How To Use Condescending In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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
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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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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
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Some faculty members seem to express a condescending, at times almost disdainful, attitude.
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Senior management, when in the lift, should always make a point of condescending to speak.
Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners
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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...
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Professor Hutter's manner is extremely condescending.
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We do not want to watch his ‘out of control’ yet suspiciously manipulative antics nor listen to his condescending, holier-than-thou judgments.
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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
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Scout's slightly condescending love becomes adoring pride.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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How can a message of brotherly love be condescending?
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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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If we think of the average 18th-century male as being a condescending misogynist, then this man confounds our expectations.
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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
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He explains things without condescending to his audience.
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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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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.
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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
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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
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Many of them command such skills as cajoling, wheedling, thundering, condescending, and even insulting - but, of course, insulting with style.
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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)
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If so, forgive me while I burst out in condescending laughter.
Hagel criticizes McCain over Iran comments
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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
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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
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The entries are crisp and precise; simple without being simplistic, accessible without being condescending.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Scout's slightly condescending love becomes adoring pride.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead, he published a condescending repetition of the same stuff he'd run in April.
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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.
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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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Senior management, when in the lift, should always make a point of condescending to speak.
Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners
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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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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.
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He tends to adopt a condescending manner when talking to young women.
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Professor Hutter's manner is extremely condescending.
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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
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This attitude is condescending and short-sighted.
Times, Sunday Times
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“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!
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And I don't use that term condescendingly, I use it as a matter of factual concern.
The Purdue Exponent
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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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touristic" and "colonialist", which I assume to mean that the film was presenting a "Western" and therefore condescending view of Indian culture.
Opus
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`So you Barn owls say," the Tawny drawled in his rather condescending tone.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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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
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Is my sympathy condescending and patronizing?
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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.
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Being pretentiously condescending to people doesn't make you suddenly right.
Super Obamario Wins The Nobel Peace Prize! » E-Mail
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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)
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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
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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
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It is patter, further marred by a condescending tone.
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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
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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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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.
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The Times columnist was blithely condescending to the songwriting team's canon.
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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)
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And, of course, avoid anyone who is patronizing or condescending.
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The sculptor held the condescending and false view that the imagination was only active in art.
Times, Sunday Times
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One deals with the devastation to individuals and families; the other with the condescending attitude Western nations have towards developing ones.
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And his attitude is condescending.
Times, Sunday Times
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You will see here how condescending, arrogant, and patronizing these people can be.
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This attitude is condescending and short-sighted.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was awkward, prickly, ill-tempered, condescending and unpredictable.
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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
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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
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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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‘They come from parts of the country where jobs are hard to find,’ an acquaintance condescendingly excuses the enlistees.
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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
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I didn't like his tone of voice; I felt he was being condescending.
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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?
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Pentecostals have endured more than their share of dismissive scholarship, condescending analysis, and popular disdain.
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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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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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'Taint much outer my way, "condescendingly;" I'll take you there.
Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart
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(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,
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Brad is being both condescending and obtuse - I have difficulty in seeing any evidence whatsoever of infantilism in the piece that he quotes.
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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
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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
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Julia sets her purse familiarly on the piano as Dinah stares, patient and condescending, at the ceiling.
AUGUST HEAT
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I patted the top of her head in the condescending way I knew irritated the hell out of her.
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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
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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?
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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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he treats his secretary condescendingly
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Scout's slightly condescending love becomes adoring pride.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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You just have to lose the earnest, condescending attitude.
Times, Sunday Times
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Noelle shook her head, her expression irritatingly condescending.
Ominous
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It's a hilarious segment on infomania where Sarah Haskins picks apart condescending advertising.
Pondering An Effort At Exercise Software
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The sculptor held the condescending and false view that the imagination was only active in art.
Times, Sunday Times
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The host, a long-haired bloke with a Northern accent, was a genial non-condescending guide.
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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 tends to adopt a condescending manner when talking to young women.
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The result is often judgmental criticism, condescending sarcasm or, even, passive-aggressive retaliation.
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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
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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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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
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They are patronizing and condescending to their clients (not to mention deceptive).
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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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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
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We never like a person who is haughty, too proud, or condescending.
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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
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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.
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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?
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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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He evaluates the host culture from his own perspective and approaches it with a condescending or even contemptuous attitude.
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He was overconfident, discourteous and condescending.
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I ... weak -- in condescending sympathy with the weak (1Co 9: 22).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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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
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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
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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.
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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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The desk behind which the condescending receptionist normally sat was empty.
GOTHIC PURSUIT
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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
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He was awkward, prickly, ill-tempered, condescending and unpredictable.
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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
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The forelock-touching peasant is still around in print, and always good for a condescending laugh.
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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
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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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Dilan Esper: No, being condescending is sometimes entirely justified and is not being a jackass atall.
The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Upholds Ban on Possessing Guns While an Illegal User of a Controlled Substance
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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
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That's the screenname of the left-leaning reader named "roger" who - in language that was less than progressive - took exception to a recent column I wrote criticizing both Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for his condescending racial comments about Barack Obama's dialect and skin tone during the 2008 presidential election and a slew of his fellow Democrats for bending their morals into pretzels to defend him and declare the subject closed.
Pajamas Media
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His tone was moderate, his nodding head not too condescending, his words full of under standing for the anxieties of the people of Berlin.
WALL GAMES
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I'm defensive, and I wince when it's portrayed, as it often is by condescending elitists, as hickish or backwards.
WORLDMag.com
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Her tone of voice was always so condescending.
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CUPP: Well, if the Obama administration would stop condescending and insulting and ignoring those people who don ` t like a public option, then I think, yeah, they ` d be more interested in what he has to say, but they don ` t like being dissed, which is kind of like what the White House is doing right now.
CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2009
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You just have to lose the earnest, condescending attitude.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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For Reid to say the monies guaranteed to Nebraska, or for that matter any other "goodie" is just "compromise" is condescending and reeks of arrogance.
We Listen: Your Comments – 12/21/09
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He was overconfident, discourteous and condescending.
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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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Self-important, condescending, Casaubon hopes that Dorothea will carry on his work after his death, “the lonely labor, the ambition breathing hardly under the pressure of self-distrust,” even though it would entomb her.
Archive 2009-12-01
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I didn't like his tone of voice; I felt he was being condescending.
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His presentation style is educational as well as entertaining, but in no way condescending.
Times, Sunday Times
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I also can't abide the condescending chumminess implicit in using my first name instead of "Mr. Queenan," as if the telemarketer and I were old friends from the 1972 Ohio State Big 10 championship team or the Baader-Meinhof Gang.
Wotan, Your Double-Skim Latte Is Ready
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Martin was sharpening up now; paying attention to every inflexion in that coldly condescending voice.
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However, I am on this page to ask Obama to refrain fro condescending gimmicks towards Hillary Clinton!
Religious right leaning toward Democrats?
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A slight and condescending smile had taken over Sir Richard's face.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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I wish I could -- enlighten, that is -- but I'm still baffled as to this condescending attitude of "I can do it myself".
Modestly Yours
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He achieves too much of a pulpit complacency -- therefore of condescendingness -- therefore of falseness to the deep intimacy of good literature -- when he begins to moralize about time and the universe.
The Art of Letters
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She made a concerted effort not to let her feelings about her job show, but she hated everything about Brownsville: her boss, her assignments, the condescending he-men she worked with serving warrants.
Unspeakable
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And his attitude is condescending.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sadly, the film is poorly made and condescending intone.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ten Rules for Dealing with Police
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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.
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A slight and condescending smile had taken over Sir Richard's face.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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While each had at least one interesting point to make, much of what was written had Filmbrain muttering unpleasantries under his breath, especially in reaction to their condescending view towards film bloggers.
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Omaye," "honorably in front," is used both condescendingly and honorifically; "you whom I condescend to allow in my presence," and "you who confer on me the honor of entering your presence.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
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When asked condescendingly by Mayer how many cameras he has now Hughes replies bluntly, ‘Twenty-four.’
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The sculptor held the condescending and false view that the imagination was only active in art.
Times, Sunday Times
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I hate the way he's so condescending to his staff!
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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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I believe you agreed with me at the time and later went on to imply that you thought I was an arrogant, condescending, highbrowed snob.
Sharp Edges
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I'm fed up with your money and your whole condescending attitude.
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Brad is being both condescending and obtuse - I have difficulty in seeing any evidence whatsoever of infantilism in the piece that he quotes.
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Until that day, Panshin had always treated Lavretsky, not exactly haughtily, but at least condescendingly; but Lisa, in describing her expedition of the previous day to Panshin, had spoken of Lavretsky as an excellent and clever man, that was enough; he felt bound to make a conquest of an excellent man.
Chapter XXVIII
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`So you Barn owls say," the Tawny drawled in his rather condescending tone.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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Instead, he published a condescending repetition of the same stuff he'd run in April.
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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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I still find their attitude to us condescending and disgraceful.
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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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His tone was moderate, his nodding head not too condescending, his words full of under standing for the anxieties of the people of Berlin.
WALL GAMES
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How do we find out who these people are without prying or condescending?
Times, Sunday Times
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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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His tone was moderate, his nodding head not too condescending, his words full of under standing for the anxieties of the people of Berlin.
WALL GAMES
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His tone was moderate, his nodding head not too condescending, his words full of under standing for the anxieties of the people of Berlin.
WALL GAMES
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No other writer I know mines the mother lode of what is condescendingly called ‘everyday life’ with such consistently surprising results.
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He found few antiquities worth more than a condescending glance from WACH.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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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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Typing his name summons him to a thread, most likely with a string of condescending insults and drummed-up outrage over the fact that we're calling him a troll.
McCain Campaign Slams New York Times: Not A Journalistic Organization "By Any Standard"
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He's the underdog you root for; a victimized witling in a land of condescending Talented.
REVIEW: The Witling by Vernor Vinge
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An attitude that started out as solicitous and respectful becomes condescending and mocking.
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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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Concretize the popular opinion in a couple charged terms -- "magic man," "kingmaker" -- then throw in a condescending generalization -- "of course" -- as you negate their energy with a dismissal.
Scott Thill: Roll Call Slams The Colbert Report. Bears Win.
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Contrary, have those only regardless of trival matters person, condescending person, be willing to be a friend termless paid person, ability associate with arrives true friend.
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He tried antagonising me and being patronising and condescending but he didn't intimidate me.
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That 'for' is not condescending, still less expiatory; it affirms a bond.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sculptor held the condescending and false view that the imagination was only active in art.
Times, Sunday Times
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One was a scathing demolition of James Atlas's biography of Saul Bellow by Richard Poirier, who described it as a 'censorious' and 'condescending' work, fueled by 'craven hostility' toward its subject.
Tracking the Untrackable
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I was about condescendingly to interpellate him in my best
The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English
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It is clearly time to eschew uses of the term professorial that imply a cold, condescending person who is unable to think or speak clearly.
FemaleScienceProfessor
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And please spare me the condescending canard about "culture war mode" and seeing things in simplistic "left/right" mode.
Hungering for some shallow analysis of Pope Benedict XVI?
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His tone was moderate, his nodding head not too condescending, his words full of under standing for the anxieties of the people of Berlin.
WALL GAMES
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She used my first name condescendingly, as Madam Scarasse had grown accustomed to doing.
Angels of a Lower Flight
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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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Ultimately, Wasserman's pronouncement is at least as condescending to the "worthy dead" as it is to the "ambitious living.
Canonical Writers
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Obama "condescendingly" implied that Americans don't read the Bible.
BTDF
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He looked at me very condescendingly and then let out a long sigh.
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Often times, I believe that these condescending attitudes are at least partly due to misconceptions about Christianity.
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Her mental maturity takes her from blind submission to condescending acquiescence.
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He has a condescending attitude towards women.
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In his blog, Lindsay wrote that it's nice that some politicians are finally willing to acknowledge our existence, but are we so desperate for acceptance that we'll allow others to condescendingly misdescribe us as adherents of a faith?
Chris Stedman: Do Atheists Belong In The Interfaith Movement?
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The sculptor held the condescending and false view that the imagination was only active in art.
Times, Sunday Times
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Coming up at 7: 00 Eastern, more on the presidential campaign, of course -- the very latest on Senator Obama's refusal to apologize for what many say are his insulting and condescending remarks about small town America -- what he calls bitter voters.
CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2008
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They'll have to put up with our weapon of choice: the condescending sneer.
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_ This simple statement has more than once caused "smiles in tears;" _smiles_ at the half playfulness of Jesus talking to these two beloved disciples as a tender father sometimes talks to his little children; and _tears_ at the condescending love of Christ our God and Lord, walking as a wayfaring man with two of his heartbroken creatures.
Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk
