People are condescending, they don't listen, and it's contributed to a really unfortunate anti-intellectualism in this country. |
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If we think of the average 18 th-century male as being a condescending misogynist, then Johnson confounds our expectations. |
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It could've been condescending, an act of pure stunt casting, and just turned out insulting and wrong. |
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Mrs. Reed is a rich, pretentious and condescending woman, and her children are terribly spoiled, cruel and rude. |
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Even the most obvious and patently true observation therefore runs the risk of appearing condescending, arrogant or snobbish. |
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Why else would the English language concoct such a condescending term for a group of obvious smarty-pants? |
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The Times columnist was blithely condescending to the songwriting team's canon. |
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If we think of the average 18th-century male as being a condescending misogynist, then this man confounds our expectations. |
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An attitude that started out as solicitous and respectful becomes condescending and mocking. |
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So what can we do to help developing countries in a way that is not condescending and hypocritical? |
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I had been avoiding calls from her lately because she always seemed to have this condescending attitude toward the way that I'd been changing. |
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Perhaps you think baring your soul so poetically will make you irresistible, but to me it sounds condescending and self-deceptive. |
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I kept expecting him to talk with a snotty, British accent and be very condescending to people. |
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Instead of putting up with condescending comments from customers at the bar she tended, she began to challenge them. |
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Truss's voice is deadpan, her asides are witty, and she is never condescending about misuse of the language. |
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I must admit to finding his tone of writing to being rather condescending, which initially put my back up. |
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He tried antagonising me and being patronising and condescending but he didn't intimidate me. |
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The woman bent down and exchanged one of those condescending air kisses with Logan's mother. |
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I have not slept in a solid bed for three weeks, you haughty wench, and I'll not have your condescending airs and your reproachful glances! |
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And therefore, one has either to ditch the condescending attitude to the electorate, or the social democracy. |
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And if that weren't bad enough, a picture intended to make Stern's condescending message unmistakably clear accompanies the article. |
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Miller, a middle-aged man with gray blonde hair and a compassionate face, didn't appreciate the condescending attitude of this upstart kid! |
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Her mental maturity takes her from blind submission to condescending acquiescence. |
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To be sure, the condescending attitude of the promoters of the project was no help to their cause. |
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Our schools are only just recovering from the condescending attitude that we ought to expect worse standards from the poor. |
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Marshall, on the other hand, always sounded peevish, arrogant and condescending. |
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Gleeful and condescending was his intonation, contoured by the mandolin accentuation of Italian. |
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It turns out that nearly everyone, Japanese or otherwise, is a philistine in the condescending and rather snobbish world view of the film. |
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Instead, he published a condescending repetition of the same stuff he'd run in April. |
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Some faculty members seem to express a condescending, at times almost disdainful, attitude. |
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Young, eager and unshockable, the maid arrives in the prim household, an unwelcome and disruptive presence for her condescending hosts. |
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It's an open letter to condescending reviewers of comics and mentions your name a couple of times. |
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But nothing could be more patronising and condescending than his own view that being a farm labourer is an inadequate occupation. |
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He evaluates the host culture from his own perspective and approaches it with a condescending or even contemptuous attitude. |
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Most essays include the condescending attitudes of a society that views them as dirty, stupid, invisible or sexually available. |
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She listened to their complaints and she offered some criticism of her own but she was never patronizing or condescending. |
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You will see here how condescending, arrogant, and patronizing these people can be. |
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At a makeshift relief camp in Nagappattinam, India, refugees complained about what they view as the condescending attitude of relief workers. |
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The result is often judgmental criticism, condescending sarcasm or, even, passive-aggressive retaliation. |
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Surrounded by hot chicks, condescending art critics, lawyers, art collectors and sycophants, the film includes one truly inspiring moment. |
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Dovlatov hated Soviet oppression and battled repression subtly, by not condescending to notice it, and keeping things light. |
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I still find their attitude to us condescending and disgraceful. |
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Even the Indians, towards whom some of my fellow countrymen have a condescending attitude, made strenuous efforts to revive the long-dead language of Sanskrit. |
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It was because that group poses a threat to the Maori vote that is now currently held by a Government that treats that vote in a condescending, patronising manner. |
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Traders at Thursday's meeting were infuriated by what they described as the condescending attitude of the council's deputy leader and its director of planning. |
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Even when youth activism is accepted it is usually in a condescending or patronizing manner when older and more experienced organizers run and co-opt youth efforts. |
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Yet their attitude to the poor, if condescending, was generous, and echoes of Young England survived as elements in Disraeli's later vision of Tory democracy. |
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We need candidates armed with insight, not condescending doublespeak. |
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The draft reflects a similar innocence about how the media operate, while presuming to call shots and issue admonitions and injunctions in an often condescending way. |
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At the dispatch box, Tony Blair welcomed his young rival with condescending humour. |
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I don't want to be talked down to in such a condescending way. |
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Thorns support is for everyone, and there are no pastel colors or condescending cursive. |
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Cruz is more arrogant, having alienated even some Republican senators with his condescending put-downs. |
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Darrow, on the other hand, was at times condescending and contemptuous in his treatment of witnesses, jurists, opposing lawyers and even the judge. |
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But 'Sesame Street' has a general tendency to be condescending, and it's getting worse at it. |
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But her real trick was to play a slatternly character in glitter and plumes, without condescending or making her comical. |
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But it could be seen as insufferably condescending, a way of making US college kids feel good about themselves. |
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He also shares a somewhat condescending, didactic bent, and a tendency to chide and admonish rather than charm and encourage. |
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When kindness to the old is condescending, it is aware of itself as benignity while it asserts its power. |
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I admit to being somewhat surprised, occasionally, by the condescending tone we use when speaking of the candidate countries. |
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They can also lead to patronizing and condescending attitudes which leave a further scar on the infected person. |
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Then you will not just be reporting about them in remote or in condescending ways. |
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It even sounds rather condescending, as if the man was the first creation and women were a mere afterthought. |
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For his part, Newt Gingrich has clearly been honing his persona as condescending, arch, snide Big Thinker. |
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It is deeply condescending towards the electorate to think votes are won on the basis of a politician's partner. |
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Republicans protested that Biden's performance was disrespectful, citing his interruptions and laughing at Ryan as condescending. |
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Advertising people were, he said recently, deeply condescending about the fledgling Wolff Olins business. |
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Intercultural dialogue should not be imposed or be designed in a condescending way. |
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Such a statement probably provoked a slightly condescending smile in 1991 when the first 25 students signed on at the film academy. |
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They allowed me to do my work on my own but were not condescending when I asked for help. |
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Beware of patronizing, condescending or childish expressions and tone when talking with or about seniors. |
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In both republics of Blue and Yellow, the uncoordinated attitude of the governments towards the Chawombas had always been a bit condescending. |
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We never like a person who is haughty, too proud, or condescending. |
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And I think it's condescending of personalities like Nikki Webster to say that the only reason people don't like them is because of tall poppy syndrome. |
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I'm just trying to compose my face into the right look of condescending congratulation when she heaves on to the deck not one but six beautiful, silvery, shiny mackerel. |
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The students found these assaults offensively condescending. |
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He was grinding it again to get a good fide away when the wackest human ever appeared and stood in the line of fire with his celly and a condescending grin on his wack face. |
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And, of course, avoid anyone who is patronizing or condescending. |
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He was awkward, prickly, ill-tempered, condescending and unpredictable. |
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Such a condescending attitude should not be encouraged. |
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In terms of the Sun's decision, I envisage little smirks and condescending comments from male cynics who believe us feminists focus on irrelevancies. |
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The title of the National Plan for Decent Treatment of Children indicated an approach to the protection of children which was somewhat condescending and not rights-based. |
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Ermine never let any one be condescending to her, and conducted the conversation with her usual graceful good breeding. |
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Nor shalt thou give me room to doubt whether it be necessity or love, that inspires this condescending impulse. |
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Thus, to suggest there is a misunderstanding concerning the switch from one source of pension income prior to age 65 to two afterwards as being unfair is misleading and possibly condescending. |
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Scholars and clergy engaged with Middle East peace efforts will not achieve their goals with such theologically condescending anti-Zionism. |
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Never be snide or condescending to anyone. |
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His argument centered on broad generalizations and condescending tones appealing to the lowest common denominators in our society. |
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Children always show pleasure on meeting foreigners, having their photo taken, receiving little gifts, but a condescending attitude, or impulsiveness, impatience or anger provoke great upset or hurt both children and adults. |
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It includes patronizing or condescending behaviour, such as humiliating an employee in front of co-workers and practical jokes that offend, embarrass or insult someone. |
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However, it could be considered condescending and patronizing for a board member of any culture to adjust his or her pattern of eye contact or speaking cadence to resemble that of a candidate from a different culture. |
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Stigmatizing and condescending behavior on the part of health workers has already been mentioned as one barrier to accessing and providing services. |
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And they weren't as condescending to young people. |
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The first and most serious criticism concerns the Commission's propensity for rather grandiloquent self-satisfaction with regard to the European Union and for a cursory and even condescending view of our partners. |
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At the very least the government could adopt a less condescending tone when dealing with the public, so that the public feels more confident about talking to its government. |
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Unfortunately, too many people with that title think it is their job to drive others, to deal with people in condescending ways, in order to get production. |
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I was very curious when this whole controversy started about the violence and the nastiness and the condescending attitude I was getting from some letters from the Air Canada pilots. |
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A fat ginger tomcat that slept on the lid of the dumpster right below the window of the couple's bedroom gave the husband a condescending look every time he went downstairs to throw out the garbage. |
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Ironically, their claims of condescension are condescending themselves. |
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Rap and hip-hop music in particular are condescending in nature, projecting rhythmic elements of braggadocio and ritualised insult. |
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I found this avowal of responsibility refreshing for about 30 seconds, until I realised Mr Almond was operating on a condescending false assumption. |
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But if there is one group that I understand most yet have no tolerance for, it is the people who are narrow, closed-minded, condescending, hypocrites. |
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It is long past the time for the new bigots of political correctness to get over their condescending sanctimony and to enter into the real world of brotherhood and fellowship. |
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I admire that admiration which the genteel world sometimes extends to the commonalty. There is no more agreeable object in life than to see Mayfair folks condescending. |
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Yes, Theroux has an irritiating way of smarmily befriending people while being sickeningly sarcastic and condescending but most of his subjects deserve it. |
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I'm sorry if I came off as condescending, that wasn't my intention. |
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