Night Mail, one of the few products of the movement that many non-specialists still recall, features verses scribbled down in a corridor by Auden (who was treated with about as much deference as a snotty office boy) and music composed against the stopwatch by Britten.
When Nicki Minaj accepted her MTV Video Music Award for Best Hip-Hop video last night, she thanked her pastor and told women not to depend on "these snotty-nosed boys" before turning her attention back to host Miley Cyrus.
Clarke would squirm and obfuscate, and between them they'd lay out the absurdity of the nation's goings on reducing Australia's most influential figures to the level of snotty nosed school boys in the principal's office.
Stiefvater was a street racer during her youth: "I was a terrible, terrible teen who had a problem with boys being snotty, and loved driving fast".
While the lifelong loner adjusts to having a teenage daughter around — with her bras and boys and snotty attitude — he takes advantage of the opportunity to explain what he's learned about laying low and being a professional.
In this case, Aladdin's genie is the son of the Dragon King, a boy with "the snottiest nose you ever did see!" As long as he is fed shrimp soup, he grants his keeper's every wish.
Our culture has transformed boys from being snotty rascals to sickening narcissists.
If you have a high, nasally voice, you'll fit in right beside snotty punk bands like Zero Boys or Blink 182, while if you've got a lower growl, you'll be able to pull off a good Joe Strummer impression.
The boys had shaved heads, snotty noses, and no shoes and we followed them through the streets of Limerick.
In a small, conservative north Yorkshire market town Beastie Boys sounded like nothing I'd heard before: snotty, urban, aggressive and more than slightly dysfunctional – every teenage boy's dream.
