Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.
What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
The punditry snicker, the politicians sneer, and the editorialists scoff, but the American people speak and Donald J. Trump rises - commandingly so - confounding the powerful institutions of Washington D.C. and New York and earning him the ire of both.
People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.
A sneer can often reveal far more about the sneerer than the object of their derision.
Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt is marked by one lip corner pulled up and in a dismissive sneer.
Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer.
