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The pundits mostly snicker and scoff; Steve Roberts calls Trump a celebrity airhead without ideas.
He wrote, "Britons cannot scoff.
Assigned after some weeks to a few hours per week in the makeshift dental clinic in the prison revier or hospital, I took to busying myself during the great gaps of empty time by searching out and putting on paper British army-language specials, like mucker `partner,' scoff `overeat,' fluff `girl,' skilly `meal,' griff `rumor,' duff `dessert.
Critics scoff at two new late-night talk shows, hosted by black stand-up comics, as poor replicas of the early '90s hit The Arsenio Hall Show . Vibe , produced by Quincy Jones, and Keenen , made by the creator of the comedy series In Living Color , are pronounced "indistinguishable" (James Collins, Time ) and "hard to stay awake through" (Howard Rosenberg, the Los Angles Times ). The main gripes are that the programs stick to a "banal" (Caryn James, the New York Times ) talk show formula and have even less bite than David Letterman's or Jay Leno's network show.
Except for the few Biblical literalists who spout drivel about "creation science," most of us now scoff at the notion of using science to bolster religion.