Therefore, when a presenter states the obvious in a paraphrase, it sounds patronizing to the audience.
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What Cove presents in her 306 thoughtful (if occasionally patronizing) pages are: The Twelve Different Singles.
Female leaders may also take on masculine traits to succeed and can be equally patronizing, Weliky notes.
They have worked too hard, they have sacrificed too much for a patronizing pat on the back.
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If the plan to bar tourists from patronizing these businesses goes through, legal battles are likely to ensue, noted Lap.
He estimates that customers patronizing remodeled stores are staying 10 to 15 minutes longer than they used to.
On Indian Idol, judge Anu Malik takes on Cowell's patronizing air, interrupting other judges while they are rating contestants.
The galleries do offer more learning devices, but they generally avoid patronizing visitors.
Inefficiency and incompetence are not punished by "consumers" of their products or services spurning the UN and patronizing a competitor.
If you lose on purpose to your elders and are unable to skillfully conceal your purposefulness, you risk looking patronizing.
It really opens up the opportunity for the parent and child to interact in a way that is not patronizing.
Heather Roberts of Sugar Land, Texas, made a point of patronizing at Chick-fil-A on Wednesday while visiting Atlanta for a conference.
So is this insulting and patronizing, or does it reflect a genuine attempt to reach out to voters traditionally underrepresented in America's political conversation?
Women benefit from professional, objective (non-product driven) financial support as long as it is not delivered in a patronizing manner or women are ignored.
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Soon enough, however, she could no longer stand the endless patronizing.
Worse, it lapses into patronizing the viewer by explaining the action.
These patronizing gameplay elements are present in the multiplayer as well.
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If U.S. buyers who love their foreign cars start patronizing those brands for their SUVs, and SUV demand stays flat, Detroit's overcapacity--and already thin profits--could deteriorate further.
They savored the feeling of being chic when patronizing Starbucks.
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Srebrenica has also rendered much nauseatingly earnest and patronizing prose.
The executive, who reported to the CEO, did not agree with his boss, who long believed that small-business owners patronizing his business unit were shopping to supply their firms.
In this movie, as in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, " the physically slight, baby-faced actor is called upon to soak up a lot of patronizing put-downs.
They are free to stop patronizing his shops.
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Authorities have repeatedly tightened the city-state's tight casino-control laws, already among the strictest in the world, to restrict some locals from patronizing gaming floors and to punish casinos if they fail to keep problem gamblers away.
But I think there's something else at work here: For your typical self-conscious but wealthy New Yorker with egalitarian ideals, it's hard to imagine anything more uncomfortable than patronizing a store meant just for rich people.
Ivan Wong, a 22-year-old social worker who lives in an area where Mr. Li's shops dominate, says that in order to avoid patronizing Mr. Li, he takes trips to another district to do his shopping and show support to the striking workers.
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But then, there will be the jobs that are lost or not created because the sequester goes into effect -- around businesses that close -- small businesses that close or cut back, support services around them whether they're restaurants or barbershops and the like, that are affected and don't hire a new worker because there are fewer patronizing their businesses.
They are perfectly happy to let the Syiems carry on with their cultural functions. (Most senior officials including the Chief Minister and the Governor of Meghalaya turned up at the Nongkrem dance.) But when it comes to the actual business of governance, such as law enforcement or revenue collection, they are a little patronizing about the authority of the Syiems.
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