As a result of this phrase's hasty dissemination by the media and its subsequent absorption into the nebulous national vocabulary, effete now often suggests superciliousness or self-indulgence, connotations at odds with the traditional meaning : exhausted, ineffective, worn out.
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Especially sharp was the blame heaped upon Maimonides because he neglected to cite his sources; this was considered an evidence of his superciliousness, since it made it difficult, if not absolutely impossible, for scholars to verify his statements, and compelled them to follow his decisions absolutely.
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Australia, which attempts-- with varying success-- at being brought within the Asia Pacific framework by virtue of its colonial position as a warrant officer in the colonial heirarchy, has shot itself in the foot often enough, espousing a superciliousness in its dealings with the region.
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Scarcely has the host had a chance to savor an exchange with his playboy friend, the play's central character, Rupert Everett's aristocrat, Lord Arthur _ who plays so earnestly at superciliousness that you know it has to be a facade _ than he finds his world about to crumble.
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Despite his open protests and subterraneous counter-mining, war was actually declared against Sweden in 1675, and his subsequent policy seemed so obscure and hazardous to those who did not possess the clue to the perhaps purposely tangled skein, that the numerous enemies whom his arrogance and superciliousness had raised up against him, resolved to destroy him.
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"If unpopularity overseas is taken as a mark of distinction, a source of pride, too many Europeans will make the mirror-image mistake of thinking that sniping at America is the same as having a European foreign and security policy, " said Patten, who championed Bruton's candidacy . " The world deserves better than testosterone on one side and superciliousness on the other ."
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One German Jewish reviewer, the Berlin banker Heinrich Meyer-Cohn wrote that " The Foundations " were " bad, unclear, and illogical in its train of thought and unpleasing in style, full of false modesty and genuine superciliousness, full of real ignorance and false affectation of learning . " German Jewish groups like the " Centralverein deutscher Staatsburge j�dischen Glaubens " and the " Verein zur Abwehr Antisemitismus " repeatedly issued statements in the early 20th century that the popularity of " The Foundations " were a major source of worry for them, noting that " Die Grundlagen " had caused a major increase in anti-Semitism with many German Jews now finding themselves the objects of harassment and sometimes violence.
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John Simon wrote in " The National Review " that the film, may be the worst movie musical of this or any decade : Sitting through this movie is like having someone at a fancy Parisian restaurant, who neither speaks nor reads French, read out stentoriously the entire long menu in his best Arkansas accent, and occasionally interrupt himself to chortle at his own cleverness and he particularly criticized Cybill Shepherd, stating, " Cybill Shepherd, Mr B's inamorata, plays a poor little snotty rich girl with a notion of sophistication that is underpassed onIy by her acting ability . ( I will not even sully my pen by making it describe her singing and dancing . ) If it weren't for an asinine superciliousness radiating from her, Miss Shepherd would actually be pitiable, rather like a kid from an orphanage trying to play Noel Coward ."
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Soon after it appeared in 1932, an academic study called it " a second " Uncle Tom's Cabin ", an indictment of peonage and convict-labor in Georgia, powerful enough to put to shame all the rhapsodists of the folk Negro's happy state . " Another reviewer thought it posed " a moral challenge " but disliked its exaggerations and the author's " superciliousness . " The book carried an appendix with photographs and documents designed to document the novel's descriptions of torture . " Thus his novel, " wrote one reviewer, " in addition to the dramatic force of an interesting and well-told story, has the weight and authority of a sociological investigation . " Just a few weeks after the book appeared, Spivak testified with other experts on the Georgia penal system in a successful attempt to persuade New Jersey Governor A . Harry Moore to refuse to extradite a fugitive from a Georgia chain gang.
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