For me, Sicario is a step forward for Villeneuve: it is less discursive, less reflective than movies such as Prisoners (2013) and Incendies (2010), although I always thought the cerebral content of these pictures was a little supercilious.
LOT-LESS CLOSEOUTS is not Less Less.
Petsko wrote a column last July in Genome Biology exhorting colleagues to stop "trashing research proposals from beginning investigators as 'overly ambitious' " and accusing senior colleagues that do of being "nit-picking, supercilious jerks".
"We were arrogant, supercilious, cynical, sarcastic, and Lytton always looked very queer and had a squeaky voice".
I shudder to watch interviewers who think it clever to be snide, supercilious, or downright offensive.
Indeed the Parmigiani can be somewhat supercilious at times, revelling in their affluent identity.
But his tone was so supercilious that his sleuth soon became more annoying than clever.
The head of her Boston office, Clark Cooper (Kelsey Grammer), is a supercilious iceberg; her colleague Chris Bunce (Seth Meyers), a treacherous, grinning back stabber.
(Intellectuals are for real. In contrast, a pedant is a supercilious show-off who drops references to Sophocles and masks his shallowness by using words like "fulgent" and "supercilious").
Sommeliers were few and far between, but their reputation was fearsome: supercilious snobs who would sneer at you as they ripped you off.
