In middle school, they had seemed pitiful objects of sympathy, charity, and condescension, if not derision.
The young women booed him as much for his condescension, it seemed, as for his iconoclasm.
And Leigh captures, without sentimentality or condescension, the grave and stoical spirit of the English working class.
We can see your snide, rehearsed condescension coming from a mile away, and we are sick of it.
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When I pointed this out after the panel to Marzorati, he was quick to dial back his condescension.
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Scorn or condescension will greet bluffers: if you're out of your depth, be honest your companion is probably an expert.
When Wiig finally breaks free, she has a ball imitating the prissy condescension that Byrne assumed for the role.
If the aim is genuinely to make a fairer society, not to merely impose benevolent condescension, it's a necessary step.
In fact, rational choicers like Bueno de Mesquita tend to view such traditional approaches with a condescension bordering on disdain.
More importantly, sex workers often suffer from official disdain or condescension and are seen as the problem, not the solution.
That's not condescension so much as an attempt at a charitable truth.
Still, the self-confident fatuity and condescension of the entire show are offensive.
But Mr Wolf writes in plain, taut English, without gimmicks or condescension.
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.
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The apparent success with which they have monitored and infiltrated Palestinians in the West Bank has created an attitude of condescension that inhibits peacemaking.
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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.
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.
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.
Mali's best-known singer, Salif Keita, is an albino and, as such, generally viewed with condescension if not superstition and fear in much of Africa.
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.
But Romer said that his plan is not neo-imperialism because it creates choice, which he believes to be the antidote to coercion and condescension, two key characteristics that made imperialism inhumane.
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.
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.
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.
Desperate to invigorate his flagging massage business, a father submits to the condescension of a wealthier couple stooping to help Soviet Jewry, an exercise that both humiliates and is to no avail.
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.
Even Appalachian Democrats find the coastal condescension annoying.
Mr Medvedev's prepositional condescension came during a scathing personal attack on the Ukrainian president in which he said Russia would not be sending another ambassador to Kiev (or Kyiv, as Ukrainians prefer it spelled).
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.
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