It was peculiar, it was patronizing, and it was perplexing.
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"To protect women" is a very paternalistic and patronizing attitude.
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It can feel patronizing, and diminishing of our full humanity.
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A viewer posted a comment accusing me of being patronizing.
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Women voters should and are demanding more than patronizing passivity.
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"The EU commission is often patronizing," he told the newspaper.
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Her supporters called it humanizing; many reporters called it patronizing.
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Britain, as an intermediary, could often be patronizing and superior.
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I wish I hadn't spoken in such a patronizing tone.
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But it's another debacle that feels fake, forced and patronizing.
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In these efforts, they encountered endless patronizing hostility from male professionals.
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" When that didn't do it, he got a little patronizing: "HELLO?!
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Mass Observation reports show that people just found it incredibly patronizing.
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The problem with this shopworn response is that it's aggressively patronizing.
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It is important not to enter conversations with a patronizing attitude.
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It is perceived as misleading, even patronizing, by the general public.
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O.K., now it's technically possible — let's not be patronizing to Maisie.
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He is paternal but not patronizing; he possesses strength without aggression.
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It was just mock, mock, mock, and patronizing things as well.
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"There's a patronizing word for that: the 'pathetic fallacy,' " she says.
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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said that position was patronizing.
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And they mercilessly ridicule his audience (BLACK WOMEN) for patronizing him. Why?
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The phenomenon has gone worldwide, providing patronizing lulz aplenty from non-Indians.
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In the abstract, warning against these issues can come off as patronizing.
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Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd), the cheerful, patronizing enforcer of the New Normal.
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Because, I guess, it's all just patronizing—but it's not, is it?
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And Goodman was exactly that sort of person—insulting, controlling, and patronizing.
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" Schumer then went on to politely skewer the totally patronizing word "brave.
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And, his patronizing advice is completely unnecessary in today's social media landscape.
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When you call a fat body "cute," it's patronizing and de-sexualizing.
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"It can feel patronizing, and diminishing of our full humanity," she writes.
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She is portrayed as sycophantic to some, dismissive and patronizing to others.
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The issue is that men like this compliment downwards: it's inherently patronizing.
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Calling me condescending and patronizing and rude and arrogant and fucked up.
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He's discursive, suave, inhumanly cool, confident, superior, deadpan, sinister, patronizing and asexual.
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There's a real patronizing view toward people who don't make $100,000 starting.
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Would they treat them in a patronizing way, like pets, or cattle?
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Or do you see them as out of touch, patronizing or judgmental?
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Herbalife benefitted from a widespread sense that Ackman was smug and patronizing.
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We're not patronizing women, and we're not glorifying or making them pretty.
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At one point, Ferraro warned Bush not to be "patronizing" toward her.
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"The way he wrote [the post] is really sketchy and patronizing," Palmestål said.
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If patronizing forms of address or behavior continue, have the more serious talk.
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William Trefzger, 71, of Westport, also was charged with patronizing a trafficked person.
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We'd tell you which books to read but that seems a bit patronizing.
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If Abdulbari felt the comments were patronizing, nothing in his composure showed it.
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But Emily points out the patronizing and potentially subjective aspects of such reccomendations.
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The Atlantis mythology oscillates somewhere between patronizing and cheesy, but is mostly incomprehensible.
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Tweet 3 -- Or, how about not patronizing the advertisers who support the Cowboys?
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But we acquiesce or try to be conscientious consumers by patronizing farmers' markets.
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Personally, I've been patronizing Le Tub for about 12 years, and I concur.
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But the books I read offered no solace, only patronizing and contradictory advice.
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H., her sister said, was outraged at the patronizing tone of the conversation.
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But Zakin and Weisberg have been fielding criticism over patronizing that very audience.
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First, advocates are often university-educated elites who can come across as patronizing.
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And the term "colored girls" was neatly sprung from any patronizing racial context.
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How do we put an end to that without being patronizing or stigmatizing?
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"He was an arrogant, overrated, patronizing pedophile, to be very blunt," she said.
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We do not need that kind of patronizing nostalgia in the Supreme Court.
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I was glad to discover that Mr. Coburn mostly resists any such patronizing sentimentality.
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Let's stop patronizing businesses that we know are led by people with racists beliefs.
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The idea might be funny — and a bit patronizing: Let's laugh at old people!
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Many kids won't notice the message: Finding Dory doesn't explain it in patronizing detail.
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"That's a very patronizing view of federalism," Kennedy told the plaintiffs' lawyer, Thomas Goldstein.
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"Even in these educated circles, men, at best, are patronizing about women," he said.
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We need to reject patronizing, counterproductive policies that don't help anyone work or live.
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If nothing else, you should consider patronizing the New Sydney for the people-watching.
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She routinely substitutes reason for patronizing diatribes, false equivalencies, and Olympic-level mental gymnastics.
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It treats people as leaders — less patronizing than asking them to commit to vote.
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What Apple has done here isn't only patronizing, it's a basic violation of trust.
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Patronizing Mr. Trump's hotel is certainly one way to get on his good side.
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That's obviously a patronizing viewpoint, but it informed many early reviews of my work.
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The politics of the Mitford sisters followed their romantic attachments, in Thompson's patronizing view.
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Still, it could be confusing for travelers trying to avoid patronizing a military establishment.
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Hopper said he had no knowledge of Mateen patronizing any gay nightclubs other than Pulse.
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"Western bioethicists needed to stop patronizing the world," he told the South China Morning Post.
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She criticized the US's "patronizing" approach during the years of negotiations she was privy to.
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Starbucks. Repeatedly patronizing a business you propose to boycott is the definition of counter-productive.
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She then pivots to the prosecutor, Jennifer, who is bitter at Russ's supposedly patronizing tone.
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These characters do not exist to serve as patronizing morals about victimhood or girl power.
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But for some people, the act of patronizing Uber is too fraught to take lightly.
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I think you're going to have unmarried women who see this as belittling and patronizing.
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But the main thing is that this exchange was not just patronizing, it was racist.
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He said he was the "least anti-semitic person ever" while patronizing a Jewish reporter.
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In the way you're asking your question, you're being quite disrespectful and you're patronizing me.
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Tweeters and some mainstream media outlets ripped the event as being patronizing and politically incorrect.
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JJ, who communicates using a word-and-letter board, finds his P.C. new classmates patronizing.
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If having that reassurance means patronizing the same restaurant over and over, so be it.
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It feels patronizing to have to point out that art is subjective and all that.
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She considered rejecting the "Best Female Chef" title, which many chefs, including her, consider patronizing.
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She took advances on her salary, which were interest-free, rather than patronizing the local moneylenders.
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This narrative of transformation is what strikes critics like Rios as so patronizing and self-congratulatory.
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Bemer has been charged with patronizing a trafficked person in connection with ring based in Danbury.
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The profile was widely criticized as being sexist toward Robbie, and patronizing toward her native Australia.
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"Easy-to-digest, sentimental, or patronizing" are not characteristics people have used to describe your movies.
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"The Americans have been patronizing and directing the war from the very beginning," said Brig. Gen.
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Stabile finds the whole thing to be incredibly patronizing and discriminatory towards people in the industry.
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The "sex worker with a heart of gold" trope is as tired as it is patronizing.
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She wasn't being patronizing; it was just clear that she likes other people to be comfortable.
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So here's a proposal for evangelical Christians: Let's confront misogyny and patronizing behavior in our ranks.
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By patronizing restaurants that will tell you on request that they have a reasonable decibel level.
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In The Silkworm, Rowling's narration is consistently othering and patronizing towards Pippa as a trans woman.
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Solidarity isn't pitying or patronizing, nor is it a reason to feel smug about one's politics.
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Not all of these offers of help were well received; they can have a patronizing quality.
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" C.B. "If you're trying to tell your audience what to think, I think you're patronizing your audience.
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Whether riders take the criticism to heart or dismiss it as patronizing, though, remains to be seen.
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Many conservatives meanwhile find Obama professorial and patronizing, so may also balk at his performance on Monday.
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But when they come out of nowhere from a fellow gym-goer, it can feel super patronizing.
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The official "Stronger In" campaign made an effort to engage young people using the patronizing "#votin" hashtag.
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While working on another manifesto, Valerie hallucinates that Warhol is still patronizing her from beyond the grave.
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It's an audible eye roll rather than a furious takedown; confident and patronizing rather than genuinely angry.
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But a group of female hackers thinks that advice isn't so much advice as it is patronizing.
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First, try to make some kind of contact with the boys, be friendly and don't be patronizing.
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If there isn't one hanging where you're hanging out, you might not be patronizing the right places.
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" She called it "patronizing to women to think that we all follow our genitalia to pick candidates.
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Others think this view is both patronizing and dangerous to people who willingly engage in sex work.
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Try to avoid gestures that are patronizing or defensive, like crossing your arms or clenching your jaw.
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He also began to find the attitude of his coaches and counsellors even more patronizing than before.
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Too many American high school graduates are "let down by patronizing and illusory degrees," Judge Moukawsher wrote.
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And, as Steele points out, those advocating even more welfare spending are wrong, patronizing and somewhat racist.
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"Plus-size" is also a patronizing and ridiculous phrase that really ought to be banished from fashion.
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Granik is an outstanding director, and she tells the story without patronizing, fetishizing, or aestheticizing her subjects.
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If there's no solid reason for customers to continue patronizing a brand, it's likely destined for failure.
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"I think it's patronizing — they need to keep the public fully in the picture," Mr. Ashton said.
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Watering down education standards is nothing short of the patronizing and demoralizing soft bigotry of reduced expectations.
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"The Souvenir" shows Julie's professors, all male, patronizing her; she absorbs their criticisms with mild good manners.
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He delivered high-quality material for kids, where otherwise it was all wobbly puppets and patronizing adults.
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"It's time politicians in Washington stopped patronizing the American people as if they were children," he wrote.
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At the same time, I don't want to be patronizing toward Maisie — she's a 20-year-old woman.
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It was one last chance to witness the professorial demeanor that comes across to many Republicans as patronizing.
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It's patronizing to assume that women won't pick up a guitar until they see another woman do it.
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Most financial advice geared toward women — like the idea that women should give up frothy drinks — is patronizing.
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But Granik's restraint as a filmmaker means she pulls it off without patronizing, fetishizing, or aestheticizing her subjects.
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" The actor has a better idea: "Try saying 'hi' when you arrive, and leave out that patronizing comment.
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In it's own twisted, psychedelic, confounding way, it happily plays with the slightly patronizing conventions of rural-ambience.
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The term is ridiculously overused, for sure, and the tone that many of these articles take is patronizing.
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The companies themselves get involved, too, whether through patronizing events or providing a steady demand for B2500B innovation.
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The patronizing paradigm of give/take is yet another thing that black and brown are laboring under together.
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In her remarks, DeVos criticized university administrators, suggesting that officials are silencing unpopular views in a "patronizing" way.
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The poster campaign—meant to encourage parenthood and raise awareness of fertility risks—was deemed sexist and patronizing.
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But Simon Fraser, formerly one of Britain's most senior diplomats, described the president's "patronizing put-down" of Mrs.
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"As a customer, I would not feel safe patronizing any fast-food establishment at this point," he said.
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At worst, it's a patronizing decree that avoids addressing the real problem at the heart of science's woes.
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"They think he was not radical enough and patronizing in his call for Dalit emancipation," Mr. Mehta said.
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When he likes a woman, he praises her in a patronizing way (usually focusing on her physical beauty).
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"It was partly as a revolt against such patronizing attitudes that so many less privileged Britons voted Brexit."
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This leads to paternalistic and patronizing treatment, such as speaking unnecessarily slowly and in an overly endearing manner.
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Her voice was patronizing, kind and sad, as if she were a parent explaining death to a child.
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It means patronizing businesses that defend our values and not those willing to go along with undermining them.
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Normally, American presidents go on to British leaders about "the special relationship" with a sort of patronizing politeness.
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Some aid officials never liked this term, saying it seemed patronizing, as if Africans were built to suffer.
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Ozil reserved his sharpest words for Grindel, however, alleging that the federation president had been "patronizing" toward him.
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It comes across as patronizing and can cause them to stick to their original idea even more strongly.
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But the attitude many tech geeks have to government can be patronizing at best — and open contempt at worst.
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A business that didn't want Jewish people patronizing it could exclude those interested in "Passover" from seeing its ads.
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Like many collectors of such work, Mr. Louis-Dreyfus eschewed the term "outsider art" as patronizing, his daughter said.
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"Having people make light of something that I get brutalized for is patronizing, to say the least," Divinity said.
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These are the white people that I imagine patronizing Rodbell's Luncheonette, the spot where Roseanne worked and later owned.
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In the first LGBTQ Democratic forum in late September, some interpreted Biden's behavior toward the female moderator as patronizing.
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Granik's restraint as a filmmaker lets her indulge this kind of storytelling without patronizing, fetishizing, or aestheticizing her subjects.
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There were some trans support organizations that were kind of patronizing, but they helped you get through your transition.
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Paglia's comments reportedly upset some conservative Catholics, who argued that they advocated euthanasia and were patronizing to Charlie's parents.
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Collins' relatively myopic view of what worker safety means, though I appreciate the impulse behind his patronizing geography lesson.
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Some of the playlist titles — like "Epic Gaming" — are a bit patronizing, but the music selection is usually solid.
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Jeffrey Lord, a former Reagan staffer, defended Mr. Trump — arguing that the Republicans criticizing him were patronizing African-Americans.
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It avoids the problems of patronizing to Christian audiences or, worse, satirizing them without understanding their point of view.
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Roam's live-in community managers played camp counselors, urging on social activity in a pleasant albeit intermittently patronizing way.
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That's because he is a deeply patriotic and nationalistic Korean, and he resents the patronizing scorn of bullying Westerners.
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When she realizes the men are patronizing their spouses, Serena begins to read aloud from the Book of John.
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They also say that the productions tend to bring in their own catering and supplies, rarely patronizing local businesses.
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We long for understanding, and we instantly sniff out when someone is trying to understand or just being patronizing.
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This is, at best, patronizing, a way of communicating to your customers that you know better than they do.
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Instead, Bannon got what he came for -- a clip of himself "correcting" a patronizing well-educated woman -- and left.
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He has also been routinely criticized by liberals and feminist groups for making remarks seen as patronizing or sexist.
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His tendency to blow up, to dominate, to be suave but patronizing — all this is part of his DNA.
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They cited examples of US and foreign officials patronizing the hotel and its restaurant while also engaging with the administration.
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So I was doing my usual patronizing of the Uniqlo store at London's Oxford Street today when something unusual happened.
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"At the same time, I don't want to be patronizing toward Maisie — she's a 20-year-old woman," he said.
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Understandably, women are hesitant to come forward lest they're sent off with a fistful of antibiotics and a patronizing smile.
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I cannot stress how integrated -- to use a patronizing term -- those Muslims are, and proof of that is Khan himself.
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But, take a minute to think about this: What if you're coming off as that patronizing person in your office?
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The acting is of a consistently high standard, although Sam's patronizing "nice shot, little brother" patter during combat grows tiresome.
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"It's a bit patronizing," he said, adding that Huawei had done about 60 percent of the work on the project.
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" Similarly, last October, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York characterized the emails as "[e]xtraordinarily patronizing and insulting to Catholics.
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Cookie, betrayed, isn't relenting, and Lucious, as usual, says some patronizing things that are supposed to come off as sincere.
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" Guilt-ridden whites are too eager to self-flagellate and indulge in the patronizing exercise of accepting their "white privilege.
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Trump also pledged that the company would donate all profits made from foreign governments patronizing his hotels while in office.
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But, as an adult, supernatural films that claim to be "based on a true story" are nothing more than patronizing.
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We do better to avoid patronizing those with anti-liberal views -- and to demonstrate that we apply Popper's approach evenhandedly.
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Donald Trump flouts the Constitution, raking in money from supplicants who curry favor with him by patronizing his gaudy hotels.
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"I think they are hyper-rational and it can be seen as patronizing by a lot of people," he said.
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Then there was the patronizing surprise that the acting, the directing, the writing wasn't as bad as one would imagine.
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Antoinette and Stephen get saddled with a third detective, a fatuous, patronizing showboater whom French deploys to delicious comic effect.
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Like everyone else, I had more or less stopped patronizing Blockbuster well before the company filed for bankruptcy in 2150.
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The officer pulled out his own cellphone to record and asked Antonio patronizing questions about whether he had a job.
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If I'm gonna look at something idly at a bar, I could be reading actual articles, patronizing publications I care about.
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Degrassi works because it examines issues through the lens of teenagers: no patronizing, scolding, or Full House-style life lessons involved.
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It's a bit patronizing in its delivery, but there are companies out there working on home assistants specifically for the elderly.
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" Well, according to Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, it's "when a man explains something to a woman in a patronizing way.
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If anything, Martin kind of threw Bonstetter under the bus by giving him a longwinded and mildly patronizing 'great question' preamble.
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But onlookers pointed out that she didn't actually apologize for using the racial slur, making the post seem patronizing and disingenuous.
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Both women longed to find something to soothe their pain but all the books on loss were clinical, patronizing or cheesy.
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That being said, the commercials that are shown on your network are the most god awful, horrible, worthless, mind numbing. patronizing.
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It hurries from one patronizing nonsense line to the next without pausing or catching a glimpse of itself in the mirror.
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Worse, he's dismissive and patronizing, focusing on Black crime and trotting out the "I want to help you help yourselves" line.
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In addition, 25 men were arrested on charges of promoting prostitution, a felony, or patronizing a prostitute, which is a misdemeanor.
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"If you're patronizing places that have free porn, basically you're making it so producers and talent can't get paid," she says.
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Awkward, unfulfilled and living inside her head, she is at once patronized by and patronizing of her glib, superficially easygoing husband.
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"I almost resent, Vice President Bush, your patronizing attitude that you have to teach me about foreign policy," she shot back.
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That show was hosted by the actor and comedian Zach Galifianakis playing an ignorant, patronizing and unexpectedly aggressive version of himself.
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But I have learned a few things along the way that I hope are helpful and not patronizing to share. 1.
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Though no one I spoke to said it directly, I wouldn't be surprised if some scientists find that a bit patronizing.
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Indeed, even the governor has been accused of talking in a patronizing manner in December to a female reporter in Albany.
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Mr. Walker, the politician, said the calls to cancel the series were not patronizing its largely working-class audience or guests.
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The government is not ordering pubs, restaurants or clubs to close, even though it is strongly discouraging people from patronizing them.
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"An accusation of being patronizing would be a small price to pay for the positive results that would accrue!" he wrote.
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There's also a lot of people from developed countries trying to hijack this conversation, imposing those clichés in a patronizing way.
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The senators, unable to impeach her credibility outright and leery of exposing their callousness and contempt, chose instead a patronizing paternalism.
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"I'd never seen any Chinese leader be so patronizing to that crowd," John Holden, a former chairman of the chamber, recalled.
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Adiga writes feelingly about the adolescent confusion over acknowledging one's sexual orientation and the responses — condemnation, abuse, patronizing sympathy — it elicits.
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Nicholas Kristof A few days ago, I blithely tweeted a warning that Democrats often sound patronizing when speaking of Trump voters.
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While the brand says the beer is "satirically dubbed 'Beer for Girls," some have critiqued the product's labeling for being patronizing.
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They brand those who voted the other way as a liberal elite, patronizing, self-interested, out of touch with real life.
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Juxtaposing those experiences, I can see how patronizing and disrespectful a small market like the one in the Southwest can be.
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One can interpret it from the perspective of both a bitter adult patronizing a Kid, and a Kid commiserating with another Kid.
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We need to be better at supporting female business owners by patronizing their operations and being good customers who return and refer.
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It's a humanization — a celebration — that's overdue and necessary, with the arguably patronizing gaze being placed on her by media as proof.
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We thought that having students read reflections from teenage addicts would convey the seriousness of the topic without being didactic or patronizing.
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Jessica Simpson was confronted by animal rights protesters who crashed her book signing Monday night -- and she came off as pretty patronizing.
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They pointed to news reports about foreign diplomats and lobbyists patronizing the hotel in the hopes of gaining favor with the administration.
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It's oversimplification at best, and a patronizing moral that modern mothers definitely don't need, even in comedic form, at its very worst.
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You have to identify with them on a level that isn't patronizing, and to do that you have to actually know them.
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And his attitude toward Sestero slowly becomes more patronizing than avuncular, even when Wiseau can barely hold the production together without him.
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Many women, she said, "experience the Church as a male bastion of patronizing platitudes, to which Pope Francis has added his quota".
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You really want to feel comfortable, that you're talking to someone who's not going to be patronizing, or not treat you well.
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But it's a testament to the creators of the show that these moments came across as funny instead of smarmy or patronizing.
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"I think [it] could be seen as a bit patronizing," explains Dr Tuppy Owens of the Sexual Health and Disability Alliance (SHADA).
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That's my background, so it always irks me when characters with that background are treated in a sentimental, patronizing, or unintelligent way.
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But as a tactic for drawing women to worship (since we all, you know, worship our shoe collections, obviously), it's pretty patronizing.
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Some drivers employed a fried-chicken strategy: gaining entrance inside the station's parking lot by claiming they were patronizing the adjoining KFC.
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Many users said they were annoyed by what they considered the patronizing tone of the narrator in the "Eating with Chopsticks" campaign.
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Courts are now grappling with whether the Constitution cares that President Trump continues to personally profit from foreign governments patronizing his hotels.
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"You're a newborn baby this year and you're growing in the right direction," John told Ehrlich, his tone paternal but not patronizing.
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Fans wishing to gather with other fans to watch the game can consider patronizing neighborhood businesses who will be showing the game.
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"I almost resent, Vice President Bush, your patronizing attitude that you have to teach me about foreign policy," she shot back. Mrs.
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"Saying you'll choose 'a woman' instead of naming a specific woman is wildly patronizing," tweeted Karol Markowicz of the New York Post.
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The travel warning has hurt the fledgling private sector as fewer Americans are renting rooms, patronizing family-owned restaurants and purchasing souvenirs.
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We should provide full solidarity for developing countries but also be more considerate of what's happening inside without sounding patronizing or neocolonial.
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"Defendant &aposDevin Nunes&apos Mom&apos likewise posts satirical patronizing, nagging, mothering comments which ostensibly treat Mr. Nunes as a misbehaving child."
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It's a nowhere scene, but worth mentioning because it introduces a generational divide and a patronizing attitude toward women that winds throughout.
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It is also what led some critics to write that McCullers was "before her time," that most banal and patronizing of descriptors.
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And it is possible to understand the opposition of black conservatives, like Clarence Thomas, who see it as patronizing to African-Americans.
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Fifth-generation Iowan Matt Russell is adamant that farmers don't need to be convinced about climate change — a narrative he finds patronizing.
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It felt a bit patronizing because I know how much Daniella earns, and also I wasn't happy about my minuscule pay rise.
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In my version, there were no pools, or patronizing neighbors, or tinkling of cocktail stirrers; there was only my stubborn and whimsical desire.
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Depictions of Asians, African-Americans, Arabs and other ethnic groups have been patronizing, cartoonish and insulting not just for years but for generations.
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But there have also been moments of people being rude to me or patronizing me, like thinking I don't know anything about punk.
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A game that promises a superhero soaring through crowded cities begins with an exhausting and patronizing tutorial set atop a claustrophobic mining vessel.
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My naiveté is long gone, along with my patronizing assumptions that development is simply a matter of us teaching others what to do.
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Though the intent — recreating Hepworth's studio in St. Ives — was admirable, it feels patronizing in its tackiness and unashamed promotion via "#hepworthgarden" labels.
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Ferraro," to which Ferraro quipped, "I almost resent, Vice President Bush, your patronizing attitude that you have to teach me about foreign policy.
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Most of the people who cautioned me against getting the procedure would end the conversation with a patronizing, figurative pat on the head.
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The woman in the pilot episode, who calls Annie a "fat bitch" for not accepting her patronizing help has a similar sneering vibe.
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It's hard to talk about having envy for a country lifestyle without sounding sort of patronizing, or like you're glorifying it a bit.
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Luckily, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is here to help, via the medium of patronizing and poorly produced short film.
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At the risk of sounding like a patronizing Old, I'll concede that "ok boomer" means well, and I don't begrudge teenagers their anger.
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Concern and comments regarding a woman's decisions surrounding motherhood are probably coming from a good place; few people actually endeavor to be patronizing.
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Sayah Baaroun, who has set up a union for VTC drivers, accused Macron of patronizing banlieues residents, many of whom have immigrant backgrounds.
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"Patronizing storytelling has been damaging to the psyche of Bangladeshis and to the economy," he said in an interview with Lens in 2013.
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It started with an ad on Instagram showing a Chinese woman trying to eat cannoli with chopsticks — a post that many found patronizing.
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"When you type, it's difficult to make it sound like you're not being patronizing or sarcastic," said Joanna Linzinger, who manages the team.
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This may sound patronizing at first, but the problem is that we all have a tendency to hear what we want to hear.
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It risks conveying the patronizing and offensive expectation that members of racial and ethnic minorities will focus their scholarship on race and ethnicity.
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I imagined people patronizing me, calling me "brave" or "inspirational" every time I so much as hinted at being confident in my body.
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And foreign countries are already trying to curry favor with Trump by patronizing his US businesses or helping his foreign businesses with permit issues.
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This trend is one many customers share — 48% of VS shoppers in a recent survey said they are patronizing the brand less and less.
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At 27, Fatima is a young teacher, and she knows it can he hard to walk the line between being relatable and being patronizing.
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But although this wonderment at my ability to perform basic tasks was patronizing, it was probably preferable to being rejected because of my disability.
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That Louisiana governor David Vitter had to write Florida governor Rick Scott a patronizing but necessary letter to help facilitate it is absurd enough.
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Liberals often antagonize gun owners by coming across as patronizing or insulting — as well as spectacularly unknowledgeable about the guns they seek to regulate.
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" Reminds me of the look in my ex's eyes when he dumped me last winter; a soft patronizing gaze emanating, "Please don't hate me.
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The U.S., meanwhile, hasn't offered to buy Huawei equipment or to stop its campaign to dissuade allies from patronizing one of China's leading companies.
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The top prosecutor in Ingham County, Michigan, was arrested Monday for allegedly patronizing prostitutes hundreds of times in a five-year period, PEOPLE confirms.
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His withdrawal came shortly after he stumbled during a speech at the NAACP, where his comments on unemployment were interpreted as patronizing and insensitive.
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To assume sex workers are victims of oppression is patronizing because it fails to recognise their ability to make an informed choice, Green adds.
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In fact, some of them are adopting new, shiny terms to endear themselves to the same consumers who have been patronizing them for years.
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There's something inherently lonely about most mobile games, especially so-called "casual" games (a term that Robertson rightly thinks is patronizing bordering on offensive).
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Johanna Konta hit back at a "disrespectful" and "patronizing" reporter for picking on her after she was dumped out of the Wimbledon Championships quarterfinal.
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Mr. Parakh, who was affiliated with the Lifehouse Church in Oak Ridge, had initially been cited for patronizing prostitution, The Knoxville News Sentinel reported.
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"They started paying attention to clients," said Dmitry S. Balyasov, a lawyer and shooting enthusiast who was patronizing a firing range outside of Moscow.
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Not in an easy-to-digest, sentimental, or patronizing way, but it's about the hope that's born out of being truthful to real people.
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He said he served during the Vietnam War as a military police officer guarding a brothel in Germany to keep troops from patronizing it.
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When the blowup comes, from the seemingly meekest of the group, it's because he feels that this kind of talk is patronizing to him.
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On the other end, some people may find a step by step approach too "hand holdy," an feel like a game is patronizing them.
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After the world championships, Fujimoto tried out for the N.W.H.L. in part to shed the cute, almost patronizing labels associated with Japanese women's hockey.
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In an artistic context, especially that of public art, this level of subsidy, while perhaps a bit patronizing, nonetheless makes a certain intuitive sense.
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Theater becomes a very patronizing thing, and you'll see that a lot in China — copying and pasting things together that they think will sell.
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"We have to be more conscious of how we support, protect and take care of women — and not in a patronizing way," he said.
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In "The Post," Meryl Streep's Katharine Graham muscles through a scrum of insistent and often patronizing men to claim her role as the decider.
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And of course, patronizing defenses of unfettered speech, not thoughtful concern for those individuals who have been silenced and violated by that same speech.
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It's an art monster move of the first order, but Trine is too exhausted and angry afterward to bask in her audience's patronizing admiration.
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Due to its very nature as a women's genre, it faces hyper-scrutiny, condemnation and patronizing terms, such as trashy books or mommy porn.
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But Chinese viewers who saw the cannoli ad — some overseas and some using special software to circumvent Chinese censors — found it crass and patronizing.
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Unfortunately, acknowledging the monetary constraints of many residents who stay behind can too often turn into a patronizing narrative that robs people of agency.
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Mr. Rapp is an undeniably talented actor ("Rent") but his first impression in "Discovery" is one of a meanspirited, patronizing and constantly condescending astromicologist.
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Though the victims were patronizing a money center inside the Walmart before the shooting, no shots were fired inside the store, the chief said.
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She spoke with authority but without any flashiness, always giving the impression that she was thinking as she spoke, and never patronizing the hearers.
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Trump's expectation that black voters simply hop aboard his sinking campaign is not only patronizing, presuming black voters don't know what's best for them.
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Because the HvW "celebration of the Black woman and all that she is" fashion show was all things patronizing and exactly what we don't need.
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Looking back, that homoeroticism was probably a PR strategy to fuel the rumor mill and attract attention, patronizing guys who actually were gay or bisexual.
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Spicer isn't lending his personal or bureaucratic authority to Trump's "beliefs"—it's the only thing he can do to mitigate damage without patronizing agency researchers.
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Hamilton wants the site to be a place for this generation to come for stories on budgeting and money—without patronizing assumptions or unrealistic goals.
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Morgan replied to Rose's photo saying "Put it away, luv," both patronizing her and acting as though he as any authority over what she does.
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Some users break the rules by riding on sidewalks or after patronizing the bars and clubs that make Hoboken a hot spot for nighttime revelers.
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Powers on CNN said it was "patronizing" that several Republican leaders said they believe Ford but do not think it was Kavanaugh who assaulted her.
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That means when you enter a shop in Cuba to purchase a bottle of water, soda or beer, you probably are patronizing a military establishment.
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Pet the Pup at the Party drizzles a candy coating on this breed of social anxiety, but not in a way that's dismissive or patronizing.
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During the Berlusconi years, Italy was Europe's laughingstock, and the Americans, among others, took us to task with comments that ranged from patronizing to outraged.
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Congress has its own sexism issues, and Ms. Pelosi endured plenty of patronizing eye-rolls and insufferable mansplaining on her way up through the ranks.
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Arrest rates for prostitution offenses — including patronizing, promoting, compelling, permitting, loitering and sex trafficking — are higher in the two boroughs than elsewhere in the city.
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Instead, Mounk contends, too many advocates unwittingly accept the punitive framework of accountability and, following its logic, end up patronizing those they want to help.
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Also, can he stop saying versions of "this isn't Canada" whenever something racist happens—it's patronizing and obviously untrue, as his own actions have proven.
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I remembered him as the man patronizing me in the bar on Makaloa Street, but now I saw that he had lived a full life.
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The second should be to reduce the attention economy by patronizing businesses or institutions with subscription models or those that keep advertising within reasonable limits.
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Foreign countries are already trying to curry favor with the president-elect by patronizing his US businesses or helping his foreign businesses with permit issues.
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And it was in doing this I learned that, on my Indian side, Yeats wrote a very patronizing poem inspired by my third great-uncle.
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" Andrew Sarris, the critic for the presumably less square Village Voice, was simply patronizing: "The drag-queen contestants are eminently likable in curiously peripheral ways.
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Somoza's praise for Clinton isn't that Clinton feels bad for the plight of the disabled and deigns to throw them help out of patronizing concern.
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Actually, as the ones wielding the dollars, we should keep shopping; patronizing eco-conscious, socially responsible designs and investing in high-quality pieces that will last.
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The members of Anonymouse transformed the basement windows of local businesses into different shops that a mouse might enjoy patronizing, and the results are so sweet.
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We all know what happens when someone—your boss, your mom—waves you off, or debunks you in a way you find patronizing: You get mad.
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U.S. policymakers — including the president himself — have been struggling to set a non-patronizing tone as they nudge British voters to stay in the European Union.
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I've been single for the most part going on 11 years now, and so I have heard every derogatory, patronizing, demeaning thing said about single women.
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But no one had really gotten a good look at the guy, and the police, though dutiful, could not quite hide a tone of patronizing concern.
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They did not want consumers to lose trust in digital services and stop patronizing them, said Cameron F. Kerry, the department's general counsel at the time.
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Let me ask you this: How Democrats can engage white working-class voters in a way that connects, that doesn't feel inauthentic or contrived or patronizing.
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But I prefer to think about it with a comma in there: a patronizing, head-shaking rebuttal of the stubborn little piece of small-handed blubber.
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One has to suspect that Trump's close ties to Sprint's Japanese owner and T-Mobile's sudden interest in patronizing Trump's hotels may have played a role.
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She was ordered to submit to DNA testing, has to refrain from patronizing businesses that sell alcohol and complete substance abuse treatment, according to these records.
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His statement of "praying" for the LGBT community also came off as a bit patronizing, and didn't really address the core issue that fans found problematic.
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EPA officials responded that the meeting would be primarily for state regulators -- which she said came off as "patronizing" and discounted her role as a stakeholder.
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Her family's ordeal left her with love for her Ashland neighbors for patronizing Brannon's shop and supporting her family and being with them as they grieved.
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We immediately understand Jayde's place in the friendship hierarchy: She speaks over Van, explicitly disapproves of Van's choices, is always ready with unsolicited and patronizing advice.
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The fall of the wall and the dissolution of the GDR were the logical and necessary consequence of a perverted, often criminal, authoritarian, and patronizing system.
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There were a few emollient words for the prime minister before she was sent home across the English Channel on Thursday, but they just sounded patronizing.
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Moreover, Judge Daniels said, customers might be patronizing Mr. Trump's hotels and his hotels' restaurants because of price or quality — reasons totally unrelated to his presidency.
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Arrest rates for prostitution offenses — including patronizing, promoting, compelling, permitting, loitering and sex trafficking — are higher in the two boroughs than elsewhere in New York City.
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The Trump campaign continued its pattern of patronizing the candidate's own businesses, totaling $2766 million in the final period, or 2756.67 percent of its overall outlays.
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But it's especially so in light of McCarthy and other Republicans who defended Trump throughout the impeachment process making a spectacle out of patronizing his business.
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"If you think about the way she is being criticized, it is textbook misogyny, textbook patronizing, it is all these things," Hathaway told the Evening Standard.
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For wheelchair users, a single step – or a door that is a bit too narrow – can be the barrier that prevents them from patronizing a store.
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" Bala Sathiapalan, India "Being a young ambitious woman in Russia means being routinely subjected to misogynism, harassment and patronizing remarks both at work and in life.
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He seems to be patronizing them and not quite listening to them because he's turned away, like he's turned his back to them and their problems.
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Eventually, I did, at last, find someone who didn't tell me (in the usual brusque and patronizing tone) that anxiety is just a part of life.
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Some businesses and city supervisors are arguing that the company cafeterias are keeping workers inside the office during meal times, discouraging them from patronizing local eateries.
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It's often broadly funny but never mean or patronizing; it takes the Knights, their eccentricities and quixotic aspirations seriously, but not enough to squelch the fun.
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Rather, they are created for normatively sized consumers who get to enjoy the moral satisfaction of patronizing brands that outwardly seem to fit their liberal worldview.
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Stallone himself as Rocky Balboa was forever romanticized as the patronizing caricature of the white working class; the natural Philadelphia bozo with wisdom bombs brimming with corn.
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" Business Minister Andrew Griffiths says it is "shocking that some businesses think these pitiful and patronizing excuses are acceptable reasons to keep women from the top jobs.
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Pre-Zoloft, if someone were rude or disrespectful or patronizing, I'd have been filled with rage, my mind contemplating a Choose Your Own Adventure of revenge plots.
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Nicole McDonal, who quit playing music as a teen after enduring patronizing comments from her own male bandmates, bought a drum machine to join last year's fest.
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From the perspective of a poor Filipino, it can look more like abandoning one's own to be a tuto (puppy dog) to endlessly patronizing, undisguisedly racist Americans.
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We don't believe in patronizing nonessential businesses on Labor Day, so we skip the traditional brunch outing we do every time we both have a weekday off.
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A prominent Zurich businessman called as we headed south, with a patronizing offer to broker a deal that would put the foundation in wholly safe Swiss hands.
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She said she intended on patronizing the boy&aposs business when she returned, only to find him gone and a half-dozen patrol cars on her street.
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Why the patronizing opening anecdote about the time his wife got (understandably) mad at him for questioning whether her bad mood was really connected to her period?
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Trump's speech at Davos marked a departure from campaign rallies, where the president often shames his political opponents by name and accuses them of patronizing his supporters.
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But assuming Wade stays put, which we might as well assume, how does Miami handle this situation without either patronizing him or excusing themselves from championship contention?
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"It was a hard balance to get; where the voice wasn't patronizing and yet was still a letdown," the episode's director Toby Haynes told The Hollywood Reporter.
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In fact, a lot of people have been insulted or even patronizing when I've said that I hate them and that they just don't suit my personality.
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That's not to say that Dan wasn't subjected to a patronizing gaze as his classmates watched him anonymously air his own dirty laundry across their web browsers.
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When I was younger the magazines for teens came with pullout posters of tiny rabbits; their content was patronizing and betrayed a low opinion of the readership.
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Firing back at his critics, Macron said it was those who deemed it inappropriate to joke with an African leader who were guilty of patronizing the continent.
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Their real-life equivalents would probably (and justifiably) sock you in the jaw, or else combust spontaneously from being subjected to yet another patronizing, cast-iron cliché.
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Released between comedy booms, these albums were hits but also targets of a critical backlash, with Mr. Cross becoming the face of a didactic, patronizing alternative comedy.
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A lot of these causes are pretty patronizing and to make people feel that they don't know enough about the cause, or that they're doing something wrong.
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Georgia is a well-meaning mother held hostage by her patronizing but rule-breaking teenage son and two younger children, both of whom are still breast-feeding.
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And even as he endeavored to repair his reputation and excuse his behavior, his communications on the matter were often self-centered, unapologetic, and at times, patronizing.
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Antonioni's sense of China as offering a "vast repertoire of human behavior" might seem patronizing, but his travelogue is generally affirmative and admiring as well as entrancing.
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Mr. Howe works as a groundskeeper at a ski resort, maintaining a playground for the wealthy rather than patronizing one himself, as he once might have done.
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Residents in these areas often avoid patronizing shops located on what is deemed enemy turf, even if they have to walk farther to buy what they want.
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We first meet Anthony at home with her loyal companion, called Anne, but also see her in action crusading for women's rights and debating patronizing male politicians.
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The George W. Bush administration's 2005 call for China to become a "responsible stakeholder" in world affairs may have been patronizing, but it was also forward-looking.
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And you've touched on the main questions here: In patronizing a pawnshop, are you helping sustain a system that exploits the hard up or even abets thievery?
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Saudi Arabia on Thursday banned all pilgrims due to the coronavirus, but did not act with the same severity to restrict those patronizing its fledgling tourist industry.
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This thinking goes that they were waiting for their chance to board the proverbial bandwagon for 15 minutes of fame -- an approach that is patronizing at best.
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And when the server in a pressed red jacket at the Musso & Frank Grill learned that my dining companion was pregnant, he was attentive but not patronizing.
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But it's clear that it also feels a tad insulting and more than a tad patronizing to Toller that Abundant Life knows First Reformed can't support itself.
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"Too often, current forms of service are patronizing to recipients and don't spark in those providing service a deeper understanding of social structures and inequalities," the report said.
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Users slammed the video campaign in which a Chinese woman struggles to eat pizza and pasta with chopsticks while the narrator offers eating lessons in a patronizing tone.
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Pairing a non-patronizing tone with well researched policy proposals of particular interest to young voters is the key to the policy side of this unicorn-hunting equation.
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"Hey," Reese's Pieces says, in that sort of semi-cloying actually-quite-patronizing voice, grabbing a small soft piece of your sleeve and rubbing it between its fingers.
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The book does a good Joyce — weary, entitled, disappointed, patronizing — who is both an inspiration to Beckett and a creative obstacle, preventing him from finding his own voice.
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But the European Union's see-no-evil approach to the misuse of billions in taxpayer funds is an unnecessary, patronizing and self-defeating concession to the new members.
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But is patronizing "the rooftop restaurant featured in The Hangover Part II" and getting "the obligatory Thai massages" somehow more admirable than renting or owning one's own place?
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It's one of Robins's virtues that her book is full of these withering perspectives: the text swivels to sample Lionel's often patronizing opinion before going back to Diana.
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And yet the Sanders supporters sneer at these votes, and almost in a racist and patronizing way suggest these voters do [not] know what is good for them.
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The new rules limit individual travel, make group visits more onerous and ban Americans from doing business with or patronizing 180 Cuban military-run businesses and their products.
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And you get a lot of these people, like white people, middle class people, who mean well, but they're very patronizing in the way they consume this stuff.
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In the age of the #MeToo movement, the use of the term "mansplaining" — to point out patronizing explanations made by men to female counterparts — has become increasingly mainstream.
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There are also psychological effects: Black children live in a world where their very appearance presents them as "others," often objects of either uneasy suspicion or patronizing sympathy.
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The Trump administration has made it more difficult for Americans to travel to Cuba on their own and banned them from patronizing military-owned hotels and other establishments.
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If we merely criticized religious notions of salvation — without seeking to overcome the forms of social injustice to which religions respond — the critique would be empty and patronizing.
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Some of her work can be dismissed as "quirky" or with whatever patronizing terms are sometimes applied to the work of female artists before it's consigned to oblivion.
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The ethnographers of the mid-century sought out indigenous sounds with a sort of patronizing benevolence, documenting vanishing forms of expression against a backdrop of colonization and exploitation.
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The suit's claims include aggravated rape, human trafficking involving sexual servitude, forced labor, patronizing minors, as well as child abuse and neglect, unlawful sexual contact, prostitution and conspiracy.
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You can't just give Lopez patronizing points for attempting to write a significant piece of literature, because he cleverly makes this attempting the very dynamic of his play.
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" But she was also a bit patronizing: "It is good to watch for about an hour these colorful human beings whose entire self-image is a put-on.
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If we merely criticized religious notions of salvation—without seeking to overcome the forms of social injustice to which religions respond—the critique would be empty and patronizing.
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Of course, his argument — that President Trump can teach the black community about a philosophy of living — is so patronizing it actually should require an additional apology, but whatever.
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Considering how many times she likely had to endure Rooney's patronizing muttered comments about bus drivers, the fact that she stopped for him at all qualifies her as cool.
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As a result, the deliverables end up being viewed as patronizing handouts to the people they're aiming to serve, rather than taking shape as strategic partnerships for everyone involved.
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Where Mass Effect 2 made me feel powerful and at the same time challenged by an even mightier force, Andromeda holds my hand to an extent I find patronizing.
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The patronizing sense of noblesse oblige that forms between the two women becomes a shadow of the mother/child relationships that form the heart of the story, with Mrs.
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The panelists discussed how food can be a catalyst for social change and encouraged Detroiters to create their own gardens, rather than working in and patronizing large agriculture companies.
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After growing accustomed to his patronizing retorts after women or people of color spoke about inequality, I'd secretly nicknamed him Pat Buchanan, because he shared the man's paleoconservative convictions.
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Eliot Spitzer would not face criminal charges in connection with his patronizing of a high-price prostitution ring, the revelations of which had led him to resign in disgrace.
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Speaking at a diversity conference organized by the Professional BusinessWomen of California on Tuesday, Clinton criticized Spicer for "patronizing" Ryan, the Washington Bureau Chief for American Urban Radio Networks.
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Of course, the People might have defied themselves with a #2ndRef on the deal (though Remain's patronizing buyers' regret hypothesis doesn't seem to be holding much water just now).
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"Cork does not, for example, accuse (the hotel) or President Trump of acting to dissuade potential customers from patronizing Cork or somehow obstructing entry to Cork's location," Leon wrote.
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What won't do are the romantic or patronizing epithets of "outsider" or "self-taught," which belong to a fading time of urges to police the frontiers of high culture.
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"It's shocking that some businesses think these pitiful and patronizing excuses are acceptable reasons to keep women from the top jobs," Business Minister Andrew Griffiths said in a statement.
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Mr. McNeil favors a universal pregnancy avoidance plan for countries in the grip of Zika, and denounces virtually all sympathy for women facing family planning decisions as "patronizing" feminism.
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I remember resisting the process because charting how my thoughts transform into feelings and back again felt patronizing, futile, and insulting to my brilliant intelligence and rich emotional makeup.
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It is so, so, so self-important and just patronizing to the reader and smug and just bad writing to quote a philosopher in a fucking album review, man.
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Done poorly, these anthologies come off as patronizing and pedantic, but put into the hands of Calvin Trillin and the illustrator Roz Chast, the results are a constant delight.
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People looking for a place to eat can protect their own health, and encourage restaurant chains to do the right thing, by patronizing places that offer paid sick leave.
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The federal government has advised Americans to begin homeschooling their children, avoid gatherings with more than 10 people, and stop patronizing restaurants and bars, except for takeout and delivery.
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The actor responded to Page's tweet last week calling Hillsong "anti LGBTQ" -- she doubled down over the weekend, saying there's no excuse for anyone patronizing an org that hates.
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Small businesses often live or die by word-of-mouth, as roughly 86% of U.S. consumers consult online reviews before patronizing a local business, according to a BrightLocal survey.
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What's more, our country needs politicians who can grapple with these dislocations and their solutions in public policy without being patronizing and who are willing to be good listeners.
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The Bush administration's patronizing rhetoric of democracy promotion was shelved, but this came at the cost of reducing American concerns in the Middle East to terrorism and national security.
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Since the election, embassies from countries that include Bahrain, Kuwait and Azerbaijan have held receptions at the hotel, and diplomats say it's important that they be seen patronizing it.
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" BPAS spokesperson Katherine O'Brien told Broadly: "Not only is this a rather cruel attempt to manipulate women who may be in incredibly desperate circumstances, it is also profoundly patronizing.
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If I object to a rape joke, I'm a sour feminazi, until I explain that I've been raped, when I turn into a delicate flower who needs protecting and patronizing.
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Uncool. Considering how many times she likely had to endure Rooney's patronizing muttered comments about bus drivers, the fact that she stopped for him at all qualifies her as cool.
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His sharp tongue, patronizing remarks to the working class and habit of listening to only a small coterie of close advisors have helped drive his popularity ratings to new lows.
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Chris Janson delivered a piano-ballad rendition of "Take a Drunk Girl Home" that, when sung to a crowd full of thousands of drunk girls, felt more patronizing than empowering.
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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.
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Slowly, he reveals himself as a patronizing, opportunistic, and pathetic man, who, once his domestic life crumbles due to his own infidelity and his wife's psychiatric breakdown, remains astoundingly unrepentant.
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What's most distressing about this news is that if Mario is not of Italian descent, then what is that a-patronizing voice he's been a-subjecting us to for years?
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But it also sparked some patronizing commentary -- a tone of surprise that a Southern belle who won the swimsuit award also reads the news and can express her opinions effectively.
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But Wyatt saw the endorsement, which celebrated an opposition to Trump as much as it did the possibility of the country's first woman president, as patronizing and—even worse—ineffective.
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Was he being patronizing — trying to assert his alpha-male dominance from the get-go — or just looking to demonstrate that he felt comfortable, relaxed, unthreatened by the professional politician?
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There is, of course, something mildly patronizing about the meme, and even about the tough-gal role Galifianakis had Clinton play on the show (much of which was apparently improvised).
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Those patronizing voices of whites who seek to save us from ourselves, and black "spokespersons" who embrace an agenda of racial grievance and an identity of victimization, should stand aside.
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British tennis star Johanna Konta characterized a reporter as "patronizing" and questions he posed to her as "disrespectful" after her quarterfinal loss to unseeded Barbora Strycova at Wimbledon on Tuesday.
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The idea that "patronizing" feminists are inappropriately driving the Zika reproductive rights debate flies in the face of the severity of contraceptive and abortion laws in some of the Americas.
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Voters have not taken kindly to the recommendation, describing the request as a patronizing directive from an elite figure who thoroughly misunderstands their feelings of alienation from the political system.
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Brought together through obligation rather than desire, and with years of underlying resentment and competitiveness ready to surface, snips, jabs, and patronizing remarks are muttered as beers are passed around.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's interior minister drew fire from across the political spectrum on Sunday after accusing the European Union of taking a patronizing stance toward eastern EU members about migration.
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SATC 2 attempts to portray this as a gesture of sisterhood—after all, the Arab women are wearing the latest Louis Vuitton under their burkas—but it feels incredibly patronizing.
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There is also the idea, which has tremendous strength on the left, that non-Western women don't need "saving" — and that the suggestion that they do is patronizing at best.
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While members of Congress currying favor with the president by patronizing his businesses is pretty close to the textbook definition of corruption, McCarthy has pretended to be oblivious about it.
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To encourage tourists and locals to continue patronizing Chinatown businesses, Pelosi toured the neighborhood Monday, stopping at the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory and a dim sum restaurant for lunch.
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But the piece is really an engaging description of a slice of American life that, when it is described at all, is usually done so in a patronizing anthropological manner.
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Just as the films that focused on race struggles exposed the vastly white movement's hidden prejudices, so did feminist films reveal the patronizing attitudes of male activists towards women's issues.
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He noted that ISIS could possibly hide the news of Mateen patronizing the LGBTQ club and using gay-dating apps from those in its core territory in the Middle East.
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And people are often very patronizing toward asexuals—they tell us that we're just going through a phase, that we'll change our minds when we eventually meet the right person.
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To call Golan a competent director would be patronizing, but the movie doesn't actively suffer from his work behind the camera, which is not true of many of his other films.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - A former Michigan prosecutor who had been an outspoken advocate for ending prostitution pleaded guilty on Tuesday to patronizing prostitutes and misconduct in office, the state's attorney general said.
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And the area's retail market even took a hit, due in part to employee cafeterias inside tech offices that kept would-be customers inside instead of patronizing local restaurants and businesses.
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The Home Secretary was apparently questioned about her understanding of encryption at a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference, where she hit out at the tech industry for being patronizing.
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Mouni Roy, the film's female lead, gets limited screen time as a sometimes violent, shrew-like wife who thinks nothing of slapping her husband and patronizing him every chance she gets.
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Every time you hear him talk, whether he's insulting the Prime Minister of Germany or when he said, "Oh, they all have their sides," about the alt-right, it's really patronizing.
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Musk loses his train of thought and gathers himself to respond to Herzog in a patronizing but entirely understandable way, sure, crazy old Werner Herzog, you can go on the rocket.
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Her shot at being chosen VP is under threat by Republicans, and this damp wash towel of a politician is placating her with patronizing comments about trying again in four years.
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Unless Bran brings the Wall tumbling down (as some have theorized) or Davos learns some other skill besides being a patronizing dad, I won't be winning any more points this season.
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He'd always cared what they thought of him, and the fact that now they saw him as a patronizing, disrespectful son who got a girlfriend and blew them off astonished him.
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Cameron delights in intercutting the dull fancy folks in the dining room with the earthy fun of the lower-class passengers downstairs; the sequence is a little patronizing, but it lands.
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Above all else, encourage a program of patronizing your local bookstore, supermarket, shoe store, you name it, in the interest of maintaining the life of your community, even at some expense.
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"There is a level of patronizing ... from this White House and from others ... that somehow African-Americans are ungrateful, that we somehow don't know what this country is about," Jones said.
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He was frustrated by France's patronizing attitude toward its Vietnamese allies, and disturbed by a failure to establish a legitimate cause to counter the stirring appeal of their anti-colonial adversaries.
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Instead of finding the glamour she expects, she experiences a form of domestic slavery — a toxic atmosphere in which she is chronically subject to menial tasks and patronizing remarks within earshot.
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Along with the waves of residents settling into rental buildings like the 53-story Ashland, which opened on Ashland Place in 2016, visitors are patronizing the cultural venues and local businesses.
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Common sense would say that you set about piling sandbags, but this would be as unthinkable to many people as resisting the depredations of Amazon by patronizing their local independent bookstore.
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" Of course, I was grateful to be spared the humiliation of a patronizing confrontation by a dozen young women who would probably have just shamed me for not "being more open.
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Kamal Al-Solaylee, a journalism professor at Ryerson University who is originally from Yemen, said he had noticed a patronizing tone, as when some sponsors highlighted their volunteering on social media.
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" Sandy Zenker, 70, who lives in Chelsea and said his family has been patronizing the restaurant for about 80 years, said he feels for Mr. Greengrass and "what he's going through.
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Some viewers loved the film's patriotic theme and propulsive action, while others faulted it for chauvinism and for patronizing Africans, who are mowed down and blown up in the war scenes.
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As a doting and loving mother of several children of her own, she also extends her motherly skills and knowledge to others in a patronizing manner, which is embarrassing and unnecessary.
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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.
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Then-Senator Barack Obama's comments during a debate in New Hampshire that year that she was "likable enough" were seen by some as patronizing, and as helping her win the state's primary.
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This great American psychosis, this paranoid moralizing, this patronizing fear, is all over Game Face, the new documentary about Fox and other openly gay and trans athletes that premiered on Netflix Monday.
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The patronizing voice of this article is obnoxious, but it happens to contain a few gems of information regarding the structure of some of these early boxing gyms in the twentieth century.
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While the purity of MDMA pills and crystal has rocketed in the last two years, the British government does nothing besides make patronizing noises about illegal drugs being dangerous when people overdose.
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At the time, anticipatory anxiety about the episode, which ultimately attracted 42 million viewers, reached such an intensity that the network decided to slap a spectacularly patronizing "parental advisory" warning on it.
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While the context in which the saying has traditionally been used is quite patronizing, there is, after all, an element of truth in it, which applies universally, not just to emerging markets.
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Aside from the patronizing way in which Netflix's promo ads suggest anyone under 30 has no idea what a mixtape is (mixtapes are still a thing, Netflix!), Flixtape is actually pretty useful.
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Gentrification in Harlem might well be likened to the progress of the British Raj, where the most that "civilizing" interlopers could muster was a patronizing interest in token elements of local culture.
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"Please don't patronize me.... In the way you're asking your question, you're being quite disrespectful and you're patronizing me," Konta added, after the reporter continued to press her on what went wrong.
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Devin Nunes of California on Sunday contradicted health experts' recommendation that Americans practice "social distancing" to curb the spread of coronavirus, instead urging "healthy" Americans to continue patronizing businesses during the pandemic.
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It reifies overly simplistic notions of difference that fall apart under scrutiny (Nigerian immigrants have the highest levels of education in the nation), and codifies the patronizing fallacy that demographics are destiny.
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"The patronizing tone towards Muslim women in all the opinions is quite breathtaking," Ratna Kapur, a law professor and author of a forthcoming book on gender and human rights, wrote on Facebook.
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We watched as Ms. Yates faced off against an endless series of patronizing men, cheering and high-fiving our TVs as she swiftly laid waste to each and every one of them.
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Aside from its patronizing nature, such a position conflates the role of the critic, whose aim is to encourage judgment and discernment, with an industry mouthpiece, whose role is to encourage sales.
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He cited his new hotel a few blocks from the White House, which the Trump Organization has urged diplomats to consider patronizing when in town to meet the president or his team.
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It took the phrase that Donald Trump used to dismiss and rationalize his own vulgar and patronizing speech and moved it out of Billy Bush's bus and onto the campus in Cambridge.
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The score matters, and you deserve to know it, however dispiriting, as it will motivate you to memorize your two- and three-letter words, improve your strategy and destroy that patronizing creep.
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She calls one eminent 19th-century doctor "A PATRONIZING CHAUVINIST" (the all caps are all hers; she later admits that her go-to disciplinary move with her own children is to yell).
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Simon CohenNew York To the Editor: As a white operagoer, I find Katherine Hu's suggestion that majority-white audiences "may be less aware of the offensive caricatures they're seeing onstage" rather patronizing.
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The parent company may not slip by craft beer aficionados, but those who don't find themselves patronizing those sudsy communities and message boards may believe they're drinking something truly "craft" and independent.
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Northanger Abbey is fond of silly, flighty Catherine Morland, its heroine, and of patronizing Henry Tilney, its hero, but it isn't about to let its fondness get in the way of mocking them.
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I don't that mean in a patronizing way, but I feel like where we need to go and what we need to do, we're going to need as much of everyone as possible.
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It's time this question be asked and answered with an increase in Medicaid benefits and quality and a reversal of the cynically political process of just patronizing as many potential voters as possible.
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The soap-opera impulse shows up most strongly in a relatively extraneous character (the brother of one of the women) who contributes to the plot by patronizing prostitutes and running from debt collectors.
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It is demeaning and patronizing to assume that the electoral victories of black candidates are equivalent to addressing the crucial needs of those whose incomes are at the bottom third of the nation.
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A true commitment to equal opportunity in tech involves addressing the more subtle forms of discrimination: The cumulative impact of the minimizing, patronizing or ignoring that many women and other minorities experience daily.
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Patronizing a debate opponent is always potentially perilous, and George Bush fell into that trap in 1984 when he went up against Geraldine A. Ferraro, the first woman on a major party ticket.
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Then, in 2011, she had testified for the prosecution at the trial of Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister who was charged with abusing his power and with patronizing an underage prostitute.
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"i find it patronizing to assume i have no knowledge of something I'm influenced by, but I've also grown up with strangers assuming that," Azalea tweeted as a response in now-deleted tweets.
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The challengers argued that because foreign, US, and state government actors were patronizing Trump's hotels and other businesses, and he was continuing to profit, he was in violation of both anti-corruption clauses.
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On Twitter critics accused the store of patronizing women and some vowed to boycott the chain; While another identified the policy as sexist; While one U.K. member of parliament called the policy outrageous:
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Though "Mary Toft; Or, The Rabbit Queen" offers much that speaks to our own slippery times, it's neither philosophy posing as a story nor a patronizing sneer at those gullible folk of yesteryear.
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Visually translating the roguelike experience into something decipherable without becoming dull, simplistic or patronizing, the kooky space odyssey with looting-centric combat should reel in new fans and delight current roguelike rogues alike.
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More skeptical readers and moviegoers detected something patronizing in a liberal white lawyer riding to the rescue of a poor, uneducated black man who was cast in the role of innocent, but passive, victim.
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Mr. Christie, 53, took the message as deeply disrespectful and patronizing, questioning why "a 44-year-old" was telling him about his future, said people who described his reaction on the condition of anonymity.
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Twenty years later, while running for president again, he called rising star Barack Obama "articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," remarks that were widely taken to be patronizing and racist.
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According to the Sun-Sentinel, he pleaded guilty in 2011 to sexual misconduct and patronizing a prostitute, admitted he had sex in a New York hotel with an underage prostitute he thought was 19.
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"Emerging artist" is another patronizing term that excludes or diminishes the work of artists who haven't been accepted by the insular art world's elite group of wealthy collectors, gallery owners, museum curators, and critics.
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I feel that it is important for everyone to understand the crucial yet carefree message of "Free to Be … You and Me," and the way it espouses progressive ideals without being aloof or patronizing.
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Krawcheck shared my distaste for all the pink websites with patronizing advice for young women trying to manage their money, lecturing us on the need to quit our latte habit or stop buying shoes.
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People who were likely familiar with her trailblazing work in the '21985s were there, alongside millennials, cramming into the theater in a way I had never seen in seven years of patronizing the place.
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Vi Nelson, a spokeswoman for the group, said the association had worried about the impact on salons — whether clients who were experiencing problems might stop patronizing them and whether an abuser could show up.
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Photograph by Nadine Ijewere for The New Yorker There is a respectful caution in this kind of critique which, though undoubtedly well intended in theory, in practice throws a patronizing chill over such work.
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Brits could look across the Irish Sea with a mixture of perplexity and patronizing disdain: Why can't the Irish settle down and stop being so obsessed with those maddening questions of nationality and identity?
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Friendly and calm, and in no way patronizing of my anxiety, Captain Katsahnias let my son sit in the captain's seat while explaining to me that it should be a smooth ride to Britain.
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Mr. Trump may in some ways be a unique political animal, but Ms. Pelosi is not unfamiliar with his type, having risen to political prominence in a field full of arrogant, entitled, patronizing men.
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To the thousands who came to Times Square last night to ring in 2020, I'm sorry this corporate chain exploited you — stick it to them by patronizing one of our fantastic LOCAL pizzerias. pic.twitter.
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For years, the Daily Mail waged a campaign against Yegna—which was co-funded by the UK Department for International Development (DIFD)—calling it "the most wasteful, ludicrous and patronizing" aid project in Africa.
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So a remark that a Latino Border Patrol agent "speaks perfect English" will seem to many people to be more patronizing racism from a president who has repeated problems seeing nonwhite Americans as Americans.
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When the show was still in previews, the world's most patronizing New York Post article alleged that its creative team was toning down the film's domestic violence in order to keep things light and happy.
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Anyway, then JoJo walked in to pick up Wells for the date and Luke made it SO incredibly uncomfortable by asking them if they were going to kiss today, which was just patronizing and rude.
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It's historically been a boys club, and "I definitely encounter men patronizing me and assuming I can't lift the camera because it's 'too heavy,'" Christine Ng, a director of photography, told Refinery29 in an email.
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The motion filed Thursday by attorneys representing the two women accused of running the Jupiter spa that Kraft is accused of patronizing, accuse law enforcement of violating a temporary protective order by leaking the video.
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According to anthropologist Harold E.L. Prins's catalog essay, Penn's images appear to conform to an unfortunate late 1960s bias that mystified and romanticized tribal culture, ironically in an effort to counter typically patronizing colonial attitudes.
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Macron's frequent sharp tongue - he berated striking workers for "kicking up a bloody mess" and called critics of his labor law reforms "slackers" - has exposed him to accusations of being an arrogant and patronizing president.
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RESPONSIBLE STORYTELLING: As travelers, photographers and influencers I believe that we have a duty to tell the stories of foreign places that we visit with dignity and respect and without othering or patronizing other countries.
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" 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.
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Innards from a Swisher Sweet fill the cup holder of the seat I take in the middle of the empty room, making me feel as though I am patronizing a porno theater without the porno.
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Mr. Macron also aspires to be a postmodern president, the self-appointed harbinger of France's future, yet his tone and language alternates between elevated intellectual conceits and provocative street talk, sometimes sounding scornful, even patronizing.
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Most of the units in those buildings will be market-rate and bring in residents no longer interested in patronizing the beauty salons, Dominican barbershops and specialty food shops that cater to immigrants, they say.
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For years, we've had to suffer through his patronizing, infuriatingly nit-picky takes on... Marriage Story: Leap days: The word "awesome": Friday the 13th: Whether sex hurts sometimes: At best, these tweets are intolerably obnoxious.
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Arguments for early voting Proponents of early voting have a fairly patronizing attitude that it is a big burden to expect people, on a particular day, to participate in determining the direction of the country.
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Meanwhile, it's patronizing to suggest that comic book fans' taste level is at odds with cultural criticism — that they'll ignore Batman v Superman's clunky dialogue or strange editing because they're so passionate about the story.
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Mr. Kraft is accused of patronizing a spa in Jupiter called Orchids of Asia, a small storefront business in a strip mall that also includes a nail salon, a surf shop and a Thai restaurant.
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But until the company has a more concrete solution in place, some guests may feel more comfortable patronizing a traditional hotel — an ironic situation for a company whose slogans emphasize "belonging" anywhere in the world.
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But between the constant references to "CBC" and the weirdly patronizing comment about Anzaldua, the event left the distinct impression that the actual agents of ICE and CBP aren't really the people Trump cares about.
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I feel like I've been involved with her career for a long enough time that I can say that I'm really proud of her progression as a professional artist without it seeming patronizing or unearned.
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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.
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I get the fear that we live in a post-truth world where people just believe whatever their party's Facebook ad tells them to believe, but it also seems defeatist and more than a little patronizing.
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The lawsuit was filed on behalf of an unidentified John Doe, who was not charged with a crime for patronizing the Orchids of Asia Day Spa from January 18 to 22, while surveillance cameras were rolling.
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Bruce J. Bemer, 63, of Glastonbury, was charged with patronizing a trafficked person, and admitted that he had been paying "boys" for sex for more than two decades, according to court documents, reports the Hartford Courant.
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While the brand might have meant the chopsticks ad to be a cute nod to Chinese culture, it came across as rudely patronizing, and the harrowing comments from Gabbana's account only poured salt in the wound.
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His actions (and later, his refusal to admit it), followed by his patronizing rhetoric on the campaign trail toward a community that represents nearly one in five Americans, was enough to galvanize them to rally together.
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No-one enjoys living in poverty—and we shouldn't make patronizing statements about the virtues of a "simpler" way of life, without understanding the socio-economic context that forces them to live a certain way. 53.
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And if Mr. Trump's businesses had profited because consumers are more interested in patronizing Trump-owned hotels or golf courses in the United States since his election, Judge Daniels said, the president was not to blame.
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" In the end, wrote Stephen Glover, a Daily Mail columnist and an alumnus of Oxford, "The patronizing, elitist hysteria of universities over being asked about Brexit will harden the views of millions who voted for it.
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Inspired by her own experience as a working mother launching a business, in which she says she received her "own fair share of patronizing pats on the back," Burch started the Tory Burch Foundation in 2009.
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A friendly, but largely patronizing, tone toward the island has become widespread in China as its economy and international influence have grown, said Mark Harrison, a specialist in Taiwan politics and culture at the University of Tasmania.
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The Justice Department argued Monday that President Donald Trump could continue to profit from foreign governments patronizing his hotel in Washington, DC, without violating the US Constitution, as long as he didn't explicitly provide something in return.
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The release would come not in the case against Kraft but in the cases of two women accused of running the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter that Kraft is accused of patronizing, court documents show.
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"Give us the strength, God, to resist the empty, patronizing words that protect the culpable and defame the innocent and dishonor the slain," Ms. Guidry said in a prayer that received a loud "Amen" from the audience.
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The Trump administration has made it more difficult for Americans to travel to Cuba on their own, banned them from patronizing military-owned establishments and issued a travel warning that it may be unsafe to visit there.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Pacific Island states only have themselves to blame if they fall into debt problems and criticism of China's surging lending in the region by rival powers has been patronizing, Samoa's Prime Minister said on Thursday.
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The Pyongyang chain hit the headlines in February when the South Korean government, eager to step up pressure on the North after a provocative missile test, urged its citizens to stop patronizing the restaurants when they travel.
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"There is a level of patronizing ... from this White House and from others ... that somehow African Americans are ungrateful, that we somehow don't know what this country is about," he added later in the conversation with Cuomo.
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Sex trafficking is officially defined as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for commercial sex which is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or where the person is aged under 18.
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It gives foreign governments and domestic lobbying groups a way to personally enrich Trump by patronizing his business, and it gives him the opportunity to make policy decisions and appointments that could directly affect his financial future.
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But I liked the nihilism in Mr. von Trier's respective approximations of racism and slavery, even if he followed a European habit, especially in documentaries, of diagnosing America's ills in the least surprising and most patronizing way.
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Some found the entire enterprise craven and patronizing — and an obvious effort to peel off votes from the W.F.P., which had been fighting for paid sick leave and other causes vital to women's lives for many years.
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Over time, he developed a following among a group of models, who became known as "Antonio's Girls" (a somewhat patronizing term popularized in an essay by Jean-Paul Goude that appeared in a 1973 issue of Esquire).
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She sees patronizing clubs that are actively policed to be safe spaces within her community of queer folks and people of color, such as Bushwick's Bossa Nova Civic Club, as a way of maintaining a semblance of control.
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There's always been a degree of friendly tension between the two, with France regarding Belgium, and its French-speaking Wallonia region, as something of a poor cousin, while the Belgians often dismiss France as patronizing and faux-superior.
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Adherents strive to send nothing to the landfill by reducing their purchases; recycling and composting everything they can; using and carrying reusable containers and utensils with them wherever they go; and patronizing businesses that provide package-free options.
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And it's simply patronizing to suggest that senior citizens should be graded on a scale, that somehow the crimes they commit when they're at retirement age are less impactful, or that they're too "childlike" to be held accountable.
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It satirically employed the kind of patronizing, "we're doing this for your own good" language that characterizes the many bills directed at abortion and women's health—for instance, requiring a sonogram and a rectal exam before prescribing Viagra.
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He has threatened to remove needed assistance, his trip to the island was delayed and patronizing, and his lack of attention to the devastation in the first few days meant that urgent needs went unaddressed, and problems compounded.
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"And, even if government officials were patronizing the Hotel to curry the President's favor, there is no reason to conclude that they would cease doing so were the President enjoined from receiving income from the Hotel," he continued.
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What little noise has existed has been limited to patronizing chants calling for Jimmer Fredette, who barely played after signing a 10-day contract with the team and was not re-signed, and chants supporting the opposing team.
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One filed by the attorneys general of Maryland and DC which will be heard by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals argues that foreign leaders patronizing the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC violates the foreign emoluments clause.
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The host's nickname plays on Trump's full name, Donald John Trump, with "Ivan" the Russian form of John, and according to Davis is characteristic of the patronizing tone often struck by Russian pundits when discussing the US president.
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The local jurisdictions claim that in hopes of currying presidential favor, government officials are patronizing Trump-owned properties instead of hotels or convention centers that the District of Columbia or Maryland own or have some financial interest in.
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This approach isn't so different from suggestions that came out of the events in Ferguson in October 2014, like getting people of color into elected office and encouraging an economic shift to patronizing black- and minority-owned businesses.
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"So there is something pedagogical in our approach," he said, a remark that infuriated the British news media, which saw it, probably accurately, as patronizing — adding to the ugly tone of much of the public discussion of Brexit.
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That opens him up to the risk of another form of corruption: If you want the president to do political favors for you, lining his pockets by patronizing his businesses is a good way to go about it.
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I have tried seeking pathways towards sterilization (Essure or tubal ligation) but have been told by doctors that I am "too young" to make that decision, which feels patronizing to me because this is something I'm very sure of.
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The lawsuit was filed on behalf of an unidentified John Doe, who was not charged with a crime for patronizing the Orchids of Asia Day Spa from January 18 to 22, while surveillance cameras were rolling inside the spa.
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While seemingly aimed at the average layman who holds some science-skeptical views, Nye's new show delivers delivers so little information in such a patronizing tone it's hard to imagine a toddler, let alone a sentient adult, enjoying it.
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The lawsuit was filed on behalf of an unidentified John Doe who was not charged with a crime for patronizing the Orchids of Asia Day Spa from January 18 to 22, while surveillance cameras were rolling inside the spa.
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When McKinsey & Company, the consulting firm that was her first employer, came to Duke to recruit graduating students, the company hosted a women-only lunch, and at the time Minshew thought that such an event seemed patronizing and unnecessary.
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But other African Americans, who enjoy great job opportunities or who have become wealthy over the past 50 years and might wind up actually paying reparations, will realize how patronizing and dumb (and intentionally divisive) this idea really is.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - American tourists strolling the ample squares and narrow streets of colonial Havana may not know it, but from novelist Ernest Hemingway's famed Floridita bar to Sloppy Joe's eatery, they are probably patronizing businesses owned by Cuba's military.
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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.
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It is also an effort that does not come without huge costs for the tens thousands of people whose jobs in the Bay Area rely on people patronizing restaurants, taking taxis, staying in hotels or appreciating art and music.
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Karen Allen is charming as the girl Frank leaves behind in his ruthless climb to the top, and John Glover is the ever-smiling, patronizing new boy at the network who, if things go wrong, will be Frank's successor.
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The cultural critic Edward Said famously used the term "orientalism" to refer to a patronizing way Westerners sometimes think of Eastern cultures and ideas — as charmingly exotic, perhaps, but as deficient in various Western virtues, including rationality and rigor.
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Perhaps they're aware of how much more persuasive the example set by a nonaligned country like India might be for countries in Africa and Asia, compared with advice handed down by the West, which is often seen as patronizing.
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Given this may be the last time for a while I'm able to read a book on more than three hours sleep, I really don't want to waste it on patronizing, preaching writing that leaves you despairing and enraged.
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Mr. Pence's stay at the Trump hotel — which bills itself as "a new generation of style and service" — may have been the highest-profile example of a member of Mr. Trump's inner circle patronizing one of the president's businesses.
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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.
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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.
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But when she tried to talk to him about the difficulty of being one of the only female physics majors, she said he teased her about all the guys who must be asking her out on dates, which she found patronizing.
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The reality of being a stay-at-home dad is that strangers are suspicious, our friends are patronizing, and stay-at-home moms—the one group you might actually expect to have your back—often won't let you into their club.
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Presumably Trump supporters will now forgo patronizing any business that opposes the President-elect, that had disagreed with him in the lead-up to his victory, or that even mentions the imminent threat he represents to Democracy as we know it.
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"We saw that many guides addressing digital security for nudes were very prohibitive, meaning the first advice would be 'do not share nudes,' and it was very patronizing and inadequate for this phenomenon because people are already sharing pictures," says Varon.
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It also sticks to the prime timeline (AKA not the new reboot from J. J. Abrams), and employs liberal use of Trek terminology without patronizing (if you don't know what a phaser, replicator, transporter, or photon torpedoes are, do your homework).
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No matter how viewers feel about Weiner's infidelities, or his repeated lies about them, it's still discomfiting to see how ruthlessly and single-mindedly the journalists around him chase any whiff of humiliation, generally with a tone of smug, patronizing superiority.
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If the Democratic Party continues to fall victim to failed idealism, in terms of human nature and the pursuant electoral strategy, we will fall off an electoral cliff, shrieking patronizing, identity-rooted slogans like "Love Trumps Hate" all the way down.
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"We play them often, and it's recently been heated, and they've recently gotten good enough where it's no longer a gimme," American Outlaws-Chicago president Jake Campbell said, handing Costa Rica a patronizing, little brother-type compliment that every rivalry needs.
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But a Silicon Valley company making the decision to restrict access to an opt-in feature in certain countries—even if for the safety of users in those places—is patronizing and denies agency to the brave LGBTQ individuals living there.
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Not only do people who spend money at Trump's hotel directly line the president's pockets, creating potential conflicts of interest that the Constitution's emoluments clause aims to prevent, but by patronizing the president's hotel, Barr provides free promotion for Trump's business.
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It has ranged from exaggerated or even fake "Trump country" exposés, to well-intentioned but out-of-touch efforts to mend the "urban-rural divide," to patronizing television contests in which viewers vote for the "best small town" in their state.
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Throughout a series of long missives, the editor was both solicitous and flattering toward Piper but also bizarrely patronizing, trying to coach her through her own conclusions in a way that I had never seen before in my professional life.
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In the meantime, we in the general public should support America's vulnerable workers ourselves by actively patronizing those companies, organizations and nonprofits that are paying their workers' salaries during this crisis, and actively withholding our patronage from those that are not.
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In "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas," Corey Robin, a leftist political scientist at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, warns against dismissing Thomas as a mere extremist, or making the patronizing assumption that he does not have a jurisprudence.
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They have chosen to adopt the language of classical liberalism precisely because it puts their liberal critics in an uncomfortable position: It's unacceptably patronizing to claim that some subset of our neighbors have to be protected from their own demands.
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The term, a viral meme among millennials and Generation Z, exploded this year on the TikTok social media app, where countless mocking videos are calling out what young people perceive as out-of-touch Baby Boomers and their patronizing opinions.
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She concluded with perhaps the most patronizing line of the afternoon: It was Glick's return to the floor later in proceedings which demonstrated how much one can find to support one's own argument while never actually learning about the issue.
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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.
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Cuccinelli on Thursday also blamed migrants themselves for allegedly patronizing drug cartels who use "the border as essentially a toll booth" to try and enter the United States, claiming it's the "tragedy" of US immigration laws drawing migrants to make dangerous trips.
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Since last season, we've seen Sansa turn her back on every man who made false promises to her — whether it was Ramsay's psychopathy, Littlefinger's manipulations, or Jon Snow's patronizing protectiveness and refusal to see her as a player in her own right.
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Over the past decade, dozens of news stories have appeared about customers finding fat-shaming comments, racial slurs, and anti-Semitic remarks on receipts from restaurants, dry cleaners, and other establishments, printed reminders of the bias marginalized consumers face while patronizing businesses.
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While it's hard to imagine the average voter would have any sympathy toward those affected by such taxes, Fred Wherry, a Princeton professor who heads up the university's Debt and Dignity project, said his research shows some borrowers might find Sanders' plan patronizing.
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The simplistic, feel good fairytale about a disabled person overcoming all odds and succeeded "in spite of" their disability was already a threabare cliche when the Mr. Show expertly skewered it two decades ago, and it's only become more boring and patronizing since.
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For Trump, Clinton's dismissal of many of his supporters as racists, xenophobes, sexists, Islamaphobes and bigots is a gift that allows him to recreate his victorious GOP primary persona of a champion of blue collar Americans demonized by patronizing East coast political elites.
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Publishers are heavily influenced by traffic—what no one is influenced by is the comment section under an article about someone's personal life, full of heartless and patronizing remarks from a group of faux-intellectuals placating themselves with the caps lock key.
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Abuse from these people can be as relentless as it is hurtful, no only when it descends into personal attacks and threats of violence, as it often does, but also when anything you do online is followed by a trail of patronizing disparagement.
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"There is a distinct possibility — which was completely ignored by the District and Maryland, as well as by the district court — that certain government officials might avoid patronizing the Hotel because of the President's association with it," the appeals court wrote on Wednesday.
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We see him as the willful, difficult, overachieving boy that Mother recalls, and as the hypnotically confident — and maddeningly patronizing — lover of the Girlfriend, whose beauty seems to expand in his vision of her, even as she shrinks in her own estimation.
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When the restaurant began expanding its footprint in deep blue New York City in 2015, Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters that he would not be patronizing the chain due to Cathy's statements, and he encouraged other New Yorkers to do the same.
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The commercial center, which I remember going dark at the end of the work day, was overflowing with visitors and locals, patronizing stylish, next-generation bars, cafes and restaurants that have largely deposed the cheap souvlaki joints and outdated tavernas I remember.
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The term "OK, boomer," a viral meme among millennials and Generation Z, exploded last year on the TikTok social media app, where countless mocking videos are calling out what young people perceive as out-of-touch baby boomers and their patronizing opinions.
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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.
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The term "OK, boomer," a viral meme among millennials and Generation Z, exploded last year on the TikTok social media app, where countless mocking videos are calling out what young people perceive as out-of-touch Baby Boomers and their patronizing opinions.
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Under the guise of a patronizing collegiality, they offer Jane unsolicited advice, while making sure that their chores in the office are limited to more prestigious duties that don't require picking up lunch for the office, or throwing away someone else's uneaten muffins.
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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.
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With his patronizing tone and his floppy brown hair, he was just the sort of person she used to listen to at parties, trying to think of intelligent, psychologically driven questions to ask while taking small sips from a cup of lukewarm beer.
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"We were not respected that much by the people in the UNFCCC secretariat or the COP presidencies or chairs of various bodies—many of whom can be quite patronizing, especially to young people, and especially to those they deem 'radical,'" he said.
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Laura SchumacherSan Diego To the Editor: Ross Douthat's patronizing take on the ambitions of the Green New Deal misses the most critical point: Scientists agree that humanity has a very short window in which to transform our systems of generating and using energy.
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While new bars and shops have opened up, he said, "There are still a ton of local small businesses that I have begun patronizing," like El Aguila, a Mexican restaurant, and the Casablanca Meat Market, a long-established butcher with lines out the door.
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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.
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In this April 20, 2018, file photo, Bloomsburg Mayor Eric Bower, right, is escorted out of the State Police barracks in Bloomsburg, Pa., by Trooper Jason Raynes after being video arraigned by District Judge Doug Brewer on misdemeanor charges including criminal solicitation and patronizing prostitutes.
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Though handsome cinematography and facile performances lend intrigue to the West Wing writer/director's patronizing adaptation of Molly Bloom's tell-enough, his questionable personal relationship to the real events depicted make a Zero Dark Thirty of yet another honest-to-greatness performance by Chastain.
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But that decision still imposes on me an added responsibility to pay homage to those who did serve — not to succumb to the insults of "baby killers" or the patronizing perception of volunteers as dupes, but to recognize that we are in their debt.
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Cameron did not say what extra steps the government would take to boost youth registration, but earlier on Wednesday a campaign video urging young Britons to vote to stay in the EU backfired, with people taking to Twitter in droves to denounce it as patronizing.
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Scott Glenn, who is the best, hits the right blend of laid-back guy and patronizing, gas-lighting asshole in his portrayal of Coach Tingloff, while the long parade of former and future Olympic athletes adds to the authenticity both on and off the track.
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AC: The interesting thing about online is that you can do things that are more complex and involving and less patronizing to the audience than traditional documentaries, which tend to simplify so much because they're panicking that people will only watch them once live.
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Could there possibly be anything more patronizing than two massive, male-dominated capitalist companies installing a branded statue of the most conceivably non-threatening version of womankind in supposed honor of a day devoted to women's equality that was founded by the Socialist Party?
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Without a universal rent freeze, the businesses we dream of patronizing again—most of which can only survive a couple of months, maximum, with no clientele—may be permanently shut down, and the former employees at those businesses may still be out of work.
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Assuming Justice Gorsuch realizes that compromises of this sort are the stuff of life on a multi-member court, did he really need to call the chief justice out on it with his patronizing public reminder about how the Supreme Court articulates "general principles"?
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It was difficult to ignore the patronizing tone of Sturges's tale, in which helpless Mexican villagers in white blouses are saved and blessed by the intervention of American tough guys, so the new version is wise to recruit a Latino gunslinger to the front line.
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I knew what he probably meant — I'm a femme-ish presenting lesbian, not a gay man — but it annoyed me that this person had been tasked with determining who did and did not appear to meet the binary gender requirements for patronizing this small, unremarkable bar.
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"Ellevest has been vocal and active about addressing issues that uniquely or disproportionately affect women, such as the wage gap and pink tax, without patronizing, oversimplifying or relying on gender-based tropes," said Marina Shtyrkov, research analyst, wealth management with Boston-based financial services consulting firm Cerulli.
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I spoke to Sarah Bond, assistant professor of classics at the University of Iowa, who agreed with me that the Lannisters were a combination of the Medici and the Borgias, without, so far as we know, the whole patronizing the arts and supporting the Italian Renaissance aspect.
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That Kushner, who is currently tasked with forging peace in the Middle East, bringing prosperity to America, and creating a microwave that doesn't make pizza all soggy when you reheat it, described Bannon as overstretched is both rich and patronizing, which not coincidentally are Kushner's principal characteristics.
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Still, it was easy to see political satire as an innovation, like the Internet, that could help democracy take root around the world, not through patronizing and coercive "nation-building" projects but as a natural result of giving people a product that they wanted and enjoyed.
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Read more: Johanna Konta hit back at a 'disrespectful,' 'patronizing' reporter for picking on her after she was dumped out of WimbledonWilliams held her serve in the fifth game and seventh games, but ultimately Halep retained her considerable lead to win the opening set 6-2.
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U.S. Americans saw a version of this in Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein's patronizing response to children asking her to adopt the Green New Deal in February—Feinstein has repeatedly called for action on climate change in the past, but apparently finds the Green New Deal too radical.
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U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, announced on Thursday that more than two dozen Cuban companies associated with the Communist-run island's military or intelligence would be added to the more than 100 that Americans are already banned from doing business with or patronizing.
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We asked two dermatologists to give us some no-BS advice — not the scare tactics, not the patronizing lecture you've heard a billion times — on how each and every one of us can both stay safe and enjoy the sun based on our personal sunscreen habits.
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Time and again, through periods both good and bad, a patronizing tone reveals itself: America is a barbarian nation, crude in its ways and shortsighted in its thinking, unable by its own immaturity to deal properly and fully with the wisest, most ancient nation ever known.
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Marbut's consulting website outlining his views to combat homelessness has since been deleted, but Diane Yentel, president of the National Low-Income Housing Coalition, shared a screenshot of those views and described his positions as "paternalistic, patronizing, filled with poverty blaming/shaming" in a tweet Monday.
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Reviews of populist exhibition efforts often take a patronizing approach, calling the show "organizationally flawed" or "visually uninteresting" (the latter evaluation appeared in Christopher Knight's review of Micol Hebron's Gallery Tally, an exhibition of posters showing gender disparity at international galleries, made by many volunteer artists).
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Not only do people who spend money at Trump's hotel directly line the president's pockets, creating potential conflicts of interest the Constitution's emoluments clause is aimed at preventing, but by patronizing the Trump International on a night the president was there for a political event, Barr promoted Trump's business.
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The married couple behind Cork Wine Bar alleges that since Trump assumed the presidency in January, they've been unable to compete with the nearby Trump hotel, a mere 1.5 miles away, as foreign officials and diplomats attempt to wheedle their way into his good graces by patronizing his businesses.
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" Last week, Woman's Hour, a popular BBC Radio show with a broad listenership, featured a caller in her 80s who -- in the presenter's words -- was "incandescent" with rage at what she felt had been patronizing government advice intended to see her left alone in her house "to die.
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During the first with a female candidate to be televised nationally — the 1984 vice-presidential debate between George H.W. Bush and Geraldine Ferraro — Americans bore witness to Mr. Bush patronizing a prominent congresswoman, who served as the secretary of the House Democratic Caucus, on the subject of foreign policy.
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So you have to imagine the early subscribers and the people who are patronizing and talking about this new news source, actually have a way to profit from their early support because they're investing in a currency that would, itself, grow in value as more publications join that platform.
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A popular approach to philanthropy these days is called "effective altruism" — the scientist's effort to protect the giver from the turbulent storms of emotion (think of Sally Struthers's deeply patronizing and objectifying appeal for money for hungry African children in the 0003s), and instead find shelter in rationality.
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Patronizing responsible sanctuaries and businesses that provide refuge to animals that may never be able to live in the wild, such as captive elephants, rescued tigers, or animals that have been defanged or declawed, can also be a responsible way to experience animals and help contribute to their long-term care.
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While Trump's speech would otherwise be perceived as just one of his typical rambling and patronizing talks that attempt to make a crowd believe what his administration is now referring to as "alternative facts," it is the location of the speech that makes his nobody-treats-me-fairly speech utterly despicable.
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" In an interview with WNYC's The Takeaway, Bastién commented on the backlash she received in response to her review, saying, "There's this fear of scarcity when it comes to black art; that if we don't support everything that comes out, we'll never see anything else, which I find very patronizing.
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In his Wall Street Journal op-ed, Mr. Puzder leaned on a recent survey by the market research group Civic Science, which found that of those consumers spending more per month on health care than they were a year ago, 47 percent were spending less money patronizing fast food restaurants.
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Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act is a minor.
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He got the majority of the electoral votes, a large majority, and I think it would be patronizing to say that the people in Florida and Ohio ... The majorities of people in Florida and Ohio, smaller majorities in Wisconsin and Michigan, that they voted for him because they were misled.
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Macron's problem: His centrist position has alienated him from both the center-right and left in recent weeks — too left-wing for the right and too patronizing for the left — making it possible that he could lose voters to Le Pen and face a low-turnout scenario if voters choose to stay home.
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But the company's policy is not to serve pedestrians at the drive-thru, and blind customers can't drive, so they're effectively barred from patronizing the world's largest fast food chain by revenue, according to the suit, which seeks class-action status for all blind Americans who may have had difficulty ordering at McDonald's.
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And this Christmas decor debate certainly isn't the first time that Melania's posture or fashion choices have either come under fire or elicited a grandiose amount of patronizing sympathy — two very different sentiments that have each inspired backlash in subsequent hot takes about the first lady's degree of agency over her own life.
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For a while, phone stacking — in which people tossed their phones in the center of the table, and the person who first reached for his phone during the meal had to pay for everyone — was sort of a thing, but it never took off, because the whole exercise felt punitive and patronizing.
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Andrew Hovelson is spot on as Joan's loutish brother, riding a gravy train to fame by association; so is Kate Jennings Grant as the patronizing, well-intentioned Lady of the Court, who treats Isabelle the way a Hollywood studio assistant might deal with the down-home relatives of a fledgling movie star.
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More often, this early part of a presidential campaign is the venue for incredibly cautious, patronizing position-staking, where candidates try to go just left enough to please a Democratic electorate while leaving room to veer right for the general election (the same in reverse doesn't seem to be as true for Republicans, interestingly enough).
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That's a lot more than can be said for the designers you quote, who say monstrous things like, "No one wants to see curvy women" on the runway (smooth branding move there, Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel), or who use patronizing and ridiculous phrases like "real woman" or "certain population" to refer to plus-size women.
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I'm in New York City this week, and I'm finding there are a raft of options for ride-sharing services (for someone who feels increasingly uncomfortable with patronizing Uber), but that's not the case everywhere in the U.S. Even something as seemingly ubiquitous as the Apple Store is still missing from several U.S. states.
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The attorneys general presented articles quoting foreign government officials saying they were staying at the hotel to please Trump, as well as examples of state officials patronizing the hotel while doing business with the administration, but Niemeyer wrote that it still required too much speculation to say that was why clients were choosing Trump's hotel over other local businesses.
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K has a similar amount of control over Joi, but he's constructed this idealized '50s relationship where his authority gets balanced out by his sense of responsibility toward her, as opposed to Joshi openly patronizing K. As we've mentioned before, 2049 is a scattered film, so I'm not sure there's a coherent statement being made here.
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For me, the big difference that I felt a lot and I've been pushing this for a while is culturally there just seems to be this massive difference whereby — it sounds very patronizing and critical and I apologize in advance — but American journalists, especially political journalists, White House correspondents are way more deferential to people in power.
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Ms. Swift, by contrast, has generally avoided identifying the subjects of her songs, though after the 2009 V.M.A.s, she released the rather patronizing "Innocent" — including the words "Who you are is not what you did/You're still an innocent" — which she described in a 2010 interview with MTV as not a song about Mr. West but one "to" him.
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Seles introduces Trumble and his cohort to the term "paternalism" and politely suggests that instead of jumping off the boat and snapping images of poor people, they ought to wait until the end of a volunteer activity, and then ask permission, and even then just take photos with the people, which is less patronizing than taking photos of them.
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In the past, the simplest and cleanest way to cut through and ultimately co-opt this shaky coalition would be to place a broad, moral filter over it — the Native Americans, compelled by religion and solidarity, can be held in patronizing, lobotomized regard and the misguided veterans and young, feckless activists can be sneered at and dismissed.
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Tactics include switching from obstetricians to midwives late in pregnancy so most of the expenses will be covered by insurance; patronizing hospitals in New Jersey, where space (and alternative staffing) does not come at such a premium; and aligning with one of the city's public hospitals that has formed an unusual partnership with a midwifery practice.
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"Obviously for a contractor that has hundreds of millions of dollars in business before the federal government, I don't think it's any small coincidence that they're patronizing a Trump business," Virginia Canter, the Committee for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's chief ethics counsel and a former White House associate counsel to Presidents Obama and Clinton, told CBS.
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The first assistant, which was the top career person there, thought that it was kind of too rough and tumble for a woman to go into organized crime — I know, I know, that is so patronizing — at the time, so he put me in the white-collar section, because he thought that I would not be tough enough.
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From there, Koenig introduces each of the main players in depth: Anna herself, belligerent and no-nonsense but with a wry sense of irony about her fate; Russ, her plainspoken attorney, who's baffled by the prosecutor's insistence on pursuing the case; the prosecutor, Jennifer, who's offended by what she deems to be Russ's patronizing attitude toward her as a younger female colleague.
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Why Amazon buying Eero feels so disappointing Dieter Bohn says Amazon's acquisition of a home networking company feels like yet another case where the absence of competition-minded regulators is pushing us into a world where it is impossible to live without patronizing four big companies: We all feel trapped — or maybe captured — by the various ecosystems we live in.
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When the now-gray boomer, wearing a patronizing smile and commodity khakis from a big-box store looks you up and down in your responsibly made clothes that you're trying to get the most use out of and asks, "Now what are you supposed to be, some sort of hobo?" put one hand on his shoulder and look him right in the eye.
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Indeed, if Tuesday's preview was any indication, Mr. Trump will spend the rest of his term talking smack, patronizing and tweaking congressional Democrats, and playing ever more wildly to his base, even as Democrats express growing frustration about their inability to have a rational conversation with a president who lives — with apologies to Mr. Rogers — in his own Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
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For a group like Concerned Women for America, with its agenda of religious freedom and limiting abortion rights, for a lobbyist looking for a change in some federal regulation, or for a Republican candidate seeking donors, patronizing the hotel or the president's Mar-a-Lago club or another of his properties has become a routine part of doing business in the Trump era.
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For a group like Concerned Women for America, with its agenda of religious freedom and limiting abortion rights, for a lobbyist looking for a change in some federal regulation, or for a Republican candidate seeking donors, patronizing the hotel or the president's Mar-a-Lago club or another of his properties has become a routine part of doing business in the Trump era.
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Shortly before the midnight deadline, Mr. Cuomo had effectively given the legislators the weekend to come up with the elusive deal — he would "allow them a grace period," a phrase that struck some lawmakers as patronizing and borderline imperious — while simultaneously threatening to introduce emergency legislation for a so-called "extender" if a full budget could not be agreed upon.
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While this is far from the first time a company has tried to charm annoyed customers with a soft message, or the first time a company has co-opted affection for dogs to push a product (this often-imitated 1973 National Lampoon cover famously set the standard for that form of marketing), there's something particularly contrived and patronizing about this particular attempt at corporate deflection.
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After WWE Hall of Fame member Amy "Lita" Dumas revealed the brand new WWE Women's Championship belt in the ring, created to replace the increasingly unfortunate pink butterfly Diva's Championship belt that's been around since 2008 and the patronizing attitude toward female wrestlers that came along with that branding choice, Rowdy's name came up in a panel discussion about women's shifting role in the sports world.
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" On that night, however, her husband's "small, thoughtless, dismissive, annoyed, patronizing comment" became a "microwave that triggered a hurricane": As my rage rushed through the streets of my mind, toppling every memory of every good thing my husband has ever done (and there are scores of memories), I said the meanest thing I've ever said to him: "Don't you dare sit there and sympathetically promise to change.
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The cases revolve around the Constitution's once-obscure emoluments clauses, which critics say President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Democrats worried by Jeremy Corbyn's UK rise amid anti-Semitism Warren, Buttigieg duke it out in sprint to 2020 MORE has flouted, giving foreign diplomats an opening to curry favor with him by patronizing his businesses.
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But at a deeper level of the city's neurology, Mr. de Blasio's supreme belief in his own way of doing things, his taste for patronizing lecture, his tendency to justify an absence of humility on the grounds that he is driven by virtue above all, seem well synchronized to the invasion of an equally righteous Silicon Valley ethos, and the culture of disconnection it choreographs.
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Letter from the Editor Every year, when the Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded, there's usually an article or two published about which past recipients' works have failed to stand the test of time — say, those of Pearl S. Buck, the first American woman to win the award, whose 1930s novels about Chinese peasant life now read as twee and patronizing Orientalist fairy tales.
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Like the apparently dead serial killer who suddenly sits up at the end of the horror flick, Veronica's not-a-rape rape transforms itself in a breathtaking second to indubitable rape again, as she realizes that an odd diagnosis of chlamydia — used by a patronizing and misogynist lawyer to invalidate her testimony in a celebrity murder trial — means that her worst imaginings about that night were real after all.
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But it was belied by the fact that a top Defense Department official told Congress last May that Ukraine had made good enough progress on anti-corruption efforts to merit the aid — not to mention the glaring hypocrisy stemming Trump's refusal to divest from his business, one that enables foreign governments, corporations, and US politicians to curry favor with him by patronizing his properties and directly enriching him.
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But it's quite clear that the Trump Organization continues to be aggressively profit-seeking, quite clear that companies and individuals with interests in American politics openly seek to court Trump's favor by patronizing his hotel and clubs, and now clear that at least some companies with significant regulatory interests have also sought to advance their policy agenda via secret cash payments to an LLC controlled by a Trump associate.
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Many sections of the document are the exact sort of thing you'd expect from an employee manual of any era, from benign procedural explanations of how to count out change for people, to the patronizing manager-speak that anyone who's ever worked a service sector job will be intimately familiar with; the words "IF THERE IS TIME TO LEAN, THEN THERE IS TIME TO CLEAN" are featured prominently in the section on employee duties.
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The question now is who will more effectively convince Americans that the American dream can be restored: Trump, with his unscrupulous rabble-rousing and America-first nationalism masking tax and other policies that favor the one percent, or a Democratic Party that rediscovers the ability to speak to small-town and blue-collar and barely middle-class America (like the teachers who went on strike in Colorado this year) in a way that does not sound patronizing?
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During the past 11 years he has made the Aix festival — which runs through July 24 — feel more connected: to young artists, whom it has assiduously fostered; to new work, which it has commissioned in quantity and quality; to the operatic canon, which it has refreshed with provocative stagings and musical visions; to new audiences; and to its Mediterranean region, which it has celebrated with forays into North African and Middle Eastern styles without seeming patronizing.
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Bounding around the stage of the Lyceum Theater, where the play opened on Monday, he jousts with not one or two but three different phones, nearly sweating through his gingham shirt as he gives voice to more than 40 characters, among them the harried but even-tempered central character, Sam; an imperious French maître d'; a patronizing bully of a chef; a chipper assistant to Gwyneth Paltrow; a socialite with a manner even more imposing than her name; and a lively menagerie of other New York types.
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On the heels of a string of stories about Trump administration and military officials patronizing the president's properties — like Attorney General William Barr spending $30,73 on a party at the Trump International Hotel, Vice President Mike Pence going far out of his way to spend a night at Trump's resort in Doonbeg during a diplomatic trip to Ireland, and the Air Force increasingly using a Trump resort in Scotland for overnight stays — McCarthy was asked during his news conference on Tuesday if he has concerns.
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Ordinary citizens and organizations alike, of backgrounds so typically variegated it feels patronizing to parse them, have come forward to offer whatever assistance is needed; the police officer who arrested the suspect without firing his weapon is being praised for his stunningly calm approach; and on Monday night, thousands gathered downtown, in Maple Leaf Square, both to cheer on our beloved hockey team as it won its latest playoff game and to show one another and the watching world that even hours after such unprecedented carnage in this city, thousands still gather together.
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