• And Leigh captures, without sentimentality or condescension, the grave and stoical spirit of the English working class.

    NEWYORKER: Vera Drake

  • When I pointed this out after the panel to Marzorati, he was quick to dial back his condescension.

    FORBES: NY Times Editor on the 'Beauty' of Readers' Ignorance

  • When Wiig finally breaks free, she has a ball imitating the prissy condescension that Byrne assumed for the role.

    NEWYORKER: The Better Life

  • If the aim is genuinely to make a fairer society, not to merely impose benevolent condescension, it's a necessary step.

    CNN: Sexualized Femen protest 'naive and foolish at best'

  • In fact, rational choicers like Bueno de Mesquita tend to view such traditional approaches with a condescension bordering on disdain.

    FORBES: What?

  • That's not condescension so much as an attempt at a charitable truth.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Then We Came to the End'

  • But Mr Wolf writes in plain, taut English, without gimmicks or condescension.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • But after a while, this knee-jerk condescension toward neo-nominalists (parents with an obsessive need to give their children weird or unusual names) becomes wearying.

    WSJ: Go Ahead and Name Her Rhiannon: Joe Queenan on Baby Names | Moving Targets

  • He perfected a highly annoying smile of condescension when faced with toys or games that other boys owned but Patty and Walter refused to buy him.

    NEWYORKER: Good Neighbors

  • Many easterners, already smarting at what they perceive as west German condescension toward them, are indignant that they are once again being singled out for criticism.

    ECONOMIST: Germany

  • Critical of earlier historians who tended to treat Garibaldi with condescension, Ms Riall is anxious to display him as the resourceful manipulator of his own legend.

    ECONOMIST: Garibaldi

  • It suffers from much condescension of the elite who celebrate classical music, classical dance and theatre but look down upon Bollywood films as vulgar, common and highly unrealistic.

    BBC: How Bollywood mirrors Indian realities

  • Yet the movie itself is hardly free of exploitative tricks, and what seemed, a decade ago, like an unprecedented exposure of our viewing habits now verges on a gruelling condescension.

    NEWYORKER: Funny Games

  • He was known for being as fiery as they come, a coach not below vulgar tirades and endless condescension, even toward his own players, if that got the job done.

    FORBES: Financial Planning...Bobby Knight Style

  • But, from my dealings with black conservatives, I can tell you that -- for many of them -- their rightward drift began as a reaction to the condescension on the left.

    CNN: Commentary: Clarence Thomas has a right to be angry

  • But you develop a respect for them without condescension.

    NEWYORKER: Partners

  • Then, without any condescension, she said that if I was running after Leo all the time, we wouldn't be able to indulge in the small pleasure of sitting and chatting for a few minutes.

    WSJ: Why French Parents Are Superior by Pamela Druckerman

  • Even Appalachian Democrats find the coastal condescension annoying.

    ECONOMIST: When pig jokes go badly

  • Mike Lafavore, who was editorial director of Meredith Corp. when Griffin was CEO there, says he was puzzled by a story in The New York Times that described Griffin offending employees with his condescension and hyper-religiosity.

    FORBES: How Much Severance Does Axed Time Inc. CEO Have Coming?

  • Ruben Navarrette, a columnist out west, Hispanic, has been making the case that there is condescension from liberals and from Democrats, Donna Brazile, in their urgency to get rid of Alberto Gonzales, the first Hispanic attorney general.

    NPR: Political Corner: Gonzales

  • His cheerful-Olympian approach never descended into condescension.

    FORBES: Nettlesome Idea

  • Unfortunately, Ms. Elliot exposed herself as biased and in denial, and has since given an interview to NPR in which she more openly evidences journalistic condescension, in addition to the bias one normally expects from the mainstream media.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • They're turned away, shunned, treated with condescension and even insulted by self-serving public school "edu-crats" who treat these institutions like their own private offices where they don't want to be bothered by anyone who doesn't have a teaching or administrative credential.

    CNN: Give Obama A+ for school reform ideas

  • You put us back into a cycle where the responsible gun owners who don't mind some minor changes to encourage upholding the American tradition of safe shooting get stuck feeling defensive against the condescension of people who've never fired a gun.

    CNN: On gun control, two places to start

  • But Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland have kept it smart and irony-free -- there isn't a trace of condescension in their evocation of working people trying to hold it together, if not get ahead, or in their concentration on familiar, even timeless themes.

    WSJ: Film Review

  • Such condescension is misplaced.

    ECONOMIST: European politics

  • Mr Campbell concludes that it was more probably a lonely time, during which the grocer's daughter made a few contacts as president of the Conservative Association but may have read little and was traumatised by the snobby condescension she met from the progressive young things at Somerville College.

    ECONOMIST: The hardest act to follow

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