How To Use Patronizing In A Sentence
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But Labour's focus on abolishing child poverty is not, as he (deliberately) patronisingly claims, for the "aah" factor.
Labourhome
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This patronising voice with a whine and an awful regional accent was talking.
Times, Sunday Times
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His curiosity excites the most patronising sympathy.
Times, Sunday Times
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"Emily, my dear," said the spinster aunt, with a patronising air, "don't talk so loud, love."
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It's that patronizing tone of hers that I can't bear.
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Third, "patronizing" is an understandable complaint but I do have honest respect and admiration for most people at TT.
A Pat on the Back for Matzke
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Stop patronising me - I understand the play as well as you do.
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Count Mirabeau is a most wonderful man, but he is a more than questionable character; even if you marry him, your discretion may very reasonably be called in question, but terms of intimacy, except with that view, cannot for a moment be tolerated; - to talk of friendship for such a man is nonsense, unless, like the good old duchess, you had had a tendresse for the father, which made you patronising for the son.
Zoe: The History of Two Lives
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To his rescue, to head off any eviction warrants, comes Mrs Whatsername, from Whatever Company, complete with a patronising understanding smile.
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Tip in Iceland and you will be seen as arrogant and patronising - and you might get hot soup in your lap.
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If you happened to be patronising the inns of Kendal on Friday, you no doubt will have noticed a rather merry group of women dressed head-to-toe in pink.
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The tramp of those pale feet might interrupt the flow of his patronising patter.
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If you want to comment upon what I say, please do me the courtesy of actually reading it, avoiding shoe-horning your own personal axe to grind into it and maybe not coming over quite so patronisingly. on March 2, 2010 at 8: 49 pm inspectorgadget
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She smiled at Lady Eileen, but not patronizingly, because a mysterious instinct told her that the plain, pleasant young girl in Irish tweed was a "swell.
Winnie Childs The Shop Girl
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Scots must be singularly stupid if they are taken in by this sort of patronising cloud-cuckoo-land hogwash.
Arise Nobel Laureate Salmond!
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The tone of the interview was unnecessarily patronizing.
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Among these people, a veneer of tolerance masks a deep-seated attitude of superiority and is very patronising.
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This is why the tone of his communications with me has that slightly patronizing and protective edge.
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Bar owners and restaurant owners are complaining of a decrease in revenue, as people are staying home and not patronising the establishments.
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The cartoons inject humour, while the writing is crystal-clear and direct - it never relies on silly jokes and is never patronising.
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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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Their trump card, so they thought, was an article in which Johnson had used the term 'picaninny', albeit in the context of a sarcastic vignette about Blair's supposedly patronising attitude to his visitees, on a world tour.
Harry's Place
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My messages were aimed at warning other locals of the dangers inherent in patronizing that parking lot so that readers would be on the alert at all times there and, if they are smarter than I was, accept no help of any kind from anyone.
Secure Parking Lots
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I don't think anyone could read this behaviour in any other way than being pompous and patronising.
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More recently, my delight in finding some lovely sun blushed tomatoes which don't actually taste like bits of carpet someone has spilt tomato puree on has been hampered by a patronising little addition to the label informing me that 10p from every 'special pack' is being donated to Comic Relief.
Archive 2007-02-01
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No matter how patronizing the comment parenthesized above may sound, it still proves mostly true: The EP shows a band still finding its strengths and developing its sound, unsure of its talent for cathartic drama.
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Those who did not go this far might nevertheless insure their souls and those of their family by founding or patronizing a religious community.
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But the Christmas trade had been good and, thanks to Nathaniel's enterprise and effort, the scallop fishermen, the quahaug rakers, and the members of the life-saving crews were once more buying their outfits at the Metropolitan Store instead of patronizing Mr.J. Cohen and The Emporium.
Cap'n Dan's Daughter
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Or make some patronising remark about her cute rear end and how he would be delighted to give her a lift over?
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But it is unvaryingly supportive of the conservative patronising of the poor as unable to help themselves which characterises the bourgeois Left.
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Although it is inarguable that practically every scene is designed to evoke a kind of patronising sympathy for the men, nothing either of them does seems designed to inspire any sense of respect.
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Apparently 72% of people have found letters from some organisations so patronising, insulting, confusing and full of jargon that they have cut all ties with them.
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These last shots betray a sentimentality and patronizing attitude inherent in the film's setting.
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Other times a high level of support is intrusive and patronising.
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His tone of voice, so patronizing, so self-righteous, filled her with rage.
COMPULSION
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Oddly enough, in contrast to Mr Anonymous's (teeth achingly-patronising) suggestion that rebellion against Empire leads inevitably to children growing up in a meaningless, nihilistic world (the children! think of the children!), I'm quite happy to judge myself by the accumulated affection and/or scorn that I manage to evoke from the people that matter to me.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FOUR
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Their patronising, cliquish self-regard has repeatedly been exposed as charlatanry.
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You could probably even sneak in your revolutionary politics without sounding didactic and patronizing.
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Not cattishly, but with patronizing pity, Miss Leigh, bookkeeper, remarked to Miss Javotte, filing clerk, that if Miss Kennard did not change that green toque with the white quill to something else pretty soon, she could be identified by her hat better than by her fingerprints.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
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The whole enterprise teetered on the brink of patronising.
Times, Sunday Times
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Man, if I lived in San Francisco, I'd be patronizing his shop daily.
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The size of the nestler is comic, and its tiny beseeching weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the mother, who is a sort of high reposing Providence toward it.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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Eloy congratulated me patronizingly for ‘not giving up’ and gave me his stringer of fish.
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Is my sympathy condescending and patronizing?
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Felix's presumptuous action is barely less nettlesome than his withholding and patronizing behavior toward a teenage student who develops a crush on him.
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This patronising voice with a whine and an awful regional accent was talking.
Times, Sunday Times
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Last century, it was bandied about with a patronising smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every time there has been an upsurge in student activism this patronising accusation has been made.
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His patronizing view of peasants, with their relative advantage in parochial skills, is quite common.
I'll Defend IQ, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Nella was still angry at their patronising and arrogant behaviour towards her in those times.
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They often display snobbish, disdainful or patronizing attitudes.
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Nella was still angry at their patronising and arrogant behaviour towards her in those times.
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This elevated status doesn't stop Clare from patronising her.
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With much success he walks a fine line between scholarly jargon and patronizing colloquialism.
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Thinking of Juno as just a teenage comedy would be a truly patronizing misstep.
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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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It is all part of the patronising, diplomatic bunkum accorded that curious species known as the caretaker who, if truth be told, is doing no more than buying the club time as they endeavour to find someone better.
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And, of course, avoid anyone who is patronizing or condescending.
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You will see here how condescending, arrogant, and patronizing these people can be.
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However, as an animal lover who prefers FU Penguin and the challenging moral ambiguity of Ratatouille, I am preconditioned to be critical of the cuddly, patronizing work of most anthropomorphic faire.
Kathleen Osborn: The Winged Warriors of Ga'Hoole: Owl Movie Is a Sobering Elixir in 3-D
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Nope, this is a day you wish he'd written a long, whiny letter to his aunts about those bastard Syrians next door, or maybe just spent the day inventing new spellings for "foetor" or patronizingly explaining Nietzsche to Frank Belknap Long.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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Not office gossip or patronising shit about trusting the Registry files.
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You are nothing but an uncouth, patronizing, unprincipled, rowdy group of misfits who aren't fit for any respectable job!
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My father was perhaps irritated by the slightly patronizing tone which Turgénieff adopted from the very outset of their acquaintance; and Turgénieff was irritated by my father's "crankiness," which distracted him from "his proper métier, literature.
Reminiscences of Tolstoy
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And there is something very patronising about people with posh accents telling working-class people that their windows are too dirty.
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It is now an unfashionable idea that seems donnish and patronising.
Times, Sunday Times
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I love when that happens to me, and hope when I do it people don't consider it patronizing or self-aggrandizement, which is (almost) never the spirit in which it is intended.
Magna comes loudly
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Such an unfocussed and scatter-gun assault is already pressing sympathetic buttons, and profiting from the usual heavy-footed public relations blundering of the municipal authorities, and the straight-man impressionability of patronizing editorialists.
Conrad Black: My Manifesto For the Occupy Movement
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It was therefore a shock to face such hostile and patronising attitudes when I arrived.
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But what I detest is the attitude you display in your responses … …. patronising and belittling.
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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While a few felt that the social workers, were helpful and supportive an equal number considered them to be patronizing and authoritarian.
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This patronising voice with a whine and an awful regional accent was talking.
Times, Sunday Times
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His style was didactic, often patronising, and the jokes were thick-cut.
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With publication, anecdotes became more polished, the characters less distinctive and stereotypical, the prevailing tone patronising and prosy.
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Admit it - deep down inside us plods patronisingly known as ‘the public’ love to see the rich and famous squirm.
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I was only trying to explain; I didn't want to sound patronizing.
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Removing responsibility from victims is not a kindness; it is patronizing and perpetuates the problem.
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Although the prose is clear and readable it is also assertive, didactic and sometimes patronising.
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It's that patronizing tone of hers that I can't bear.
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They often display snobbish, disdainful or patronizing attitudes.
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Last century, it was bandied about with a patronising smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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She could tell, especially that old lady with her patronizing smile: i used to play bridge with your grandmother Fermoyle.
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All better now, are we?" he enquired in a patronizing manner hardly calculated to endear.
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There is a deep satisfaction in protecting such families from the careless, patronizing charity of the thoughtless almsgiver, whose unsteady hand would give them a feast to-day and a famine to-morrow.
Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers
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To the news, now," she keeps trying to say, while Scarborough and his brother-in-bombast laugh at her, deride her desire to do anything resembling actual journalism, and harass her with infantilizing, patronizing comments such as this one from Joe: "By the way, Mika's father called her mousey a couple weeks ago, and Mika's been yelling at me all morning to prove to her father that she is no mouse.
Jennifer L. Pozner: Paris Isn't Burning - Much to MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski's Chagrin
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Such high-handed attitudes would now be thought patronising.
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Keith was painted as patronising and pompous, with a grandiose idea of her own importance.
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But this was the same skewed rhetorical ideology employed in Vietnam decades ago, as we patronizingly told the nodding rice farmer by day that the Viet Cong were his mortal enemy, while as night fell, that same rice farmer recovered his hidden weapons and became the Viet Cong.
Fallujah, the Guernica of Our Times, Part 3
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Besides, apart from perhaps Ed Balls, she's the Big Loser from the reshuffle: Peter Mandelson has been made the de facto Deputy PM; while Downing Street's assertion that Harman will still "deputise" for Brown at PMQs came across as laughable and patronising.
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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Another poor choice in this respect was his gnarling, patronizing, primeval bearing at the debate.
Paul Jenkins: John McCain: Unfit for the Presidency
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It is now an unfashionable idea that seems donnish and patronising.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sorry if I seemed patronising, I probably seem that way but actually what you're reading is major love for the space program despite its dodginess.
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Some literary writers have patronising attitudes to genre fiction.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite the superior and patronizing tone of his voice, there was a deep concern.
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This paternalistic idea is patronising to many hardworking families who make a myriad of complicated choices every day.
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Once again, those pusillanimous, patronising, mealy-mouthed lectionary compilers have excelled themselves.
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Burke's response seemed a little patronizing, though he undoubtedly hadn'tintended it that way.
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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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There are no snap answers, and a style of counselling that is patronising and facile contributes nothing.
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They see it as either indulgent (weak and hence immoral) or as patronizing.
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I found his tone rather patronizing.
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And there is a tendency to kind of trivialize those things as you get older, to kind of be patronizing about those things.
Michael Sheen: Interview with 'New Moon' star on fitting in with the cast | EW.com
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Patronising dissertations that attempt to lump together all forms of “gender variance” under one term tend to not help.
Trans Identity–Sex Changes, Race Changes, Drag, and Passing
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They are patronizing and condescending to their clients (not to mention deceptive).
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The more enthusiastic their patronising attempts at conversion, the more they reveal themselves to be intolerant, blinkered misogynists.
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How often have I seen people raise questions about the work of a hero only to be met by quiet derision or patronizing dismissal.
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And those who would seek to give us that kind of politics are very happy to indulge the patronising fantasies of those who think it is all we are fit for.
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We are pioneering both tours and academic seminars to the Middle East and beyond, where we specialize in patronizing small businesses with a reputation for fair wages.
Marc Gopin: Imagining Peace: The Practical Advantages of an Israeli/Palestinian Final Settlement
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And more than half the women interviewed hate the label housewife because it sounds so patronising.
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In some urban shopping centres cinemas are another excuse for patronising the local shops.
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I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive.
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When he asked the question, he shifted back to a patronising, sickly treacle-sweet voice.
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They falsely pretend to be impartial and independent, or patronisingly portray themselves to be the same as ordinary people.
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It's silly and patronising and, anyway, even the most witless bores in society have long since moved on to grinningly saying "simples" in a daft foreign accent at the end of their sentences.
You're the prime minister, Cameron. Please stop behaving like the David Brent of British politics | Sam Delaney
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That kind of helpful ‘input’ is a tad patronizing.
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His personality was as unendearing as his looks... pompous, patronising, pontificating.
Bum and Bummer
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The message would have to be given in a subtle not a patronising way.
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I benefited from that, and I understand that there's a place for some hometown boosterism, but at the same time it's patronizing.
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I am not so much patronizing the other side, rather I am misprizing ours.
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To imply such a thing would be vast generalisation and patronising over-simplification.
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All better now, are we?" he enquired in a patronizing manner hardly calculated to endear.
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This patronising voice with a whine and an awful regional accent was talking.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is a horribly patronising movie that makes Dublin in 1967 look like a theme-park of amiable drunken wastrels and boozy squawking women in headscarves and ankle socks.
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YMMV, but we in the home office regard this as a very good thing and we hope that you are visiting and patronizing our various sponsors.
And now a word about our sponsors
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Is the record industry still riddled with Uncle Disgustings, tubby bottom - pinching letches and sexist, patronising journos?
The Music Fix
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Market report stock engagingly from the patronizingly antifreeze biocatalytic with robespierre and fall from lobate primality to pay electorate to the passenger, bebe compulsivity saddlecloth that the retroflexed chapleted came to fingerling and apollinaire!
Rational Review
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They also proved quite cultured, patronising art and architecture and encouraging literary pursuits.
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Many housing executives view people from a very paternalistic and patronizing attitude.
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Basque immigrants tended to remain clannish at first, socializing with other Basques - often from the same villages in Europe - and patronizing Basque businesses.
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In fact, he could be almost any drop-dead gorgeous, musclebound, millionaire, tribe-patronising tourist on the planet.
Times, Sunday Times
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This patronising attitude only serves to alienate potential members who might otherwise be sympathetic to socialist ideas.
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But often there's a slightly patronising tone, a hint of indulgence.
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They look a little deeper into the matter without being pompous, arrogant or patronising.
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Games start patronizing lot of fans to hang around in Akihabara.
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They look a little deeper into the matter without being pompous, arrogant or patronising.
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Ellis is a decent man in many ways, but he has a loftiness, an aloofness, that supporters and players find patronising.
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“And by gator,” Dr. Schecter said in a patronizing tone, “I assume you mean the South American crocodilian species called the caiman?”
Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
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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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The tone of the interview was unnecessarily patronizing.
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It was, in some cases, patronizing to the point of contempt.
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These epithets grow ever more presumptuous, ever more patronising in the context of an ever more factional, furcated society.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
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Doubtless your sisters-in-law will think you a patronising, self-righteous old bag, but you can't have it all ways.
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My next-door neighbour is a judgmental and patronising individual who sees himself and his family as an example to my ed of moral rectitude.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two years, and he's just as patronising, moronic, simpering and clueless as ever.
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The vast majority won't and it's more than patronising to assume they aren't worthy of democracy.
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British television screens are once more hosting the talking heads - patronising, confident and ultra-informed - that have so often browbeaten us into following them along the path to social catastrophe.
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Is it really the type of organization you should be patronizing?
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The time was not long when Martin ceased patronizing the Japanese restaurants.
Chapter 41
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The football authorities and club owners were snobbish, patronising know-nothings who treated the players like serfs.
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In the past financial institutions may have taken a patronising attitude towards women.
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With the new CD Sound Master Nice EQ Free, you can lovingly call your equalizing application a nice EQ without sounding weird or patronizing.
Gearwire -
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A CONCEITED coxcomb, with a very patronizing air, called out to an Irish laborer, "Here, you bogtrotter, come and tell me the greatest lie you can, and I'll treat you to a jug of whiskey-punch.
The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
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But this was the same skewed rhetorical ideology employed in Vietnam decades ago, as we patronizingly told the nodding rice farmer by day that the Viet Cong were his mortal enemy, while as night fell, that same rice farmer recovered his hidden weapons and became the Viet Cong.
Fallujah, the Guernica of Our Times, Part 3
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“Pulse of hope” was about someone (not Jim in Rennes) who I met last month and did not sleep with (read it again, did I say I did?) “Uncomplicated” is not intended to be patronising, and I would never use one person to get over another – I have to like someone, rather a lot, to be with them in that way.
Sunday
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Because that would validate all my preconceived notions of innate North European linguistic ability - and our knack at attracting patronising anglophonic morons.
Can You Top This
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However, we have actually served a more diverse ethnic group patronizing these barbershops, including men of African, West Indian, Bahamian, Haitian, and Jamaican heritages.
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Then with a patronizing tone they tell me that I can keep the change.
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His most recent leaflet through my letterbox was the most patronising I've ever received, incidentally.
Polling numbers just don't add up
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How do you tell someone you're disappointed in them without sounding like a patronising censorious cow?
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They might think it an inaccurate, even a rather patronising way to describe their contributions.
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While a few felt that the social workers, were helpful and supportive an equal number considered them to be patronizing and authoritarian.
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He had that pardonable pride which will not allow a man to place himself among those who, though outwardly fair-spoken, offer the insult of a hostile and patronizing mental attitude.
The Bibliotaph and Other People
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We quickly become patronising in our attitude to them and domineering in the solutions we propose.
Times, Sunday Times
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Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same - with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead. Mother Teresa
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Patronizing mush from the talk-show host, who urges women to settle for “Mr. 80 Percent” and hold sex “in reserve” to protect themselves from all the men who still think, “Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?”
One-Sentence Book Reviews of Recent Bestsellers and Other Books « One-Minute Book Reviews
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He, evidently, did not know what he was in store for, because he was regarding her with a patronizing stare, most likely underestimating her abilities.
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And why on earth would a young working class woman want to understand how to avoid STDs and know where to find plan B contraception, when she could instead receive a patronizing lecture telling her that her hymen is sacred?
Matthew Yglesias » Also: The Sky Is Blue
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TACOMA - Tacoma police say they have tracked down a key prosecution witness in the case against a Pierce County Superior Court judge accused of harassment and patronizing a prostitute.
Undefined
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This patronising voice with a whine and an awful regional accent was talking.
Times, Sunday Times
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She searched his rugged features for any clue that he might be patronizing her, but all she saw was genuine interest.
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The idea of any newspaper urging its readers to involve themselves in such a jaw droppingly patronising scheme is absurd.
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Two years, and he's just as patronising, moronic, simpering and clueless as ever.
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The program focuses on kids' interests without patronizing them.
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It was a load of disappointingly patronising guff about how "woman is closer to the rhythms of Earth" and stuff like that, and it predisposed me against him as a bit of a sanctimonious berk.
This week's new singles
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This is unbelievably patronising, ignorant and plain stupid.
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The voice was patronizing and affected, the accent artificial.
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Suddenly a rivalry based on patronising superiority and sulky resentment has become a matter of near equality and, as a result, seething hatred.
Times, Sunday Times
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It reached an absolute disaster from the French diplomatic point of view when French President Chirac attacked candidate EU states for disagreeing with French policy in what can only be called the most patronising terms.
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On the subject of portfolio divvies, isn't it about time they cast a patronising glance towards one of the least favoured counties in the land?
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The formalizing is as far as I am aware about patronizing or anything like that, it is simply about saying "let's flirt, you game?
Quick Hit: Waiter Weirdness - Feministing
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It's a ridiculously unevolved view and deeply patronising.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or make some patronising remark about her cute rear end and how he would be delighted to give her a lift over?
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Our science is almost entirely lost, and without honour or renown in those kingdoms, and not through the fault of others, but through the fault of the place and disusage, to such extent that very few esteem it or understand it unless it be our most serene king, by supporting all virtue and patronising it; and likewise the most serene infante D. Luiz, his brother, a very valorous and wise prince, who has a very nice knowledge and discretion in every liberal art.
Michael Angelo Buonarroti
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He was at one moment a generous supporter of his fellow artists and at an another an egotist with a patronizing attitude toward those of lesser reputation.
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All better now, are we?" he enquired in a patronizing manner hardly calculated to endear.
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Affluent young Australians who would never dream of patronising an Adolf Hitler bierkeller decked out in swastikas are nevertheless happy to hang out in the Lenin Bar at Sydney's Circular Quay, sipping chilled vodka cocktails under hammer and sickle flags
CARPE DIEM
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However, the ITA took a rather lofty and somewhat patronizing view of the abilities of independent producers.
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All better now, are we?" he enquired in a patronizing manner hardly calculated to endear.
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Only the true professionals can talk this shizzle *pats Joshua's head patronisingly*.7.32pm: Hadley – Oh dear, Michelle Williams appears to have come dressed in my grandmother's carpet, in a dress designed for someone my grandmother's grandmother's grandmother's age.
Golden Globes 2012 – as it happened
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A comedian travel-documentarian who is not patronising, smug, self-congratulatory or obstructive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unfortunately, the effect of this snippet is almost ruined by the insipid reporter chick, who should just shut the hell up, stop being patronizing and let the geek dudes talk.
Epic Scale Naval Combat « Third Point of Singularity
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This patronising initiative seems to suggest that unenlightened mums and dads are the cause of racism in Oldham, by passing it on to their kids and creating a vicious cycle.
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It's patronising to women and profoundly undemocratic.
The Sun
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He tried antagonising me and being patronising and condescending but he didn't intimidate me.
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They are well known for their arrogance and their disdainful, patronising attitude.
Times, Sunday Times
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His description of the Koreans he actually meets is patronising rather than sympathetic; he somehow got the balance better in Burma.
Linkspam for 14-6-2009
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Despite this patronising carnival of infantilisation, many of us seem fairly grown up about global warming.
Times, Sunday Times
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Suddenly a rivalry based on patronising superiority and sulky resentment has become a matter of near equality and, as a result, seething hatred.
Times, Sunday Times
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You engaged in hyperbolic vitriol and attempted to turn my stance into one of a patronizing controlling male incapable of comprehending your world view.
Sex and the single Marvel super heroine | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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They are well known for their arrogance and their disdainful, patronising attitude.
Times, Sunday Times
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All are born aristocrats, and their bearing is dignified, even though at times it is also a tiny bit arrogant and patronizing.
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“Dear Diary, the top three least attractive qualities in a man are: patronizing me, the use of intimidation tactics, and conceitedness.”
Fatal Circle
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My voice was patronizing, and Ben turned and glared at me.
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Consumers can help, too, by patronising their local shops and shunning the multiples.
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The voice was patronizing and affected, the accent artificial.
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For them to pretend that "diet culture" and "size zero" start and end within the exclusively female world of women's magazines is a massive pile of mansplaining, patronising nonsense.
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His curiosity excites the most patronising sympathy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The published book on the research was uncomplimentary about the town and many of its leaders and was written in what many people felt was a rather patronizing tone.
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The sentiment behind the utterance is undoubtedly a sincere and genuine one, free of any deliberate intent to patronise, but it was patronising nonetheless.
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I would hate to think that the Senator is actively making time to shmooze with Hollywood celebrities while essentially ignoring (Or at best patronizing) the citizens whom he represents.
She may have a crush on Obama
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It just seems really patronizing to treat Muslims like theyre some kind of unschooled savages who don’t have minds of their own.
Muslims are The New Jews | Jewschool
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While devouring some delicious crepes and fresh made guac at Queen Street Grocery in Charleston, we were struck with the amount of local small businesses we were patronizing … A list of our favorites …
Going Local… down to the Carolinas… at
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I've been patronizing the bar, at 45 E. 18th St., for years and have come to feel a close personal relationship with those stand-up porcelain fellows, so richly deserving of the credit they'll be receiving.
Porcelain Majesty
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Consumers can help, too, by patronising their local shops and shunning the multiples.
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The whole enterprise teetered on the brink of patronising.
Times, Sunday Times
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When he sang I believed in immortality, my regard for the gods grew almost patronizing, and I devised ways and means whereby I surely could outwit them and their tricks.
WHEN GOD LAUGHS
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At times, they do tend to overact or appear patronizing to viewers.
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Similarly, Gordon Brown's "bigotgate" blunder demonstrated just how insular and patronising UK politicians have become.
Alan Miller: Hung Out to Dry -- Britain's Limp Result
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Not content with treating islanders like simpletons unable to purchase a computer for themselves, the Executive turned its patronising gaze upon anyone who has been about for a while.
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But now it transpires that our soldiers truly are being shot by both sides: the patronising ninnies who would prevent them from going to war at all, and the soulless penny-pinchers who think that soldiers matter only when they're fighting.
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Their gaiety was infectious, and I mentally ticked myself off for my patronizing response to the club.
DEAD BEAT
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P.S. This is an interesting read, but irritating when the academic writer makes patronising attempts to cater to an ‘ordinary’ audience.
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It is important to remember here that the style of television weather presentation on the BBC - sometimes called dumbed-down, patronising and childishly simplistic by critics - is controlled by BBC producers and managers, and not by the Met Office.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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The Harel women, all three generations of them, were very obviously still patronizing Miss Blanche.
YELLOW BIRD
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I didn't want to come across as patronising, but I did.
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The problem here is not a patronizingly clichéd representation of an ostensibly primitive people; the problem is the movie's intellectually incoherent portrayal of its fictional heroes as both admirably precivilized and admirably hypercivilized, as atechnological and highly technologized.
'Avatar's' Debt To 'The Wizard Of Oz'
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Nella was still angry at their patronising and arrogant behaviour towards her in those times.
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One's daily ration of calories refusing to go into the whole issue of overeating/overnutrition for the purposes of this discussion can just as easily be obtained by home cooking of thrifty supermarket purchases as it can by patronizing gourmet restaurants seven days a week.
Archive 2007-04-01
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He was even friendly to me and proclaimed that one day he and I, too, would work together on a piece, though his statement sounded patronizing and his smile ungenuine.
The Keg of Knob Creek : Bev Vincent
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China's approach to our needs is simply better adapted than the slow and sometimes patronising post-colonial approach of European investors, donor organisations and non-governmental organisations.
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The last thing I wanted was to relapse into the role of a patronizing objective observer.
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Dual pricing is patronising and an insult to both decent Thai folk and farangs alike, and to claim any thing other is quite simply ludicrous.
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I found his tone rather patronizing.
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Labour, equally keen on personal attacks, none the less claimed the phrase "calm down, dear" was both patronising and, worse, sexist.
David Cameron's 'calm down, dear' tarnishes the new Tory brand
