How To Use Condescension In A Sentence
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She often used the term pedal or pedalo-French slang for a homosexual-draping it with condescension, pity, and disapproval.
Jezebel
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Those who have it, use it, with condescension and casual disdain for those on the receiving end.
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Lamely suave, spouting banalities about pop music and unconscious of his savage condescension toward women, he's a rancid summation of the Playboy ethic.
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French agricultural naturalists, whose perspective was both continental and philosophic, treated the British inquiry with careful condescension.
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But wish what condescension and gentleness is this done!
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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But if a prince shall deign to be familiar, and to converse with those upon whom he might trample, shall his condescension therefore unking him, and his familiarity rob him of his royalty?
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
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These phrases, and the condescension dripping from the article generally, can easily be removed without losing anything.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Shedding Light on the AZ Immigration Law
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His schoolmasterish manner, combined with the unmistakable tone of condescension, were enough to make a more hot-tempered man see red.
DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
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That characterization epitomizes the arrogance and condescension of anyone who would presume to understand and speak for all of us.
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Their brief marriage was clearly doomed from the start by her parents' snobbish condescension.
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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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You may have noticed that elite condescension is one thing lots of folks dislike about the left!
David Roberts: Introducing 'Climate Hawks'
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‘I wasn't looking at you,’ she said, with a hint of condescension in her heavily accented voice, and proceeded to hand over her sandwiches to the till woman, who had not yet given me my change.
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The bombast, condescension, arrogance and swagger all seems slightly silly in retrospect.
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Never mind, rather like buses, if you miss one chance to comment on the tabloids insensitivity, self-aggrandisement, condescension and general loathsomeness there bound to be another chance coming along shortly.
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Some of the older white Cubans retained racist feelings that were conveyed to us with a certain condescension and stiffness.
Alice Walker: On Finding Your Bliss Interview by Evelyn C. White
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She remains faithful to Thackeray's vision but adds a touch of candour to his tone of condescension, a sparkle to the supercilious ways of the British rich.
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Yes, this point undoubtedly resonated with many women who have to deal with insufferable condescension and dismissal in their daily lives.
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It's like being called a eunuch or an old maid; one always hears that faint sneer of disdain and condescension mixed with pity.
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Notwithstanding the editor's condescension toward these ‘second-rate’ men, he recognizes the opportunity flash language provided for disguised communication.
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And before directing someone to do something on a national or international front, it might serve to imagine the child's sassy retort, "Who made you the boss of me?" to help weed out any hint of condescension or patronization in the message.
Colleen Turner: Best Communications Practices for Making a World of Difference
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Britten was particularly revered for his vocal scores for children, which captured their imagination and interest without condescension.
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Many of us have tired of his sanctimonious, smug condescension.
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For better or worse, the paternalism and condescension towards the public which is embodied in the very idea of a publication ban has been fatally short-circuited.
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Notice the condescension toward American soldiers, who are rightly viewed by most people as volunteer members of elite organizations, not as unemployable yahoos.
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His words, astonishing and bizarre, are noteworthy, in my view, for their condescension.
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He detected more than a whiff of grown-up condescension in it.
BEHINDLINGS
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He was clearly reserved and rarely affable: he had little of Henry VIII's false heartiness nor of Elizabeth I's adroit condescensions.
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And, more importantly, the sheer condescension of assuming that the room divides into the colossi of the politico-media ruling class and everyone else sums up everything that's wrong with the modern Democratic Party.
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Before its climaxless conclusion, the spectacle drags you through all kinds of emotions - interest, amusement, irritation, concern, condescension and probably, by the end, a feeling of self-satisfied superiority, knowing you would never pull those kinds of drunk shenanigans.
New Haven Advocate: News
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The complete absence from her novels of condescension is the secret of her popularity.
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Senators Coburn, Sessions, Kyl, Graham, et. al, sicken me with their condescension and rudeness to Judge Sotomayor.
Sotomayor: Judges have different task than what citizens expect
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The bombast, condescension, arrogance and swagger all seems slightly silly in retrospect.
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However I did detect, to my distaste, a big wallop of condescension.
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I don't know whose condescension was worse - hers, or Mary's or Lady Godetia's.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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Her smile was a mixture of pity and condescension.
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Despite its condescension toward the Bennet family, the letter begins to allay Elizabeth's prejudice against Darcy.
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Tabloid journalism is a tricky subject: it tends to invite lofty condescension.
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In return for our great condescension in having accepted this rayah (the Voivode of Wallachia) amongst the other subjects of our empire, he will be bound to pay into our treasury, every year, the sum of 6,000 red piastres of the country. '
Roumania Past and Present
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And the tone doesn't ever really delve into condescension or preachiness, a danger in the hands of the less experienced.
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A fantasy moviemaker himself, Davis deplores the widespread condescension toward genre films he sees in Canada and the U.S.
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It's a good quote, but I think the great-hearted person can do all three and not in a spirit of condescension either.
Ask for this one by name!
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In a speech, she protested the modern Jewish attitude of condescension based on the ancientness of Judaism, adding that “the glories of which we boast become mere crutches to a limping self-esteem.”
Elsie K. Sulzberger.
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She gave me some friendly advice without a trace of condescension.
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Unlike most postmodernists, he doesn't enervate the past or its ideas with condescension.
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This was on-the-edge black comedy that dispelled any vestige of condescension that might have been felt towards the performers.
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A lot of people associate a taste for grindhouse movies with the tiresome condescension of the 'so-bad-it's-good' ethos, but Tarantino understands the aesthetics of aberrance that animated the explorations of so-called trash hounds.
GreenCine Daily: Grindhouse, 4/4.
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Watching it, I found myself quietly appalled by the smugness, condescension and bogus rhetoric on display.
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The greater ugliness is not the inappropriate outburst, but Ms. Dowd intentionally injecting a word loaded with a history of racial condescension to label a whole movement of opposition.
Michael Williams (R Cand, SEN-TX) wants to talk about race. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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During the postwar folk music revival, rural musicians faced a similar mixture of adulation and condescension.
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Just as I find it tiresome when punks like YOU treat us with condescension and contempt then snivel like a girlscout with a bullet wound that we dont treat YOU with respect.
Think Progress » Fox Cuts Away From Obama-GOP Conversation In Order To Get A Head Start On Attacks: He Was ‘Lecturing’
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It is not realism to suppose that one-fifth of humanity is unsuited to liberty; it is pessimism and condescension, and we should have none of it.
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I have to say, after all the years of listening to this guy on the radio cutting other people to shreds with ridicule and condescension, there is something particularly assuasive about radio shock jock Don Imus playing the supplicant:
From On High
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a tincture of condescension
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In a 2010 tour of the White House, my former favorite Beatle, Liverpool High grad Paul McCartney, would capture the pop zeitgeist perfectly both in terms of content and dopy condescension.
Deconstructing Obama
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I felt somewhat flattered by this encouraging condescension, and I admit now that I did not feel particularly happy at the idea of bearding the thieving lion, with his hyena-like satellites, in his den.
The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)
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In its structure and condescension, it was reminiscent of the "I knew Jack Kennedy … Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" put down with which Lloyd Bentsen famously biffed Dan Quayle.
A Passionate Woman; Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids; The Ricky Gervais Show
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I had approached her with so little formality, I had received all her graciousness with so little apparent sense of her condescension, I had taken my seat, nearly unasked, so completely at my ease, and I had pronounced so unceremoniously the plain "vous," without softening it off with one single "altesse royale," that I had given her reason to think me either the most forward person in my nature, or the worst bred
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
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Adam Berendt who'd been a local "character" of whom they'd liked to speak warmly, admiringly, and always with that air of condescension.
MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
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He experienced anti-gay sentiment first hand and was treated with condescension and hostility by homophobes who did know of his homosexuality.
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Well, Sir; I shall see how far the advances made on the tvrong side will be justified, or rather counte-nanced, by the advances, or, shall I say (I will if you please) condescensions to be made on yours.
Sir Charles Grandison
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Indeed long after this period, the use of the term Roman Catholic continued to be a mark of condescension, and language of much more uncomplimentary character was usually preferred.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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With the unlearnt condescension of a son, I gave him an inch of space and he took it: burying a jumpshot over my half-stretched hand.
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He knows Tom is not one of their breed and treats him with the condescension and snobbery that his privileged class affords him.
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Tabloid journalism is a tricky subject: it tends to invite lofty condescension.
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What is even more puzzling is the set of beliefs that seems to go hand in hand with this incredible condescension.
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It vandalises a gutsy satirical classic, in this case with a mixture of misjudged condescension, smirking spoofery and culpable failure of nerve.
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He told of places where under-gardeners had trembled at his looks, where there were meres and swanneries, labyrinths of walk and wildernesses of sad shrubbery in his control, till you could not help feeling that it was condescension on his part to dress your humbler garden plots.
Memories and Portraits
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But it's not just that Friedman is a little late to this realization, it's his tone of neo-Victorian moral condescension, that wheedling, whining schoolmarm-on-a-laptop tone of his that drives me beserko.
Robert Teitelman: Thomas Friedman Discovers Reinvention Again
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The arrogance and condescension of his artistic stance, in isolation, is also nauseous.
Audio Interview with author Yann Martel conducted by Nigel Beale: Are you now, or have you ever been…
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Given EC’s ridiculous statements re: Austrian economics and his frequent pompous condescension one must regard his writings as a mixed blessing (he often does hit the mark and he could outscoop Drudge at times).
Protesting HCR 362 at Nancy Pelosi’s House « Antiwar.com Blog
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He gazes with glorious cheer upon the wretched middle class, and as our train rolls away we see him still gazing across the darkling cellars of the station with that untroubled gleam of condescension, his eyes seeming (as we look back at them) as large and white and unspeculative as billiard balls.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
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Finally, elitist condescension, however merited, helps cement Bush's bond to the masses.
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Ludicrous on the face of them as IF they were facts then treat us with condescension and contempt then snivel like the punk you are that YOU are treated with the same contempt.
Think Progress » O’Reilly: There’s ‘No Evidence’ Obama Is A Socialist But He Does Believe In ‘Tyranny And Socialism’
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At policy seminars and closed - door conferences, state - sponsored Chinese analysts now drip condescension.
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he hated the white man's superiority and condescension
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And, really, your condescension is making you look ignorant.
Think Progress » Bayh Claims ‘There’s A Fighting Chance’ Obama Will Call For A Spending Freeze
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-- Gothic affability is the mode you think proper to adopt, the condescension of a Baron, not the civility of a liberal man (47).
Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England'
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Is it just the slurs and condescension that make the situation exploitive or am I missing something?
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I had never been spontaneously approached by a publisher and such condescension rather turned my head.
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Without a hint of patronage or condescension, he shows how both characters are victims of circumstance.
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Palin oozed contempt and condescension for Obama, comparing her job as small-town mayor to being a community organizer, “except that you have actual responsibilities.”
Sarah Palin: A Pit Bull In Lipstick? | Disinformation
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To discount such reactions as "phallocentric" condescension to legitimate female interests, as Suzanne Juhasz proposes (418), seems sheer desperation, not the least because some of the complaints issued from avowed Janeites (see Johnson, "Divine" 150).
Boxing Emma; or the Readers Dilemma at the Box Hill Games
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There's a lot you could say about this remark - its arrogance, its condescension.
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the queen's condescension was intended to make us feel comfortable
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In the years after the Second World War, American history, which had been viewed with lofty condescension in most British universities, became an increasingly popular subject.
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I realize that he could very well be elected in November, but his constant whining and air of condescension is convincing me more and more that I would find it very trying to listen to him for the rest of the campaign, never mind four years.
McCain, Obama Trade Barbs Across the Seas - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Furthermore, Crane's prose denies the consolations of sentimentalism, in which the less fortunate are cast as inferior objects of pity and condescension.
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The complete absence from her novels of condescension is the secret of her popularity.
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Despite its condescension toward the Bennet family, the letter begins to allay Elizabeth's prejudice against Darcy.
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Rather, Air America's broadcasts seem merely to reinforce a certain condescension — hampering rather than helping a Democratic Party desperate to expand its appeal in red states.
The Air America Plan
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Fry's music is replete with opportunities for first-chair musicians, even down to the double-bassist, to show their wares, and the Scottish musicians respond without condescension.
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You can guff all you like about the Platonic ideal of going from one visa to another to the I-485 to the N-400 to the oath — your combination of snotty condescension and Aspergian fixatedness on your own formulations is really unbecoming — but the course of immigration bureaucracy rarely runs as smoothly as your abstract and verbose pontificating suggests.
Matthew Yglesias » Veronique de Rugy is So Anti-American That She’s Not Even an American!
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You stepped in here, full of pompous condescension, spat on everyone you saw, uttered fatuous windbaggery, made bullshit claims, and then when challenged, went into pseudo-legal nonsense that wasn't even partially coherent.
In New Letter, Clinton's Lawyers Demand ABC Yank Film
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Quincy, whose shrewd little soul easily divined that this equable warmth of manner, which she dubbed snippy condescension, sprang from affection for Dick and Mrs. Percival and not for herself.
Jewel Weed
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Your condescension is outweighed by your stupidity.
Matthew Yglesias » The Ontology of Miranda Rights
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But the flattery of imitation soon gave way to the condescension of tourists, as all Italy itself was already on the way to becoming a hothouse and museum.
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She gave me some friendly advice without a trace of condescension.
