In a different film, one not as generous of spirit (or funny), that snobbishness might seem insufferable.
Especially impressive was his "C'est Moi," Lancelot's self-adoring anthem from "Camelot," inflected with just enough humor to keep the character from seeming insufferable.
Putting letters in the correct order to make words, especially complicated and obscure words, is a kind of marker of human time: what can seem like insufferable pedantry in an adult can seem charming and even admirable in a child.
He hardly seems to realise how insufferable he sounds.
If you're not a fan, a balanced conversation about the Kardashians might seem like an insufferable and even impossible idea, especially since it means you'll have to watch at least a few episodes and take an interest in your daughter's Instagram feed.
When I first heard about the device, I envisioned using it as a next-level brain supplement, accessing brilliant trivia during conversations, making myself seem omniscient (or insufferable, or both).
At first Ms. Kahn's Alice seems like the kind of insufferable yammerer who would drive anyone mad.
In American politics a certain amount of corruption is tolerated but Watergate seems to be of an insufferable order of magnitude, and, as has never before happened, appears to involve the Chief Executive himself-if not as a participant, then as an overseer so lacking in vigilance and sound judgment as to select a felon as Vice-Pres.
It seems that Joseph Gordon-Levitt called her "an insufferable snob".
Deliberately obnoxious, no doubt, as Mr. Eszterhas seems to pride himself on being rude, crude and insufferable, a Hells Angels hellion sort of guy.
