How To Use Condescend In A Sentence

Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
And then there is the current reprehensible practice of offering only two minutes of news throughout the day, with five minutes condescendingly given at certain selected times.
The presence on an arts board of the occasional, often atypical artist from a minority does not do much for the community, other than condescend to him or her.
Bena and her husband, a condescending, philandering doctor named Ted, arrive in Pueblo, Colo., in the midst of a drought, as well as the Depression. As The Pages Turn
To my knowledge, the patient relations office never discussed the matter with the surgeon -- I certainly never heard from him -- but I did receive a termination letter followed by a series of surprisingly rude and condescending letters from their risk management attorney after I pointed out that HIPPA promises patients will not be "penalized" for filing a privacy complaint. Genital Photos, HIPAA and the Media

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.
Kids demand shows that are smart and have lots of action and they remember if you condescend to them.
Troopergate was about a dangerous renegade brother-in-law; Walt Monegan was "insubordinate;" Charlie Gibson's interview was full of "gotcha" questions; Katie Couric was just mean and condescending; the shouts of "kill him" and "terrorist" at her rallies were the fault of Bill Ayers; Wardrobegate was the fault of the McCain Campaign; losing the election wasn't her fault, it was George W. Bush and the economy. Shannyn Moore: Gobble Gobblegate
Some faculty members seem to express a condescending, at times almost disdainful, attitude.
In these early days, the gramophone was considered to be little more than a toy, and the ‘great artists’ of the time did not want to condescend to its perceived level to make recordings.
First, the council are of opinion that you should now begin to stir in the thirlage cause; and they think they will be able, from evidence NOVITER REPERTUM, to enable you to amend your condescendence upon the use and wont of the burgh, touching the GRANA INVECTA ET ILLATA. Redgauntlet
Senior management, when in the lift, should always make a point of condescending to speak. Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners
Huw Thornton: without being condescending, I'd like to applaud your clearsighted enunciation of the current problem: what is the solution? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Professor Hutter's manner is extremely condescending.
We do not want to watch his ‘out of control’ yet suspiciously manipulative antics nor listen to his condescending, holier-than-thou judgments.
But ignoring it or treating it with condescendence, motivated by the achievements in Libya, would cost Obama dearly, especially if he fails to take decisive action in Syria or provides Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon -- as well as the regime in Damascus -- with a way out. Raghida Dergham: How Will Iran and Hezbollah Respond to the Syrian Regime's Predicament?
This last deficiency the guide is in the habit of supplying -- to such as condescend to accept his assistance -- by fastening a leathern strap round his waist, and giving the end of it into the hand of the traveller. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
This quotation comes from a conversation between the artist and Sarah Martin in the exhibition catalog, which is essential to understanding the intent of the show—excepting the philosophically naïve yet slightly condescending initial essay, "Re-imagining Reality" by Sîan Ede. An Eruption in Margate
He never condescends to speak to me.
Scout's slightly condescending love becomes adoring pride. Times, Sunday Times
The intelligent author of the "Treatise on British Birds" does not condescend to justify the right we claim to encage them; but he shows his genuine humanity in instructing us how to render happy and healthful their imprisonment. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
I have some 900 friends -- I don't like to use the term followers because it sounds very condescending; they are my friends and not followers -- on Facebook and Twitter. Rediff.com
But, however we may now regard it, it was in perfect accordance with the trickish spirit of the age; and the French king resigned all right of rebuking his antagonist on this score, when he condescended to become a party with him to the infamous partition treaty, and still more when he so grossly violated it. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3
Congress today took a dig at the BJP for implying that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had "condescended" on the judiciary by appearing before the SIT, wondering whether it would say the same thing if Dawood Ibrahim was brought before the law. Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
How can a message of brotherly love be condescending?
She listened to their complaints and she offered some criticism of her own but she was never patronizing or condescending.
'O Edgar!' exclaimed Camilla, stopping the reading, and putting her hand, as in benediction, upon the paper, 'do you deign to talk of disappointment? do you condescend to intimate you are unhappy? Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
If we think of the average 18th-century male as being a condescending misogynist, then this man confounds our expectations.
The members of Koruna Česká, a national party that wants to transform the government into a constitutional monarchy, are used to condescendence. Archive 2007-12-16
Nay, but he is sent, and that in a state of humiliation and condescendency, infinitely below his own dignity. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
condescended" to reason together about slavery and the treatment of the colored people. The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War
To say that Coleridge would not 'condescend' would be The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
When he condescended to speak, he contradicted himself three or four times in the space of half an hour.
The Clinton campaign declared Senator Obama's speeches won't hide what it called his condescending views of small town America and speaking for the first time on the controversy, Senator McCain accused Senator Obama of elitism. CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2008
Directors contain _no charge, nor the slightest imputation of a charge_, against Mr. Fowke; _but I see no reason why the board should condescend to tell him so_. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)
He explains things without condescending to his audience.
Darrow, on the other hand, was at times condescending and contemptuous in his treatment of witnesses, jurists, opposing lawyers and even the judge.
From a Japanese standpoint, she would take to task the gaijin ladies in Japan who refused to comply with traditions with a condescending attitude, at the same time chastising Japanese obatarian who despaired of the big-nosed foreigners.
So please stop trying to make me into your own personal straw man to knock over and then scoff at with little snidey remarks and condescending interjections. TEXAS FAITH: Glenn Beck and the culture of fear | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
Therefore wonder at these two when ye read the scriptures, God’s condescendency to us, and our atheism and unbelief of him: they are both mysteries, and exceeding broad. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
Perhaps not surprisingly, they offer their female readership a male perspective, too, in a snarkily condescending column called "birdlife" by "Tone": Archive 2009-05-10
Many of them command such skills as cajoling, wheedling, thundering, condescending, and even insulting - but, of course, insulting with style.
Sarah Palin tore into Michelle Obama on Fox News Wednesday, criticizing the first lady for what she characterized as a recent condescending defense of her husband's presidency. Sarah Palin Slams Michelle Obama On Fox News Over Defense Of Husband's Presidency (VIDEO)
If so, forgive me while I burst out in condescending laughter. Hagel criticizes McCain over Iran comments
Normally, I’d say condescending is a flaw, but if the audience is meant to find Mike dumb, I doubt that we’d hold condescension against her. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » SVT’s Review Forum
Marco Reininger, a veteran and political science major at Columbia, wrote on The Huffington Post that, despite what he called the childish catcalls that greeted Maschek, the institution as a whole is neither as elitist nor as condescending as the media firestorm suggests. ROTC's return to universities a bumpy road
The entries are crisp and precise; simple without being simplistic, accessible without being condescending. The Times Literary Supplement
Scout's slightly condescending love becomes adoring pride. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, he published a condescending repetition of the same stuff he'd run in April.
If so, they were rewarded with a fresh perspective on a composer of astonishing versatility, one whose best work speaks to high- and lowbrows alike without condescending to either.
Truss's voice is deadpan, her asides are witty, and she is never condescending about misuse of the language.
Senior management, when in the lift, should always make a point of condescending to speak. Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners
He evaluates the host culture from his own perspective and approaches it with a condescending or even contemptuous attitude.
She actually condescended to say hello to me in the street today.
It's quite condescending, from my perspective, but I would like to suggest that perhaps promotion of religion and religious activity, on a macro level, might be an effective deterrent for child abuse.
He tends to adopt a condescending manner when talking to young women.
Elinor would ever condescend to anticipate enjoyment.
Professor Hutter's manner is extremely condescending.
Never anything remotely close to condescending or evil, The Reader nevertheless suffers chiefly from a distasteful thematic overemphasis, though not far behind is the film's rather insistent self-flattery. Review Catch-Up: Doubt, Slumdog Millionaire, Defiance, The Wrestler, The Reader
This attitude is condescending and short-sighted. Times, Sunday Times
“Christians are the new gays,” more than one person told me, rolling their eyes at the condescending voguishness evangelicals are currently enjoying in Hollywood. Rapture Ready!
And I don't use that term condescendingly, I use it as a matter of factual concern. The Purdue Exponent
The list of people I'm hot-wired to bust is a fairly long one, including but not limited to anyone who does one of the following things to women: Condescends, objectifies, ridicules, trivializes, and so forth. Karen Stabiner: The Philip Roth Reader: When He Was Good He Was Very, Very Good -- and Something of a Feminist
'Condescend, sir! but I will not condescend to be so conversed with.' Montoni smiled contemptuously.
Even the most obvious and patently true observation therefore runs the risk of appearing condescending, arrogant or snobbish.
touristic" and "colonialist", which I assume to mean that the film was presenting a "Western" and therefore condescending view of Indian culture. Opus
`So you Barn owls say," the Tawny drawled in his rather condescending tone. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
That he would use this term, as well as the equally condescending "zany" in referring to this latter comedy makes his valuation of it clear enough, but later he also remarks that "Evelyn Waugh, alas, still represents the great image of English comedy in the 20th century, rather than his subtler and gentler contemporary, Henry Green. Comedy in Literature
Is my sympathy condescending and patronizing?
Cleaning ladies and janitors would stop by her desk to chat, and as Deidre was never condescending, she seemed to get better service simply because she didn't consider them invisible nonentities.
Being pretentiously condescending to people doesn't make you suddenly right. Super Obamario Wins The Nobel Peace Prize! » E-Mail
Observe, It is no disparagement for those who have power to be condescending, and sometimes even to beseech, where, in strictness of right, they might command; so does Paul here, though an apostle: he entreats where he might enjoin, he argues from love rather than authority, which doubtless must carry engaging influence with it. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
No, I won't "condescend" to serve as stenographer of who said what at the forum - nor did I expect that from bloggers here. Green Mountain Daily - Front Page
I sensed him smiling down in a condescending way and ushering me back into the building and onto the stage, tears and all. Christianity Today
In addition, he possessed of himself all the natural attributes of chiefship: the gigantic stature, the fearlessness, the pride; and the high hot temper that could brook no impudence nor insult, that could be neither bullied nor awed by any utmost magnificence of power that walked on two legs, and that could compel service of lesser humans, not by any ignoble purchase by bargaining, but by an unspoken but expected condescending of largesse. THE BONES OF KAHEKILI
It is patter, further marred by a condescending tone.
Lady Delacour was immediately ambitious to outshine her in equipage; and it was this paltry ambition that made her condescend to all the meanness of the transaction by which she obtained Miss Portman's draft, and Clarence Hervey's two hundred guineas. Belinda
No, being condescending is sometimes entirely justified and is not being a jackass at all. The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Upholds Ban on Possessing Guns While an Illegal User of a Controlled Substance
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.
Even if someone was formal with him, they would have to be familiar with biochemical jargon and terminology, or Edward would act condescendingly to them.
The Times columnist was blithely condescending to the songwriting team's canon.
Students will condescend to read only about those things they think they already know; they don't want new things.
He occasionally condescended to take bribes.
He is free in condescending to us, while we are shy of ascending to him. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
And, of course, avoid anyone who is patronizing or condescending.
The sculptor held the condescending and false view that the imagination was only active in art. Times, Sunday Times
One deals with the devastation to individuals and families; the other with the condescending attitude Western nations have towards developing ones.
And his attitude is condescending. Times, Sunday Times
You will see here how condescending, arrogant, and patronizing these people can be.
That it also boasts fluid, intuitive gameplay, and does not condescend to the audience by making the fighting too simple or automatic, is miraculous.
This attitude is condescending and short-sighted. Times, Sunday Times
He was awkward, prickly, ill-tempered, condescending and unpredictable.
To the orthodox zoologist, phytologist and geologist, such a suggestion savoured of madness; they either took refuge in a contemptuous silence, or condescended only to reply: Had one visited the Garden of Eden during Creation, one would have found that, in the morning, man was not, while in the evening he was! — morning and evening bearing their newly established significance of geological epochs. Australia Felix
‘Fox reporters almost never condescend to viewers,’ he observes.
Republicans drink lattes, drink wine, try to get their spawn into top tier universities, secure every government position or subsidy they can get their skeletonized hands on, and everything else they ever try to use to separate themselves from the mythical liberal bogeymen that condescend to them. Matthew Yglesias » The Wine Track
One finds the same complacency, the same condescendingness, in a far higher degree in the essays of Mr. A.C. Benson. The Art of Letters
Far less condescending to call that black candidate an aphasic idiot than to call him or her "articulate. BREAKING: Biden Unloads On Clinton, Obama, Edwards
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.
Come, come, Mr. Saddletree," said his wife, "we'll hae nae confessions and condescendences here; let them deal in thae sort o 'wares that are paid for them -- they suit the like o' us as all as a demipique saddle would suit a draught ox. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
‘They come from parts of the country where jobs are hard to find,’ an acquaintance condescendingly excuses the enlistees.
Most feminists I had come across, especially the ones close to my age (20s) are pro-porn (or at least, "pro free speech" to the point of being indifferent to porn) and are condescending to those of us who are against pornography - * especially* when someone, like me, is against porn because of her emotions and gut and has no educated, rational, research-backed reasons to give. Women's Space
I didn't like his tone of voice; I felt he was being condescending.
Because of Soong's outstanding vote record in the 2000 presidential election, both he and his party members feel wronged by his having to condescend to accepting the vice presidential seat.
To condescend to grant or bestow ( a privilege, for example ); deign.
There was a whiff of that artificial, condescending little-ladyism that is sort of like the cockroach and the spiky horsetail plant, those life forms that have defied the odds and survived intact since remotest prehistoric times, while seemingly hardier creatures were going extinct right and left. Did She Take The Hill?
At length removing carefully his meerschaum from the right to the left corner of his mouth, he condescended to speak. Archive 2008-12-01
Pentecostals have endured more than their share of dismissive scholarship, condescending analysis, and popular disdain.
Tim Linkinwater condescended, after much entreaty and brow – beating, to accept a share in the house; but he could never be prevailed upon to suffer the publication of his name as a partner, and always persisted in the punctual and regular discharge of his clerkly duties. Nicholas Nickleby
Young, eager and unshockable, the maid arrives in the prim household, an unwelcome and disruptive presence for her condescending hosts.
Possibly his first little wolfish howl (for it would be monstrous to think that he or even Remus condescended to a _vagitus_ or cry such as a young tailor or rat-catcher might emit) may have symphonized with the ear-shattering trumpet that proclaimed the inauguration of the first The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
The Big Media organizations have their faults - chiefly laziness, political groupthink, and a tendency to condescend to their audiences - and those are starting to cost them.
At a makeshift relief camp in Nagappattinam, India, refugees complained about what they view as the condescending attitude of relief workers.
She is so proud that she will not condescend to speak to us.
Which the company hearing, said that verily the child ought to be called Gargantua; because it was the first word that after his birth his father had spoke, in imitation, and at the example of the ancient Hebrews; whereunto he condescended, and his mother was very well pleased therewith. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
'Taint much outer my way, "condescendingly;" I'll take you there. Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart
(Being a new anonymous:) I have nothing at all to say about Kate DiCamillo as a person, but agree that her work is often heavy-handed, condescending, uninteresting, and just plain callow. Here they are,
Brad is being both condescending and obtuse - I have difficulty in seeing any evidence whatsoever of infantilism in the piece that he quotes.
He had concluded long ago that all possible relations, even those of enmity -- practical enmity at least -- were over between them, and that Mr Beauchamp considered the bejan sufficiently punished for thrashing him, by being deprived of his condescending notice for the rest of the ages. Alec Forbes of Howglen
When people on this site smell blood on a Sunday, adults trot out the condescending "honeys," and self-descriptions like this appear: Popular Posts Across MetaFilter
What they cannot accept is the fact that they currently have a Government that thinks it can condescend to Maori and give them a special preference when they do not need it.
Julia sets her purse familiarly on the piano as Dinah stares, patient and condescending, at the ceiling. AUGUST HEAT
I patted the top of her head in the condescending way I knew irritated the hell out of her.
Tiring at last of this diversion, he turned his attention to his sleeping companions, and being in a condescending humour, and observing that the lankiest of the two sleepers was nodding at him, the humorous greyhound raised his front paw and passed it over the face of the slumberer, who thereupon murmured heavily, "Pah! don't taste it, your honour! A Hungarian Nabob
But Fred was just a steward, and I had to pretend in a superior way to condescend to him.
And I think marketers are being just plain condescending to women in general and thereby hurting -- rather than helping -- their sales goals. Pink Gear for Serious Fisherwomen?
Turn, then, thy sharp, wire-drawing, lawyer-like ingenuity to the same task — make up my history as though thou wert shaping the blundering allegations of some blue-bonneted, hard-headed client, into a condescendence of facts and circumstances, and thou shalt be, not my Apollo — QUID TIBI CUM Redgauntlet
Does one of your name condescend to a dirty trade, and serve women that are not fit to tie a Douglas's shoe, and then come to me and talk of what's possible. Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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.
he treats his secretary condescendingly
Scout's slightly condescending love becomes adoring pride. Times, Sunday Times
Why else would the English language concoct such a condescending term for a group of obvious smarty-pants?
You just have to lose the earnest, condescending attitude. Times, Sunday Times
Noelle shook her head, her expression irritatingly condescending. Ominous
It's a hilarious segment on infomania where Sarah Haskins picks apart condescending advertising. Pondering An Effort At Exercise Software
The sculptor held the condescending and false view that the imagination was only active in art. Times, Sunday Times
But his real and enduring value is as a superb writer: a crafter of succulent sentences, savory asides, tart witticisms (and other easy food metaphors he would never have condescended to use).
The host, a long-haired bloke with a Northern accent, was a genial non-condescending guide.
They did more; they came to a banquet in his palace; they condescended to dine with him.
But nothing could be more patronising and condescending than his own view that being a farm labourer is an inadequate occupation.
Enough of my “liberal whining” (I will condescend to that description – harharhar) – and back to Sarkozy/Iznogoud (famous French comic book character from the 1960s-1970s, a scheming grand vizir who is constantly thwarted in his efforts to be “califf instead of the califf”) Apart from the ambition they actually look alike. Matthew Yglesias » La France Multiculty
Are the good folk of Peebles really going to vote for him because he condescended to spend 50 minutes in their midst?
I guess I would just challenge the notion that I "condescend" to my constituents, or otherwise treat them disrespectfully, whether in the course of constituent service (which I do a lot of) or in interpersonal communication, or over the radio. The Pink Flamingo
How often will men’s actions and expressions be outwardly clothed with a habit of condescendency and self-denial! The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
He tends to adopt a condescending manner when talking to young women.
Perhaps your father would condescend to help with the washing - up!
No man of any literary name condescended even to the pretence of religion; but in England, infidelity was a stigma; when it began to take a public form, it was only in the vilest quarter; and when it assailed religion, it was instantly put down at once by the pen, by the law, and by the more decisive tribunal of national opinion. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
The result is often judgmental criticism, condescending sarcasm or, even, passive-aggressive retaliation.
A minute later it was Mosselet’s turn to come in, a cigarette between his lips, his expression sly and condescending. Storm in the Channel
Mrs. Reed is a rich, pretentious and condescending woman, and her children are terribly spoiled, cruel and rude.
After walking all the way up to the Pantheon we descended again to the Seine, where at 8.40 pm with exceeding ill grace a waitress seated us and condescended to allow us to order from the 15 euro tourist menu.
NEW DELHI: Congress on Tuesday took a dig at the BJP for implying that Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi had "condescended" on the judiciary by appearing before the SIT, wondering whether it would say the same thing if Dawood Ibrahim was brought before the law. The Times of India
Tena, my sense is this: That one piece of info was saved as "ammunition" because your voice is powerful - and they're trying to diminish it by making you out to be some kind of dilettante condescending wealthy lady whose words should be ignored. Election Central Morning Roundup
They are patronizing and condescending to their clients (not to mention deceptive).
Roman envoys approached the presence of the chagan, they were commanded to wait at the door of his tent, till, at the end perhaps of ten or twelve days, he condescended to admit them. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
It is not fierceness and violence can cure their fierceness, but meekness and condescendency to follow their humours and soft dealing with them. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
Or they raise an eyebrow and gaze in the camera condescendingly, which is Lou Dobbs 'trademark euphemism when he has nothing valid to say. Michael Russnow: Lou Dobbs and His Ilk are Wrong: Why I Bought Stock Friday for the First Time in Years
He condescended, that is, to put on record the life of the robber Tilliborus. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02
I miss getting my science hits, although these days I like them to be biteable and yet not condescending. Kindle Shots: Bobby’s Volcano via Wired Science | Spontaneous ∂erivation
This is plausible but too pat, and condescending in the bargain: Lesy's homiletics treat life as though it were merely grist for parables. Who Has What It Takes To Be A Hero?
She knows better finally than the adults around her - significantly those who would condescend to her - the authentic ground of human respect and impartial justice.
A gravely sedate demeanour would have seemed the more fitting facial expression for his age and the generally accepted nature of his calling, -- a kind of deprecatory toleration of the sunshine as part of the universal 'vanity' of mundane things, -- or a condescending consciousness of the bursting apple-blossoms within his reach as a kind of inferior earthy circumstance which could neither be altered nor avoided. God's Good Man
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.
Even then, the most elevated Pushtun elder dares not condescend to another man of his tribe.
But won't you walk in, sir, and perhaps you will condescend to sit down in our room, it is the only place that has a fire in it; and my wife will be overproud to set her eyes on you again. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
It's also a bit condescending; my paternal grandmother is from Arkansas and never finished eighth grade, but just because she pronounces "they" with something akin to a "D" at the beginning doesn't mean she'd spell the word accordingly. Angela Flournoy: On Dialect, Dialogue and Good Books
We never like a person who is haughty, too proud, or condescending.
The poet can't therefore presume to condescend to him, because he and his peers have guarded the very bourgeois freedoms that enable his son to be a weighty thinker.
And here am I, as if a maiden princess were I, demanding romantic accessories of rubious vapour in the man condescending to implore the widow to wed him. Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5
They can range from I-work-with-bricks-and-steel-and-you-don't macho he-men on one end of the spectrum to the pompous, condescending windbags affecting Wrightian capes and walking sticks on the other.
Do you read the links posted or just make condescending comments without knowledge of what some of us are talking about?. .one more time ... read this about baxter .. and watch this about bayer Swine Flu-- Normal or Malignant?
It turns out that nearly everyone, Japanese or otherwise, is a philistine in the condescending and rather snobbish world view of the film.
His fluency was as remarkable as ever, and at first as spleenful; by-and-by his outrageous mood gave way, and, in response to some of Rainham's adroit thrusts, he condescended to stand on his defence. A Comedy of Masks A Novel
The witness did not, however, condescend to describe the form the cut tobacco took.
He is also, ex-officio, the wit of the crew; for the captain does not condescend to joke with the men, and the second mate no one cares for; so that when the mate thinks fit to entertain the people with a coarse joke or a little practical wit, every one feels bound to laugh. Chapter III. Ship’s Duties-Tropics
He evaluates the host culture from his own perspective and approaches it with a condescending or even contemptuous attitude.
He was overconfident, discourteous and condescending.
Yet Williams doesn't condescend to his viewers.
I ... weak -- in condescending sympathy with the weak (1Co 9: 22). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
He condescended to send something which had already appeared somewhere else.
She actually condescended to say hello to me in the street today.
Indeed, I am gratified that he condescended to address one of three seminal questions which I directed in response to his treatise on electoral systems and good governance.
While I don't find the term inherently condescending, I agree that there was no reason to make a reference to her sex in that context. NYT > Opinion
I will call it, which has, on all proper occasions, exerted itself in its full lustre, unmingled with that charming obligingness and condescending sweetness, which is evermore the softener of that dignity, when your mind is free and unapprehen-sive! Clarissa Harlowe
Three hours is an awful long time in the cinema just to have that condescending truism lowered on us - in any case distorted and exaggerated to the point of mendacity.
Our schools are only just recovering from the condescending attitude that we ought to expect worse standards from the poor.
His catechization of Peter had clearly demonstrated that He maintained His right as the King's Son, and yet would condescend to voluntarily give what could not be righteously demanded. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
Completely helpless, supplicating his former allies for some attention, a little bit of condescendence, some small sweet deal that will leave him at ease. 05/08/2005 - 05/15/2005
Finding that they conclusively confuted one another, and perceiving at last that the idea of the superhuman origin of Christianity did, and, as Bishop Butler says, alone can resolve all the difficulties of the subject, I was compelled to forego all the advantages of infidelity, and condescended to "depress" my conscience to the "Biblical standard"! The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic
The few men of worth and consideration who offer you their intimacy on that score, and whose regard is really worth coveting, are too disagreeably counterweighed by the baleful swarm of creatures who keep humming round you, like so many flesh-flies; gape at you as if you were a monster, and condescend moreover, on the strength of one or two blotted sheets, to present themselves as colleagues. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
When he condescended to speak, he contradicted himself three or four times in the space of half an hour.
The desk behind which the condescending receptionist normally sat was empty. GOTHIC PURSUIT
“Well, fortune is apt to circumduce the term upon us; but I think she may allow you to revise your condescendence.” Chronicles of the Canongate
The postgame analysis in the media, though, was that the coolheaded Obama had won the night, displaying a firm grasp of the facts, while John, they tried to convince voters, had seemed irritable and condescending. Palin: 'I will forever question' Rev. Wright strategy
He was awkward, prickly, ill-tempered, condescending and unpredictable.
Fear was upon the condescending pitiful crowd, for they did not know what the law would exact of them if the affair were not hushed up, and they were cathodoluminescent when West, in spite of my pressure-sensing generic ultram, dabbed to get rid of the thing quietly glamorous for a purpose I framed too well. Think Progress » Deja DiRita
The forelock-touching peasant is still around in print, and always good for a condescending laugh.
Most of these pretentious, search-engine-inspired comments FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN THE MOVIE YET really make me laugh hardily truly not attempting to be condescending, just sayin. Fantastic Fest Review: Rampage - Uwe Boll Actually Made a Good Movie?! | /Film
But after he was come into Normandie, & had forraied part of the countrie once or twice, he fell to a parle with his brother duke Robert, & in the end condescended to put the matter in compromise to the arbitrement of certeine graue persons, whose iudgement the king reiected, bicause they gaue not sentence on his side. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus
And therefore, one has either to ditch the condescending attitude to the electorate, or the social democracy.
I think there's a tendency in American art to really condescend to children, and make sure that the message is laid on thickly.

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