The sisters in the story <em>I Want to be Miss America </em>expected that the future will never favor them. They will never look an inch closer to the long-legged creamed-skin Americans in the pageant. They will always be the women with olive skin and dark curly hair.
It means the person chooses to use more of his emotions to react to a certain situation or resolve issues rather than using logic or brainpower.
Aggression. Hard civility is often aggressing and the action of sneering is also.