The snobbishness and exclusivity of Oink were exactly what this new group was looking for: a place to show off their dismissive, elitist attitudes about both technology and music.
For the right, it's metropolitan snobbishness, a lack of patriotism, disrespect to the monarchy, and denigration of "our boys" in the armed forces.
In Britain beer was a drink of the lower orders: no such snobbishness obtained in Belgium.
(Their main gripes are the way that she has supposedly ransacked various departmental budgets to pay for her highly personalised anti-poverty programmes, and the disregard she showed for the constitution with her phoney divorce. Others detect a whiff of sexism and snobbishness in some of the opposition she faces).
Without that, the war would have gone on for much longer perhaps long enough for Hitler to get an atom bomb and win it.He also portrays convincingly the bureaucratic struggles and intellectual snobbishness that surrounded the development of computing in Britain.
That is partly because they have more friends abroad (with whom they link via Facebook) and partly snobbishness.
They accuse Mr Parris of snobbishness, elitism and ignorance of political realities: almost everything, in fact, but being wrong in his description of Clacton.In your correspondent's experience, Mr Parris is right about the town and the broader split that the by-election there will illustrate.
And her snobbishness is accompanied by hypocrisy, as she has done so well from the Tesco commercials that she has dubbed her London home "Tesco Towers".
But it ought to strike a note of caution about an underlying snobbishness towards the encroachment of working class culture in Sherborne and other market towns like it.
The snobbishness and hypocrisy of the Pagford residents is held up for mild satire throughout, while the deprivation of the Fields is played with a straight bat, and that unevenness of tone rankles.
His voice is the thing that drives the novel; highly educated and constantly over-thinking, he is repeatedly torn between self-loathing at his own arrogance and snobbishness, and disgust at his inability or unwillingness to save himself.
