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"condescending" Definitions
  1. behaving as though you are more important and more intelligent than other people

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Nick is also pedantic and sometimes condescending but the twins aren't even sure what condescending means.
For all the Trump campaign's talk about how condescending Clinton is, can there be anything more condescending than that?
Maybe Biden's use of the terms condescending, angry, or elitist come from the fact that Elizabeth Warren is actually quite condescending and elitist.
As for their notions about how to run against a woman, if you are worried about being condescending there is a good chance you may indeed sound condescending.
It seems as though when Clinton supporters are met with criticism or a Bernie supporter, they brush them off with a condescending look as well as an accompanying condescending dialogue.
It isn't feminist, it's condescending — especially considering her history.
They're casually educational, but not full of condescending, dry lectures.
We should be careful not to come across as condescending.
MIKE HUCKABEE, FORMER GOVERNOR OF ARKANSAS: Well, it was condescending.
The most condescending, creepy, paranoid, slippery goblin of a man.
She expected to hear stories about condescending meetings and microaggressions.
It is as arrogant, condescending and paternalistic as it gets.
In them, killer Omar Mateen is angry, frazzled and condescending.
Get good at forgiving them for coming off as condescending.
It's not condescending, it's as equals, but she levels him.
We pride ourselves today on having overcome such condescending myths.
CNN: "Mumble Rap" is often used in a condescending way.
"He kinda gave me the most condescending..." he trailed off.
Are what read as pretentious and condescending undertones absolutely required?
It is time we stop this condescending approach to Spanglish.
You wasted our time...' How dare he be so condescending?
Kugel's question usually receives an answer either glib or condescending.
It's this very condescending, good father kind of government, right?
It's unclear whether Wilk is condescending or sympathetic to her narrator.
Our promise is never to solve someone's problems, which is condescending.
They were often rude and condescending and would ask prying questions.
When he refuses to engage strategically, it comes off as condescending.
Probably. But posting a condescending sign isn't going to change that.
As a festival director, I would never be condescending about it.
It featured yelling and condescending and mansplaining and interrupting and bloviating.
But even here, a condescending attitude toward the Burmese is prevalent.
The friend's condescending tone had long rubbed her the wrong way.
In their early work, the Leavises were very condescending toward Dickens.
Darcy is a taciturn neurosurgeon, who strikes Liz as unbearably condescending.
In spite of that, France is given such a condescending treatment.
This misses the significance of Reaganism while condescending to Reagan's supporters.
AR: He is so condescending to her, it drives me nuts.
People feel a sort of condescending compassion and pity toward them.
At times, he has appeared openly disdainful or condescending toward them.
It wasn't premeditated, nor was it done in a condescending way.
The message resonated with many workers, although some found it condescending.
"He was rigid, condescending and exclusionary," Koon said in an interview.
And no, yelling or condescending men need not be involved.3.
Probably. But no amount of condescending signs is going to change that.
I email the company's IT guy, but I'm expecting a condescending answer.
He might be right, but Charlie's tired, condescending tone makes me seethe.
She's been told that the way she speaks is rude or condescending.
Even Mr Abe's catchphrase about letting women "shine" has a condescending ring.
And, yes, I do mean that in the most condescending way possible.
They were trying to be helpful but to me it sounded condescending.
But she's not condescending and seems comfortable at the podium doing it.
In Mourner, though, Howard's person and politics seem condescending and almost indefensible.
It argues that soda taxes are condescending and hurt poor shoppers disproportionately.
" He added that such an "approach to politics" is "condescending" and "elitist.
"I learned so much there, when I stopped being condescending," she said.
So share your thoughts, but don't come across as insulting or condescending.
When someone does something simple like 'look over there', it's totally condescending.
Fights, gossip, overanalyzing, or bitchy, condescending vibes are the worst-case scenario.
I hardly ever called people out for condescending behavior or outright sexism.
Calling me condescending and patronizing and rude and arrogant and fucked up.
At times cheeky, at times condescending, he had an answer for everything.
But Mr. Macron's assured and sometimes even condescending tone has also backfired.
If the setup seems a bit reductive and possibly condescending, just wait.
The line between kindly interventions and condescending ones can be perilously thin.
Biden, however, has made several condescending and offensive remarks about Black people.
We can't have him triggering the smirking disapproval of condescending global elites!
Could you be coming off as condescending when you deliver the news?
These ranged from the condescending ("The Professionals") to the surreal ("El Topo").
"The men were very condescending about it, didn't take me seriously," she says.
Before long, another Reddit user suggested an official name change to Condescending Wonka.
Is there anything more humiliating in this life than a condescending, paternalistic dumping?
In Peele's movie, that mildly condescending admiration is its own form of threat.
It's also not cloying or condescending in trying to teach you a lesson.
The sexist, controlling, and condescending guy who got her fired from her job!
Kavanaugh's condescending paternalism toward women and girls is a theme throughout his decisions.
Normally I'd think of that as a little condescending, but I didn't care.
This is condescending and cheap virtue-signaling for the purpose of garnering votes.
Gretchen Carlson, played by Naomi Watts, sneers and glares at Ailes's condescending sexism.
"Otherwise, the result is always a kind of condescending exoticism, even if sympathetic."
She wasn't condescending, didn't overcharge and didn't treat female clients differently from males.
"Love the truffles," she said in a condescending let-them-eat-chocolate moment.
There are many reasons to find Pete's boring yet condescending technocratic approach uninspiring.
And, when there are stories of fat athletes, they're often condescending, she added.
Men are oblivious to their hurtful condescending ways, or else they don't care.
He's condescending and self-righteous and refuses to go to the Met Gala.
In its messaging, Zero is actively trying to avoid condescending to its users.
Victor fakes his way through the encounter with a veneer of condescending courtesy.
Unda dismissed his comments as a macho and condescending attitude toward the organizers.
To the Editor: Harvey Weinstein's public apology was both condescending and tiresomely clichéd.
It isn't diffident or condescending as it first seemed, rather it's casual, assured.
Against this history, Mr. Trump's repeated scolds are not just condescending but embarrassing.
The accounts are condescending at best, if not outright racist and downright offensive.
Sources described the 67 year old as both nitpicky and condescending towards players.
But step back and think about how paternalistic and condescending that explanation is.
Was what he said a condescending equivalent of supertitles for the inferentially challenged?
Using "for your" as a qualifier always comes across as condescending and rude.
She added that Denson thought the victim was acting in a condescending way.
And from the immaculately groomed television anchors he drew only condescending fixed smiles.
Trump would do this by negotiating from a position of strength, not condescending weakness.
John played Higgins -- Selleck's condescending, yet lovable, landlord on the '80s hit TV show.
During a confessional, he claimed Kourtney was being "a drop condescending" about the trip.
Gradually, though, anger gave way to amazement as Strzok grew increasingly combative and condescending.
At worst, it was condescending: No, you are too young to dream this big.
They're there for show, and they feel incredibly condescending — and it's a growing trend.
Other essays, of course, are not that good, or are unduly condescending or combative.
I understand it's coming from a good place, but it is also very condescending.
The crush was a very serious thing for him, so I was never condescending.
Democrats are insulting and condescending to the swing-state voters they need the most.
And not just because of ignorant, condescending and IMHO racist slights by Orrin Hatch.
Her condescending dismissal of the worth of millions of Americans is what is deplorable.
The justices have sometimes adopted a condescending tone toward the Federal Circuit's patent rulings.
" The comments have sparked criticism online, with some calling Summers' words "xenophobic" and "condescending.
Issa's co-workers think of themselves as liberal, but they're quite ignorant and condescending.
Sentiments such as mine may strike many working-class Americans as "foreign" and condescending.
He's condescending," she said, adding that he sounded like a "Democrat the whole time.
Mr. Schulz was initially hesitant, worried that black parents might think he was condescending.
But many women found that comment condescending and noted that it contained no apology.
But, it was Lundvall's "condescending" tone and dubious line of questioning which courted controversy.
They're too lazy to even write out the word honey when they're being condescending.
No one else can goad Emily into condescending baby voices like Digger can. 220.
The new I.T. director at my large, international office is a rude, condescending jerk.
PARELES There isn't a category of music more condescending than so-called children's music.
Matthews was also criticized for having a condescending tone in an interview with Sen.
For once, the French have a right to be condescending toward the United States.
But if calling "Redistribution" less than cinema sounds condescending, Price addresses the matter directly.
" He called that "condescending to the millions of Democrats who have a different view.
Many feel powerless and resent elites and journalists, whom they find arrogant and condescending.
I found this mention by the president particularly galling, condescending and above all, insulting.
It was condescending, it was arrogant, and it wasn't the right thing to do.
Dwyer and Gazin found that email exchanges with male contractors were terse, condescending, and misogynist.
Because then he did it again a few second later when he was extremely condescending.
I don't think anyone should have to tolerate being called an irritating or condescending name.
And, crucially, none of her intentions or interactions ever come across as condescending or spiteful.
The modern history of foreign interactions with China is littered with such sometimes condescending attempts.
She's made her fair share of condescending comments about the "older women" on the show.
Meanwhile, his son has been given into the custody of Menashe's condescending brother-in-law.
Anyway, at first being polite didn't work, so he evolved into a condescending d—– bag.
Sitwell's reply was unfunny, yes, but it was also dismissive, rude, and condescending in tone.
To the establishment liberal wing, Sanders' screeds come off as something between grating and condescending.
I'm really grateful that when I started somewhere the response was not dismissive or condescending.
Sure, he can be condescending, like when he called a contestant and her friends losers.
Some liberals viewed those remarks as insulting and condescending, coming from a straight, white man.
Father Fennessy was smart, funny, distinctly Catholic, but not self-righteous or condescending toward women.
Would her presence in a campaign stop at a NASCAR race seem forced and condescending?
Based on the number of people calling Sarah condescending and uptight, I'm not so sure.
He'd mostly be quiet, but when he talked he could be breathtakingly rude and condescending.
Yang is genuine and does not come off as condescending to conservatives and Trump voters.
"You have fallen far," Sarah says, cool and condescending, and Abigail begins by scrubbing floors.
Besides condescending to his characters, he hasn't found a way to express his obvious confusion.
Still, some said they were bruised by the more condescending characterizations of their humble town.
Scott scoffed at Turner's claims, suggesting it was condescending to black voters in South Carolina.
It's true that your girlfriend's question is condescending, and that is exactly what you deserve.
They said the statement was condescending — the kind of stereotype that Canadians have long endured.
Part of the problem is that anti-Trumpism has a tendency to be insufferably condescending.
In Kentucky, teachers are posting condescending responses from GOP representatives to their secret Facebook groups.
These sort of arguments aren't only condescending -- never a good strategy -- but they're also unnecessary.
"Everyone saw them as quite condescending and clearly in response to our unionization," they said.
" When a witch searches the web, she does so only "out of slightly condescending curiosity.
" Frankel disputed that, saying that she is "accurate in every single detail" and Radziwill was "condescending.
Their claims of systematic racism and police brutality were met, on the whole, with condescending denial.
By October 2011, Condescending Wonka was born, which is from where the meme really took off.
They are high-minded and condescending and maybe just bored rich people having some violent fun.
Even in 2017, men are still "explaining" things to women in a condescending and patronising manner.
The Deuce is good at these types of conversations — the condescending let-me-understand-you discourse.
If I don't, then I'm difficult to work with or a bitch or condescending or arrogant.
I think it's basically the sympathy of an outsider that's condescending to make people feel good.
In ten years of playing in bands, she's heard more than her share of condescending comments.
"Actually it's when a man explains something to a woman in a condescending way," Kimmel replied.
Yet, it seems no woman is immune to the insidious forces of the always-condescending mansplain.
"He instigated that whole incident by being condescending to the woman about her son," Alexander said.
John Hillerman -- the co-star on "Magnum, P.I." who played Tom Selleck's condescending landlord -- has died.
The president also bridled at General McMaster's military-style briefings, viewing him as pedantic and condescending.
His efforts to reach African-American voters have been mocked as condescending and trafficking in stereotypes.
Movies, books, TV shows, podcasts, condescending speeches from distant relatives: they all go great with liquor!
What follows is a series of observations so obvious that they can only read as condescending.
" The former vice president also said that such an "approach to politics" is "condescending" and "elitist.
And, honestly, some of the information this systems spews out crosses the threshold of being condescending.
The way it goes about this, though, is often so obvious as to feel borderline condescending.
"I'm sure you have some useful skills," Simmons said, which I thought was a little condescending.
This is the best line available to them and it is extremely condescending to the public.
Reedie replied with a letter caught in the no-man's land between vaguely conciliatory and condescending.
I explained the law to him, and he continued his condescending plea for me to leave.
Unlike the worst of my clients, he isn't condescending because of my education level or age.
Or it may have been a headline, but it would have been in a condescending way.
Fellow artists and writers chimed in to agree that the campaign was condescending to SFMOMA's audience.
How do I deal with dozens and dozens of rich, vapid and condescending office workers daily?
Anolik sometimes verges on condescending to Babitz ("what a sport and a champ and a trouper").
Recently he made it clear that he also resented Boeing as being presumptuous and typically condescending.
She became manipulative, two-faced, and condescending towards me for reasons I'm still unsure of today.
Your constant condescending tone is just unnecessary, and makes it impossible to actual have a conversation.
And because of this knowledge my siblings and I were sometimes condescending toward my mother's work.
"I sometimes think that women can't cope with too much gray matter," says Virginia's condescending doctor.
He cites a condescending but lighthearted review he had already logged of the Downton Abbey movie.
We've used focus groups to conduct a sort of condescending anthropological research on our fellow citizens.
The condescending sympathy extended to Pippa is framed by an overall contempt for her and Kath.
"I sometimes think that women can't cope with too much gray matter," says Virginia's condescending doctor.
But it's way too easy for sarcasm, say, to be misinterpreted and come off as condescending.
Then he turned mean and insulting and condescending, and I started slipping back into the bubble.
He's sassy but not condescending, touched by her idealism but never mistaking it for naïveté. It's...wonderful.
Wolfcastle's "that's the joke" (+21) and Bart's "at least you tried" cake (+2164) are perfect for condescending.
Understating the threat will feel disingenuous and condescending; overstatement creates panic and often overreaction from the government.
It's about sorting through all of them, how expensive they are and the condescending in-store experience.
She said he was "very condescending, very belittling" and asked why she bothered to follow him home.
In Latin America, as elsewhere, voters are furious at elites they regard as corrupt, ineffectual and condescending.
I don't like that she and her campaign were condescending and dismissive of Millennials during the primaries.
The heiress is mean, dimwitted, and condescending, which basically ensures that she is going to die soon.
In 2009, she complained about her co-host Steve Doocy, who was condescending to her on air.
It's kind of like having a backseat driver, but without the know-it-all condescending tone.[Harman]
I don't mean this in a condescending way, but it feels so much like life and death.
Yet thanks in part to the commission's condescending response to journalists' inquiries, the story has gathered pace.
Back in April, for instance, Clinton was condescending to Black Lives Matter protesters about the crime bill.
So assigning blame for their weight or assuming that they didn't try isn't just wrong, it's condescending.
And I'll be goddamned if I let any smug, clueless, condescending prick make me feel any different.
Vague prognostications on Real, Ordinary Decent People squaring off against Out Of Touch Elites and Condescending Experts.
While you're doing all kinds of neat, nerdy intellectual stuff, try not to be a condescending snob.
Just make sure you incorporate lots of black and gray, and make plenty of snarky, condescending comments.
Women say the industry doesn't speak to them, can be condescending to them, doesn't understand their needs.
Many White House staff feel Kelly walked in the door with a condescending "daddy's here now" attitude.
Many Democrats, she says, are dismissive of her religious beliefs and condescending of her lot in life.
It's also a little condescending to think that people will take a price that they think exploitative.
We can be condescending and heedless of the costs we impose on patients' lives and bank accounts.
Now he may have blown his future, by shoving a white teacher who was condescending to him.
Maddow told him that he was being condescending and clarified that her passion was based in fact.
I Feel Pretty is like a feature-length Dove ad, only somehow even more condescending and consumerist.
Journalists took to social media to blast Watters for what they saw as condescending and racist behavior.
There's a difference between sharing in another culture and making use of it in a condescending way.
" At Morehouse, I never confronted a classmate who asked in a condescending tone, "Why are you here?
I don't mean this in a condescending way, but they don't have other people to help them.
If your approach is simply condescending or censorious, the ratio of hurt to learning will be high.
The idea that, having more information, black voters would go with Mr. Sanders is "condescending," she said.
Consulting firms like JÜV are helping grown-up brands talk to young people without condescending to them.
You don't want to come across as condescending, and you also don't want to underestimate Mr. Kemp.
Men are socialized to be condescending toward women, and even the few who check themselves often fail.
Many people find it hard to figure out a way to talk to kids that's not condescending.
Condescending social commentary by a large, communitarian band of Canadian art-rockers will inspire nobody in 2017.
In this formulation, elites are a destructive, condescending collective, plotting against the beleaguered masses outside their ranks.
It's what I've been doing for my whole life and nobody has had condescending remarks against it.
Employees with this personality type have a bloated sense of accomplishment and are self-centered and condescending.
The Chainsmokers now say they wrote it "as a joke," but the effect is condescending, not funny.
So far, Trump has "behaved" and "stayed focused," in the condescending words of his self-important aides.
He meant it in a condescending way, but clearly there are many members who side with Perry.
Yet Republicans face their own risks if their attacks on her are perceived as sexist or condescending.
"It was condescending and impersonal," said L.L. Gaddy, who graduated from the University of South Carolina in 2015.
It's that label and the condescending sentiments of coastal elites that fueled support for President-elect Donald Trump.
It's condescending," Hayek reportedly said, before Shirley MacLaine chimed in and challenged others to uncover their "core identity.
All this embarrasses a government that has promised to make women "shine", its condescending catchphrase for female empowerment.
Given that LGBT people aren't flesh-eating murderers, drawing lines between those groups can seem condescending or offensive.
The images show the condescending way law enforcement officers forced the women to undress, while her children watched.
Every time my boss or somebody else was condescending or mansplaining or micromanaging me, I would cry immediately.
"When the press approached us in the first year, they were disparaging, a little bit condescending," Kalturnyk said.
You to remind him how to close apps on his iPhone but not in a condescending way. 203.
That's not only condescending AF, it's exactly the wrong attitude to have when it comes to user privacy.
Now, I know this might sound silly or condescending at first blush, but I promise you it works.
"The American people do not need more emotional, condescending lectures that are completely devoid of facts," Cox said.
In the real world two years earlier, Al Gore had lost a debate with Bush by appearing condescending.
His father, a health inspector, had never forgiven him for moving away; his nieces found his urbanity condescending.
That sneering, condescending emotion accounts for around 5.76 percent of the resting expression for those afflicted with RBF.
But Ms. Worsham deftly ensures that there's nothing cloying or condescending to the Asperger's elements of the play.
If you talk to Trump supporters, they have an idea of progressives that isn't accurate, and very condescending.
And we have turned the "Resistance" into a byword for the hysterical and condescending ninnies of American politics.
Its skewed depictions often seem careless or condescending, but they stem from a healthy desire to superimpose tension.
Smarsh: The term "elite" is successfully leveraged by conservative propagandists seeking to cast coastal liberals as condescending snobs.
I don't want to come across as overbearing and condescending or out of touch with their financial realities.
The prideful and condescending defense secretary, James Schlesinger, squabbled with the prima donna secretary of state, Henry Kissinger.
Her boss is a condescending gallery owner who overworks and underpays her, if she pays her at all.
While university professors might be scorned as condescending eggheads, book smarts are prized when used against the bookish.
A 911 operator has been accused of being "rude" and "condescending" to a drowning victim before she died.
" But the email, they said, "Felt condescending, and like they were spreading false or misleading information about unions.
Monologues are often addressed directly to the audience, with a chummy air that stops short of condescending jokiness.
By 2017, it's probably tired and condescending now to use the "you can't even tell it's vegan" line.
Cedric is aristocratic, sartorial perfection, yet while he claims to love her, his attitude is increasingly condescending and critical.
That's not necessarily crucial, but it works better—it's just way more condescending to use a player's first name.
The internet took Condescending Wonka and ran with it, quickly building an archive of tens of thousands of images.
" In response to this, Barbara told AOL, "Not surprised at Ramona's response considering she's nasty and condescending to most.
No amount of condescending comments, ignorant assumptions or statements of outright bigotry ever prepare me for the next one.
Looking back, the idea that anyone believed Riggs could have beaten King is as laughable as it is condescending.
I ask several questions of the other side and get slightly condescending responses, putting me in a foul mood.
I hate to sound condescending, but as a 27-year-old woman, I now know this to be true.
KURTZ: They know how condescending elite institutions, which includes the elite media, are, when it comes to these things.
I don't want them to be tricked, but I don't want to embarrass them or sound condescending, either. Thoughts?
Research shows that modern-day slaveholders have a complicated mindset, condescending and paternalistic, not necessarily one of pure evil.
While there were the predictable policy differences, what bothered Reagan most about Trudeau was his condescending and lecturing style.
So, center-left parties often keep mum on immigration, a stance that strikes nationalists as infuriatingly elitist and condescending.
Still, he resented the condescending European assumption that the New World would never really rise above breathless cultural tourism.
But the words ... the grammar was bad, the messages completely contradictory, condescending or self-loathing, the writing mostly mediocre.
"I was apparently condescending because of the way I was acting, and I found that very interesting," he said.
This condescending attitude proved, of course, to be bullshit, and just another guise of judging and controlling mostly women.
While hoarding opportunity for themselves and perpetuating structural inequalities, they can also come off as smug, condescending and paternalistic.
Even liberals themselves often buy into these claims, berate themselves for having been condescending and pledge to do better.
I don't mean that to be condescending: The people in Cruz's Waukesha office are doing hard and thankless work.
Someone should confront the rich, vapid and condescending every day as they ignore the homeless people all around them.
The gynecologist's voice was steady and detached, but her lips pursed in a condescending smirk and her eyes gleamed.
Their hopes are contrasted with the condescending racist attitudes of whites, not simply in Virginia, but also in Pennsylvania.
Democrats immediately denounced Mr. DeSantis's words, which are freighted with a condescending and racist meaning for many black people.
All through his campaign, the GOP nominee has been at best condescending, and at worst hostile, to African-Americans.
Cuomo then went on a lengthy explanation of sexual harassment, which some saw as condescending lecturing (mansplaining or "govsplaining").
In doing so, I am aware of a long, unfortunate political tradition: dismissing, caricaturing or condescending to young voters.
King owes Margaret, his own wife and daughter, and all women a sincere apology for his distasteful, condescending remarks.
This is not a great look, particularly when the populist's most effective tool is rage against a condescending élite.
Mayor Pete just won't stop with the misleading, condescending, destructive talking points on free college so here we go.
Paige considers the other female competitors suspiciously, unwittingly condescending to them because she doesn't view them as real wrestlers.
It's McEnroe presumably trying to give a compliment, yet managing to be both condescending, petty, and frankly, pretty tired.
Even Julien's cat, Nevermore, is unfriendly and "condescending" to human beings, as Madame X, a cat lover, describes it.
There's just one small problem: So many of the office supplies that are marketed toward women are incredibly condescending.
Referring to him as a "rock star" is somewhat condescending, implying what he's pursuing is performative rather than artistic.
In nearly 30 minutes of phone conversations with an Orlando police negotiator, Mateen sounded alternately angry, frazzled, evasive and condescending.
But after the third "Let me help you down," what started as a courtesy started to feel a little condescending.
Victoria calls him a prig for it; I'd use stronger language for being so condescending to the queen of England.
Sanders: Clinton 'condescending' to young voters Sanders' campaign manager Jeff Weaver had downplayed expectations for the Brooklyn native earlier Monday.
Mr. Macron, often accused of being arrogant or condescending, now acknowledges the feeling of injustice generated by the economic imbalances.
America and Europe remain "culturally more powerful" than China and have yet to change "their very condescending attitude", he says.
But it also feels weirdly condescending: a young person returns home to amaze the locals with her "practically magic" device.
The moving stories show confident women leading very different lives, but the ads don't resort to familiar or condescending cliches.
It's not what people think it is: "Oh, you're doing a slasher, doing a horror film," they're a little condescending.
He invites her to join him in adulthood and that pretty much sums up Cole's condescending attitude to everyone else.
It's condescending, at best, and it's old fashioned and perpetuates the idea that women aren't women if they're not mothers.
This retrograde begins in Sagittarius, the sign of the philosopher, so you'll notice people being especially condescending and self-righteous.
At first, the thought of a behavioral nudge can seem condescending, but in the right context it can be helpful.
"Actually, it's when a man explains something to a woman in a condescending way, but you were close," Kimmel retorted.
As for J.J. himself, he can be— especially when faced with well-meaning if condescending do-gooders — straight-up mean.
For what it's worth, I do think Eric is emotionally immature, but Lee didn't have to be condescending about it.
If the news often confines women's issues to a pink ghetto, it can be even more condescending to young women.
The condescending attitude must stop; otherwise we might end up pushing away voters due to a feeling of non-acceptance.
But she may have been the first to harness the anger in that particular energy without sentimentality or condescending cuteness.
It was thrilling to feel that the writer and the director weren't condescending to us and assumed we'd keep up.
There's no question that officers can develop hardened, obnoxious, condescending attitudes — and that needs to be softened all the time.
Asked by Hirono about the edits, which she called "offensive and condescending," Willkie suggested he was not responsible for them.
They totally miss how condescending they're coming across: Maybe you already read the book they're proselytizing about—they wouldn't know!
He can be extremely condescending to me about something minor that is not entirely my fault — and then apologetic afterward.
To the Editor: I readily accept that the pain of the underprivileged is real and that elites can be condescending.
The condescending type of Susan, whose sole mission is to make me feel like I don't deserve to exist anywhere.
Alayah answers all of Sydney's condescending questions seriously and without showing any offense, which is kind of amazing to see.
That, Professor Williams argues, can make misogyny attractive to the white working class, a way to rebel against condescending elites.
It's clear that I was the one who was truly out of touch and my response was reactionary and condescending.
Another less condescending explanation is that the public favors these sorts of down-market entertainments specifically because elitists disfavor them.
This urgency that women should support Clinton so she can defend causes can come across as condescending to young women.
Theresa May ran what was perhaps the worst campaign in recent political history—robotic, cliché-ridden, condescending, slapdash and otherwise awful.
At last Monday night's CNN town hall, a first-time Iowa caucus-goer asked Hillary Clinton a question some considered condescending.
Did he just start screaming at someone younger, or a woman, or an African American, in an extremely derogatory, condescending fashion?
On Monday, Swedish union Unionen launched a hotline for workers fed up with receiving unsolicited, condescending lectures from their male colleagues.
In nearly 30 minutes of phone conversations with an Orlando police negotiator, the gunman sounded alternately angry, frazzled, evasive and condescending.
Some people on Twitter saw it as a typical Biden remark, but a lot of people thought it was really condescending.
When she confronts him, he's condescending about it in a way that only a patriarchal dude can be when addressing women.
Just get ready for lots of condescending comments like, "Oh yeah, that LG looks real nice," from your iPhone-wielding friends.
Don't forget to maintain a positive tone and attitude either: Negativity, complaints and condescending messages often reflect poorly on the poster.
We'd have no tolerance for someone who preached civil rights from the pulpit but was condescending to black people in private.
One would think those who think themselves more intelligent would see how simplistic and unenlightened it is to be so condescending.
The possibility that they can't "understand" or "accept" solidarity from other non-Black people of color is a pretty condescending assumption.
You know when people in the South say, "Bless her heart" ... but they really mean it in a condescending, insulting way???
But coddling voters by forming a phalanx around Trump is more condescending than anything that was said at the Golden Globes.
When we voiced other beliefs, cowering Republicans handed us the condescending, inclusive language they'd adopted to adapt to the Obama era.
They go on to explain that Biden's use of the term "Condescending, angry, or elitist" is somehow adopting a gendered trope.
"It is fair to say about eunuchs that they are vindictive, babyish, condescending, and easily bored," she reflects at one point.
As a woman, even a wealthy one, she is all but alone in a hostile or, at best, a condescending world.
Yet "American Psycho" treats the '80s with the condescending nostalgia associated with decade-defining clip-compilation shows on lesser cable channels.
But her tweet was widely seen as a condescending look at ordinary English people by a member of the London elite.
You can see a look of judgment cross Tiffany's and Derek's faces, even if their condescending response tries to hide it.
She is a little muted, a little dead-eyed, yes, but she is also less aggressive, less condescending, less startlingly terrible.
In my estimation, his use of the word "young" when addressing Shaver and his hotel guest was as a condescending pejorative.
Some students saw themselves in portrayals they found condescending, or thought the writer was too kind toward those with racist views.
Yet he can't overplay his depth or he risks being condescending, which is not a good look when debating a woman.
I believe that it's condescending to think that women and their claims can't stand up to interrogation and can't handle skepticism.
"We talk about the residents in a condescending manner: insertion, integration, security, antiracism, equality of opportunity," Yenbou said to the audience.
" Though the book presents itself as fiercely feminist, its tone is often condescending: "I look at an awful lot of leaves.
"It's condescending to the millions of Democrats who have a different view," Biden wrote, a formulation he'd largely repeat in Pittsburgh.
JULIE MARKOFF Long Branch, N.J. To the Editor: David Brooks misses the boat in his condescending critique of the Women's March.
Divorced from his action-movie deadpan, Snipes is having the time of his life, and he lands every condescending punch line.
In an interview in October, Lauer took a condescending tone with Corey Feldman, who was talking about his childhood sexual abuse.
The other ... And I have less of a problem with this, but one of the general responses to any of this, this came up with fact-checking Trump with his nationally televised address at the beginning of the year, which is, this is all condescending, we think we're trying to help the consumer, we're really condescending to them.
To rhetorically shift from solidarity with a movement to a condescending savior stance (implied by "exploitation") removes a recognition of women's agency.
Others, like Reddit user PhD_in_everything, satirize internet archetypes like the mansplaining know-it-all by overtly condescending to whomever they're speaking with.
What is it with dudes who feel they're superior and, therefore, can be condescending to women who hold their exact same title?
It flies against Blanca's optimism, and also — in a wider cultural context — against the condescending, reigning assimilationism of "it gets better" campaigns.
But the choice of words here is just so ill-advised...and tone-deaf and objectifying and marginalizing and condescending and disempowering.
Reagan's star image was practically designed for the presidency: all twinkling avuncular eyes and an air of condescending father-knows-best competence.
A guy who receives condescending pats on the head when he cracks 200 yards dropped 368 yards on the Patriots in Foxboro.
For Clinton, that means displaying her characteristic command of policy detail while not appearing arrogant or condescending to Trump or his supporters.
Even when people hold nothing against those with disabilities, they can often unintentionally speak to them in a condescending or alienating way.
However, Serena's serious tone is not matched by her husband, Fred, who dismisses her with a condescending promise to discuss the matter.
The rant, like the general condescending paranoia of "Smithereens," sounds like old-fashioned Baby Boomer complaints stuffed into a handsome 30something's mouth.
Detroit, MichiganJuly 2482I am writing to complain that your agents at the border on this particular day were condescending and very rude.
Former acting attorney general Sally Yates had no time for condescending nonsense during her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday.
" Perhaps feeling defensive, he then went on a condescending riff about how Waters is "a sincere individual—whatever she says she believes.
"Now take this credit card and put it through the machine, zap zap," he says in condescending tones to the store assistant.
Kathleen Wynne [former premier of Ontario] immolated her personal dignity in their desperate and weirdly condescending effort to stave off political obliteration.
The National Rifle Association was quick to blast the president's remarks, saying they were "condescending" to law-abiding gun owners. http://bit.
That's why the timing and negative, condescending tone of this resolution could not be worse and would work against the authors' intent.
In that family interview with Anderson Cooper, Tiffany batted back a suggestion that her father was condescending and even insulting to women.
Is that really what laïcité is all about, or does it also incorporate a condescending attitude toward religious expression outside the home?
It can come across as condescending and shallow in the way that the self-help section of a bookstore can come across.
Muhammad got irritated with one Facebook commenter to their show's page who used the word sis in a condescending manner toward her.
"It's time to say enough to this condescending, elitist sarcasm that we get from the Liberal and media elites," Leitch's post states.
I am a pro-life feminist and, please, spare me your condescending insistence that one cannot be both pro-life and feminist.
He treated interviewers the way cats treat mice, condescending to them and pouncing on their, in his view, naïve and ridiculous questions.
Despite your best efforts to avoid being condescending, however, you can't help noticing that his opinions seem a bit, well, factually challenged.
"Since we were kids, I chose white, you chose black," Christina says gingerly, trying not to anger Van but also being condescending.
It's not his cockiness that causes me to tune out, but it's the same condescending undertone that turns me away from Logic.
Using "chopsticks" for your life, or making small differences to everyday boring tasks, is a solution that is temporary and slightly condescending.
MIKE Apparently, in the two years since your judgmental and condescending remarks to your friend, it hasn't occurred to you to apologize.
"You did a hell of a job in your job," he said, in a tone that struck some as condescending and paternalistic.
They have a great deal of which to be proud — they enrich the American scene and do not require our condescending protection.
" After seeing the "condescending grins on their faces," he realizes "they were not looking for a sense of communion with other people.
The disrespectful and condescending treatment of two prominent black women in the U.S. has sparked a global hashtag campaign about everyday racism.
You go to the big firm and there's this very condescending view of the plaintiffs' side, even when you're representing big institutions.
For the committed leftist, the ''liberal'' is a weak-minded, market-friendly centrist, wonky and technocratic and condescending to the working class.
Chong Ja Ian, political science professor at National University Singapore, said some people found Chan's remarks "condescending" and others "frank and forthcoming".
Steven Universe naturalizes the issues many shows would rather sensationalize in a way that's clever but not condescending to its younger audience.
CAVUTO: I thought this European chief was a little condescending in his remarks, saying you got to realize, Mr. President, appreciate your allies.
I work really hard to not do to someone what I wouldn't want them to do to me — cutting somebody off, being condescending.
Just the same, I'd trust Bailey's ability to diagnose herself, and she does outrank this dude so what is with the condescending attitude?
Expressing their disgust with Paytm's condescending tone, several people threatened its founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma on Twitter of uninstalling and leaving the app.
" Dylan Byers, CNN: "Sanders is at least a little defensive and condescending… she may be above Spicer but she's miles behind, say, Earnest.
Was Herzog's lens offering a sort of exotic voyeurism, and was there a danger that comparing local customs with science could be condescending?
Manafort, the GOP presidential nominee's campaign manager, reportedly advised against it, arguing it could be seen as condescending, but his advice went unheeded.
Most infuriatingly, Hart used the same diminishing, condescending excuses from his Seriously Funny joke to try and mask the hostility of his attitude.
In fact, because of the word's feminine associations, it can be especially condescending to a man, belittling and feminising at the same time.
The Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and others still cling to the coastal, condescending view of the remainder of the country.
So a politician who uses it, especially a white politician who uses it, may come across as condescending, jargon-dependent and, well, rude.
In an April interview with Rolling Stone, he clapped back at the people who speak about his female fans in a condescending manner.
But when it comes to taste, the field seems to be populated by condescending straw men sneering down at us from their perch.
Sanders's briefings offer repeated confirmation to Trump's base that the U.S. government is being run by Christians standing up to condescending Beltway insiders.
When he lost, he could be condescending toward his opponents, who, he judged, had benefited from his mistakes rather than their own skill.
Their attitude toward the NCOs — those sergeants who acted as intermediaries between the officers and the enlisted Iraqis — was only slightly less condescending.
"All My Children" is a mostly fond but perhaps passive aggressively condescending tribute to all of the stars that he mentored and influenced.
So here's what The Mandibles leave us with: flat characters who exist as mouthpieces for smugly condescending straw-man arguments on economic theory.
I think that when we hear criticism like that, that the voice is condescending, we hear it all the time, it's nothing new.
The company is one of several new marketing firms that illuminate the inner workings of kids these days without condescending to them. How?
Many performers, directors, and producers of porn films have blasted the new parameters as bureaucratic overreach, as well as being condescending and unrealistic.
Thankfully, though, Ms. DuVernay has dispensed with the winking and cutesiness that are Hollywood's preferred ways of pandering and condescending to grown-ups.
There's a fine line between condescending, finger-wagging rap, and J. Cole's KOD, which sometimes felt like his version of a D.A.R.E. lecture.
We prefer books by native-born authors and avoid books with a condescending tone or a narrator who is oblivious to local culture.
It's simply written, it's not condescending or cutesy, and it removes the mystery from something that many of us find a little scary.
It is a fun stat, perhaps the only metric developed post-''Moneyball'' that hasn't been explained to the public in a condescending whine.
I didn't want anybody to deal with the invalidation and embarrassment of pouring your feelings into someone who would be condescending about it.
A really delightful sketch from Friday's Late Show features Hamill as a middle-aged Luke and Colbert as a condescending Cantina maître d'.
"I thought it was condescending," said Dylan Bremner, 22, one of the students who protested Buttigieg over his plan to address climate change.
Why should a woman who's partnered with a controlling, condescending boyfriend on The Amazing Race get as far away from him as possible?
Chris Christie of New Jersey for president, Mr. McQuaid has battered Mr. Trump for what he has described as a superficial and condescending campaign.
Spicer's remarks were paternalistic and condescending, and many have legitimately questioned whether he would have treated a white male journalist in the same way.
These range from dismissive to condescending, with the occasional attempt to compare the all-consuming, structural violence of colonialism with ephemeral conflicts between tribes.
Some applaud him — one calls him "amazing"— while others have come to find him too off-putting, too wobbly in his beliefs, too condescending.
But it's irritating and condescending that so many of my family members and friends really think I can't be happy as a single woman.
Cruz's colleagues in the Senate have routinely described the junior senator from Texas as being condescending, combative, and pretty much the all-around worst.
With condescending finger-wagging, others recite the deplorable statistics of violence within poor minority neighborhoods as though racist policing were an antidote or excuse.
Even on the topic of "1985," perceived by many to be a condescending warning/diss against Lil Pump and his peers, everything is relaxed.
"The American people do not need more emotional, condescending lectures that are completely devoid of facts," said Chris W. Cox, the group's top lobbyist.
Though the Doctor is ever-changing (the character regenerates at regular intervals) each iteration boasts another white, mostly upper class, largely condescending, British man.
She is condescending to our party, and then does a complete behavioral change for the white male passenger who gets in line behind us.
" In a fairly condescending blog post about the change, OkCupid wrote: "We know, this is tough to hear — especially for StayingPawwsitive, Dootdootledootd0 and Britney__Tears.
Loki is no all-powerful Tom Hiddleston, but merely the smartest and most danger-prone of the gods: alternately shrewd, afraid and extremely condescending.
The band girls are condescending to the Bellas, who have all apparently been on a big downswing in life since they graduated from college.
For conservatives in particular, extraction of natural resources in rural areas is a stand-in for values worth fighting for against condescending urban elites.
The movement's arguments are condescending and cynical—but that's not stopping its evangelists from spreading the gospel of food-name absolutism around the country.
But one of the striking things about "Jane the Virgin" is that it is never truly ironic, let alone condescending to its source material.
Another person could shoot all this same subject matter very differently—in negative or condescending light, or in a way that was highly politicized.
Chris Christie of New Jersey was galled by a condescending-sounding voice message Mr. Rubio left him after Mr. Christie ended his presidential campaign.
Flipping the script, she turned herself into his relentless tormentor, condescending to him repeatedly and deploying some of his own trademark tactics against him.
I took a condescending pleasure in trying to open his mind, even as I sought his silent approval for the man I had become.
Trump directs his supporters to blame the people they see every day on TV if they're watching Fox News: immigrants and condescending liberal elites.
"I don't know, have you?" he replied — a condescending and dismissive response to the legitimate exercise of a senator's duty of advise and consent.
Mr. Rapp is an undeniably talented actor ("Rent") but his first impression in "Discovery" is one of a meanspirited, patronizing and constantly condescending astromicologist.
According to McGuire, people often dodge or offer condescending responses to consent-related conversations because the idea challenges societal norms about sex and relationships.
He took their side against immigrant rapists, murderous jihadis, plundering trade deals, dangerous city people and disloyal, condescending elites of all parties and persuasions.
Postmodern architecture had something about it that could seem condescending, maybe even snide – at very least insiderish – and this kept the movement from flourishing.
But it's impossible not to shudder when you see George's perception toward Philomena flicker between that of solicitous lover and condescending, even contemptuous owner.
I'm not saying you said this, but those folks who would say, "Oh, that's not what presidents do," it's condescending to the American people.
What about that concept felt like something you could distill into a song and not have it come across as condescending or self-righteous?
It feels condescending to suggest that, given there are hoards of people who love their CBD tinctures and gummies and claim effects from it.
"Mansplaining" is what happens when a man explains to a women something she already knows, usually in a subtly (or not-so-subtly) condescending way.
Then, they'll try and tell you how you could do all these things better, which can sometimes come across as tone-deaf, condescending, or controlling.
In this retelling, Miranda and Caliban are best friends, each other's sole companion on the island outside of cold, demanding Prospero and capricious, condescending Ariel.
Her entire public persona has been rooted in ignoring the whims of the world in a way that feels comforting, rather than condescending and privileged.
Jovovich imbues the Dutchess with exaggerated, condescending smarminess, while Awkwafina offers a restrained take on Yu, one of the few characters who defies easy categorization.
While the slave master was rude and condescending to Daenerys, Missandei "diplomatically" — as Emmanuel described it — translated his words so as to not offend Khaleesi.
Lucy, the MC, perceives the other MC as a stoic condescending man when he is anything but and gets the chance to see for herself!!
And it's condescending to assume that millennials don't understand that they can simultaneously save for a house while they enjoy the occasional avocado toast treat.
The majority of men greeted the movement with a condescending and receiving smile, while the newspapers picked up the issue as an ideal space filler.
Spencer does an excellent slow burn as Dorothy Vaughan, a computing supervisor who has to report to a condescending, less-qualified white woman (Kirsten Dunst).
And so, rather than coming off as a condescending "told you so," the film makes us feel like it's letting us in on the secret.
When people from these communities came to my show, they were excited to see our brownness being shown and celebrated like this without condescending waving.
But for a moment, he seems entirely alien, like he's condescending to be in the world for a moment just to get a job done.
For Clinton, who has lost her lead in recent weeks, her challenge was to stand up to an unpredictable opponent without appearing contemptuous or condescending.
WeChat is the best riposte to the condescending, widely held belief that Chinese internet firms are merely imitators of Western ones, and cannot innovate themselves.
" People do the condescending head to the side as they avoid looking directly at you and ask, "So… what's it like being a single parent?
In one of the experiments, 358 women were asked to read shopping scenarios in a store, with some imagining a salesperson acting condescending toward them.
Condescending coaches try to fit their client to a rigid exercise prescription, regardless of it's the right thing for their client based on their goals.
But Amash does, and his forceful public statements on impeachment are a noticeable contrast with the squishy and condescending ones emanating from House Democratic leadership.
I don't have the luxury, nor the natural disposition, to be condescending or any of the other things that people on the left stereotypically do.
The left already has gotten into trouble for condescending to working-class people, and insulting all Trump supporters as racists simply magnifies that problem. 4.
The Washington Post published three articles about the so-called controversy: "Vanity Fair staffers provide snotty, condescending life tips for Hillary Clinton," read one headline.
As for the actual contests: The difference between Japanese and American title bouts is officiousness—a condescending display that betrays the nature of the game.
I dread the day when people in the "helping professions" start calling me "hon" or "dear," terms that, while well meaning, feel condescending and demeaning.
A more interesting — and I would argue more likely — outcome would be for Jack to come in second, accepting the condescending approval of his listeners.
He is, for instance, notably condescending to his chatterbox young girlfriend, Myna (Talene Monahon) — but then so is the play in giving her that name.
He was dealing with people half his age, and we must have made plenty of mistakes that made him cringe, but he was never condescending.
The man addressed me over the cliff of his shoulder—talked down to me in the same condescending way Mister Hughes explained polynomials and hypotenuses.
But, like the mean tweets, they have been grating for some digital natives, who mock the naked bid to buy affection as condescending and inorganic.
The board has decided to make her "co-principal" with Joel, a condescending upstart with only a few years of experience compared to her decades.
Watch her condescending response, share with your friends, and CALL her office at (415) 393-0707 to ask her to support the Green New Deal!
The initial spectacle of mediocrity condescending to genius is painful, but the subsequent triumph of self-taught brilliance over credentialed ignorance is thrilling to witness.
After graduating from the country's most prestigious school, Daniela is sent off into a forced, polyamorous marriage with her worst enemy and a condescending husband.
In her post, Rose shared the video of Newton talking down to Rodrigue in a condescending tone, insinuating women can't possibly be knowledgable about sports.
Once a photo of the fliers circulated on Twitter, users objected to language they found condescending and more suited to feedback given to a dog.
But his tone toward Ms. Ryan struck some viewers — including Hillary Clinton — as pointed and condescending, particularly because it was directed toward a black woman.
But as they piled up higher than even the most majestic Trump-envisioned border wall could ever reach, he came across as strident, mocking, condescending, bratty.
"It was condescending, it was just creepy," Symone Sanders, Bernie Sanders' former Press Secretary and a strategist for the Democratic SuperPac Priorities USA, said on CNN.
But for those bands, any reference to mainstream pop culture was almost always meant to be ironic or condescending—it's used as shorthand for mass idiocy.
Yes, Jane considers herself a passionate feminist, but when it comes down to it, she too can be driven by a sexist, condescending, and judgmental thought.
He found "native" Californians smug and condescending, and he found their suggestion that their drought-prone home was better than everywhere else in the world vapid.
Perhaps they're haughty, condescending elitists who see technology as a badge of social status, and an $800 cellphone as a way to lord that over others.
She added that she's never "confused" by their year-long relationship and that Aronofsky may be an Ivy League guy, but he's not a condescending snob.
Accusations of neuroticism, condescending nicknames, and plastic surgery-shaming aside, it's truly beneath the dignity of the presidency (or anyone, really) to spout such sexists remarks.
Yet it's also resulted in some truly condescending behavior by a subset of players who think the game and its difficulty are reasons to feel superior.
And I think that trying to create excitement around the book awards, around 5 Under 35, around books at large, is about not condescending to people.
The traditional idea that creoles come from pidgins may be fascinating, but it risks seeming condescending—by positing that creoles have simpler grammars as a result.
When he confidently proclaimed in his condescending, high-pitched voice that his equation could explain the evolution of altruism, they probably thought he was a crank.
In the meantime, we must find a middle ground between condescending to teens about their use of technology and dismissing concern about that trend as alarmist.
It's a funny running gag, but mocking Trump supporters is dangerously easy to criticize as condescending liberal elitism, especially when Trump is underperforming badly in polls.
As a millennial and a retail reporter, I've always found the near-anthropological discussions of my peers' spending habits to be mildly hilarious and fairly condescending.
How about some condescending news stories explaining this to the whiners pushing for stronger intellectual property rules who are too dumb to understand the simple economics?
But now that Abedin finally has announced a separation, let's not be so condescending as to congratulate her, or to agree that she'll be better off.
On a meme page, you can joke about professors or classes or mock your peers—econ bros, touchy-feely poetry majors, sorority girls, condescending physics dudes.
"The American people do not need more emotional, condescending lectures that are completely devoid of facts," said Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA's legislative branch.
Unfortunately for the people who live with PGAD—overwhelmingly female—complaints of the incessant sensation are almost invariably greeted with condescending chortling, rather than professional compassion.
Bannon saw the Trump campaign as the American expression of what happened in the U.K. with Brexit: a popular revolt against a complacent and condescending elite.
Southerners deserve a publication that covers the nuances of their environment, history and communities without being condescending or stereotypical, without parachuting in from large metropolitan areas.
In a world where referees "T-up" coaches for far more subjectively determined violations, there is an argument that the coach's box is extraneous, even condescending.
I don't want to be the wide-eyed or condescending American who parachutes into a place only to judge life experiences so far from her own.
Every scene between them feels fraught, as Elena's awkward and condescending attempts to prove that she's a good person (and a not racist) are repeatedly rebuffed.
" A Reuters report tells us that in some parts of the country, "the word 'Democrat' is often a euphemism for out-of-touch, condescending coastal elites.
When the subject comes up, I find those on the right of the issue give me a knowing and condescending look, as if I've been hoodwinked.
And while Trump has openly aired annoyance with McMaster -- who he views as discursive and sometimes condescending -- finding a new national security adviser hasn't been easy.
For a long time, I've worried that cheerleaders are obsolete in professional sports, especially the NFL, where the relationship with women feels condescending or downright menacing.
But to dismiss parents' instincts that our kids are in trouble and that technology may be part of the problem risks being both misguided and condescending.
To its critics, the bronze statue called "Early Days" is an offensive and condescending depiction of Native Americans that fails to acknowledge racism, colonization and genocide.
That makes it very hard for the administration to sell its big-picture vision without seeming like it's being condescending or missing the point in practice.
" McCord, that same season, called de Lesseps a "thug in a cocktail dress" — adding at the season 4 reunion that de Lesseps was "vile, condescending, and nasty.
Trump is often described as a good listener in private — but in public, he's as condescending to his allies and followers as he is to his enemies.
Twitter user Daurmith jumped on this by writing short bios for some of science's most famous men, but in the condescending manner typically employed for female scientists.
I owe it to my younger self, that poor girl with a tear-swollen face, ashamed and embarrassed after hearing yet another condescending comment about her appearance.
Originally I found it condescending towards the biggest badass in Westeros, but then remembered Lyanna Mormont (Bella Ramsay) is literally a little bear, considering House Mormont's sigil.
Every year, the Oscars have a handful of semi-condescending "foreign" categories, a brief moment for Hollywood to acknowledge movies are sometimes made in non-English languages.
Birdie, like so many young girls who are constantly hearing condescending declarations about how special they are, is also written off as deeply stupid at every turn.
Brooks took to Twitter to express her frustration after employees for an unnamed airline treated her in a condescending manner with regards to her first-class ticket.
And the captions and explanations are helpful without being obtrusive or, as is so often the case with exhibits of North Korean culture, well-meaning but condescending.
Here, he puts his all behind "Love, Hope and Misery," a slow, yearning, condescending advice song to dumped girlfriends that also functions as an apology for leaving.
As a woman, as a feminist and as a Democrat, I'm offended by the entire dismissive, condescending line of attack your campaign has taken in this election.
He must be assertive enough to put concerns about his vigor to rest but not so aggressive as to seem mean-spirited or condescending to fellow Democrats.
These more condescending reactions, however, aren't surprising to El-Moslimany, who believes that there is far more fiction than fact in the narrative surrounding "oppressed" Saudi women.
I think that's condescending and patriarchal in a way, especially without a full understanding of what, for example, Sri Lanka's role in the global economy might be.
It is superficially polite, but in its condescending tone, carries the air of a college rejection letter (We "greatly appreciate your time, patience and effort," but "Sadly...").
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — an ally of the president and a fellow Republican — also defended Miller, calling Tapper "condescending and unself aware" in a Twitter post.
In a very real sense, that same tension between condescending, older authority figures and younger ones who reject them is at work in the OK boomer meme.
At the risk of being ruinously condescending, it's worth wondering how "Euphoria" might have turned out with someone more experienced — Barry Levinson, say — in the producing mix.
And while the condescending may look down upon the genre, it promotes female success, powerful female relationships, female sexual agency and high standards for intimacy and relationships.
It was a darker motivation that led Congress to ban booze entirely: a condescending view of Native Americans as helpless to resist the intoxicating allure of alcohol.
Dory's friends and reluctant, sometimes willfully obstructive partners in detection include a narcissistic actress, Portia (Meredith Hagner), and her condescending gay bestie, Elliott (John Early), both funny.
"The assumption that these people are going to flip into terrorists and start attacking the United States is driven by some very condescending liberal assumptions," he said.
Will we continue to sit idly by while an alleged rapist ostentatiously looks down his nose at us, doing condescending, totally unprompted, objectively terrible tweets all day?
"In Europe, if you overdo it, you could get a condescending look," said Anna Dycheva-Smirnova, the association's deputy chairwoman, referring to the amount of makeup used.
From assorted commentators I have heard that it is unfair or condescending to say that all Trump voters were racists, or sexists, or that they hated foreigners.
I don't mean that to be like, as condescending as it might come across, but like Spelunky is like one of my favorite games of all time.
Asking a woman to smile is a selfish act, and it's rarely in a caring tone; it's condescending and it turns a simple gesture into something sexual.
I think it's quite condescending to suggest that really smart people with the best Ph.D.s in the country flew all the way there for a photo op.
The characterization of the so-called White Turks as wealthy, degenerate, condescending elites obsessed with partying resurfaced, to remind people of the proper object of their resentments.
"Personal finance info aimed at women is a steady stream of condescending advice to restrain ourselves from overspending on 'frivolous' things like shoes or lattes," Krawcheck said.
The humor of integrating incongruous external elements into rap stems from a condescending attitude towards rap; it's only funny if you already view rap as somehow ridiculous.
This results in a weird kind of reverse political correctness, where some white pundits dismiss any explanation of the election centering on racism as condescending and insulting.
And though I'm a straight white man who can't claim to know much about the ins and outs of queer relationships, Dream Daddy never feels condescending or hateful.
He says a couple more unnecessary sentences about nothing really, before patting Complex's Nadeska Alexis on the shoulder in a super condescending way when she calls Thugger brave.
This type of situation would typically call for a charm offensive, though Pai has apparently decided to resort to his time-honored tactic of being incredibly condescending instead.
Instead of addressing the questions New Yorkers have raised about Amazon's forthcoming expansion, Cuomo, de Blasio, and Glen are all using condescending doublespeak to dismiss their constituents' concerns.
And although Biden enjoys touting his proximity to Obama, it comes off as condescending when the former vice president addresses the black community about inequalities that plague it.
"It was a very condescending meeting, but I wanted to play ball, and I wanted to be a good showrunner, so I went with it," Petosky told Buzzfeed.
The release of the short film seems particularly apt, as it comes on the heels of Watson herself being dismissed in a condescending column published in The Sun.
"Although several people had described problems similar to mine, they were all dismissed by condescending 'gurus' who simply said that we had mislocated our files," wrote the user.
Not condescending-the-cuisine-of-other-cultures bad, or personal-preference bad, or even just-so-crazy-it-might-work bad, but full-on, flat-out anti-tasty.
I took her condescending tone as evidence that she was trying discourage me from continuing my mission––and therefore that I must be getting close to the Truth.
I think it's kind of condescending to think that people have no value unless they're programmers, which is often the vibe I get when I'm in Silicon Valley.
" (In case you've already forgotten some dank memes, think doge, Condescending Wonka, or NO. rage face.) "Dank memes," McCulloch says, "require a basic understanding of internet meme-dom.
The hardest part about dating a Sag is that they slip into lecturing you at the wrong moment and can come off as a condescending know-it-all.
The new film is the sequel to 2012's Jack Reacher, starring Cruise as an endlessly condescending military vet who's unstoppable in combat and uninterested in basic humanity.
And with that, Trump's answer — after a masterful reminder to Trump about American political tradition without being condescending or playing gotcha — is now your big post-debate headline.
She has been criticized in the press for being "stubborn and condescending" and has fallen out with colleagues over her brusqueness, but Abramson's long career speaks for itself.
" So, for the smug and condescending folks who scoffed at "secret societies" and "insurance policies," alluded to in previous texts from these two, we'll add, "No he's not.
Keala Lusk, a former Uber software engineer, just posted to Medium her story of sexism, disrespect and condescending behavior at the hands of a female manager at Uber.
I vividly remember the racial discrimination, the fried chicken jokes, the condescending attitudes, the hostile climate at The Masters toward black golf fans and even journalists like me.
My body didn't tend to inspire tons of surprise and awe before I became a mom, so for it to come from people now feels fake and condescending.
Often inaccurate at best, condescending at worst, to pretend that the world is playing at the rock/pop/hip-hop axis that dominates my limited coastal tunnel existence.
If you don't open the book a committed libertarian, the not-a-utopia and the presentation of its politics may strike you as aggressively condescending and morally suspect.
Her impatience with condescending men was already a prominent feature of her personality, which we see as she pushes back against both a cocky student and her supervisor.
While they can have a tendency to be maudlin or condescending, some of these films have proven to be sensitive portrayals of men and women struggling with disabilities.
These food-slanging soldiers deal with a lot—the occasional condescending customer, picky eaters, bad tippers, drunks—all while carrying hot plates and making sure drinks stay filled.
Too often, we're caricatured as a bicoastal cultural elite that is condescending at best and contemptuous at worst to the values that Americans hold in their daily lives.
There's nothing wrong with choosing cute over challenging, but it feels condescending to those on the spectrum and insulting to audiences who might prefer not to be cosseted.
On the one hand, we can talk about the intellectual snobbery that lies behind condescending attitudes toward a film lover who says they don't like to read subtitles.
That was consistent with the tone of their letters in recent weeks, which are often curt and condescending, laced with occasional sarcasm and bursts of self-righteous indignation.
JANE GAUGHRAN Chappaqua, N.Y. To the Editor: Frank Bruni and like-minded pundits are eager to blame themselves for not feeling Trump voters' pain and for being condescending.
"Obama's condescending attempts to lecture us about why everything we were negotiating for was wrong were particularly annoying, given that we were seriously under the gun," McConnell writes.
Clinton with cold, aggressive, condescending questions hyper-focused on her emails, only to pitch softballs at Mr. Trump and treat him with gentle collegiality a half-hour later.
Crucially, the show is always loving rather than condescending towards its characters—although PJDN is undeniably hilarious, we want the best for these often pathetic and deluded characters.
But when the time did come in season three for her to lose her virginity, the show delivered an earnest, joyful hour that was never condescending about her experience.
Algorithms fuel a sense of omnipotence, the condescending belief that our behavior can be altered, without our even being aware of the hand guiding us, in a superior direction.
Oprah the celebrity is not a condescending-but-correct Leave It to Beaver dad, like Reagan was, or a furious real-talk-delivery-system Archie Bunker dad, like Trump.
Surely the Trump campaign didn't believe that his outreach strategy -- void of apologizing for his condescending tone or offering any prescriptive policy solutions -- would increase his support among blacks.
The piece adopted a condescending tone towards India's unique and globally acknowledged sanitation programme, the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), and makes unsubstantiated and unwarranted conclusions based on limited research.
He often spoke loudly over Clinton in a way that could have come across as condescending, apparently falling short of his goal to appear more presidential than his rival.
The "you know" of his statement feels purposefully condescending as he predicts children like North West and Mason Disick will face "embarrassment" for their mothers' behavior on the 'gram.
Not wanting to fall into the condescending trap of other journalists, I hesitate to ask about influence drawn from being in the last incarnation of Ari Up's The Slits.
The video is so slickly produced, Ellsworth's self-worth channeled from and to the wrestling memorabilia around him, and Riddle so rightly condescending that you can't believe it's real.
So the sexism comes out from fellow panelists, it certainly comes out from the hosts, who are condescending, and it comes out also from the trolls and the audience.
Nearly ten years later, in 1904, the New York Times published a rather hilariously condescending article, "And Now It's the Boxing Girl," about the newest fad amongst young women.
Even in his TV shows like "The Saint" or big budget action films like "The Wild Geese," audiences knew he was just having fun -- not condescending, just enjoying himself.
While demonstrating empathy is one thing, attempting to equate your own experiences—particularly when they aren't at all relevant to your colleague's situation—will always come off as condescending.
Even if she didn't fully realize what she was doing — though at this point, I think it's becoming a little condescending to say so — Paige handled that situation masterfully.
Hughes was, in no order of priority, a recovering Catholic, recovering Marxist, and recovering Australian and he had an abiding and by no means condescending fascination with this country.
In modern political history, therefore, the Paris Peace Pact, if it is mentioned at all, usually gets a condescending tip of the hat or is dutifully registered in footnote.
Click here to view original GIFEver wondered what exact scene condescending Willy Wonka came from or what Buzz and Woody were talking about in that Toy Story everywhere meme?
How would his condescending appeal to black voters — a cynical signal to white moderates concerned about his racist supporters — translate into credible White House initiatives to promote racial progress?
As usual with comments that cut deep, they were not wild claims or vicious attacks, but more or less straightforward facts, spoken by someone who felt distant and condescending.
Earlier works here are more documentary or informational, with statistics or images of Indigenous life: hunting, fishing, lounging in the stunning and rugged landscape, interacting with condescending local bureaucrats.
" The men laugh, amused at the very thought, before one sums it all up in one awful, condescending sentiment: "Why, that'd be like letting the lions run the zoo!
" It's an aspect of the otherwise-lovely show that I have always found grating and condescending, and Phillips does a great job of breaking down that feeling of "ick.
Mr. Morrison's pitch mixed smiles and scaremongering, warning older voters and rural voters in particular that a government of the left would leave them behind and favor condescending elites.
I'm a sucker for fictional forbidden love, and The Bold Type never wrote Richard as condescending or manipulative; he genuinely cared for Sutton and was a successful single man.
"It went viral; it went global," Ms. Ryan said of the exchange, in which the press secretary accused her of shaking her head, a comment widely perceived as condescending.
One example invoked the Bethlehem Iron company, where he supposedly persuaded an employee named Schmidt (about whom Taylor was very condescending) to work harder by paying a piece rate.
Generally the men are welcoming, says Ms. Viddal, and though she has encountered instances of "mansplaining" — condescending advice — on the shooting range, it has not proved a big problem.
But most of the time, she goes overboard and seems like she is receiving way too much gratification getting headlines and television time for her stern and condescending lectures.
It certainly is not condescending for a critic or wine-lover to call these bottles bad wine, if they can make a cogent argument for their point of view.
Morris had a reputation for being openly condescending towards the Asian fighting arts, and his challenge was quickly considered a standing insult to the islands' large Japanese immigrant community.
Additionally, classical musicians always seem to dress up like vampires from horror movies, drink red wine, and drain the life out of you by being simultaneously condescending and uninteresting.
He immediately checks Asher for making fun of young Kate (something that more fat allies need to do) and sets them both straight about their condescending attitude toward his family.
They're asking human "annotators" to answer questions about each comment related to five sub-attributes of "unhealthy content": hostile or insulting (trolls), dismissive, condescending or patronizing, sarcastic, and unfair generalizations.
It's a voice of an empathetic adult who's not condescending, who is trusting — it's all of these things I find empty from our media culture, empty from our political culture.
If I am 90 and some condescending asshole "discovers" me, only to call me unfinished and commend me on my perseverance, I am going to kick him in the teeth.
I read one editorial criticizing the clowns for condescending to their audiences with "pidgin Japanese, and tiresome tomfoolery," and another expressing discomfort with the gladiatorial bloodthirstiness of the lion show.
The Big Bang Theory used a fairly broad, traditional definition — aficionados of both real and fictional sciences, sometimes socially inept — that somehow felt condescending and flattering at the same time.
He wrote off these wars as "tribal" -- an ignorant, condescending and racist characterization -- before writing that the Kurds "were paid massive amounts of money and equipment" to fight with us.
The idea came to Schneider after a strange experience at the office: He couldn't understand why a client he'd previously had only good interactions with suddenly seemed hostile and condescending.
Dialogues between the mainstream media and Trump backers are often little better than The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's recent condescending dialogue with an imagined supporter of the candidate.
Every time I tuck into a meal at my favorite fast food joint, the condescending little voice in my head says something about how my decision-making processes are impaired.
Sometimes risqué, sometimes awkward, but never condescending or sappy, a new set of Mars candy commercials are winning plaudits — and profits — for their realistic portrayal of people living with disabilities.
"The prime minister was very insulting, very condescending, not good for the relationship," Bainimarama told Guardian Australia late Friday, a day after the summit of 18 Pacific nations in Tuvalu.
Last week, Senator Dianne Feinstein was caught on video condescending to a group of school-age climate activists, telling them "there's no way to pay for" the Green New Deal.
Many conservatives see a through line from Ms. Palin's treatment by the national news media, which they viewed as unfair and condescending, to the heightened distrust of traditional news sources.
" It's hard to be an expert on such a rapidly changing field, Huang said, and "folks who feel like they know everything are generally condescending to the people around them.
"[It's] going to be hard for Trump to not come across as condescending to a female candidate," said Katherine Jellison, a professor at Ohio University who specializes in women's history.
And you would think because of the shared ideology that they might be pro-Dan, but Dan has the condescending tone that the rest of the world has with us.
Here, the case study is condescending TV weatherman Phil Connors (a wonderfully grouchy Bill Murray) who makes an annual trek to cover the big Groundhog Day festival in Punxsutawney, Penn.
Jesus was a humble carpenter from Nazareth who miraculously fed 5,000 people but never humiliated them with condescending lectures about God favoring those who pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
This news comes just five days after Mark Zuckerberg published a somewhat condescending op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, purporting to explain all the ways Facebook uses personal data.
The "mister" signified that this man was a grown-up, that the friendship he offered his young fans wasn't about condescending to us or compensating for his own lost youth.
In talking-head interviews, these women recount their frustrations — meetings with condescending executives who hire to fulfill diversity quotas, insulting confrontations with male crew members and instances of sexual harassment.
Those immersed in this subculture were, of course, skeptical and defensive, critical of what felt to them like a glancing take on their hometown, dismissing it as condescending or antagonistic.
"They have this very condescending tone," says Abby Glassenberg, who started her Etsy shop in July 0000 and her crafting and business blog While She Naps around the same time.
"I don't mean this in a condescending way, but he seems like a very young artist and a young writer, and he's kind of learning as he goes," she says.
Likewise, many are sick of the condescending, nonsense term "white privilege," which is generally cited by college-educated white liberals to affirm their own moral superiority over the conservative other.
TV4's "Kalla Fakta" spoke with about 100 Swedes with foreign backgrounds who said they had been stopped, checked and treated by the police in a disparaging and condescending way.
What about Joy Reid's virulently homophobic blog posts, or Joe Biden's racially condescending description of Barack Obama as "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean"?
Nevertheless, some may feel that using this exaggerated speech style is condescending, or unrealistic in comparison to adult speech, and as such does not set babies off to a good start.
Agent Peter Strzok, a personification of the righteous left thinking they know better than the rest of us was a composite of pompous arrogant, indignant, sarcastic, smug, condescending, defiant and unapologetic.
He's hoping that, after November, he can turn back from politics a bit and refocus on the equally weird worlds of terrifying televangelists, tortured game-show hosts, and condescending celebrity chefs.
Or rather, when the term was used to entice heterosexual men into being overtly physical, subtly condescending, and relentless in their pursuit under the promise that they'd become irresistible to women.
His condescending comments about Obama early in his second presidential campaign — "the first mainstream African American [presidential candidate] who is articulate and bright and clean" — are usually remembered as broadly offensive.
This depressing portrayal of a directionless, culture-less country may make "American Honey" seem like the work of a condescending outsider, but Ms Arnold treats her characters with respect and affection.
It's condescending at best—existential policy imperatives like climate change and health care are hardly trivial, regardless of who occupies the White House—but it also contains an air of menace.
But soon after, Nasty Gal employees began leaving unfavorable reviews on Glassdoor, claiming Amoruso was condescending and petty, and that the company itself was flailing around with no sense of direction.
But in the Senate, he became infamously unlikable, known for being smarmy and condescending; he wasted time with dead-end legislative proposals and, true to his debater roots, loved to grandstand.
In South Korea, some people who keep cats refer to themselves not as "owners" or even "parents"—a more condescending term that appeared in America in the 218s and has spread.
The staff finished the video off with a condescending "Cheers to you, Hillary" champagne toast, which was promptly followed by a Twitter roast of the video after Vanity Fair released it.
At that time Kelly, then with Fox News, challenged candidate Donald Trump on national television about a series of comments he had made that were sexist, derogatory or condescending about woman.
He has increasingly painted Warren, a Harvard University law professor and senator from Massachusetts, as a condescending "elitist" who would not be able to unite a country polarized by Trump's presidency.
The man has a lot of nerve dismissing these questions in his condescending only-adult-in-the-room tone when it is mathematically impossible for him to win the nomination outright.
Podhoretz was annoyed by it because he had reason to believe that he had "discovered" Friedenberg for Commentary , and now his own writer was condescending to him in someone else's pages.
Naturally, this feels condescending and I tell myself as much, but once the stress hormones are no longer flooding into my bloodstream and I regain some sense of self and tranquility.
It's actually just to stop being condescending toward women for simply wanting what we've told them to want since they were little girls, and make a little space for female frustration.
This party kicks off a chain of events—understandable anger on one side, condescending "who cares?" on the other—that snowballs as the ten episodes progress, getting increasingly thorny and dangerous.
I hate using the word ignorant because it just sounds condescending, but the youth only know what they've had a chance to experience and I don't like the exploitation of them.
That's in no small part because rhetoric of this sort registers as condescending and does little to demonstrate interest in earning black support; in understanding why black voters overwhelmingly back Biden.
Tweens are well-served to have this dynamic represented in "Camp," particularly through the character of Laura, who provides a refreshing voice of reason without being overly pedantic, condescending or intrusive.
Yet this generous forbearance doesn't seem to extend to liberals — or to use his awkward slur, "liberalocrats" — who get tarred in this book as a bunch of condescending, self-satisfied chumps.
In this coming-of-age tale, Mike resides with his mom and moves from job to job, pulling us with him every step, never condescending, sometimes philosophizing and only occasionally preaching.
Il Makiage will give you a few understandable yet non-condescending pointers if you&aposre feeling a bit lost here as well as options to say that you have no idea.
The actual lesson here, however, isn't that refugee camps should be disorganized but that aid agencies should trust refugees with money rather than rely on a condescending system of segregated accounts.
To hear Trump's condescending, hateful remarks that promulgate a narrative that Palestinians are inherently violent and will only change if the United States and Israel unlock their "extraordinary potential" is insulting.
"I don't think we have ever had a president so publicly condescending to what black politics means," said Mark Anthony Neal, an African and African-American studies professor at Duke University.
It is a series that has shown, consistently and without much fanfare, how to illuminate deaf culture — and, by extension, any other that faces impairments — without being condescending, sensationalizing or preachy.
That Sweden had a temporary "mansplaining" hotline last year — which women could call to report condescending instances of men explaining things to them that they already knew — may have helped matters.
Affirmative action can also feel condescending for black people, including myself, when others suggest that our accomplishments are due to affirmative action, instead of as a result of intelligence and hard work.
When you live in Toronto and travel somewhere new, you often have to tolerate a few condescending signs that the person you're speaking with has never really thought about your city before.
Most people are familiar with the term "mansplaining," which is a portmanteau assigned to basically any guy on social media who explains something to a woman in a condescending or patronizing way.
Teenagers use it to reply to cringey YouTube videos, Donald Trump tweets, and basically any person over 30 who says something condescending about young people — and the issues that matter to them.
Washington (CNN)Bernie Sanders is hitting Hillary Clinton over her belief that young people who link her to the fossil fuel industry "haven't done their research," saying it's "condescending" to young voters.
One reason is that liberals often inadvertently antagonize gun owners and empower the National Rifle Association by coming across as supercilious, condescending and spectacularly uninformed about the guns they propose to regulate.
As Sarah Menkedick reminds us, the continual potshots taken at the personal essay form — as the lazy, nonliterary exposure of trauma and identity — are reductive, and arguably just symptoms of condescending reading.
It's fairly common knowledge that authors do the writing and there are other publishing professionals involved in the process of creating the final product, so Spiekermann's comment was completely condescending and disrespectful.
In comic form, these suggestions take on a condescending tone—so much so that satirist Karl Sharro created his own version, telling Western governments how not to behave in the Middle East.
And that failure to recognize the complexity of what's driving the Trump phenomenon is just another thing that makes people think the media doesn't understand them and is merely condescending to them.
We'd argue that, perhaps, a little self-awareness and courtesy could go a long way toward shaving down the condescending edge slightly, if you are a loudmouth oaf who absolutely must mansplain.
Some of the sort of backhanded, condescending things Ruth hears throughout the film—things like "Baby will know what to do"—are these things people actually said to you during your pregnancy?
"I kept running into all these myths I knew were myths, and the only other explanations online were either too complicated or condescending or written in a really dry manner," she says.
There are bike chase sequences and gratuitous slow-motion shots of Modi sweeping floors, outwitting terrorists, and delivering condescending monologues that compare running a government to making the perfect cup of tea.
While the other characters compete for the greatest stage effect of all time, he already has the answers, and only seems to be gently condescending to participate in the film's passionate rivalry.
His "gag" involving a bunch of unsuspecting tourists walking into the Dolby Theatre was bewilderingly condescending, awkward in its execution, and—like the Oscars themselves—at least a few minutes too long.
Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, called the posters "condescending bullshit" and pointed out that union contracts offer workers a whole lot more than a gaming console or a night at the ballpark.
She is also finding little sympathy from the Brazilian news media, which has long viewed her as cold and condescending — a marked contrast to the charismatic, backslapping approach of Mr. da Silva.
Needless to say, all the condescending arguments made against the people pushing for more balance in manufacturing trade would apply at least as strongly in the case of their intellectual property claims.
Some of that popularity was doubtless swelled by the excruciating and often condescending music explainers ubiquitous on the radio, in books, in schools, all eager to sell great music to the masses.
Of the 10 authors who saw the most harassment — whose articles were most routinely met with hostile comments ranging from condescending to life-threatening — eight were women; the two men were black.
In an exchange reminiscent of Gordon Lish and Raymond Carver, Iver's tone grows more curt and increasingly condescending as the book goes on, as if he can't even believe what he's reading.
I now report on other things for other people and nowhere else I've worked since has relied on such shaky source material or written in such a condescending manner about its subjects.
Inspiration is a loaded word to use when discussing disability rights, as it's almost always deployed with the condescending assumption that any task a disabled person manages to accomplish is somehow extraordinary.
Many of the points Spufford makes against Dawkins are valid, but if he is right in saying atheist polemicists caricature religious faith, so does his condescending truculence toward atheists distort their argument.
Although some advocates for the rights of the disabled criticized the association's "Jerry's Kids" campaign as condescending, the telethon raised about $221 billion during the more than 40 years he was host.
Chuck Linton, 69, of Baltimore, a retired military veteran, described Mr. Obama as "condescending" and said that as a black man, he was fed up with Democrats telling him how to vote.
It was another example of how Ms. Le Pen bends the usual gender dynamics — her own feisty presence precluded any sense that a man was being condescending or bullying toward a woman.
Pramila Jayapal, a freshman Democrat from Washington, has heard all three of these condescending remarks from male GOP colleagues since arriving in Congress — but she hasn't backed down from any of them.
Trump was far better than Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush or Ted Cruz at expressing his distaste for Democrats, for immigrants, for Black Lives Matter protesters, for condescending cosmopolitans, for President Obama.
They see it in Harris now — in her impatient questioning as a senator, in her tone of voice as a candidate that can read as confident, cocky and condescending all at once.
Perhaps the best-founded part of today's reaction against liberalism is the outrage people feel when its nostrums are imposed on them with condescending promises that they will be the better for it.
AHF has a long history of undermining and condescending the adult film industry, and Weinstein seems hell-bent on exploiting the stigma and misunderstanding about sex work for his own power and profit.
When they were rivals for the Democratic nomination in 2008, Biden called Obama "clean" and "articulate" — condescending words that often betray surprise that such attributes could be found in a person of color.
ESPN's statement about Hill then was condescending, almost parentally scolding: "She has been relieved of her responsibilities for a period of time to reflect on the impact of her words," the network said.
The American violence, and decades of condescending racism that followed, go some way towards explaining a vein of anti-Americanism that resurfaces from time to time in a country that also admires America.
And as a bonus, it's brought me into closer contact with my sister, and given me an excuse to praise her for doing things I know are hard for her, without sounding condescending.
"There is something so upsetting and condescending and minimizing about somebody saying, 'Hey, I believe this happened to you but maybe you're misremembering the person," David Kohan, the other co-creator, told THR.
Every generation of scientists looks back and shakes its collective head in condescending disbelief at how little the previous generation knew, rarely stopping to reflect that the next generation will do the same.
When another guy let Chastain know that she was being "so patronising [sic] and condescending," not to mention "undermin[ing] all the work 'real' femminist [sic] do" she also offered up a response.
Caroline bursts into tears when Lauren's suitcase is wheeled away by a staffer, and Krystal launches into a condescending tirade about how important it is to "open up" and "be vulnerable" with Arie.
It feels that, though it might prefer a world with no government redistribution, a basic income is the simplest, least intrusive and least condescending way to provide redistribution if redistribution there must be.
"  Here's a piece of that speech, which was later described by a journalist as leaving some feeling that she had been "condescending, preaching to a group of achievers about the need to achieve.
In today's context, taking a humanistic view of American education reveals the cultural implications of the adversity score: Quantifying students' pain and their relationships to their environments is flip, condescending, and potentially dangerous.
"The American people do not need more emotional, condescending lectures that are completely devoid of facts," Chris Cox, executive director for the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action, said in a statement.
"In most cases, 'TheDarkOverlord' extorted his victims with verbose, condescending, and abusive language, and taunted victim companies, their employees, and (in at least one case) the children of victim employees," the affidavit continues.
Mr. Smith told me that many readers, for instance, seemed to breeze past whole sections of "Desert Solitaire," including an early chapter in which Abbey strikes a shamefully condescending tone toward the Navajo.
A longstanding criticism of the skeptics community is that its members often profess mocking or condescending attitudes toward anyone who believes in things skeptics are opposed to — primarily religion, the paranormal, and pseudoscience.
"I don't think there is anybody who is coming in and feeling like we are condescending to them," said Erik Gullberg, a bartender and server who has worked at Hearth for four years.
He can't lose his job for a game, and besides, he likes the work, despite condescending customers, including an office worker who can't even be bothered to be there when his order arrives.
That position, according to colleagues, revealed his ability to maintain patience under pressure and to avoid a condescending tone — even when having to explain the most basic foreign policy axioms to his boss.
Whereas the rest of the book is written in dry, largely uninflected prose, the epilogue — which almost reads like a Republican attack ad — devolves into a condescending diatribe unworthy of a serious historian.
Elizabeth Warren's claims that he is "running in the wrong presidential primary," former Vice President Joe Biden wrote in a Medium post on Tuesday that Warren's approach to politics is elitist and condescending.
In almost any other film this would be the start of a condescending scene, one that's meant to expose the vapidity of the Kids These Days and poke fun, especially, at teenage girls.
The subject matter is both heavy and delicate, providing countless opportunities for the writers to fuck it up by either not taking it seriously enough or veering into a condescending after-school special.
Two Chinese dailies, the saber-rattling Global Times and the English-language China Daily, took aggressive and at times condescending approaches to Tillerson's stance on the issue during his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
" The Girls star and creator also lashed out at those who have accused her of supporting Clinton only because she was a woman, calling that assumption "condescending at best and hideously misogynistic at worst.
Saying, "Nice to meet you" to someone you've already met is a tried and tested classic, but here are a few other moves that will take your Condescending Bitch persona to the next level.
She enters a bikini contest and wows her date; she advances at work; she starts condescending to her two best friends (Aidy Bryant and Busy Philipps) because they remind her of her "former" self.
" The condescending essay begins with a depiction of wannabes as "twelve-year-old girls, headphones blocking out the voices of reason" who are "saving up their baby-sitting money to buy cross-shaped earrings.
On or around September 3, 2009, according to the lawsuit, Carlson complained to her supervisor that the show's co-host Steve Doocy treated her in a sexist and condescending manner on a regular basis.
Never mind that fat people have heard these condescending statements countless times before — a person with Fat Derangement Syndrome is suffering from derangement, and therefore must present this information as if it's brand new.
But even with this pseudo-inspiring ending, The Emoji Movie is the worst thing a movie for children can be: completely joyless, disenchanted, and one very long, condescending advertisement for apps you already use.
Unlike Catfish, the 22014 documentary about a similar act of subterfuge that led to the term "catfishing" entering our internet lexicon, Tickled never feels grossly manipulative or condescending on the part of its filmmakers.
After initially giving Pell sweeping powers, the pontiff later clipped his wings when other departments accused him of an overbearing manner and of being condescending to the Italian-dominated Curia, the Church's central administration.
When the chubby ex-frat boys who flock to the Y.M.C.A. basketball courts after market close make fun of your "old-man moves," golf clears its throat and lets loose a short, condescending whistle.
"This law is built on the condescending belief that women aren't capable of getting into the boardroom unless the government opens the door for them," said his attorney, Anastasia Boden, in a statement Wednesday.
"(It felt) a little condescending to boil our problems down to, 'Yeah, we're not going to give you your money back, and that's OK, and here's a video of me dancing," she told CNN.
They all sing with operatic grandeur and lyrical finesse — especially the soloists Jill Paice, Tiffany Mann, Justin Keyes and Luke Grooms — without ever for a second condescending to or trivializing the people they play.
Mr. Sparks said in one email that board members and other school staff members had come to believe Mr. Benjamin was elitist and condescending, and did not respect their hard work or religious views.
He has turned himself into a symbol of Americans' victimization, telling frustrated voters who crave easy answers that they're being pushed around by foreigners and duped by the condescending custodians of a dysfunctional system.
It is also amounting to a major leadership test for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador — and critics, who have called his response at turns anemic, insensitive and condescending, say he is falling far short.
" In a 2-1 decision, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not protect workers from "a boorish, callous, condescending, or overbearing supervisor.
After initially giving him sweeping powers, the pope later significantly trimmed them back when other departments accused Pell of treating them in an overbearing way and of being condescending to the Italian-dominated curia.
German officials were alarmed by Mr. Trump's lack of knowledge, but they got even more rattled when White House aides called to complain afterward that Ms. Merkel had been condescending toward the new president.
" It all feels so unnecessarily lugubrious and condescending — not that a jauntier Steinke is always preferable, especially when she's rolling her eyes at saying something "for the zillionth time" and admiring an orca's "badassery.
Serena Joy is resentful of Offred's role in the household, but the moment Offred seems like she might be pregnant, it becomes clear how much desperation that resentment conceals — although even her kindness is condescending.
But the California Democrat's condescending "clap back" at Trump during his State of the Union address last winter went viral and launched scores of internet memes, a sign of the tension that crackles between them.
Screenwriter Christina Hodson (Unforgettable, the upcoming Harley Quinn spin-off Birds of Prey) tosses aside the franchise's condescending pattern of using its female characters as accessories, and instead frames the entire story through Charlie's eyes.
Residents also resent the condescending racism that made Lochte's initial version of events so easy for foreigners to accept, which is one of the reasons the Brazilian authorities are taking the Lochte case so seriously.
"We have no right to tell people what to feed their children," one user commented, while another noted that mothers can sometimes feel guilty enough as it is without being lectured with a condescending note.
It can be seen as condescending for an adult to have to teach us about politics like we don't know anything, that's what I don't like about teen magazines having older people write these things.
It was the article's tone that upset Trump supporters, what they found to be Ioffe's condescending comments on the Trumps' wealth and the article's focus on Melania's personal endeavors, both in business and in family.
It's important to be discussing the privileges, the world [candidates] grow up in and how they come to the issues, because it's always going to seem condescending if they're talking about people that they aren't.
" Line by line, the document tore Ackman open, depicting a merciless megalomaniac who "uses philanthropy to deflect critics" and is "inclined to arrogant, haughty, disdainful, condescending, patronizing behavior and attitudes that he seeks to mask.
But she knows she's more than the passive roles that men from Billy to the condescending airline pilots have pushed her into, dreaming of the possibilities beyond serving drinks to groping businessmen at 30,000 feet.
The islands, which fell under Danish rule in the fourteenth century, became self-governing in 1948, but the relationship between the two countries remains that of a resentful subaltern state and a condescending colonial power.
It's particularly interesting that the Pacific Legal Foundation considers the law discriminatory and "condescending" when it was intended to counteract the pervasive gender bias that has long kept women out of corner offices and boardrooms.
And efforts are sometimes criticized as condescending: When a police car was designed using Maori language and artwork, it was denounced by some as insensitive because of the higher Maori rates of arrest and imprisonment.
I don't mean that in a condescending way — it's just that you clearly don't have a Ph.D. in internet security, and I think you sometimes get a little confused when you talk about these matters.
Swing voters agree with many progressive ideas, from jobs to health care to higher taxes on the wealthy, but Democrats have a knack for antagonizing the working class by coming off as condescending, angry elitists.
That's a particularly difficult task since Agreus is equally blunt with bigots who view his arrival with disgust and with condescending liberals who want to hear about the homeland he was happy to leave behind.
At one meeting, Olszewski alleged, Bloomberg openly disparaged a woman he was dating at the time, making a "condescending" joke about how "I need to be deaf, blind and dumb" to go out with her.
Its denizens are bored or irritated by tales of adventure and heroism; they cultivate a condescending skepticism about El-ahrairah, the rabbit trickster-prince of legend; they seem comfortable and smug and yet subtly depressed.
So far, "Word of the Year" nominations for 2019 include: - "OK Boomer," described as a retort to someone older who expresses views that are out-of-touch or condescending to young people and their concerns.
Like cast members on a reality show's third season, each woman is hyperconscious of her own "type," and, by extension, how the culture sees her story, through condescending lenses like chick lit and mommy wars.
This incident was a prime example of "mansplaining," a term used to describe when a person, often but not always a man, explains something in a condescending manner to someone they assume is less knowledgeable.
Neville digs up tear-jerking moments from the show, and reintroduces the man behind Mister Rogers, one who thought children's programs were too violent or condescending and who persevered despite criticism from politicians and skeptics.
The two have never gotten along, and Trump continues to chafe at McMaster's demeanor when he briefs him, feeling that he is gruff and condescending, according to a source who is familiar with his thinking.
Although Bruce's showing at Long Beach is often painted in glossy terms, many of those in attendance corroborate the polarizing nature of his demonstration, in which half the crowd perceived him as brash and condescending.
"Pompeo's latest undisguised message to Panama and other countries not to participate in China-proposed Belt and Road projects lays bare the U.S. condescending and bullying manner to the region," said the English-language China Daily.
Condescending Wonka, who was often Patronizing Wonka or Sarcastic Wonka, could be used in countless scenarios, to strike out at bad drivers, young lovers, people of opposing political views — whatever was annoying you online that day.
No one would ever describe me as a sweetheart, so that's not where I'm going with this, but in all of my work, I really try to lead with empathy and not being condescending or judgmental.
Yes, I would say that people feel that the press is either indifferent or, when it does deign to look at the problems of white America, it does so in a pretty condescending and judgmental way.
That condescending "sweetheart" from the guy ignoring her and the negative pregnancy test are the start of her journey with Sierra (Emily Browning), which leads straight into a night at Joshua Tree for a Moon Circle.
Charters of values and what have you, rights of passage, reasonable accommodation—every year, there seemed to be a new condescending way of saying we accept you, but it's never going to be about you here.
"President Trump's brash and condescending lecture to NATO leaders disrespected our closest allies and dishonored the common defense pact that has been a guarantor of global security for nearly seven decades," Pelosi said in a statement.
Beth (FitzGerald) is a fragile, pretty actress whose look has earned her a series of Final Girl roles in horror films that require "extensive nudity," as one condescending set of filmmakers tell her during an audition.
Petersen built her online presence writing about the personas of classic Hollywood celebrities for the Hairpin, where she established her distinctive voice: academic and rigorous, but not jargon-y; always smart and informed, but never condescending.
It was what you would expect from Kelly, who did not once ask Putin what race Santa Claus was and spent most of the interview making the amused yet condescending face that helped make her famous.
"To have somebody from the Twin Cities say, 'we know better than you, you just don't know what you're talking about,' that's really condescending, it causes a lot of anger, and I get it," George said.
I wanted to say something to the woman after we got off, but "What you just did was cool" sounded dumb in my head, while "Hey, you okay?" sounded condescending; she hadn't asked for my take.
He doesn't back away from a progressive agenda -- in many ways, the party has moved leftward toward Brown -- but he said it must be presented with a non-condescending message for rural and working-class voters.
Some ex-employees describe Kelly's treatment of his staffers as condescending, rude, and unprofessionalDespite working at a company hailing high-flying travel and five-star hotels, office life could be tense at TPG, according to sources.
But in trying to calibrate its response to what it deemed people capable of processing, the government risked condescending to Britons, said John Ashton, a former regional director of public health for the northwest of England.
Primarily used as a rebuttal to a flagrant lie being spouted by Kellyanne Conway, "Sure, Jan" turns Christine Taylor's condescending sibling jab from 1995's The Brady Bunch Movie into a doubtful burn for the masses.
Not by catering or condescending to it but by transforming it, so what you thought you saw (denim; schoolgirl uniforms complete with striped blazers; varsity jackets; Prince of Wales check) was almost never what you got.
Like you've said in the past, a lot of them are condescending, like, "I can't believe that Teen Vogue has a grown-up writing about these president things," but it really is a fully formed voice.
Whether she's writing about social media, Brexit or art and identity politics, Smith firmly hews to principles while never adopting the self-righteous and condescending tone so endemic to personal and political writing in our time.
Coal, steel and now natural gas: To suggest that the county's residents have just been bamboozled by greedy industry sounds to them like the bleating of condescending elites and, for a number of locals, simply untrue.
Chopra, between her tweet, the condescending way she began her response to Malik, and the fact that she even welcomed Modi to her wedding to Nick Jonas, shows that she has no sympathy for suffering Kashmiris.
We don't have many national journalists with working-class or evangelical roots, so our coverage of Trump voters was often shallow or condescending, and we largely missed the fury and despair that Trump rode to victory.
In keeping with his pattern of the past three years, Trump once again demonstrated his often rough, condescending handling of women -- in this case, female reporters during his news conference -- which has alienated many female voters.
Painstakingly perfected versions of iconic specialties are a Court Street Grocers calling card, but this one, made with duck, hand-cut pasta, and aged Cheddar, reads more like a condescending attempt at elevation than an homage.
He tells so many untruths that it's time to leave behind the textual parsing over which are unwitting and which are deliberate — as well as the condescending notion that most of Trump's supporters enjoy his lies.
"So I respectfully say to Tony Blair, who urges the British people to rise up, I urge them to rise up and turn off the TV next time Blair comes on with his condescending campaign," Johnson said.
But it can also imply that someone is frumpy or conservative; if used to address a famous or successful stranger, it sounds condescending, as though you can be familiar with her just because she is a woman.
Whether it's that one semi-condescending phrase your boss loves to use, or the passive-aggressive tone your colleague always has, chances are you've previously received an email with language that irked, annoyed, or even infuriated you.
This was a woman who did not meet the easy and condescending "trailer trash" criteria that Hillary applied to some of the other women, whom she chose to denigrate for their supposed lack of accomplishment or sophistication.
The fact that they are promoting their second album for Matador, The Underside of Power, and about to embark on a sold out European tour with Depeche Mode indicates that I'm insane/delusionally condescending for my protectiveness.
Trump's overt gendered insults were present but relatively few; his condescending comment to Clinton that he would call her "Secretary" because "I want you to be very happy" is just about the only one that stands out.
Melania shared a Fox News column by Howard Kurtz which says Ioffe's GQ article went "too far": It only takes until the second paragraph of GQ's profile of Melania Trump for the condescending tone to break through.
In an interview on Friday, government spokesman Lambert Mende denied that the army used excessive force and said local authorities could be blocking access to express frustration with what the government says is the mission's condescending attitude.
The condescending question revealed that, in his thinking, black people have nothing to lose by voting for him since, in his bigoted mind, all black people live in neighborhoods with constant gunfire, bad schools and no jobs.
"The difference between me and a lot of condescending bozos out there is that I don't give a Fig Newton whether anyone chooses to do it the same, differently, or wearing a gold lamé unitard," Knight writes.
Her novels take on the disconnection of online connectedness, the mismatch of fame and meaning without—a problem that seems to plague your average, isolated novelist—sounding totally disconnected from or condescending toward the phenomenon being described.
It's condescending to suggest that comic book fans' taste level is at odds with cultural criticism — that fans will ignore glaring missteps because they're so desperate to see a live-action remake of their beloved source material.
Reaching out to working class people instead of condescending them, creating an optimistic vision of the future instead of predicting doom, and bringing back bipartisanship — those are the strategies that will make the Democratic party great again.
When someone snatches figurines across London, Gnomeo and Juliet (again voiced by James McAvoy and Emily Blunt) team up with a condescending Sherlock Gnomes (Johnny Depp) and Watson (Chiwetel Ejiofor) to crack the case without cracking anyone.
Hi, Carolyn: Is there a good way to communicate stuff that falls under the umbrella of "You're not a parent; you don't understand" without using those actual words, which I know people (rightly) find condescending and insulting?
" The TikTok Youths responded by just basically creating this meme and going by going wild with it and responding to every what they felt was every condescending baby boomer rant with this two-word rejection: "OK boomer.
Even though the governing party has denounced the European Union's officials in Brussels as elitist and condescending, it relies on the financial support that membership brings and continues to deepen its military ties with other NATO nations.
Accusations of misogyny, for instance, are often heard in the context of a fundamentally anti-white, anti-Christian culture war — a zero-sum campaign waged against ordinary hard-working Americans by condescending and politically-correct liberal elites.
You can see a media portrayal of the North East with a Cheryl Fernandez–Versini or a Gazza, but the puddle seemed to transcend those sort of condescending narratives between the metropolitan centre and the backward periphery.
" She woke up one morning determined to write away all the boys who were rude or condescending, whether professionally or romantically: "I was like, forget it, I'm never going to work with anybody who's mean to me again.
The meeting effectively ended any chance of a relationship between the two groups: Goodstein, recalled Jess O'Connell, the organization's executive director at the time, was "shockingly hostile, condescending, and tried to bully us into working together," she said.
An initially restrained reaction by China was not unexpected, as officials in Beijing may well have known about the phone call beforehand, giving them some time to digest the shock and send out several condescending, yet muted statements.
Sorbo's character embodies all the tropes many conservative Christians see in the liberal media (including Hollywood): intellectual, condescending, arrogant, and either angry with God or aiming to overthrowing him (à la Lucifer) and make himself the most high.
And when the film catches her snapping at her husband, or walking away in horror as he cheerfully watches an MSNBC show where he got into a shouting match with the condescending host, the film feels breathtakingly personal.
My former colleague Kelsey McKinney wrote an entertaining explainer on how the phrase came to be, but the basic traits that characterize Not All Men supporters are shortsighted, condescending men who tend to live anonymously on the internet.
Bourdain was also special in the genuine respect he showed his hosts -- which didn't mean being obsequious or fawning, as some well-meaning travelers are, or condescending and arrogant, the way many less-well-meaning travelers can be.
"Though disappointing, this is not particularly surprising considering the fact that there was an almost universally condescending reaction to feminism from even the most progressive men of the time, let alone television scriptwriters," Syfy wrote about the show.
The women were coquettish and flirty but in a way that read as safe and bordered on head-patting -- a kind of condescending flirtation with which many women who have had to appease inappropriate bosses are surely familiar.
She is charging — among many things — that Sanders does not offer a realistic program, which is both condescending and wrong and an insult not only to Sanders, but to the large number of Democrats who are with Sanders.
Your boyfriend is surely right about inviting the fellow out for a coffee: Given your preconceptions (and, perhaps, your air of class privilege), the officer could well experience your attempt to correct him as more condescending than enlightening.
Lizzie says the therapist laughed at her and was condescending to her as a teenager, asking her outright how bad a 20093-year-old child's problems could be before ending their sessions because he felt she was "fine".
I've struggled with these things in the past, so being able to act sort of like a mentor has been really fulfilling for me, although I'm still working on how to not come off as condescending or judgmental.
Under Jerry Ruiz's precise direction, their early interactions are calculatedly awkward, with Lucia condescending and Abel contemptuous, but they achieve a kind of camaraderie, bonding over late-night beers and a shared and entirely sensible hatred of Twizzlers.
While other examples of this method, or some variant of it, have yielded films that come off as condescending or creepily exploitative, Ms. Covi and Mr. Frimmel's "Mister Universo" is a disarming and humane picture, an unexpected delight.
These people, who have served their time and should not have to answer to anyone, must then endure condescending moral lectures from Mr. Scott and his cabinet members, who don't have to provide any explanation for their decisions.
Because the email did not specify how the cheat software was used, players on the r/Fallout subreddit said they felt Bethesda's essay request was both condescending and presumptuous in assuming that all mods have a negative effect.
In 13, Jigsaw partnered with the Rhodes Artificial Intelligence Lab (RAIL) to develop ML models that can pick up more ambiguous forms of threatening or hateful speech, such as a dismissive, condescending, or sarcastic comment that's not openly hostile.
Ms Suu Kyi is in a tricky position: the army fears she will concede too much to the rebels, while ethnic minorities see her as just another condescending leader from the country's Burman majority, little different from her predecessors.
Adams emphasizes Camille's piercing, roving curiosity — she's a mess, but a focused one — while Patricia Clarkson has a wilting grandeur as her condescending, endlessly hostile mother: She's like a flower arrangement that could benefit from a change of water.
The Clintonistas are pretending this is a deeply upsetting and condescending remark, but it's really not all that different from what Sanders has been saying all campaign: that Clinton's wealth of government experience is undercut by her lousy judgment.
"The first female presidential nominee versus the human embodiment of every backward, condescending, Mad Men–esque boys' club attitude that has ever existed, rolled into one giant, salivating, dick size–referencing, pussy-grabbing warthog in a red power tie."
Washington (CNN)After a contentious -- and some said condescending, sexist and racist -- back-and-forth with White House reporter April Ryan at a press briefing Tuesday, Sean Spicer tried to get over the dust-up at the Wednesday briefing.
Through chalkboard arithmetic and some condescending narration, a new ad from the Club for Growth political action committee adds an anti-Kasich message to its anti-Trump campaign, accusing Mr. Kasich of splitting the opposition to Donald J. Trump.
But that example also highlights the trouble with these kind of experiments—how effective are they, if it's likely someone could feel annoyed the fake newspaper was on the shelf in the first place or find the pamphlet condescending?
Jenée Desmond-Harris: Throughout his presidency, Obama has faced frequent criticism for shaming or condescending to black audiences — qualifying statements about structural injustice with generalizations about individual failings — in a way that he doesn't when speaking to nonblack groups.
The exhibition's editorial voice rightfully dismisses the "condescending" and "patronizing" attitudes expressed by critics of the 1930s and '40s who belittled Kahlo as the bored housewife of celebrated muralist Diego Rivera, merely trying her hand at her husband's profession.
But he seems surprisingly blind to how he fuels such fatalism by playing to the worst stereotype of the enlightened cosmopolitan: disdainful and condescending — sympathetic to humanity in the abstract but impervious to the suffering of actual human beings.
As a therapist at the Homecoming Transitional Support Center, Heidi becomes close to one of her patients, Walter Cruz (Stephan James), a veteran eager to get better, and butts heads with Colin Belfast (Bobby Cannavale), her condescending, insufferable boss.
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Due in part to this autonomy, using SNAP does not carry the stigma of other assistance programs that impose restrictions and mechanisms that can be condescending and patronizing – and drive down participation for those who badly need the help.
" The complaint also alleges that Doocy "created a hostile work environment by regularly treating [Carlson] in a sexist and condescending way, including by putting his hand on her and pulling down her arm to shush her during a live telecast.
Thornberry was seen as condescending to the patriotic working class merely by tweeting a photograph of the house and identifying its location – creating a (perhaps correct) perception that she thought such enthusiastic patriotism a sign of chauvinism and limited intelligence.
After leaving "Francis" at the end of the previous season, Claire started this one by running away to Texas to lay the groundwork for her own political efforts — and conveniently it meant she didn't have to see Frank's stupid condescending face.
Female employees began sharing it internally in the summer of 2017, after three female executives left the company and around the time the head of HR, David Ayre, was fired after several internal investigations into complaints about his condescending behavior.
I turned to cooking show hosts like Funmi Adeoye, Delia Smith, Rick Stein, and the Two Fat Ladies — personalities that ran the gamut from warm and cuddly to stern, condescending, and insincere, and shows that varied in usefulness and ease.
In this context, watching Spicer snap at journalists that "it's not your press briefing" and — it bears repeating — instructing everyone to "raise our hands like big boys and girls" makes it even more obvious how condescending and patronizing he can be.
Sanders: Clinton 'condescending' to young voters Clinton is much further along than Trump and Sanders in the process of locking up delegate support — especially among Democratic superdelegates — many of whom have decades of stored up loyalty and connections with her family.
They've sparked a debate that has raged for weeks, inspiring fiery columns and TV segments, with UK reporters retorting that the argument has edged into hysteria -- and that it would be condescending to readers not to share information from senior sources.
" The senator also went on to tell CNN's Jake Tapper that he found Clinton's recent remarks about young voters -- in which she said they sometimes buy into incorrect information and "don't do their own research" -- to be "a little bit condescending.
"More than a dozen current and former members of the editorial staff, all of whom spoke to Politico on the condition of anonymity, described her as stubborn and condescending, saying they found her difficult to work with," Politico's Dylan Byers wrote.
Not only is this brand of politics untenable — and unattractive to an overwhelming number of Americans — it stifles debate in that it simplifies and seeks to accuse in a way that is alienating as well as condescending and undeniably exclusive.
In fact, aside from taking down Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's condescending mansplaining, this hearing was a missed opportunity to ask substantive questions on behalf of the millions of Americans who lost their homes due to the excesses of these banks.
Jimmy Carter alienated congressional Democrats, especially House Speaker Tip O'Neill (D-Mass.), with his persnickety, condescending style, and his inability to develop a working relationship with members of his own party would make stiffly his ability to move a legislative agenda.
Sullivan didn't just defend his decision; he took aim at undergraduate critics in a way that was intellectually dishonest, if not downright nefarious, condescending to them as if they were too stupid to understand how the criminal justice system works.
Whether writing about people exploring the "mysteries of life" in Casey to his florid descriptions of the bond of marriage in Obergefell to his condescending description of a hypothetical woman who may someday regret a medical abortion in Gonzales v.
It's a touchy issue on all sides, but for me at least the angry criticisms of Mallory and Sarsour feel condescending when made by privileged white women and celebrities such as Alyssa Milano -- who also called for Mallory to denounce Farrakhan.
While generously acknowledging Halevi's effort to reach out, Shehadeh wonders how truly aware he is of the depth of Palestinian feelings through "invasion, occupation and expulsion" in a book that ends up being condescending and demonstrating an embarrassing ignorance of history.
The clash of exasperated women and condescending men was the fuel for many a past episode, not to mention the character's meta-feud with Vice President Dan Quayle, who attacked the show in 1992 when her character became an unwed mother.
Most responses I have seen involve condescending and ever-less-patient explanations of why the person in front of you is wrong; public shaming, often on social media, often in ALL CAPS; and gradual escalation into eye-rolling and raised voices.
Instead, the play pleasantly surprised me in its ability to poke fun at the absurdity of the ketamine experience—and the various effects it has on the people who indulge—in a way that feels entertaining and truthful, rather than condescending.
It expresses itself in the form of a mildly condescending expression of bewilderment that a telegenic young woman is also good at her job: Jennifer Lawrence was so good in Winter's Bone, and she's a babe on the red carpet!
"It would not be out of character for Danny to be kind and come to terms with it in a condescending way, like, that's the best he could do, and I admire him for trying as hard as he could."
And before you have any condescending ideas about the reading habits of people who end up in unemployment lines, it's worth remembering that bankers and CEOs also tend to misplace their copy of Atlas Shrugged whenever they need bailed out.
But for Duca's audience, whom she considers to be between 210 and 22019, it's a perfectly reasonable and non-condescending education; how else are you going to get young people to care about politics if you don't explain it to them?
The combination of Linton's Africa memoir, her tacky name-dropping hashtags, and her condescending and classist response to Miller paints a portrait of a self-involved and narcissistic woman with a loose relationship to the truth and very little self-awareness.
In an interview with the Toronto Star, Redgrave said she was enraged by Justice William Horkins's ruling—not so much the not guilty verdict (the former CBC host was acquitted of all charges), but the "condescending" tone of the judgment itself.
But the patronizing and condescending attitude this Administration has taken toward Palestinians, the way they've trivialized and demeaned Palestinian aspirations and the pressure campaign waged against them is not only wrong but counterproductive if the goal is to draw them into negotiations.
Frankly, even though I lean to Sanders, I think he comes off as condescending and rude at those points -- which he sort of manages to get away with because he's a curmudgeonly old white guy, but Clinton won't get the same pass.
But even as the United States has been distracted by developments in the Middle East and Asia, as well as the war on terror, the region has been changing, and the condescending description of many nations as "Banana Republics" no longer applies.
Wagner has no interest in denigrating the struggling or the working poor: "It's unproductive to be condescending to working-class people who can't afford hand-milled furniture or don't want to live in machines because they work in machines," she tells Hyperallergic.
" Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, which teaches people how to fix their own things and is a proponent of right to repair legislation, told me that "LG's claim that their products are too sophisticated for consumers to repair is condescending and misinformed.
Context and knowledge is very important and when you're a visitor somewhere, you can pretty much assume that you don't have enough of it to engage in cultural "critique" in a way that doesn't feel colonialist, condescending, or just plain rude. 933.
It looks like it was filmed on a flip phone and its eye is never anything less than thoroughly condescending, but it stabbed so aggressively at a fidgety, Facebook-fearing zeitgeist that it managed to coin a new term and become a smash.
A Swedish union has set up a hotline for workers to report instances of "mansplaining" as part of a weeklong effort to raise awareness of a certain kind of condescending elocution that men use to explain to women things they already understand.
Much love to the Windy City, but Bryan Hollon (aka Boom Bip) and Rave Curious host Joshua Glazer are two Midwest boys who can't help hold a bit of distaste for a town that, by their estimation, spawned the condescending hipster archetype.
You would not know it from Levine's condescending response, but it's a totally reasonable thing to think that such a player might be most valuable to a middle-of-the-pack team as a trade chip, especially given the Yankees' bullpen depth.
That framing is upheld throughout much of KOD, which proves to be one of J. Cole's engaging projects due to its attempt to guide listeners on how to cope with vices and obstacles without hardly ever stepping into the condescending preacher territory.
Which is a shame, because the boycott is where the tension should lie, instead of love non-triangles and Scott Glenn making a condescending but awesomely Towne-ian speech about Chuck Noll not having to deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers' lady issues.
Asked why Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont lost decisively to Mr. Biden among black voters in recent races for the Democratic presidential nomination, Mr. de Blasio suggested those voters did not know enough about Mr. Biden — remarks that some called offensive and condescending.
This sentence, "The responsibility of courts is to decide cases, both usual and unusual, by neutrally applying the law," mirrors the condescending civics lesson that Justice Gorsuch administered to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of all people, in a dissenting opinion last June.
Ms. Pelosi's relish in confronting Mr. Trump with icy, condescending scorn — on Wednesday she suggested he canceled the meeting out of a "lack of confidence on his part" — has bought her good will among Democrats, even those who question her approach on impeachment.
At the time I felt (and still do feel) that there was something wrong — patronizing, condescending — about having a crowd of men behind Diana's coffin, especially since two of them had actively rejected her, and then cast her out, when she was alive.
Warren's supporters have matched that intensity of support and are furious that Sanders would challenge her view of their conversation, arguing that women should be believed when they say they've been mistreated or dealt with in a condescending manner by powerful men.
" CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. found himself fending off new questions about his decades-long record on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, in a testy exchange with a moderator who described his treatment of her as "condescending.
This takes us to our second point, namely, that restrictions on SSB purchases are condescending and patronizing to low-income Americans in ways that the USDA would never do to other segments of the population, including farmers or, for that matter, USDA employees.
Not exactly, but I think everyone who was struggling then and now to #resist in an increasingly violent political age also deserved a more nuanced, or at least less condescending, take on the use of violence as a tool for social change.
Other "Word of the Year" nominations for 2019 included: - "OK Boomer," described as a retort to someone older, typically a member of the Baby Boom generation, who expresses views that are out-of-touch or condescending to young people and their concerns.
Ass. Plus, his comments to Madson's parents that there's a great deal they don't know about their son were incredibly condescending and ultimately inaccurate, but I appreciate that American Crime Story frequently revisits the sometimes antagonistic relationship between victims, their families, and the police.
The only moments in which I have ever felt like I am "Team Nick" have been when he's sparring with Sean on Twitter in defense of Corrine's right to be interested in sex or his own right to ignore condescending advice from a lame misogynist.
But the more it happens, the more I realize that simply labeling an awesome new show starring and and co-created by a woman as the "female version" of something else diminishes the importance of the project (and is perhaps even a little condescending).
First, Brooke spoke and was condescending and patronizing towards the anti-war movement and the young people in America who were transforming the country and our politics; he was dismissive of the anti-war movement and backed the war without much thought to the consequences.
In "Becoming Jane Jacobs" (University of Pennsylvania Press, $34.95), Peter L. Laurence dispels the sexist and condescending contemporary view that her canonical book was a collection of home remedies from a housewife whose only credentials were as an amateur observer of the city's sidewalk ballet.
It's not spoiling too much to say that while his character is physically fourteen, his mind is significantly older, and it's astonishing funny to see Gallagher nail the role of a cranky, often condescending adult in a roomful of emotionally stunted man (and women)-children.
With the aid of three giant chalkboards, a wooden pointer, props, literal marionette puppets, and his signature condescending professorial tone, he explained the twisted web of corruption and deceit that George Soros' "shadow party" (does that sound familiar?) has wound around the American political system.
The Game of Thrones star, who plays the formidable Queen of the Iron Throne-wannabe Cersei Lannister on the show, has been doling out wisdom to her fans lately (without sounding condescending, which can sometimes be a tricky act in 140 characters or less).
After Jimmy Kimmel — who has been condescending in the past, so we shouldn't be surprised — finished explaining a social media phenomenon via a television program format formalized in the late 1940s, he aired an exclusive message from DJ Khaled to presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
" It was a little condescending, but he might have been onto something when he said of Giannascoli, "perhaps when he matures a little more he'll learn the old Abbey Road trick and stick a bunch of the fragments together and call it a master work.
What Diderot faced was not the bored disapproval or the condescending tolerance that Christians now complain of coming from liberal élites; it was actual persecution, a desire to imprison those guilty of heretical thought, to close their mouths and eradicate all trace of their books.
"Her declarations have prompted myself and others to come forward and present facts that prove the author is a condescending hack who has most of her facts wrong," David Sloan, the author of The Key West Key Lime Pie Cookbook told the Key West Citizen.
This one led to a public spat with Ursula Le Guin, in which Ishiguro fretted that readers might not understand that he was writing a literary novel with fantasy tropes and Le Guin accused him of condescending to those tropes without fully understanding them.
Yet the sight of Ms. Hill sitting by herself as a bank of white men peppered her with condescending and withering questions became a flash point for many women, both a symbol of what they were up against and an inspiration to push back.
As smaller protests shook Mexico City in preceding weeks, he appeared unable to recognize the magnitude of the mounting frustration, blaming the killings of women on "past neoliberal policies," and responding to protesters' demands in ways critics described as tone-deaf, insensitive or condescending.
He tried to make friends with the graduate students nearby but found them condescending, so when he could he moved into Rochdale Village, a co-op with many students of color, and joined MEC h XA , an undergraduate Chicano group, and found friends there.
Even well-intentioned urban, coastal, college-educated scribes commit obliviously condescending word choices ("flyover country"), illogical assumptions (everyone in red states voted for Trump) and variations on poverty porn, in which subjects are conveyed as helpless and joyless ("observe this sorry case in Appalachia").
But, Trump has clearly told enough people about his plan to get rid of McMaster -- and the fact that he dislikes what he believes to be the national security adviser's "gruff and condescending" manner -- that they feel comfortable sharing this information with the media.
When Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio on Thursday responded to Delta's flyer with a tweet in which he called it "condescending bulls--t" and said a gaming system can't provide fair wages, health care benefits, job security or retirement benefits, another user replied with the guillotine image.
Carlson's complaint also alleges that Steve Doocy, one of her co-hosts on "Fox & Friends," perpetuated a "hostile work environment by regularly treating her in a sexist and condescending way..." Carlson is seeking compensatory damages, although a particular dollar amount is not given in the lawsuit.
His clash with Senator Dianne Feinstein during a hearing over proposed post-Newtown gun regulations—she accused Cruz of condescending to her like "a sixth grader" in the way he explained the Second Amendment's guarantees—was preceded one month earlier by a less-noticed but telling exchange.
In its place, we have the sonic manifestation of her lashing out at the Times profile: music that feels defensive and guarded and even a little condescending, a middle finger to any fan who would very much like an update on Madonna's life in her music.
Eventually, once the America First movement became a national organization, headquartered in Chicago, college students started to fall away in favor of conservative business leaders who wanted to stick it the liberal president they hated and Midwesterners who felt that East Coast elitists were condescending to them.
The quietest soldier was Flynn's replacement, H.R. McMaster, who stayed in the White House for more than a year but kept a low profile that hid tensions between him and Trump, who thought the general was condescending, according to CNN's reporting just before McMaster's departure in 2018.
Was it, in fact, what women did want, to the tune of almost $300 million, and was I some sour-grapes outlier grumbling about how condescending I found the clunky ease of the whole thing, up to a twist that made the already happy ending even happier?
While the movie's premise feels prone to the maudlin, it's ultimately quite poignant; Wonder is a family-oriented tale in which people make mistakes in the way they treat one another, but learn and grow in a way that doesn't feel condescending to the film's younger audience.
Individuals born in the sign of Aquarius (between January 20 and February 19) can be completely unaware of how condescending they come across, thinking that they're being helpful by serving friends and loved ones cold, hard logic when what they really want is some emotional support.
An original version of the guide — printed only in Chinese — came out in August last year, but attracted criticism for being "condescending," and the tourism board revised its tone in a new version that was published in March in both English and Chinese, the Japan Times reports.
Condescending Democrats might sneer that asking knee-jerk voters for the Party of Trump to give careful consideration to their ninth-choice selection is a big ask, and that jingoistic Republicans could never stomach a "foreign" system primarily used to choose the legislatures of Australia and Ireland.
He is generous in his only slightly condescending description of the magazine's young tech-rich owner and in his minimally insulting account of working with the company's data-obsessed C.E.O., whose arrival plainly portended Foer's departure and the subsequent resignation of a majority of its masthead.
And the boss resents Sag for hijacking meetings with verbose diatribes that aren't relevant to the task at hand, taking vacation during the busiest week because that's when some guru is doing a retreat they just can't miss, and condescending colleagues for making extremely human mistakes.
Yet these household names (both condescending to their roles as, respectively, a police commissioner and a former judge) aren't the only victims of this psycho-killer disaster: There's also a casually expendable Nathan Fillion and a cinematographer, Michael Barrett, whose crisply chilling images deserve a worthier project.
Still, the notion that generates such an anthology-memoir, the idea that poems must be filtered through a scrim of ordinary language and life in order for us to commune with them, in order that they be "understood" in some definite way, is wrongheaded and, indeed, condescending.
"When people responded in a respectful and thoughtful way, but with responses that Stephanie did not like or agree with, she responded with some very condescending and nasty comments," Crystal, a local food blogger who wished only to go by her first name, told BuzzFeed News.
In a particularly cringey video, Clinton said, "Pokemon Go to the polls," referencing the tween-trending app of that summer, Pokemon Go. It was clear that she had been fed that line and it felt condescending, suggesting youth votes could be earned by name-dropping a game.
The unknown reason for her sudden disappearance drives the plot of Lisa Ko's debut novel The Leavers, which intertwines Peilan's journey as an undocumented immigrant with the story of her son Deming, who is eventually adopted by well-meaning, if condescending, white parents in the suburbs.
But what we can see so far is enough to reset the colonial and rather condescending interpretations of Choucair's work, and to start analysis again with a fresh set of questions in which historical claims and narrative forms become secondary to the primary preoccupations of the artist.
One reason they turned to a wealthy real estate developer from New York City as their champion, Vance says, is because Trump railed against the political and financial elites who they feel have done nothing but make a mess of the country while condescending them in the process.
They all seemed to share the feeling that their work is not affected by the fact that they are women, with one panelist, surrealist indie comic artist Gabrielle Bell, saying she finds the centering of gender to be condescending, which seemed to bring the panel itself under scrutiny.
Flashes of sincerity are present, but the tone comes across as more condescending, taking the same basic premise as David Lynch's seminal series Twin Peaks — how a community comes to terms with the disappearance and death of a young woman — and stripping it of all nuance and melodrama.
Hillary Clinton must understand that, as a candidate with low trust ratings, she needs to offer a powerful and compelling vision for the future of America — not merely a daily cacophony of consultant-generated attacks against her opponent or a condescending staff that insults her allies and swing voters.
"The notion that generates such an anthology-memoir, the idea that poems must be filtered through a scrim of ordinary language and life in order for us to commune with them, in order that they be 'understood' in some definite way, is wrongheaded and, indeed, condescending," Simone White wrote.
But this idea was largely met with disapproval from audiences, and Aron's condescending description of young people didn't help matters: "When you tell a 22-year-old to turn off the phone, don't ruin the movie, they hear 'please cut off your left arm above the elbow,'" Aron told Variety.
Ronald Reagan didn't win the presidency by saying "there you go again!" and Mitt Romney didn't lose it by condescending to the "47 percent," but both episodes grew out of some underlying political reality at the time, and we indulge the fallacy because it lets us tell more exciting stories.
The US ambassador to the United Nations spent much of Tuesday feeling both embarrassed that she had caused controversy by getting ahead of the White House in announcing Russia sanctions and irked by seemingly dismissive and condescending remarks from a fellow administration official, according to two sources close to Haley.
"From the outset, I think it was about embracing this beautiful, almost naïve language of words, gestures, movements, and interactions that were totally prescribed and extremely limited—not condescending to it, but allowing its simplicity to touch other feelings that you can't be over-explicating," Haynes told the Village Voice .
Sitting through a commencement speech is a roll of the dice: Your speaker might be boring or condescending, you might be sweltering from the sun or soaked by the rain, you might even be too hungover to care about what happens before victoriously waltzing across the stage to collect your diploma.
If you were to take a peek behind the scenes of someone who likes their job, you'd probably find they still have to deal with the unavoidable challenges we all face (like recovering from a mistake or dealing with a condescending colleague), and that some days really aren't so great.
This will not be a favorite episode for people (I am one, and I assume there are others) whose mild irritation with the Dougie storyline stems largely from the fact that we have to hear his ridiculous, infantilizing nickname over and over and over, often in scolding or condescending tones.
As its title suggests, Silkwood is first and foremost concerned with Silkwood the person, yet it avoids overpraising or being condescending toward its flawed protagonist, who, as a modern viewer will be especially keen to note, displays a giant confederate flag above the bed she shares with her boyfriend (Kurt Russell).
Pence was widely criticized on the left, on the grounds that the rule was condescending — assuming that men could not control themselves around a woman — and had the potential to hold back female colleagues, who, like their male counterparts, benefit from informal networking and relationship building with superiors and potential mentors.
" One townhouse is so grand that its parlor floor makes the gathered parents look dumpy, "as if the room had been made for a larger, more significant race, one that didn't have to stuff itself into pantyhose or pay through the nose for monthly highlights in a condescending salon on Madison.
Mr. Matthews, 74, had faced mounting criticism in recent days over a spate of embarrassing on-air moments, including a comparison of Senator Bernie Sanders's campaign to the Nazi invasion of France and an interview with Senator Elizabeth Warren in which the anchor was criticized for a condescending and disbelieving tone.
Another factor cited by some who frequently dealt with the mayor involved his personality; he often lectures his staff during meetings in what people describe as a condescending tone, and he is known for berating or belittling subordinates in front of others or shooting off emails criticizing them in brusque terms.

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