory tower in-tee-lect-shul who never did an honest days work in his life smear, the corrupt Chicago politician smear and, possibly, the inexperience smear. Counting The White Women In McCain's "Hot Chicks" Ad
You keep saying that, unless I think the BSO is overpaid, I'm some kind of snob, but you yourself are a snob from the other end, and I don't put any more moral stock in populist snobbery than elitist snobbery. In the ballpark
And you, Jeb Bush, are a the scion of a family of fascists who believe - quite unAmericanly - that our representative government exists primarily to stay out of your elitist control and private amassment of wealth. Jeb Bush: 'I don't know' if Obama is a socialist
Some seem to regard it as a kind of elitist ploy designed to make things difficult for the disadvantaged.
I see your point, swop-lv, but I still find these intellectual debates about exchanging sex for payment that exclude sex workers without high academic or writing credentials to be elitist, even though I am an academic (lol). It’s wrong to pay for sex–NYC Debate April 21 « Bound, Not Gagged
One of our commitments is that we should be helping to make art more accessible and less elitist. Times, Sunday Times
In these days when we are cutting back on music education and stinting on "culture," Bach and classical music in general is viewed as elitist and irrelevant. Alan Elsner: A Documentary About Bach Gives Food for Thought
Elitist finger wagging is as Canadian as the beaver and maple syrup. Oh No! A Scary, Horrible Tiger Is Gonna Eat ME! « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
Say jwest were you one of those people who anti-elitist Palin ditched during one of her book signings? Think Progress » Poll Shows Palin’s Unfavorability Ratings At All-Time High As Broder Extols Her ‘Populist’ Appeal
Marco Reininger, a veteran and political science major at Columbia, wrote on The Huffington Post that, despite what he called the childish catcalls that greeted Maschek, the institution as a whole is neither as elitist nor as condescending as the media firestorm suggests. ROTC's return to universities a bumpy road
The organization has again managed to avoid allowing transparency and accountability into its secret and elitist decision-making.
Until the end of last generation the term hardcore gamer didn't really exist, and it seems to have been coined by an elitist group who can't really see past the end of their dual analog sticks. IGN Complete
Am I an elitist bastard running-dog lackey etc for believing that only people who actually care should make the decisions?
The legal profession is starting to be less elitist and more representative.
One of our commitments is that we should be helping to make art more accessible and less elitist. Times, Sunday Times
The disadvantaged students for whom antielitist solicitude is expressed are the very ones who suffer when we fail to introduce traditional literate culture into the earliest grades. The Theory Behind the Dictionary: Cultural Literacy and Education
Prodi is too much politician, provincial and elitist to be taken seriously and Bhagwati is -- paradoxically -- evangelical and boring as he defends globalization. David E.
I don't think this kind of elitist exclusionist behaviour is going to make any difference to anything in the long run.
By merely dubbing it as elitist or foreign we cannot wish away the fact that it is as much a part of our heritage as any other modern Indian language.
Much of our discourse is inaccessible because of elitist language and our focus on print-based media.
He had become a jazz elitist who played with the best and demanded the best in himself.
Khomeini preached the theory of wilayat al-faqih (jurisconsult); an elitist concept associated with the supremacy of senior Shiite clergy. Joshua Gleis: Religious Divisions in Iran's Leadership -- More than Meets the Eye
PETER GELB, GENERAL MANAGER, METROPOLITAN OPERA: In an effort to kind of dispel or break down this image that the Met is some sort of an elitist organization, we have launched a whole bunch of initiatives to connect the Met to a broader public. CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2007
It is innately populist in its focus on commerciality and innately elitist in its focus on conceptuality. Archive 2007-02-01
Such shallow and untenable reasoning lies at the heart of many sexist, racist and elitist dogmas.
Their comments sound conceited and cliquish and elitist. Congratulations, followed swiftly by criticisms [Updated] | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
We will be in NOVA this weekend ... as soon as Aimee gets a ride from Blacksburg. woohoo redskins touchdown!!! apparently, some people find the term joe six pack offensive. what elitists. Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll
cognoscenti" - elitist, agoraphobic, self-referential, intellectual narcissists with asthma and a tendency towards pasty skin and the use of words like "cognoscenti". Truckeratlas Diary Entry
And if you think those situations are completely unrelated to that discussion then you're just living in your own closed, elitist fantasy world.
I think that Mr Hessel's book plays on antielitist feelings which animate large segments of the French population," he says. Former French Resistance Spy Causing New Stir at 93
And that may explain why the elitists in those various fields keep working so hard to discredit and snipe at him.
This elitist, narcissistic, gigolo is an embarrassment and for the PI to back him just how out of touch they are. Sound Politics: Seattle P-I in a death spiral
In Europe in particular, many new clubs were set up and they were not like the old elitist clubs but rather commercial clubs all about participation. Times, Sunday Times
The names given to culs-de-sac betray the elitist doublethink running rife in planning offices. Times, Sunday Times
There is a peculiar elitist arrogance in those who discourse on the brutalization of work simply because they cannot imagine themselves performing the job.
I suppose they would have also called literacy or public schools an elitist agenda back before anyone but noblemen knew how to read.
Between marathons of writing as much as 5,000 words a day, he was a fixture at Georgetown salons when Washington was clubbier and more elitist. Archive 2007-03-01
Despite the obvious appeal such elitist and exclusionary tactics lend to the club, it's sort of a shame.
The very nature of being elitist is exclusive, so not all of you will be in that class of those who makes these decisions, so its your freedoms you are trying to give away. Think Progress » New basketball league open to whites only, to get away from the ‘street-ball’ played by ‘people of color.’
Of course the shorter response to mudcat is a simple F-you buddy, we don’t need no stinkin’ elitist experts on non elite voters we need better policy outreach and if mudcat’s writing at the swamp is any sign of it he is not the man to do it. aimai rea Says: Matthew Yglesias » Mudcat
I don't mean this in an elitist or cliquey way, for there can surely be no elite or clique in Manchester.
These are nothing but elitist attempts at separating classes and colors and keeping the poor where the wealthy have put them.
Pluralists have even tried to adapt Schumpeter's account, but have neglected his strong elitist account of input politics.
For a concept that's supposed to simplify and humanise they're surprisingly elitist. Times, Sunday Times
Thus he was labelled an elitist and his invitation to appear on Oprah's show was withdrawn.
Western as well as Eastern cultures are deeply elitist.
In Britain, jazz is losing its elitist tag and gaining a much broader audience.
You keep saying that, unless I think the BSO is overpaid, I'm some kind of snob, but you yourself are a snob from the other end, and I don't put any more moral stock in populist snobbery than elitist snobbery. In the ballpark
The basic charge is that these men, critics of capitalism, were racists, anti-Semites, and elitists.
And the less elitist you are, the more street cred you get. Times, Sunday Times
Someday the 31% of us - gay and straight, will foredo the uptight self-righteous homophobic elitists and see just a bit more constitutional civil rights in the U.S. Isn't it queer
Not all European golf federations share Sweden's antielitist, forward-looking practices, but the successful ones do. SI.com
Some protest about the idea of a vanguard, a party offering leadership to the working class, a notion they denounce as ‘elitist’.
As an added bonus, one had to be equipped with the necessary skills and urbanity to negotiate chopsticks, rendering it elitist food and thus inherently appealing to fashion industry types.
Learning should no longer be an elitist pastime for the chosen few.
Not to mention needing a daddy with deep pockets to fund the path into one of the richest and most elitist sports on the planet. The Sun
The technique transfused her ego with indirect suggestions of being elegant, refined, and of possessing discriminating taste, sophistication, prestige, and elitist status.
This fact questions any easy assumption about a necessary elitist coincidence of interest amongst the armed services.
The professor at University of North Carolina demonstrated that she is a thick-skulled elitist.
Exploitation movies are often criticized as trashy, but poor taste is an elitist concept.
As with the Clintons, lecturing others on their conduct and/or finger wagging is the height of HYPROCRISY … and some kind of elitist (dangerous) DENIAL. Is Virtue What We Buy or What We Sell? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
In the long run, we pay an even heavier price by galvanizing opponents bent on freeing themselves from what they perceive as elitist disrespect for democratic governance.
Your blog, which reflects in a very clever way about motherhood issues does more good to women than this kind of elitist, guilt-inducing, spiteful and caricatural depiction of dummy motherhood. Who’s The Dummy, Mummy? | Her Bad Mother
Make no mistake, the Democrats are guilty as well, they are often elitist and paternalistic.
And the less elitist you are, the more street cred you get. Times, Sunday Times
The American arts fan, long mythologized as a snooty, wealthy elitist, is changing.
You're a man of the people and I'm a snob and an elitist.
Not a good place to be, Peter, at least, not at a time that the electorate is beginning to look at any exclusory or religious, political or socially elitist positions as responsible for the chaos in American life right now. Pam's House Blend - Front Page
His intonation and faux-elitist accent made the dialogue much more amusing.
How did this elitist come to write a set of stories that at the last count have sold some 80m copies and are about to come to the cinema screens with as much fanfare and hype as Tolkien's Lord of the Rings received?
We want our kids to be educated but we hate elitists who seem over effetely educated.
The legal profession is starting to be less elitist and more representative.
I long for the "golden days" of our country as well, but my wishes harken back to times when civil rights were being granted, not questioned; when attending college was not seen as being elitist, but rather something to which one aspired; when my ideological opponents knew that I was not their enemy, but just someone striving toward the same American dream via a different path. Martin Maidenberg: Defying Gravitas -- Season of the Witch
While Michael Adams, who was very much a nonconformist, may have taken him under his wing for a while, the cultural politics of the University at the time I was living there were still quite elitist.
Another subject I recently interviewed blamed what he called mere "centa-millionaires" for the breakdown in exclusivity of his elitist world. Jamie Johnson: The One Percent
To do this we now turn to an approach based on contrasting views according to which modern democracies can be either elitist or pluralist.
It was perhaps elitist to have had low expectations before viewing the film, but one is too wary of packaged presentations from Hollywood touting the wares of the fickle god of consumerism.
Leavers would say it is brave, antielitist patriots v the rootless, metropolitan, sneering rich. Times, Sunday Times
Here's another elitist comment for you to chew on -- I emceed the Harveys for 4 yrs and was associated with the awards program for 5. Congratulations, followed swiftly by criticisms [Updated] | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
We know, as I observed in my last post, that her primary strategy has been to portray him as an effeminate, elitist, and fragile ectomorph who will be weak in the face of aggression, and who will be readily done in by America's more burly antagonists. Stephen Ducat: Death Wish II: What Hillary Was Aiming at With Her Two Assassination "Gaffes"
At the time, this was treated as a donnish joke by many critics who conceived Wodehousian humour, in spite of its popularity, to be elitist, since it dealt with the goings-on of a wealthy and privileged few.
Early group portraits show noble surgeons parading their medical knowledge with elitist pomp.
Then again, perhaps we were just a bunch of Chardonnay (Cabernet Merlot, actually) swilling elitists totally out of touch with middle Australia.
Stockhausen Serves Imperialism" was published in 1974 and contained his rationale for switching from avant-garde composition - which he characterized as elitist - to more folk based writing. Undefined
Prescriptivism in the strange fiction genres is ideally situated to act as carrier of anti-intellectualism and classism, with advocates of more commercial fiction decreeing complex works “improper” and advocates of more complex fiction decreeing commercial works “improper”, each opponent of “elitist wank” or “populist trash” ironically engendering a counter-response that abjects them as a “pleb” or a “snob”. Archive 2009-06-01
Hamilton was educated in the elitist qualities of Scotland's early improvers who tended to equate cultivated manners with moral virtue.
The labor history in this book will be as institutional and elitist as the rest of it.
Like all Gnostic sects it is both elitist and fraternal - which is a pretty powerful combination.
Hillary Clinton is slamming her Democratic rival, Barack Obama, for what she calls his elitist comments. CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2008
From pheasant to grouse, game needn't be elitist. Times, Sunday Times
Oh to clarify, what the right wingers mean by "elitist" is possessing a level of continued education beyond high school or community college and the ability to use rational thought. Networks respond to false Fox ad
I don't recognise the writer's description of would-be scientists as low-class artisans in grubby overalls, nor do I recognise the teaching as ‘elitist’.
Some day I too will be supercilious, elitist, and cranially adorned. In Which Gail Imagines What Jane Austen Would Say About Twitter
These/You people (lawyers) are an elitist, hoity-toity club. The Volokh Conspiracy » Miguel Estrada Writes in Support of Elena Kagan’s Confirmation
Without intending to he made a face which clearly let me know his opinion of smug, elitist and over-educated eggheads like myself.
There was a big chasm between us - we were musical snobs to them and they thought we were elitists.
From pheasant to grouse, game needn't be elitist. Times, Sunday Times
Now, it is perhaps not surprising to find this hostility to science in a presidential ticket that prides itself on being antielitist, antiprofessional, and, sometimes, just plain dumb. U.S. News
The legal profession is starting to be less elitist and more representative.
If opera is an elitist, outmoded art form for high-brow aesthetes, then no one's told these kids.
It may beggar the agrestical among us; but, at the risk of sounding elitist, RN rescues himself from utter contemptuous caliginosity when he discusses the pair of genius recipients of the prestigious Macarthur Fellowships. The Ampersand's Daily Dose of High- & Low-Downs
And so standards, in engineering, were not seen as the stalking-horse for some elitist social agenda.
The elitist republic has evolved into an inclusive democracy.
I suspect there is a direct correlation between the 'dumbing down' of America through a crumbling education system and the pooh-poohing of knowledge as elitist, and the increase in kooky candidates and those already in office who spew brazenly incoherent rhetoric, scientifically disturbing stances, and culturally backward ideals -- a breed of candidates and politicians that is eminently unqualified for offices they hold or aspire to. Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Anti-Intellectualization of America and Commensurate Candidates
As long as we persist in reducing any debate about immediacy and complexity to an argument over populism and elitism, though, that debate will continue to degenerate from a discussion of aesthetics to a political struggle between Populists and Elitists, each seeking to impose their view on How Writing Is Done. Archive 2007-02-01
Fundamentalism is far more elitist and extortionist than we can imagine.
To a large number of people, the whole point of opposing the ruling class is to oppose ‘elitists’ who think that racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. are bad things- and a libertarian context, which after all historically has usually defended economic inequality and increasingly makes a nasty point of defending status inequality, can very easily encourage this kind of resentful poison. How not to choose the Treasury Secretary
It overcame the curse of the solitary writer by creating a Jekyll-Hyde pairing, the crass boob with a commercial touch and the angst-ridden elitist sibling.
It is the loftiest firm in a profession often criticised as too elitist. Times, Sunday Times
Far from being elitist, this song hails even the so-called socially deviant members of society such as hustlers who perch on street corners.
One evening I struck up a conversation with “her,” which consisted of me listening to her name-drop continuously in an elitist sneer. Get Laid or Die Trying
It seems a tidy explanation for a disturbing trend, implying that healthy food is inherently more expensive, and thus can only be for wealthy Endive Elitists when the economy falters.
Mas não consigo deixar de reparar que durante o reinado do papa João Paulo II, tido com liberal, a igreja se recusava até a reconhecer a existência do preservativo, com este novo papa elitista e de valores conservadores a igreja já começa a falar de preservativos como um mal menor na luta contra a sida... Leituras
I'm defensive, and I wince when it's portrayed, as it often is by condescending elitists, as hickish or backwards. WORLDMag.com
AFP ran ads mocking proponents of fossilfuel regulations as elitist brats more concerned about their "three homes and five cars" than about the jobs of working-class families (an incredible rhetorical gusher from a privileged billionaire like David, who lives the high life in Manhattan, where he hobnobs with the richest elites at society galas, while also owning a mansion in Aspen where he can curl up in luxury and sip fine wine from his collection of 5,000 vintage bottles). Propeller Most Popular Stories
The choreographer feels high ticket prices are prohibitive to most people and make the arts appear elitist.
They are at war with a liberal, elitist mainstream press.
Some folks work, you hear me, work at writing day and night, go to workshops, join crit groups, do everything they can to make the next word better, the next sentence better, and I'll be damned if I let you come off with this elitist no-clue attitude, you semi-pro wannabe!) to write or you don't. Poetus Interruptus
Once again elitist leftists fail to acurately assess the non-coastal states. Carter again cites racism as factor in Obama's treatment
Gone are the days when game was seen as elitist because of prohibitive prices.
But if it approves this issue without sending it out to referendum, it's copping an elitist attitude with the snootiest of them.
Often these protagonists seem gruff and unapproachable, even privileged and elitist, at least at first, perhaps concealing a painful shyness and a need for privacy.
The arrogant and elitist cracka 4th estate is gonna crumble…soon. Protest Outside NY Post Over Cartoon «
Educational standards are perceived by many, including some within the educational establishment, as elitist and exclusionary.
The racist and elitist roots of gun control are never better depicted by Mayors Daley and Bloomberg strutting along with their security details while generally non-white and economically unblessed citizens make up the majority of the non-criminal bodycount. The Volokh Conspiracy » “He Grabbed a Rifle, Held It Up, and Looked Right at Me.”
In the past, some elitists have sniffed at her for precisely these reasons, but her fans love her as much for who she is as for her beautiful voice.
Palin resorted to Jingoisim (if you dont know what that means look it up, sorry for the Elitist terms), Racisim, Nationalisim etc. A Shaved Butt for Obama?
Frankly I think the chances of the Brown campaign dropping the term "elitist" to describe Warren is as likely as Rudy Guiliani starting a moratorium on using the date 9/11. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Nineteenth century liberalism, with its emphasis on equality before the law, was therefore elitist and conservative.
Opponents of the thesis dismiss this identity label as elitist.
They disdained Kerry's internationalism as effeminate, unpatriotic, a character flaw, and elitist.
You may want to think of the fair as like an elitist high-society dinner party where certain guests don't want to be seated next to certain other guests.
Some people would call it a property of those they call adepts but this is just an elitist illusion.
This sort of elitist piffle doubtless does wonders for the ego of those who espouse it, while pre-emptively discounting contrary opinions, which by definition originate in a philistine mindset.
Since its launch in 1995, Pitchfork has become trusted as the final (or at least first) word on the latest sounds, although the site has faced criticism for reviews some call snarky or elitist. Pitchfork.tv Takes a Stab at Music Videos
This is the choreographer who has transformed ballet from an elitist art form into a popular night out. Times, Sunday Times
Clearly you are inter alia, boorish, emulous, elitist and irascible, but none of us is perfect! Times, Sunday Times
They are deemed too elitist, too exclusive. Times, Sunday Times
It has to be far more open and less elitist. Times, Sunday Times
These people are not really 'conservatives' as we have known such people in earlier times, who were fundamentally decent people, but a newer breed of elitists who might more properly be called corpo-fascists based on their desired policies of instituting corporate governments primarily of, by and for the corporate-banker-investors, supportive of Big Business and treating the people more like serfs and slaves tugging the forelock in general and doing as Their Betters Require than citizens who rightfully own their democratic country. Lefty media bias? Hardly
So, they are clearly “elitists” to the cro-magnon base who think that white trash like Palin and Joe the Plumber are the future of the GOP. live Says: Matthew Yglesias » Ruffini: Kristol, Brooks, and Will Not Conservative Enough
Not to mention needing a daddy with deep pockets to fund the path into one of the richest and most elitist sports on the planet. The Sun
In Britain, jazz is losing its elitist tag and gaining a much broader audience.
Prescriptivism in the strange fiction genres is ideally situated to act as carrier of anti-intellectualism and classism, with advocates of more commercial fiction decreeing complex works “improper” and advocates of more complex fiction decreeing commercial works “improper”, each opponent of “elitist wank” or “populist trash” ironically engendering a counter-response that abjects them as a “pleb” or a “snob”. There's No Prescribing Prescriptivism
I'm not suggesting that we become elitist; but there is no reason not to take pride in your achievements and to strive for the top, not just a high place.
Bahaha, the republican moralist is making fun of others being elitist? Think Progress » O’Reilly Says CAP Is “A Very Well-Oiled, Effective Character Assassination Machine”
It's not highbrow in an elitist way but you have to pay attention and think while listening to it.
Independent schools do not like being termed as elitist and they are working hard to keep their fees down.
It has rid us of a pestilential politics based on religious hatred and elitist contempt for the poor.
However some see his group, founded in Madrid in 1928, as secretive and elitist.
Whenever these self-appointed guardians of alcoholic and architectural merit get involved, an elitist macho tone taints proceedings.
One of our commitments is that we should be helping to make art more accessible and less elitist. Times, Sunday Times
The old snobberies of rock purists and classical elitists make less and less sense now.
And terse is right your elitist definition of success ignore many middle and lower class successful individuals. Matthew Yglesias » The Sweet Smell of Success
Furthermore, Chris assures potential competitors that the sports of triathlon and duathlon are not as elitist as it may seem and actively encourages people of all abilities to compete.
That was certainly not my intention, but when the other person lashed out at me, because of this perception, and I defended myself in response, I'm the one who got smacked down and subsequently "lectured" for being such an elitist, intellectual snob, and how dare I breach this online agreement to not bring my intellectualism along with me. Archive 2007-10-01
I have little time in my elitist life to contribute comments to mere comic book sites such as this, not when my clique is gathering to have a conceit party against whatever the hell we think is beneath us. Congratulations, followed swiftly by criticisms [Updated] | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
Here is why (and here comes a bias that in a way is inconsistent with my generally antielitist views): Obama was President of -- was the top guy on -- the Harvard Law Review. RE: The Needed Mental Attributes Of A President; The Presidential Campaign And Forthcoming Appointments To The Supreme C
The irony is that the official programme is not particularly elitist, either in terms of classical art forms or cutting-edge postmodernism.
But I guess if it's popular the proper elitist conclusion is that it must be bad, which is why I have no delusions about Avatar winning anything but technical awards on that night of irrelevant putrefactive crap known as the Oscars. Catching Up on SciFi Movies (Part 7)
The legal profession is starting to be less elitist and more representative.
I think the Iraq War itself goes far to dispell certain "structuralist" or even "elitist" political theories that basically dismiss the relevance of actual office-holders in favor of "deep" social forces or interests of entrenched elites. Balkinization
Though the terms "gastronome" and "epicure" define the same thing, i.e. a person who enjoys food for pleasure, these words are perceived by the modern American consumer as elitist due to their Latin root forms and polysyllabic pronunciations. Sophie Brickman: What is a Foodie? Am I One? Are You?
Forget what the guilty rich elitists are selling you to keep you voting in their corner, and make up your own mind.
John Kerry is sagacious and experienced, but he has an elitist sounding accent that will make it impossible for him to win a national campaign in the media age.
The labels "ethnocentric" and "elitist," used by Professor Barraclough to describe Elias's orientation, are as misleading as they are wrong. Elias Defended
Many individuals, members of Congress, political leaders, and the news media showed its true racist and elitist nature.
Given the elitist nature of the prostitution ring's clientele, it wouldn't be in the least bit surprising to find out that one or more professional athletes (Bobcats or Panthers) could have their name sullied by this latest revelation. FanHouse
It did read as elitist to my eyes on a several counts and somebody has already picked up on the 'only in Tassie' aspect - more elitism being displayed here I fear. Diminishing the Intellect of Cab Drivers
But not everyone is in love with hip-hop, or the elitist, only-cool-when-nobody-likes-you sensibilities of garage rock.
Without playing the ‘Elitist Snob’ card too severely, let me just say this: Buy loose leaf tea.
Wharton held a persistently elitist view that some categories of people were in fact superior to others.

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