This look Knowing condescension is the best kind of condescension.
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" Instead, what he notices is "a bit of condescension.
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Nonetheless, we would do well to refrain from smug condescension.
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She dramatized everyday problems in a humorous style, without condescension.
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Or does the real condescension come from the likes of
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We expect condescension, instead of which we hear a confession.
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It's just difficult to apply precisely, without condescension or laziness.
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It was infuriating for her to listen to the condescension.
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The "condescension of posterity" would be exceptionally misplaced for literature.
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Is there any kind of condescension lurking in the intonation?
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Not that Maxwell's work wasn't greeted with condescension, even disbelief.
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But there's more than a little sexism in the condescension.
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I do not write this with liberal condescension or glee.
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Also: brutal condescension, which is ultimately just the price of entry.
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The Appleton museum treats him with the enormous condescension he deserves.
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" George gets angry at this condescension, and retorts, "Don't civilize me!
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They have perceived not outreach from Obama's White House but condescension.
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Yet much of the country responded instead with jeers and condescension.
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Condescension now tends to target the outsiders rather than the natives.
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There's some concern that Nike's pivot is similar — expansion via condescension.
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Both women endured condescension and outright misogyny as they rose. Mrs.
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Kendall approaches Krystal with a pseudo "empathy" that quickly curdles into condescension.
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"Hello, Mr. President," Mr. Biden said, in a voice dripping with condescension.
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The voice of this character had been full of scorn and condescension.
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Danny alternates between childlike naiveté, smug condescension, and terrifying bursts of violence.
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"Democrats are a party of condescension, not hope," a MarketWatch headline warns.
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As for actual condescension, nobody uses it more effectively than Donald Trump.
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I'm often asked, with some condescension, why I'm writing in a book.
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Before she could complete her condescension, Jerome spoke: My mother is dead.
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Dripping condescension that I'm being 'educated' should be a big red flag.
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"There's no threat," Bob says to Woods, condescension dripping from his voice.
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Fitzgerald was fascinated by what he calls undercurrents of hostility and condescension online.
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Certainly. He was never very good at hiding his condescension for Republican leaders.
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"It's condescension from the clever people, the masters of the universe," he said.
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Yes, this results in a degree of bending over backward and even condescension.
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In their day, they had encountered condescension and naked hostility from male agents.
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What started as an intellectual journey slowly reverted back into the stereotypical condescension.
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To her, the public discourse in Israel is rife with ethnically charged condescension.
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With no condescension intended, America needs a refresher course in biology and economics.
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Even just supporting Warren has come with an unbearable amount of misogynist condescension.
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He's not wrong; Teutonic condescension to southern European culture has long loomed large.
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Debates in particular have long wielded a special power to trigger male condescension.
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Moreover, as a woman, she had experienced a great deal of medical condescension.
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What we often confuse with condescension these days is its curdled opposite: contempt.
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"What are you, a lawyer or a banker?" he said with undisguised condescension.
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The tale was astutely told, though it couldn't avoid a murmur of condescension.
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And it's not coming from a place of cynicism or snark or condescension.
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Playing the role of their glamorous mark, she drips with diamonds and cutting condescension.
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Instead, they face an undercurrent of condescension that leads to a feeling of isolation.
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You thought it was just your office that had rampant mansplaining and sexist condescension?
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Where am I going to get my daily dose of veiled anger and condescension.
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OGE tweet theories: misplaced praise, sneaky condescension, hacked account, inside knowledge of divestiture plans.
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This is to say nothing of routine condescension or the appropriation of her work.
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And this smug condescension cost them dearly, including for many their own professional reputations.
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When she called Trump supporters "deplorables," she displayed the fatal flaw of liberals — condescension.
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For someone so funny, Belott doesn't traffic in irony or jokes-on-you condescension.
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When you demand loyalty from an entire Arab population, is that not collective condescension?
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The debate continues over whether the condescension of liberal elites helped spark populist resentment.
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Ms. Williams cites Hillary Clinton's use of "deplorables" as an example of this condescension.
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" The group later admonished the former vice president, characterizing his response as "frustrated condescension.
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"Life is vulgar," she replies, cutting the interviewer off, seeming peeved at the condescension.
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Vividly captures the condescension of elites & their incessant ridicule of Americans with traditional values.
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Our task is to promote inquiry, not outrage -- to promote critical engagement, not condescension.
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And, given Hollywood's penchant for condescension toward people of faith, his rules were downright refreshing.
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Let's put aside Amodei's condescension, which is grating and unnecessary but also besides the point.
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"His condescension about what I was doing drove me on," John told PEOPLE in 1974.
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And he is better at projecting bemused condescension than any politician in the game today.
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Too often, the response is a cocktail of defensiveness, avoidance, gaslighting, condescension and/or denial.
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The term "basic witch," I know, reeks of a kind of glib internet-insular condescension.
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This assumption—which, in some cases, carried the odor of racist condescension—is profoundly wrong.
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These are peer-led meetings of alcoholics helping other alcoholics, free of judgment and condescension.
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The Japanese, too, view Koreans through the lens of condescension as overly-emotional and stubborn.
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That crude and ignorant condescension is what feeds the Trump phenomenon in the first place.
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Nobody could have mistaken his tone of condescension, even in what was ostensibly a compliment.
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Carsten treats the affable, sloppy Niko — whose shiftlessness annoys his pregnant girlfriend — with consistent condescension.
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Yet hierarchy hasn't gone anywhere, and something like 18th-century condescension remains a common practice.
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Thin-skinned as he is, Mr. Trump ought to be offended by Mr. Ryan's condescension.
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How do you depict tragic characters like Lucy without falling into the trap of condescension?
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To be honest, I heard more racial condescension in progressive circles than in conservative ones.
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And in either case, their pity involves a form of condescension, to which you object.
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To the historian, that is invaluable: an unfaded snapshot of colonialist condescension at its smoothest.
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And while Didion's estrangement sharpens her reportorial eye, it can curdle, at times, into condescension.
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"The arrogance and condescension and the elitist attitude, that's what ticks people off," he said.
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To sentimentalize or idealize any of these people would not only be a form of condescension.
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But it only bores me, this unoriginal remark from unoriginal men, hiding their intimidation behind condescension.
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At the same time, The Times's anti-suffrage editorial page did little to hide its condescension.
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Most flat earthers are closet flat earthers because there is a lot of ridicule and condescension.
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"Voluntary submission to equality with inferiors" was how Samuel Johnson defined "condescension" in his 1755 dictionary.
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What's clear is that "condescension," which once named an endearing gesture of courtesy, has turned toxic.
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But as soon as mealtime is over, they go right back to normal mode — sneering condescension.
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The storm of criticism that followed arrived with a mix of fierce anger and lofty condescension.
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Obama had steeled himself for the meeting, determined to act with high courtesy and without condescension.
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It's just pretension and condescension, on the media's part, to make a big deal of it.
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Joe Biden made the most headlines with his condescension to moderator Lyz Lenz of The Gazette.
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There was probably a whiff of condescension involved, too, given that Lesnar returned to pro wrestling.
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Townsend was never unkind to her characters: there is no condescension in her description of teenage pretensions.
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While everyone constantly praises Paper Boi's music, their enthusiasm comes with a hefty dose of casual condescension.
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Here's one huge improvement airlines could make for free: they could drop the condescension and the profiteering.
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There's no reason for women to skip happy hour, but they could certainly do without the condescension.
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There's a whiff of condescension here, too, for human beings who actually enjoy talking to each other.
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Though I love these scores, I wouldn't go that far: Condescension endures toward Bernstein's unabashedly theatrical symphonies.
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However, the grouping of people with a mental illness alongside children has an unsettling ring of condescension.
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Time's up on sexual harassment and abuse, but it's also up on gender discrimination, inequity and condescension.
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His homes celebrated his clients' modest roots without condescension (they were his roots, too) or heartland clichés.
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It took dementia to undo decades of condescension and hostility and enable Bruce to appreciate Noah's achievements.
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Throughout the debate, anyone who dared to say they didn't like subtitles was usually met with condescension.
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By writing that current feminism is angry, Daum's arguments have more than a whiff of maternalistic condescension.
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In the meantime, you might consider the unconscious condescension in your style book, and give women their names.
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Beneath that, there are less-savory notes of condescension, thwarted desire, and surprise you bothered coming at all.
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Needless to say, the two doctors were floored and embarrassed by their behavior and condescension, left stammering apologies.
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As it is, given the guitar swagger, this is the defensive condescension of someone afraid to sound lovelorn.
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Denk charges that the condescension of parties like Labour towards Dutch minorities is leading to their growing alienation.
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At no time did he show fear, anger or even condescension to the woman reciting bigoted talking points.
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Quality home visiting programs close this gap in knowledge and practice, meeting parents where they are, without condescension.
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They demand change on the basis of rights, rather than pity, with its overtones of patronage and condescension.
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The folksiness is so fresh that there's no dash of condescension; the dancers deliver it with bright energy.
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Is this an act of condescension … or a recognition that an artist's style is inseparable from her art?
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Unsuspecting passersby occasionally looked on with confusion and intrigue, revealing how the disobedient body conjures phobia and condescension.
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But there are several new marketing firms trying to illuminate the inner workings of young people without condescension.
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He makes short shrift of intellectual condescension toward Puccini, and of serialist composers' snobbish disdain for tonal pieces.
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He believed that Gawker's audience would be amused by it and share the arch condescension of Daulerio's piece.
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But they tend to not realize that; they see themselves as charming and use that charm toexcusetheir condescension.
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Minor differences of opinion turn into perspiring rants from Marcus and counterattacks, laced with condescension, from the dean.
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"We need to rid Polish politics and public life of the language hatred, condescension and humiliation," he said.
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As well as ignoring the quality and innovations of her work, the condescension is ahistorical (and tainted by sexism).
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In a press release dripping with condescension announcing the company's "insolvency," executives maintained that Cambridge Analytica did nothing wrong.
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In particular, a recent GQ profile spawned Twitter outrage over its perceived condescension and physical objectification of the artist.
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My discomfort grew as I watched Trump's open condescension when he turned to address Clinton with a smug smile.
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This is why he dresses up his routine deceptions with condescension while slathering us with Eddie Haskell-esque flattery.
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Her ability to gracefully shrug off such blatant condescension is truly amazing, one might even say Oscar-worthy. pic.twitter.
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Warren's extraordinarily evident condescension or elitism because friend of the show Zaid Jilani did it very well last week.
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"She has a really uncanny ear for that age group, without condescension, without sending it up," Ms. Pfaelzer said.
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The accompanying texts were a mix of admiration and condescension for traditions that Westerners of the time considered primitive.
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Meanwhile, the immense assembled sculptures of Louise Nevelson, in wood painted black, projected an imperious spirit that defied condescension.
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I know: him, that Bernie Sanders supporter so badly feeling the Bern that he communicates in condescension and flames.
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The empty calories and fractured attention spans of popular culture are turned, without condescension, into something meaningful and poignant.
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Jordan Rodgers gets the first impression rose, and Ugh, Chad weasels into her heart as well with his condescension.
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And then we fell out in a way and I began to look at that behavior and that condescension.
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There is chagrin on occasion; no one likes the condescension that is often showered on people of this age.
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A caustic comedy about country and class, the play intends to skewer working-class narrow-mindedness and liberal condescension.
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On occasion, he drifted over the line into smugness or condescension, dangerous ground when going up against Ms. Klobuchar.
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You don't think characterizing journalists at Vice and BuzzFeed as overly "hip" and "woke" numerous times smacks of condescension?
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Children's Books Modern-day tastemakers, unlike their forebears, shower love on comics and graphic novels without a hint of condescension.
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This decision, at whatever level it was made, betrays total contempt for and condescension toward the movement against Confederate monuments.
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" It was written but you can hear him saying it, the exasperation and the condescension in his voice. "Okay. Fine.
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He says he will never forget the look of condescension and pity and comprehension of how deep the error is.
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Such slogans appeal not to the merits of the cause, but to supporters' resentment at being a target of condescension.
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While many voters have long suspected this condescension, evidence of it has occasionally risen to the internet's ever-choppy surface.
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More importantly, they've captured the essence of her spirit in every raised chin, arched eyebrow, and subtle sneer of condescension.
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The film doesn't know what to do with this contradiction, and at times moves around it by relying on condescension.
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Instead, he seems aware of that the condescension directed at his fan base is likely more than a little gendered.
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This tendency has produced flashes of cynicism and condescension toward her listeners which were formerly never present in Swift's world.
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And just in case snooker still confuses you, these announcers keep explaining its rules, with priceless condescension, to unenlightened listeners.
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" At the same time, Caldwell was on to a problem: Hedges' "tone is often marked by an argument-foreclosing condescension.
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Stale punch lines rarely segregate those who get it from those who don't, but they unify everyone in sighing condescension.
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His attitude veers from contempt to condescension as he tells macabre jokes delighting in death, dropped babies and casual murder.
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Reporters may have viewed the social secretary's job with a certain condescension, but it required serious organizational skills, since Mrs.
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Nothing marks the rupture between that age and our own so clearly as the discarded notion that condescension is virtuous.
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Contempt can be hate-filled or dismissive, angry or amused — but like condescension, it requires the background system of status.
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She encounters condescension from her colleagues and misbehavior from her students — and is more than a little attention-starved herself.
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His notes displayed a brutal condescension toward the visitors and an absolute, unwavering certainty of the superiority of Chinese civilization.
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"Yet again, she controlled the crowd, though this time by candy-coating her usual condescension with faux fellowship," Parker wrote.
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It's an earnest exchange full of the condescension and generalizations spouted by people who don't recognize their own latent racism.
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We let ourselves off the hook when we reflexively use "morally superior" as disparagement, as a synonym for toxic condescension.
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And even though "vanilla" is often said with condescension, the kinkiest folks can have a vanilla appetite from time to time.
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She remains an exceptionally unpopular figure in much of the country and is a symbol of Democratic cultural condescension and elitism.
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That glib, relaxed condescension, ratified by the sexual politics of the day, trickled through the Trillings' nearly five decades of marriage.
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The loneliest, the most wretched and the dying have, at her hands, received compassion without condescension, based on reverence for man.
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We find ourselves newly contextualizing earlier encounters among Katy, Paul and Toni, which had a whiff of sexual and professional condescension.
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In contrast to Western condescension, he explained, when Russia works with other countries it's about finding common ground and pragmatic interests.
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I'm sure that some rural readers will be angered by everything I've just said, seeing it as typical big-city condescension.
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His principal vice is condescension, the unwillingness or inability to resist demonstrating his superiority to both his subjects and his readers.
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The implied condescension to the rest of us, with our weak skulls that can be easily crushed by automobiles, is intentional.
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John Zengel of Asbury, N.J., says he's a conservative who disagrees with Trump but thinks Democrats need to drop the condescension.
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Her Aunt Lydia is a fascinating amalgam of contradictions — glimpses of sympathy and true belief amid blatant hypocrisy, sadism and condescension.
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It assumes that the condescension is one-sided (it is not) and that it exists in a vacuum (it does not).
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Explaining the rules of professional interaction is not an act of condescension; it's the first step in treating students like adults.
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This is ultimately a play about the balm of friendship, and there's not a whiff of sappiness or condescension to it.
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Trump supporters' denunciation of "political correctness" is just as often a reaction to progressive condescension as it is to identity politics.
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While there's plenty of desire, it's tinged with condescension (even spite), which contributes more than it should to their sexual tension.
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He treats members of the Atlanta Police Department and the F.B.I. like his professional peers, and seems blind to their condescension.
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Reading them feels like sitting at dinner with a friend who explains scientific theory to you without an ounce of condescension.
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Reading them feels like sitting at dinner with a friend who explains scientific theory to you without an ounce of condescension.
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In his insistence on still getting a good night's rest, Keaton chose condescension and silence, both more offensive than his teleprompter mishap.
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I'm real sick of watching him justify his invasive condescension with white knight platitudes — and while making moves on Hot Rachel, besides!
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But when you look at that, is that an example of a tech executive being empathetic or is that Silicon Valley condescension?
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The brief piece was deliberately provocative, and many others on the left condemned Moulitsas as exemplifying everything that's wrong with liberal condescension.
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This is not intended to demean the French voters who supported Le Pen: in a democracy that kind of condescension is wrong.
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Kirk tries to beat the hell out of his enemy Khan, who stands still and takes his punches with polite, amused condescension.
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The lower economic classes have less access to the West and may regard the United States with a kind of cultural condescension.
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But lunch in the society's ornate boardroom quickly turned into a scene of ridicule and condescension, or so it seemed to Plaisted.
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Beyoncé is often called too perfect, overly marketed, a polished product perpetually asterisked by the implicit condescension of the term pop star.
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Perhaps you've been incensed at the perceived elitism of the 1 percent who seem blind to their own privilege, arrogance and condescension.
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That they find themselves sharing meals with other jurors at Olive Garden and TGI Friday's is not described with mockery or condescension.
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Every word is carefully chosen, articulated with force and precision, but never snidely, sarcastically or dismissively, and never with rancor or condescension.
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If you're always above everyone and all things as they go out their lives, then whatever your politics they're politics of condescension.
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At its extreme, this view risks its own form of condescension: Be nice to Muslims or they will turn into suicide bombers.
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The Republic will survive, and maybe, after eight years of arrogant condescension from the Oval Office and tepid economic growth, even thrive.
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It was a mixture of condescension and confrontation, laid out by a Prime Minister who is supremely confident in his position today.
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He finds the breezy condescension of a Laborite like Herzog almost as hard to swallow as the contempt of someone like Lieberman.
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My tweets got more likes and more replies, and those replies were free of the condescension I'd come to expect from Twitter.
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But the facts are as follows: So regarding its not-so-live look, maybe pipe down on the condescension there, eh, pal?
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Conservative critics predictably call it "a shocking document" and "a call for enviro-socialism in America," but liberal condescension has cut deeper.
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Artworks operated as vessels for healing and explored queerness, race, and class while avoiding tokenization or condescension, as they channeled firsthand experience.
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I found myself imagining a prisoner who had arrived young, grinding out a 10-year sentence under the harsh condescension of British soldiers.
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The truly deplorable thing in this race is the shameful level of condescension and disrespect Hillary Clinton is showing to her fellow citizens.
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"Listen, Anne, I have a feeling you sometimes suffer from memory loss," he says to his daughter with just a touch of condescension.
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But inside that praise is a kind of condescension — not to black artists, but to dance on Broadway and what it can be.
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My chief desire, other than feeding my addiction, would be to escape from the disappointment of family and the condescension of my peers.
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Informed of the proposed gift, Anne Cathrine Frostrup, director-general of the Norwegian Mapping Authority, responded with generosity — if a bit of condescension.
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They hire a progressive young doctor, Simon Jordan (Edward Holcroft), to question and hopefully save her — though his curiosity is laced with condescension.
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Parker Posey would of course reprise her performance of Boone's icy condescension, while Baldwin might best be played by SNL alum Will Ferrell.
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Without sanctimony or condescension, she gives us a woman who was prodigiously gifted, weirdly literal and totally in charge of her strange self.
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To assume that they can't be relied on to do so in the light of their own best judgments is to risk condescension.
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Transgender people have been forced, for decades, to rely for care on a medical establishment that regards them with both suspicion and condescension.
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Not as a Fox-induced boogeyman on the bar TV, one of those "coastal elites" dripping with contempt and condescension toward Middle America.
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" And Angelou was, in a way, just as furious about the sheriff's condescension, the blithe evil of warning the innocent to "lay low.
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If Trump deserves the Oscar for best leading man for vanity, Comey's condescension toward the American people earns him the best supporting actor.
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A similar condescension can be found from those who have told me that "Get Out" is a comedy because it has funny moments.
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The whole time during the Obama administration I had such condescension for the people on the right who had these crazy conspiracy theories.
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Nurul said "there is a lot of condescension, prejudice" in Malaysian politics, but "political attacks are not really focused on gender-specific issues".
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There is an element of condescension inherent to this story: every generation, it says, goes through this, and eventually becomes the adults they reject.
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What "Wells for Boys" so perfectly is convey a sense of wonder and childlike enthusiasm without irony or condescension — a rare and potent achievement.
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Documentaries, being generally made for middle and upper-class audiences, can easily succumb to condescension or outright exploitative misery porn when depicting working people.
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Still, both popular myth and serious historiography have conspired to diminish her to a demeaning stereotype, worsened in some Western accounts by Orientalist condescension.
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European leaders have been critical of its record on democratic freedoms, while Ankara has grown increasingly exasperated by what it sees as Western condescension.
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He demonstrates a keen sense for constructing narrative, a unique wit and flair, a refreshing lack of condescension, and total empathy for his subjects.
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In the end, the congressional hearing was a master class on how much condescension and mansplaining women have to deal with every single day.
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There are a few human behaviors that can be detrimental to this end; condescension, and even more so inimical is sheer lack of respect.
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The fictional terrorist remained a creation of both condescension and envy, a tissue of projection, anxiety and stereotype informed by little curiosity or context.
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"Americans are sick and tired of being lied to, insulted, and treated with outright condescension," an email to Trump's supporters sent last week reads.
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The establishment's condescension of views contrary to theirs and disregard for opposition is the reason that many people support him in the first place.
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Accordingly, the two young lawyers addressed her with the gentle condescension usually reserved for Mom, when she calls to say her printer isn't working.
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The whole cringe-worthy exercise made me embarrassed for the reporters and angry at Sanders and this White House for their arrogance and condescension.
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This response helped further cement the meme as a dismissive retort to boomer condescension — and as it spread, its political aspects became more pointed.
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Some critics mocked the 46-year-old Canadian for cultural condescension, while others accused him of sartorial excess and political correctness gone too far.
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But there is sometimes a touch of condescension to these depictions, too, as if young women of color are naturally imbued with moral righteousness.
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Doctors and other staff members met the opiate overdose victims with impatience, condescension, ignorance, annoyance, scorn and judgment, and no offer of inpatient treatment.
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For the past two decades, American Jews watched anti-Semitism re-emerge around the world with concern, but perhaps also a bit of condescension.
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The language of condescension has changed in the past four hundred years, but the qualities that made poor whites a legible group held steady.
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De Forest's only response was to coolly say, "Ratu knows," leaving everyone to guess whether his critique of the painting was praise or condescension.
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Charles, the Sri Lankan delegate, gives Yapa the opportunity to consider in the activists' fervor what might be blinkered privilege and a wisp of condescension.
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I was supposed to feel dumb about the former, but talking about Lil' Bow Wow, Sammy, or Omarion was never met with the same condescension.
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In particular, Coleman's assurance that Rachel could go and stay in a facility where she could finally get better was delivered with perfect, dripping condescension.
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When it was his turn to speak again, Young went after Jayapal with a level of condescension only old white men in power can gather.
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I also thought his smug appearance, constant head shaking, and outcry that Tim Kaine's mere repetition of Trump's words were "nonsense," was condescension and arrogance.
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Some kind of quick legalization process for "the good ones" expressed with the kind of disgusted condescension Trump has substituted for outreach to other minorities.
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It is perhaps because of this that no other thinker since his birth has inspired as much admiration, passion, rage, incredulity, and condescension as Marx.
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Elena seems determined to be helpful to the newcomers, yet in a manner that frequently exhibits no small amount of condescension amid its liberal guilt.
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I am also a little uncomfortable about your use of the word "wife" in quotes, which might suggest irony or condescension rather than historical description.
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They worry that others will treat them with pity or condescension, that their friends will drop away and their social lives shrivel — all justifiable fears.
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As Knives Out twists its way toward a conclusion, it doubles down on condescension, elevating Marta over the political landscape that would rather demonize her.
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And he resents the condescension of globalist elites, which is why Mr. Trump's regular transgressions against elite-enforced political correctness evoke glee from his supporters.
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The story is arranged so that he bounces between Powell, who treats him with breezy condescension, and Malcolm X, who confronts him with scolding righteousness.
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When she was in graduate school, in the early eighties, a teacher told her, with racial condescension, that she might find doctoral work too rigorous.
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Dorothy, who is in charge of several dozen computers, is repeatedly denied promotion to supervisor and treated with condescension by her immediate boss (Kirsten Dunst).
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It smacks of anthropological condescension, evoking some forgotten branch of the human family, some lost tribe of amphibians emerging from ocean mist, crowned with seaweed.
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"Americans are sick and tired of being lied to, insulted, and treated with outright condescension," Trump's fundraising committee wrote in an email to supporters Thursday.
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There is no hint of nervousness here, as Stone's subsequent response â€" delivered with what can best be described as kind condescension â€" makes perfectly clear.
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But more than 20 years later, women still earn less than men, face routine questioning of their competence, and encounter condescension on the job, they say.
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For some people, labeling a film as a B-movie is a crushing bit of condescension, but for others, it's high praise and an implicit recommendation.
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Mr. Mendonça Filho invites the audience to take Clara on her own terms, without pity or condescension, and he insists at every moment on her individuality.
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John saw condescension and mockery at the hands of the cultural elite: Let's call the federal government's treatment of Appalachian culture exactly what it is: Genocide.
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But more than 20 years later, women argue they face earning less than men, routine questioning of their competence, and condescension and paternalism on the job.
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But the rise of social media means that anyone who writes online about any aspect of maternal ambivalence risks a barrage of trolling or sneering condescension.
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And she certainly has no patience for the condescension of the "pathetic medical-school Mickey Mouse" of a doctor who delivers the news of her pregnancy.
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Each movie has its flaws of directorial perspective — reflexive sexism in Mr. Verhoeven's case, generational condescension in Ms. Hansen-Love's — but Ms. Huppert transcends all limitations.
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His young viewers trust him because he speaks to them without condescension or pandering, and also without pretending he is anything other than a grown-up.
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And I'm glad I didn't — her handiwork, a highlight of the holidays when I was a kid, deserved better than my ironic condescension as an adult.
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And Emmett Rensin made the case that a culture of liberal "smugness" and condescension toward white working-class voters has alienated them and created a backlash.
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Each triumph brings an even bigger failure, and Joy is treated with a skepticism and condescension that few male entrepreneurs of her time (or ours) must confront.
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But Brooks's support for Clinton was phrased with such a mixture of elitism and condescension that it can only add fuel to the fire of Trumpian anger.
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Though Julia pleads her innocence, the police investigator , dripping with condescension, condemns Julia's actions (without proof of her guilt) and warns her fiancé of her dubious character.
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Nicole wrote the lyrics after one of her coworkers was sexually harassed at work and faced indifference and condescension from management when she stood up for herself.
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For instance, he points out that Marx displayed "condescension towards developments in political economy", a big mistake given how rapidly the field was changing at the time.
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One of the things that annoyed me when I was the editor of House & Garden was the condescension of many self-styled intellectuals toward the decorative arts.
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And, though Colbert is gentlemanly rather than bro-ish, his manner with female guests (of which, to his credit, there are many) has odd pings of condescension.
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For this, the book considers her with a kind of pitying condescension: The poor dear, she means so well; it's such a shame she doesn't know better.
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They also constitute an Establishment, an elite devoted to preserving their influence and accustomed to regarding their constituents with a mixture of entitlement, sincere concern and condescension.
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He's not a judgmental or discriminatory type, so he can support Paul's expansion of the gay nightspots and relate to sex workers of all kinds without condescension.
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Reading this book feels like being seated at dinner with a friend who will explain the state of the sciences to you without an ounce of condescension.
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But what was magical and amazing was that, on the stoops along Christopher Street, you'd find street kids and N.Y.U. students all socializing together with no condescension.
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"Aunt Lydia is a fascinating amalgam of contradictions — glimpses of sympathy and true belief amid blatant hypocrisy, sadism and condescension," Genevieve Valentine wrote in her Times recap.
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" A year later, this Olympian condescension had gotten a little desperate: "The craze evidently is dying out fast and in a few months it will be forgotten.
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Wade | Dems threaten to subpoena Juul Ocasio-Cortez accuses NY Times of 'dripping condescension' Khanna calls out progressives who haven't endorsed Lipinski challenger MORE (D-Ill.). Reps.
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Joe loves these guys, and his affection has none of the condescension and ironic distance many people fall back on in order to get comfortable with them.
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Simple arithmetic alone, then, gives China ample reason to feel a sense of haughty condescension toward the new-made state on the far side of the Pacific.
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Moreover, grouping together any people who like a certain subset of mainstream things and deeming them not worthy of devoting time or attention to conveys superiority and condescension.
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She doesn't wink at us, because that's not what a professional does; she doesn't project condescension toward the material either, though you couldn't blame her if she did.
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One of the reasons patients find condescension from doctors especially loathsome is that it diminishes them — if you're gravely ill, the last thing you need is further diminishment.
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These efforts are predicated upon the belief that condescension and manipulation are the only way to reach apathetic or disillusioned voters when what we need is brutal honesty.
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A few historians have provocatively followed a different intellectual path, avoiding both the bloodlessness of the new social historians and the psychologizing condescension of the old Hofstadter school.
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She is jolted at being "found out" like this, but also jolted by the clear sympathy in the younger actress's face, sympathy that is not condescension but kindness.
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She is raising four children in Barre, Vt., and resents that her choice to stay home despite Ivy League and graduate degrees still draws condescension from many women.
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Jennifer Weiner Philadelphia — Last week, a hashtag called #ThingsOnlyWomenWritersHear zipped around Twitter, giving women the chance to share the condescension and the cluelessness that writing while female guarantees.
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It helped that she fell happily in love with John Brown, the Scottish servant who doted on her, teased her and never dreamed of treating her with condescension.
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Mr. O'Reilly's lucid fever dream of a production shrugs off that grime, putting at its center a performance of such assured intelligence that there's no possibility of condescension.
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But the director, who wrote the script with Chris Bergoch, avoids the traps of condescension and prurience that ensnare too many well-meaning movies about poverty in America.
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What presents itself as open-minded tolerance can very easily become a kind of condescension, as though the Chinese cannot be expected to live up to our highest ideals.
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I have my problems with the screenplay for The Big Short—the overexplaining bordered on condescension—but I still feel like it's miles above its competitors in this category.
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And that's why I say this with no intention of condescension: In order to face climate change, to truly look it in the eye, we have to grow up.
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She grasps how millennial activists — and baby boomer activists, and millennial entrepreneurs — think and act and speak, and when she mocks them, it's not with condescension but with affection.
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These conversations underscore a certain attitude of condescension endemic to our collective concept of Southern-ness, an attitude those of us without any fealty to the Old South share.
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"The truly deplorable thing in this race is the shameful level of condescension & disrespect @HillaryClinton's showing to her fellow citizens," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said on Twitter.
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After the fire, the Prato authorities, with no small amount of condescension, said they'd made up their minds that they could no longer neglect the strangers living among them.
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There is a subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) condescension and judgement that lays just beneath the surface of so many of the headlines and analysis surrounding the President.
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Martin, who can slide his characters into contempt and condescension as easily as slipping into a suit, is perfect at balancing Neal's curt etiquette with being a complete asshole.
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Yet, while most of the term's use by non-Brazilians is playful and harmless, there's a little hint of developed-world condescension that doesn't really sit well with me.
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Mr. Freedman related these stories in an engaging prose that was expertly pitched to pre-adult readers, avoiding condescension while finding angles and anecdotes that resonated with his audience.
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We have been sheltered by our parents, swindled by our universities, deadened by our therapists, and for all this our reward has been glib condescension from the boomer press.
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His condescension is a reminder that establishment fuddy-duddies like Griswold and his colleague Professor Brown (Stephen Root) aren't the only people who stand in the way of progress.
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But "The Prom," as Ben said, touches on an atavistic need for comfort without condescension that we rarely get to enjoy at such a high level of skill anymore.
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They seem to skirt the prickly confrontations that come with adolescence — though Anna is, in the way of so many teenagers, a master of casually if affectionately withering condescension.
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Opinion: Priyanka Chopra's blind patriotism The Indian actress' dismissive condescension toward the questioning of her positions on Pakistan and Kashmir shows that she has no sympathy for suffering Kashmiris.
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The last thing the dinner needs is a partisan who uses the platform to turn the evening into another resistance protest marinated in pious condescension to half the country.
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At the same time, these knowing jokes reflect how committed Mulaney is to rejecting any note of condescension, which earns the trust of kids, so often patronized by adults.
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For all the condescension that upper- and middle-class whites felt toward their lowly brethren, they needed one another, and not just because of shared political and economic interests.
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But in trying to explain these proposals, Carson demonstrated a shocking level of condescension toward members of Congress, as well as a lack of familiarity with basic housing terminology.
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There's no question that The Game and pickup culture at large is rife with the kind of misogyny — entitlement, dominance, condescension, intimidation — that still influences how men approach women now.
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But I have learned, from experience and then from the experience of others, that it is possible to alleviate the isolation of the ill without condescension and with disarming charm.
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It's at its best when it strips Black Mirror's tough social commentary of its misanthropic condescension, balancing a critique of technology with real sympathy for the people who use it.
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Show young people that you've heard the cheers for his ideas and you understand why they matter to us, and tell us — without condescension — how you're going to do better.
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"The subject fills the canvas," Ms. O'Sullivan noted, "in a way that few peasants would have done before" — and without the condescension found in many other works of the period.
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The Incredibles never really reckons with the fact that Mr. Incredible's condescension to and dismissal of "Incrediboy" Buddy Pine and his technology was what created Syndrome in the first place.
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But, as she said following up that admission, and with zero air of that old Clinton condescension, "you'll read my confession and my request for absolution," in her forthcoming book.
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Although much of the sexism against Clinton has been slightly implicit, her opponent, for whom subtlety is an entirely foreign concept, has made his gendered condescension toward her crystal clear.
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Some words are trickier than mere double-standards: those using them may think they are paying a kind of compliment, whereas what is heard is something between condescension and insult.
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To Crawford, however, both this gift and his continued "friendship" with her uncle, who entered Laszlo's service after committing a justifiable homicide, are signs of condescension and control, not generosity.
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That absurd figure, and that condescension, are what make the study by independent researchers from Harvard and other institutions, published Tuesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, so needed.
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With a silken patter that never stoops to snark or condescension — and an inclusive attention that reaches deep into the mezzanine — Mr. Veneziale asks the audience to feed him words.
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Any mention of a larger Southern city (even from the former Atlantan Amantha, who has a liberal hipster's condescension for her home town) makes it sound as distant as Mars.
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Despite their centrality in social change, young people trying to enact progress through activist efforts may meet hostility, condescension, and sometimes (at least when the president is involved) outright ridicule.
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And they bristle at the perceived condescension of a liberal elite that seems to blame them for their failure to acquire the necessary skills to rise to the professional class.
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In recent years, the condescension of those who depict Trump voters as "deplorables" or who dismiss millions who "cling to guns or religion" has offended a large swath of the country.
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Weaving between the movers and shakers were two New York journalists, whom I greeted as fellow writers, which they quickly made me regret with their condescension toward all things Southern California.
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In addition to being treated as an exotic at work, he has to face the condescension of his cousin Cello, a once-promising concert pianist married to a wealthy German industrialist.
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"If (May) shows the same condescension and inflexibility, the same tin ear, to other EU countries as she has to Scotland then the Brexit process will hit the rocks," Sturgeon said.
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Even when we're trying to be kind, we have a bad habit of falling back on judgment and condescension, of projecting our own issues and beliefs onto the decisions of others.
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With Radnor turning the righteousness up to 11, Lou is a one-stop shop of condescension and petulance, and the show doesn't realize it until way too late in the season.
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And while each interpolates theatrical devices that are scarcely parts of the original scripts, they remain unusually clear in setting forth dramatic arguments that could easily be muddied by retrospective condescension.
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Albee presents his characters as pitiable to varying degrees and for various reasons, and the empathy he lets the audience feel for George and, especially, Martha, has a whiff of condescension.
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The artist and the Amazon employee are not on disparate paths; claiming one underpaid person's time is unique from another leads to the marginalization of skills, a form of class condescension.
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But a different sort of condescension has replaced the old one: selling mildly glamorous versions of the old unglamorous garments, and passing it off as an achievement all the way around.
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For the most part, her milestone at The Sun and her giant step for womankind in integrating the Yale football press box were greeted with condescension by the male-dominated profession.
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After all Trump had spent much of the last eight years raising the "birther" question to discredit Obama's presidency, while Obama had ricocheted between condescension and incredulity about Trump's presidential bid.
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The larger indictment is of colonialism and post-colonial condescension and exploitation, though from a Western angle in which the doughty, underappreciated British do what they can to set things right.
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His smiling face, taken from a screengrab of the 1971 movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, has graced a thousand images and gifs expressing condescension since first surfacing five years ago.
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By the end of the episode, he's rejected his dad, left the Philippines, and applied for a job with a Filipino drugstore owner whose modest success elicits only condescension from Andrew. So!
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There can be no realistic chance of individual comfort for me in an environment where others in my demographic categories (or, really, any protected demographic categories) are subjected to skepticism and condescension.
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Films like these usually find their following among a more privileged art-house crowd, and it's easy to turn the stories of those on the margins into objects of curiosity or condescension.
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Instead of writing snooty synth-lined songs that ooze condescension for their genre, Baltimore bands have made it a point to write music that's focused on both exploration and straight up fun.
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The tone of the column is one of seething condescension toward not only Trump, but his supporters as well, as though reality-TV watching brands one with a scarlet letter of disinterest.
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OK boomer implies that the older generation misunderstands millennial and Gen Z culture and politics so fundamentally that years of condescension and misrepresentation have led to this pointedly terse rebuttal and rejection.
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Not content to stop there, Schwarz followed up four days later with an open letter to 5,000 members of the society's listserv, explaining in further detail, and with some condescension, his reservations.
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But even if I were much younger and without a professional title, I would expect to be addressed respectfully rather than with an asymmetrical condescension by Dr. X, who calls me Susan.
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Often there has been some condescension in the praise, since we live in a time that prizes innovation, and Wilbur is one of those artists who perfected rather than invented a style.
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The condescension with which Puerto Rico is too often held was clearly behind President Trump's downplaying the disaster and his complaints about the cost, and most likely behind the radically underreported casualties.
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Stern loyalists counter the tales of condescension, arrogance, fury and other unflattering portrayals with reminders of his compassion, social consciousness and how hard he fought for minorities and women in the game.
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Peopled by kookily sad denizens of Florida's Space Coast, whose dreams rarely achieve liftoff without crashing and burning, Ryan's stories are filled with a wan tenderness and a spectacular lack of condescension.
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A line I heard from some reproductive technology doctors, and others who are part of this fertility industry, was condescension and frustration with women who turn to things like egg freezing and IVF.
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Condescension was met with emulation: since Japan's Meiji Restoration in 1868, Asia's modernisation was long a matter of copying the West, either out of admiration for Europeans or to repel them or both.
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Even though they're making a documentary that seeks to understand sex workers and the working class, the filmmakers indulge, again and again, in easy condescension, generalization, and stereotyping that undermines their eventual conclusions.
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The remarkable thing about Peep's music, though, is that after the initial waves of incredulity and condescension wash over you, another shock will set in: that this demonic hell-child is genuinely talented.
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" Pence, the governor of Indiana, rehashed those comments while addressing students at Liberty University, a Christian university in Virginia, lamenting "this time of condescension and, at times, overt hostility to people of faith.
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Still, there is a whiff of condescension in "Memphis," even as it righteously highlights important moments in history — like the "stealing" of black music, mainly rhythm and blues, by a white music establishment.
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Spence follows the footsteps of singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell and Laura Marling, adding a splash of whiskey and quiet anger that only southern women shaped by years of circumstances and condescension can.
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But while it might be understandable to be a bit amused at the public's lack of knowledge about GMOs, any justification for Nye's condescension as a skeptic is obliterated by what comes next.
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Instead of this deference to corporate power and condescension to our elected representatives, the department should be confronting monopolies in tech and elsewhere and respecting the policy choices of state and local officials.
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As the Indian reaction to his offer, and even Priyanka Chopra's dismissive condescension toward the questioning of her own and India's position, demonstrates a callous lack of empathy by a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
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But with "Donnybrook" — especially the climactic fight scene, complete with a redneck rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" — he risks instead the appearance of condescension to the very demographic he seeks to represent.
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The bad news is a significant number of the party faithful are doubling down on what we can call the loser's road of identity politics, elitist/celebrity-driven condescension and racial fear-mongering hysteria.
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For example, protective behavior morphs into possessiveness; comforting turns into controlling; assertive behavior turns into aggressive behavior; passionate behavior turns violent later on; a direct personality turns into rudeness; and confidence turns into condescension.
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And the practice has long been associated with a sense of gentle satire, as with Oldenberg, if not outright condescension, which many observers, myself included, have attributed to Koons, though he would deny it.
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Many critics are rolling their eyes at this particular alpha-dad's quixotic dreams, leading one to wonder what sorts of things went down in the childhood homes of those so eager with their condescension.
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She shares their savior complexes and wholesome condescension, their drive to erase difference in the name of protection, to destroy the uncanny in favor of the unthreatening, the extraordinary in favor of the safe.
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For a government trying to dispel an image of being a bunch of smug, entitled private-school types sleepwalking into national crisis, Mr. Rees-Mogg's air of condescension and disdain has not been helpful.
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We moms may feel closer to the source of all power that exists in the universe, but we are forced to endure the condescension of a society that acknowledges our role with pink balloons.
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On a more literal biographical level, Fania suffers from a psychological malaise exacerbated by the condescension of her in-laws (Arieh's mother remarks that Fania's borscht is "almost flavorful") and her own mother's cruelty.
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"In all Nordic societies, I suppose, we attach a lot of importance to everybody paying his share," Gunnlaugsson patiently explains to Bergmann, who remains expertly poker-faced under this barrage of hypocrisy and condescension.
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From the opener, where Trish Stratus and Lita were given their due, to the battle royal stocked with legends like Alundra Blayze and Ivory (54 and 56, respectively), there wasn't a hint of condescension.
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Their condescension to him and his bemused response are the most interesting things in the play; when Jenny confesses she is a racist, "like everyone in the country," what can Hal answer but "great"?
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Pelosi winds Trump up when she drips condescension worthy of a Jane Austen grande dame, saying she will pray for the president or pleading for someone to stage an intervention with the poor soul.
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" However badly the "white ethnics" suffered from Anglo-Saxon Protestant condescension, Schlesinger notes, blacks, Latinos and Native Americans suffered far worse: "The situation is radically different for nonwhite minorities facing not snobbism but racism.
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While most mainstream portrayals of Asia tend to dramatize its essential differences from the West with as much anxiety as condescension, The Farewell allows for no easy lines between American liberalism and Asian communitarianism.
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On stage, his tone on the issue could be interpreted as condescension, which was likely not appreciated by viewers who disagree with his plan (and whose votes he may need to court come November).
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If I am not mistaken, that elegiac note is often accompanied by a certain condescension: If a bunch of Bennington coeds and homosexuals have to give up and go get real jobs, tant pis!
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" Ms. Wright's article went viral, drawing attention everywhere from European news outlets to Redneck Revolt, an American website that describes itself as opposing both white supremacy and the condescension of "upper class urban liberals.
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Wade | Dems threaten to subpoena Juul Ocasio-Cortez accuses NY Times of 'dripping condescension' Khanna calls out progressives who haven't endorsed Lipinski challenger MORE (Ill.), one of the few House Democrats opposed to abortion.
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He and George and Martha and Max and Mickey and Frog and Toad and Oliver and Harriet are like celebrities in an It Gets Better public service announcement, armed with wit instead of condescension.
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As almost every film that is not "Star Wars" demonstrates, it's extremely difficult to strike this balance between treating your subject with respect but not too solemnly, being self-aware without condescension or camp.
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Sitting by while watching audiences laugh, and take in the Green Book felt like another degree of condescension for the self-congratulatory, Trump-condemning, "colorblind" viewer who consumes their racism with a side of mayo.
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The prize citation praises "DAMN." for its "vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism," which to me has a whiff of condescension — there's all sorts of brainpower and artifice in there, too — but let's enjoy the win.
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While sycophants might begin their campaign with condescension for the target they plan to exploit, they rationalize their behavior over time, constructing in their own minds a target more worthy of the abasements they perform.
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As a woman in Hollywood (and I have been one for quite some time now) one expects her projects to be generally met with indifference, if not downright condescension, so I was ready for it.
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" When her opponent, Democratic former governor Phil Bredesen, called her "a big girl" who could make decisions about when to miss votes at the Capitol, her campaign said he "should be ashamed for his condescension.
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The condescension aside, this is also a pretty shocking reversal for Steinem, who, as The New Republic's Elizabeth Bruenig pointed out, once deemed Sanders an "honorary woman" during his 1996 campaign against a Republican woman.
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Major highlights: tense moments of condescension around some shots, an extremely confusing joke involving an amputee frog, and a man telling his date "no one could ever trust her" after meeting her an hour before.
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They've harnessed despair at the failure of establishment GOP leaders to subvert what they see as Obama-era power grabs, condescension from the "liberal media" and loathing for political correctness on race, gender and sexuality.
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Like the heroine of Mr. Lelio's previous film, "Gloria" (2013), Marina insists on her own dignity — her basic rights to respect, safety and the pursuit of pleasure — in the face of condescension, indifference and contempt.
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At that point, his condescension (" … maybe it's time you listened to me") and deflecting ("You're acting like a child") seem less like a character with human foibles than one with an emerging pattern of abuse.
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Reading this book felt like being seated at dinner with a friend, one who will explain the state of the sciences to you without an ounce of condescension, making you a participant in the knowledge.
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Beyond the review's general tone of condescension and occasional misogynistic sniping, Moser gives only a scanty and distorted notion of the book's contents and instead spends most of his review debunking points Briggs never made.
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While the film jabs at their condescension, cruelty toward other women, and casual racism, their most horrible beliefs are driven by love — because loving the monstrous, abusive Enrique means ignoring or justifying what he's done.
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And judging by her instinctive poise, commanding condescension and cut-glass accent, she can't be in that much doubt, though she does sometimes go all wobbly when ghosts of the Romanov Empire dance around her.
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Stevenson also runs up against the malevolent arrogance of the sheriff (Michael Harding) who led the investigation and the duplicity of the new district attorney (Rafe Spall), whose initial politeness turns to condescension and contempt.
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Noticing the awkward attitude Spicer can sometimes have with the press, The Daily Show decided to recut some of his most memorable moments of condescension—but with the press replaced by a group of kindergarteners.
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The internet was quick to react to the viral moment, with opinions ranging from support from her fans to condescension from her haters, but the 31-year-old isn't taking the bad energy to heart.
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If the United States continues to treat foreigners with the suspicion and condescension of an authoritarian regime, it will snuff out a good deal of its carefully accumulated expertise on the rest of the world.
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Petulant and bullying attacks on opponents are standard for the Trump administration, but this one had a whiff of something else -- a kind of outraged condescension, the way an abusive parent might berate a misbehaving child.
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After the new Congress was sworn in on January 3rd Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, told members that for too long leaders in Washington had treated complaints about closed factories with "condescension".
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Or, to put it another way: Can you make your subjects look grotesque and funny without dipping into condescension or arrogance, like John Currin and George Condo, both full-fledged members of the "beautiful people" set?
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But more "egregious" than the article's condescension, Kurtz says, is Ioffe's choice of details — such as citing rumors that Melania had plastic surgery, or interviewing Melania's half-brother, who Melania herself says she has never met.
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It's hard not to see this mandate from on high as of a piece with the fantasy of "self-impeachment": Both notions involve a maximum amount of institutional condescension with a minimum complement of hard work.
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Critics of the proposed name — Isaac Hall — rightly point out that using the first name alone repeats the racist condescension of slave holders who commonly refused to acknowledge the surnames of the human beings they owned.
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The story is set during the golden age of daytime talk: You will perhaps inevitably think of Mattie as Jerry Springer crossed with Phil Donahue's furrowed-brow earnestness, or Montel Williams with Maury Povich's oily condescension.
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Because the social stigma against homosexuality was still potent in the academy in their day, these writers armored their books against condescension, brandishing complex theories about representation and identity, and thorning their texts with source notes.
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But the praise she received was tinged with condescension: She was shown offering to make a sandwich for the supermodel Bar Refaeli, the show's host, and the judges kept saying how "proud" they were of her.
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Faith in his dignity as a human being shines in Sam's every word and act — and, what's more, a compassion for Hally that allows him to put up with the young man's slips into casual condescension.
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"One might well ask Mr. Galli how his obvious elitist disdain and corrosive condescension for fellow Christians with whom he disagrees … might well damage evangelical witness to an unbelieving world," the Christian Post op-ed reads.
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Isn't it about time we have an American president who couldn't care less whether he's loved in Paris or Brussels — capitals our soldiers once liberated only so that they could repay us with freeloading and condescension?
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If the sins of the welfare queen were crafty laziness and promiscuity, the sins of the woke so-called social justice warrior are elitist condescension and a failure to connect with the needs of real people.
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As Coy develops his new worldview, Monroe becomes less and less her own character and more a kind of avatar for all of Coy's old rage and resentment and condescension, snapping furiously at anyone who approaches her.
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Where Treks past have modeled forceful but progressive expressions of masculinity in characters like Captain Picard or Captain Sisko, none have really interrogated the cost of condescension and entitlement like Discovery does with Connolly's abruptly karmic demise.
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It mostly takes the form of Strike infiltrating a group of radical leftists protesting the effects of the 2012 Olympics on London neighborhoods, only to find, with much condescension, that the leftists are pretentious middle-class idiots.
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During a financing intensive, where indie filmmakers are invited to pitch their films to investors and producers and learn more about film financing, we were met with disinterest and condescension when talking about the film's subject matter.
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More problematic is Galfard's frequent use of the second person — no doubt to provide a stronger sense of immediacy for the reader — which wears thin rather quickly and adds a whiff of condescension to the overall tone.
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If Obama wants to help his party do better than it has done so far on his watch, while offering high praise to Clinton, he should speak of Sanders with respect and admiration, not condescension and contempt.
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Every possible warning about men can be read in the predatory condescension on his face as he crosses his enormous library to give a women's magazine, as a treat, to a woman who used to edit books.
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The lives he writes about were mostly lived below "the horizon of record"; he mines newspapers and police reports, as well as the testimonies of middle-class witnesses that drip with condescension for those "beneath their place".
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There is certainly a kind of everyday snobbery toward what Isenberg calls "white trash" which has become routine and reflexive, a condescension that, for example, makes poor-white subcultures on reality television seem so exotic and fascinating.
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This documentary portrays sexist condescension toward her from men like the ostensibly progressive comedian and television host Bill Maher and the Canadian media figure Jian Ghomeshi, who was fired from his broadcasting job after allegations of sexual assault.
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So when Germany discusses why the east is so far right, condescension almost inevitably sneaks in: For the sake of the argument, eastern Germany is unbuckled from the rest of the country, and the historical border is redrawn.
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The artist interprets the role of the philanthropist as primarily an assertion of power as it relates to colonization and "otherness" — and with it, the condescension toward those who live at the lower end of the economic scale.
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Meanwhile, the idea that girls and young women need to be pushed into health care with treatments that aren't necessary "speaks to a kind of condescension that is unfortunately all too prevalent in the medical establishment," McGuire said.
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For Republicans, Pelosi's clap was symbolic of the condescension that she and the rest of her party had and have for Trump, still unable to get over the fact that he won the 2016 election and was president.
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Integrating feminism into our marketing is not a ploy, and it is not exploitative; it's reclamation of how brands treat and speak to women, and it's an ideological pushback against generations of condescension and insulting marketing towards women.
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Nepotism among legendary and iconic members of the ballroom scene causes history and knowledge to be selectively passed down to a younger generation, leading to cyclical condescension from the legends towards those without the same access to that knowledge.
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" Goldstein on Tuesday called Trump's statement "a pathetic asterisk of condescension after weeks in which he and his staff have committed grotesque acts and omissions reflecting Antisemitism, yet day after day have refused to apologize and correct the record.
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Indeed, conciliatory calls in the media for the nation to "heal" and to "stop the violence" reek of racial condescension; from where I'm sitting, calls for restraint only seems to gain cultural currency when police are in the crosshairs.
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If you're a young man, there's a good chance you've experienced socially-approved condescension, because, well, it's all patriarchy and social injustice and men are privileged (unless they are also part of an approved minority or sexual/gender orientation).
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And when I see inequality, when I see condescension, when I see people who are prominently displayed on a card for a job they are not fit for, I have a visceral reaction now that I've never had before.
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Millions of people today are praying that Dorian turn away from land, and treating those people with mockery or condescension because they believe it could help is part of how the overly secularized Left has lost lots of voters.
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In a speech just weeks after Bainimarama accused Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison of condescension and forcing Australian policies onto its Pacific island neighbors, the Fijian prime minister was more conciliatory in asking for support in fighting climate change.
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" Miller blasted the complaint, which largely aligns with a White House summary of a call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, as a "little Nancy Drew novel" that "drips with condescension, righteous indignation and contempt for the president.
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Her love for certain unattainable rough town boys had been an anguish, she remembered then, surprised, because she was used to thinking of them, if she ever thought of them, with fond condescension, as a bit of a joke.
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At virtually every public -- and private -- event Biden has held over the last week (or so) of the campaign, he has bashed Warren for what the former vice president believes to be her condescension to pragmatic Democrats like him.
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The thing that seems completely unbelievable to anti-Stratfordians is that the "son of a glover," as Derek Jacobi says in the opening of Anonymous, voice dripping with condescension, could have written the greatest literature of the English language.
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Given the sleek 1960s retro-future of the Incredibles world, that primary plot feels like a nod to the era where women entered the workforce en masse, dealing with condescension and revulsion from male counterparts as they tried to build careers.
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Biden's middle-class populism is an easy counter to Trump's rich man's populism; his rejoinder to "make America great again" is he obviously never stopped believing in America's greatness; his bemused condescension would've found its perfect target in Trump's brash ignorance.
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The questioner is the MSNBC talking head Lawrence O'Donnell, addressing the candidate in a voice so filled with condescension and implied judgment that you loathe him every bit as much as, if not more than, his foolish, egotistic interview subject.
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"In the face of condescension and old-fashioned attitudes, I found inspiration in The Queen and the women who ruled before her and was determined to defend my right to be heard as a member of the Royal Household," she said.
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"As a practicing attorney for over 30 years, I can tell you this was not the first time someone has attempted to avoid an argument over the merits of the law using condescension and dismissal," she told the news outlet.
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The most egregious of these — in which Tom drags Max to a sweaty nightclub in Harlem, pontificating on the spontaneous energies of jazz and boogieing with the working girls at the bar — adds a dash of racial condescension to the cocktail.
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And as a depiction of earnest amateurs' being creative (the marathon's proposed themes include a Genesis concept album), "Miles for Mary" flirts with the condescension that occasionally surfaces in Christopher Guest's mockumentaries about small-time theater troupes and dog shows.
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This is the true context for the dressing down and dismissal of Muslim women such as Noor Taghouri by explaining away the mistakes of those who commit them as one-offs, rather than part of a wider cultural pattern of condescension.
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Meanwhile, Mr. Trudeau himself was simultaneously praised for cultural sensitivity and lambasted for cultural condescension earlier this year after he and his family wore elaborate traditional Indian clothing, including gold outfits and pointy red shoes, during a trip to India.
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Now that Maurice, who grew up poor, has been caught consorting with the likes of Lashonda, it's Constance who must seriously explore what condescension, racial or otherwise, has done to her — and to the ghost of her 32-year marriage.
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Then, by early 2018, Mr. Trump started to gain confidence on foreign affairs and perhaps detect in Mr. Mattis — whom he initially fetishized as "Mad Dog," the archetypal military tough guy, reportedly to Mr. Mattis's chagrin — a note of condescension.
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Not all his colleagues in the director Simon Evans's all-British ensemble are able to rein themselves in as the play moves toward its macabre conclusion, but Mr. Bloom connects to the part of Killer Joe Cooper without any condescension.
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Fortunately for the world in general, she has taken it into her head, that condescension is the most distinguishing virtue of high life; so that the same pride of family which renders others imperious, is with her the motive of affability.
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And if what we want is a political culture with a greater regard for the dignity of those disfavored by the meritocracy — men and women of all colors and creeds — the way to get it may involve more, and better, condescension.
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In one scene, a lesbian poet (Cherry Jones) confronts Maura about her having blackballed female job applicants in grad school; in another, Maura's extremely patient trans friend, Davina, an H.I.V.-positive ex-prostitute, reads her the riot act for class condescension.
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Judge Smith, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, sharply criticized lawyers from the Obama-era Justice Department, which had intervened in the case, for their "arrogance and condescension," noting the eye-rolling and gum-chewing of one lawyer in particular.
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And while Marantz occasionally traffics in condescension — bemoaning how little engagement an "intricate and poignant" New Yorker story receives on Facebook — the way he demonstrates how digital platforms helped inject far-right ideas into the center of American life is insightful.
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On the other, Korey's 3AM Slack messages in which she promised, with great condescension, "to help [employees] learn the career skill of accountability" — by banning paid time off — told the story of her management style better than any anecdote could.
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But this latest turn in the conversation also underscores the degree to which Rowling has been successful in downplaying the peevish condescension and personal conservatism that she has flaunted in her writing outside the saga of the Boy Who Lived.
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Ferrell's over-the-top reactions and habit of spitting out random, totally inappropriate words to answer questions is on full display here, as is Poehler's charming straight-man condescension and ability to both play on and play up someone else's jokes.
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So bestowed upon her in this film is the honorific "miss" — a word that, I would argue, smacks of condescension when used to describe a fully grown, independent, almost scarily successful woman...even if it does look good on a movie poster.
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Sporting a shirt from Noisey anarcho faves Dawn Ray'd, a gagged Cherry wordlessly holds up cards explaining the exasperated reality that so many non-male musicians experience; the condescension, the pigeonholing, the frustration, the disrespect, the challenges to justify their very existence.
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China's condescension towards her—the Taiwan Affairs Office called her inaugural address "an incomplete examination answer" as if she were a stupid schoolgirl—has been mild compared with the invective levelled against previous DPP leaders, whom they have called "insane", "evil" and "scum".
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She approaches each part of cooking with joy and curiosity, speaking to her audience without an ounce of condescension for the people at home who are still learning the best way to salt your food and what cuts of meat to choose.
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But while Joe and Tim seemed to get the mission, President Obama, while pounding Trump's lack of preparedness -- a more than fair criticism -- doubled down on his own condescension toward American fear and anxiety, suggesting it's unfounded and overhyped by the right.
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" Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A German member of the European Parliament (MEP), Wolf Klinz, who brought to the European Commission evidence of possible fraudulent activity at the Freeport Luxembourg, says that the commission has met his allegations with "condescension and dismissal.
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I'm always wary of becoming the out-of-town daughter/cousin/sister who used her working class Midwestern work ethic to get a good job on the east coast, then comes back haughty and dripping condescension at her family's perceived lack of sophistication.
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The notion that the House could now muster legislation on so thorny an issue was hard to credit; in my conversations with White House and Senate Democratic staff members, their estimation of the House's efforts on immigration oozed condescension verging on scorn.
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Younger voters are no longer beholden to the big-tent parties, in large part because the big-tent parties have no plan to engage with them — and when they do address the issues that young voters care about, it's with condescension, even derision.
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Short-season streaming shows don't work that way, though, so Feldman counterpoints the comedy of female friendship with the tragedy of male condescension and predation, and sets it all within the framework of a murder mystery, or at least a manslaughter mystery.
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Though home viewers may occasionally detect an edge of condescension in Mr. Trebek's tone, contestants on the show described him as warm and gracious, putting effort into making them feel special, even though he had done the same for thousands of others.
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It strikes me that the attitude toward this memo is exactly the type of condescension of which the "liberal elite" is so frequently accused and I wouldn't be surprised if this memo ends up being a rallying flag for the Trump base.
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Turning down the offer of an abbreviated path to a bachelor's degree at Yale because of what he perceived as condescension to Jews, he enrolled at the University of Chicago and earned his B.A. there after one year of study, in 1948.
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Trump's "statement today is a pathetic asterisk of condescension after weeks in which he and his staff have committed grotesque acts and omissions reflecting Antisemitism, yet day after day have refused to apologize and correct the record," Goldstein wrote in a Facebook statement.
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That a member of the white aristocracy has to lead the natives, who can't seem to do it on their own, is just another indication of how Hollywood has mostly portrayed Africa and Africans for decades -- either with smirking racism, or tut-tut condescension.
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In prior days, the riff - which has become an embedded part of his new appeal to minority voters - was delivered as a variation of asking voters to "reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton" for what Trump called pandering and condescension to communities of color.
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In "Star Trek" 's imagined future, amid the rocks and under the red alien skies of Spock's home world, Vulcans called that unflagging effort a "philosophy," enshrined its founder, Surak, and looked with cool condescension on those who did not submit to its regime.
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The idea that it can't be done, that Trump voters are all locked-in lunatics with no capacity to take in new information, seems like just another version of the elite condescension toward rank and file Republicans that enabled Trump's rise in the first place.
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Miss Howard, as she insists on being called during work hours, serves as secretary to Kreizler and Moore's rough-riding former Harvard classmate Roosevelt, a position that makes her a target for both condescension and sexual harassment from the force's bog-standard Irish flatfeet.
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It's not difficult to imagine a time when this odd condescension ends and male sports fans are just as unreasonable about Serena Williams's taking time off to have a child as they are when a male athlete does the same for his child's birth.
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By the time Jane Austen was writing, though, the word was already starting to rouse suspicion: When Mr. Collins, in "Pride and Prejudice" (1813), extols the "affability and condescension" of Lady Catherine, readers were reminded that this clergyman was at once snobbish and obsequious.
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The simultaneous rediscovery of an African-American musical form that had suffered neglect and condescension had a similar effect, and artistic innovators like Skip James and Son House belatedly received the recognition (and at least some of the money) that had long been their due.
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In speaking her personal truth, Solange has created a meditation not just for herself but for so many seeking safe space, asylum, and peace, for those who seek to maintain their dignity and regality in the face of condescension, lies, aggression, violence, and murder.
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Wade | Dems threaten to subpoena Juul Ocasio-Cortez accuses NY Times of 'dripping condescension' Khanna calls out progressives who haven't endorsed Lipinski challenger MORE (D-Ill.) Lipinski, a conservative Democrat who has seen colleagues support his primary rivals, is not backing an impeachment inquiry.
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At one point Solomon tells her, "Darling, why don't you leave it to the boys?" and "The Price" treats her with a similar condescension, sidelining her in her pert pink suit while the brothers argue, stranding her with domestic concerns while they debate moral philosophy.
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Dripping condescension that I'm being "educated" should be a big red flag The article, which focused on what it described as "a careful political calculus" on the part of the progressive firebrand and rising Democratic star, included an interview with the first-year lawmaker.
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Die-hard fans know this already, but if you haven't read his work yet, trust: John Green is the master of writing young voices, and one need only read Turtles All the Way Down — rife with complexity, tenderness, and grief; free of condescension — to understand why.
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Others, meanwhile, especially on the left, point to the racist nature of his appeal, as illustrated by Mr Trump's denigration of Hispanics, condescension, or worse, towards blacks and misty-eyed lauding of a past when whites were almost as synonymous with America as he makes them sound.
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The point is that while liberals treating some minority groups in America as "the other" tends to come from a place of sanctimonious condescension, that kind of "otherizing" from conservatives seems rooted in a fundamental desire to cut certain groups of people out of the American project.
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The young hero of "Morris From America," a 13-year-old African-American boy (the amazing Markees Christmas) living with his father (Craig Robinson) in Heidelberg, Germany, struggles with his own naïveté, and also with a form of racism that comes wreathed in smiles and Teutonic condescension.
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Deep is Korean condescension against Japan, exacerbated by a collective inferiority complex as manifested in South Korean President Moon Jae-In's remark, "We will never again lose to Japan," following Japan's announcement of restrictions on exports of chemicals that are crucial to South Korea's semiconductor industry.
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The men treated her with condescension and irritation, not so much because she was a woman as because she was a woman pretending to know things that she did not know, and vanity and foolishness, which were tolerable in a man, were not tolerable in a woman.
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And in that context Romney's speech was actually an admirable, long-overdue attempt to break with that condescension, to treat primary voters as adults, to actually share with them the wide range of reasons — and Romney covered the waterfront — why Donald Trump does not deserve their trust.
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Clare Barron's exciting, nuanced group portrait of a competitive middle-school dance troupe excavated the raw terror and exhilaration of being 13, with a splendidly confused throng of adolescents embodied without cuteness or condescension by a cast of adults, directed by Lee Sunday Evans at Playwrights Horizons.
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And for thanks, he's treated by Carrie to a big dose of condescension — "This is really important" — plus a return to the interrogatory tone that we remember so painfully from Berlin, when she woke him out of his medically induced coma to try to extract some intel.
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Clinton impeachments – the major differences Sharice Davids to vote for Trump impeachment articles: 'The facts are uncontested' MORE fell into the condescension trap in 2016 when she said, "Half of Donald Trump's supporters belong in a basket of deplorables" characterized by "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic" views.
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Every aspect of being a woman in film and TV: finding or making opportunities, dealing with abuse and condescension, bringing personal stories to the screen, dealing with doubtful male gatekeepers, being asked to mentor male peers and prep them for promotions that aren't available to women, and so forth.
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The Scharf/Haring pairing, combined with Julia Wachtel's "Membership" (13393), a painting that facilely juxtaposes kitschy greeting card imagery with a black-and-white rendering of matching African fertility figures, seems to signal that the Geist of the decade was bent toward crowd-pleasing hijinks and elitist condescension.
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But as we know from the show's other flashbacks, there was no stopping the virus, and so we get to watch as Pamela cringes in horror and frantically applies Purell as everyone around her — including a society rival played with perfect condescension by Laura Dern — starts dropping dead.
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Justin Simien's TV adaptation of his own movie (2014's Dear White People) will also explore the simmering resentment poisoning an Ivy League campus from the perspective of its black students, who are fed up with the unequal treatment and constant condescension they face from their white peers.
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Biden, Obama and Nancy Pelosi, along with recent polling and the election results on Tuesday, all show that the best way to rid this country of Trump is for Democrats to dial back the condescension of their natural allies and dig into the gritty concerns of daily life.
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Emily Odesser, 18-year-old activist and founder of Teen Eye Magazine, has some tips for you on that front: "Too many people will see your age and discount you immediately (and you may get an ~fun extra condescension bonus~ due to your race or gender)," she tells Broadly.
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When Patrick goes home with the 22-year-old — a fellow video-game designer — Mr. Groff shows us both his almost giddy delight during their (quite explicit) sex and, afterward, his reflexive condescension mixed with alarm as the younger man calls him out for running away from his problems.
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One interesting thing about "For Life," at this early stage, is how it takes a story grounded in race — Wallace, an African-American, is railroaded by a white district attorney, Glen Maskins (Boris McGiver, whose ability to combine menace and condescension is perfectly used) — and then crosses it up.
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The ability to radiate certainty without condescension, to be both very sure and very simple, is a potent one, and witnessing it in life explains a lot in history that might otherwise be inexplicable—for instance, how a sixteen-year-old girl could lead the French Army to victory.
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Trump, who mocked American POWs because they were captured and then falsely bragged that his support increased 7 percent because of his condescension toward prisoners of war, told a crowd at the Washington rally of Rolling Thunder — which views support for POWs as a patriotic mission — that he is their guy.
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The instructors also lack a level of the condescension I've associated with all exercise—some are a little woo woo life coachy for me, but most of them are encouraging and technical, and clearly have a remit to not suggest any range of resistance or output is wrong, per se.
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The country must battle the perception around the world that without the EU the whole of Britain will become a caricature of the most dilapidated members its aristocracy, a hollowed-out set poor in cash and rich in condescension, the kind whose drafty estates are rented out for fairy-tale weddings.
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From this simple plot premise, Mr. Kushner spins ever widening variations on the idea of change — personal and historical — as Caroline finds herself sandwiched between white liberal condescension and a burgeoning spirit of African-American rebellion and resistance, embodied with particular piquancy by her teenage daughter, Emmie (the excellent Abiona Omonua).
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Besides, criticizing someone for wearing a formal dress at prom — not as a costume — grossly misdirects the real and justified anger felt by Asian-Americans who are still smarting from legacies of racist immigration policies that have led to centuries of condescension toward East Asian people, but reverence of certain East Asian objects.
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"[Trump's] statement today is a pathetic asterisk of condescension after weeks in which he and his staff have committed grotesque acts and omissions reflecting Antisemitism, yet day after day have refused to apologize and correct the record," Steven Goldstein, director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, wrote on Facebook Tuesday.
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For the same reasons that Sanders should avoid negative attacks against Clinton, Obama should avoid negative opining about Sanders and condescension toward his supporters, who bring enthusiasm, idealism and commitment to the cause that serves all Democrats and is as precious as gold to any nominee, whoever he or she may ultimately be.
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That disdain for political combat is all on display at the Rally to Restore Sanity, but coated with smug condescension: It's elaborate political theater that nominally appeals to better angels but really signals that liberals are smarter and gentler than conservatives and that, deep down, the rest of the country agrees with them.
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But what no one in the Trump opposition seems to understand is that every time a celebrity or political elite hits Trump, he emerges a bit stronger, particularly with his base of disaffected Republicans and Democrats who despise the elites' corruption, arrogance and condescension and are counting on Trump to smash their grip.
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But while U.N. officials and others made a show of praising the strikers, the political establishment's attitude towards the mostly young activists has been condescension, as the teens realized when they arrived at the United Nations for a Youth Climate Summit on Saturday and were greeted by a Game of Thrones actor.
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The core of that support is a white working class that the Democratic Party has half-abandoned and the Republican Party has poorly served — a cohort facing social breakdown and economic stagnation, and stuck with a liberal party offering condescension and open borders and a conservative party offering foreign quagmires and capital gains tax cuts.
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One of the pre-hip(ster) Williamsburg hotspots, Kokies (the name needs no explanation), had a regular live salsa band, and the new, gentrifying customers, flush with super stepped-on 20s from the DJ window, could be found getting down with the regulars that—justifiably—viewed them with a mix of condescension and suspicion.
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I want to come up with a brilliant new criticism here, but ultimately the unvarnished condescension toward the personal essay that has resurfaced in the "Cat Person" conversation is a reiteration of the same old theme: The personal essay is and long has been a genre dominated by women, and thus it is frivolous, inferior, silly.
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Yet again, the praise and condescension came through thick and clear: black women fawningly adopted as America's selfless moral martyrs, doing their bit to keep the doors of access and opportunity open for all, working through a dearth of representation in the very offices they were electing for, merely by exercising their (severely threatened) civil right to vote.
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A reality show about modeling isn't enough on its own: For it to truly thrive, you need the charisma and condescension of a woman who's been in the industry for 30 years, and who knows that to make good TV, you have to be willing, two or three times a season, to be the crazy person in the room.
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If the mark of a specific breed of heel is the lecturing, hectoring know-it-all who offers nothing but nails-on-a-chalkboard condescension, the godawful truth of all of this may be that it's not Trump who was the heel during the election, no matter how awful a gorge we're threatening to careen into.
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To the Editor: Re "The Truth About 'Trump Country,'" by Sarah Smarsh (Op-Ed, July 20): People's use of the convenient "Trump country" label to describe the states that voted for the president not only lacks nuance, but is also a subliminal tool of differentiation and condescension that only exacerbates the growing urban and rural divide that plagues America.
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In an interview, Ms. Machado said that she stands by her characterization of the back and forth as "contentious and fraught," and says she tweeted about it not to identify herself as "a victim of Junot Díaz's" but to make a point about how misogyny and condescension toward women can be intertwined with abuse and harassment.
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His street scenes expose the neurotic underbelly of a metropolis, while "Bon Marché," his triptych devoted to the Bon Marché department store renders goods on display in exquisite detail, and even the domestic scenes such as "The Lie" (1897) portray an empty, yet disturbed society with dry wit, a tad of humor, and, crucially, no condescension.
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All the hand-wringing about how the media got it wrong ignores the fact that there are millions of people who have found a kinship with perspectives presented by Fox News and their commentators while feeling the condescension heaped upon them by the media, entertainment industry and intellectual elites who have given short shrift to their sensitivities.
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Those are the options that gnaw at our sympathies as we contemplate the inertia of Anna Brisker, a doctoral candidate in literature whose path to the highest ranks of academia would seem to be ensured by her elite education and entitled mix of condescension, smug liberalism and self-professed deficit of the generosity required to mentor others.
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And — noting the prevalence of black athletes on college football and basketball squads — she also illuminates a culture in which the centuries-old alloy of white condescension, paternalism and awe toward athletically gifted young black men lets coaches and others in power cover up allegations, discredit accusers and do anything else to keep suspects of any race on the field.
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"The Prime Minister's attitude should worry all of us hoping that negotiations with Europe will not be a disaster because - and let me put this bluntly - if she shows the same condescension and inflexibility, the same tin ear, to other EU countries as she has to Scotland then the Brexit process will hit the rocks," Sturgeon told her Scottish National Party (SNP) conference.
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But in the Netflix adaptation, it's clearer than ever that Mr. Poe, despite his goodwill and basic decency, combines all the worst traits of every other well-meaning adult the Baudelaires encounter: His condescension, impatience, selfishness, fear, self-preservation, misguided politeness, and, above all, his refusal to listen to and respect the children endanger them almost as often as the villainous Count Olaf does.
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With furrowed brows, palpable anxiety and more than a little condescension, European leaders at the Quebec G-7 summit in June intended to school President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE on the complexities of international trade.
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" He expressed the hope that they would remember him not as "one of those 'coastal elites' dripping with contempt and condescension toward Middle America," he wrote, but "rather, as that guy from 'up north' who appeared on the next bar stool one Friday after work, asked about their job and life and hopes for the future, and thought what they said was important enough to write down.
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The point is to jolt Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's voters, funders and young activists out of any illusion — any comfortable condescension — that it will be an easy win in a presidential race against an opponent they regard with disdain: Trump.
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The author of three previous books that touch on feminist themes, Mundy paints a vivid portrait of the daily lives of these energetic single young women — the upheaval and challenges of adjusting to the high-pressure military environment, the condescension and sexism from male colleagues and superiors, the cramped living quarters, the constant anxiety over brothers and boyfriends in harm's way, the wartime romances, weekend high jinks and stress-related breakdowns.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads These are unorthodox times, when the United States is consumed by discussion of fake news (a term people regularly misuse to refer to stories they don't like or trust), finger-pointing (instead of self-reflection), condescension (for instance, someone pointing out that debt-ridden artists are still privileged, even if they themselves are too), and justification for inaction (don't get me started).
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At the same time that the accuser Christine Blasey Ford's example has inspired countless victims to feel empowered and share their trauma in all manner of forums, the way that her courage has been met in the Senate with condescension, contempt and hostility has secured in many survivors a sense that power will not be sympathetic to the disclosure; it will treat it as an affront and an attack.
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The term has since been expanded in scope into a broadly useful one for the West's selective seeing of the East — especially, for the purposes of this piece of writing, East Asia — with many sins included under its umbrella: exotification, condescension, appropriation, othering, and general treatment of Asianness as a cultural buffet from which people feel welcome to help themselves to whatever they're inclined to take and reject what they aren't interested in.
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But if the #MeToo movement can only address distinct instances of sexual harassment and assault, and not the founding briarpatch of snide remarks, aggressive sexual and romantic overtures, dismissal, condescension, entitlement, and other quietly abusive behaviors that so often shape dynamics between boys and girls, men and women—let alone the histories of disenfranchisement that all of that is predicated on—then the #MeToo movement is no use to us at all.
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" Though he got in a dig at the plot — "the story of 'Star Wars' could be written on the head of a pin and still leave room for the Bible" — Canby complimented Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford (as Luke, Leia and Han Solo), noting that "everyone treats his material with the proper combination of solemnity and good humor that avoids condescension," and called C-218PO and R22019-D2 "the year's best new comedy team.
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From A.J. Castilla, Boston Clinton camp's condescension for Sanders's supporters misguided An open letter to Clinton supporters As supporters of Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE for president, we are obviously opposed to the idea of Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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" White House policy adviser Stephen MillerStephen MillerTrump suggested shooting migrants in the legs: NYT Meghan McCain: Trump, Giuliani 'blowing it on a JV level' Meghan McCain: Women would be called 'crazy bitches' if they acted like male Trump allies MORE clashed with "Fox News Sunday" host Chris WallaceChristopher (Chris) WallaceBiden campaign demands news channels stop booking Giuliani Trump allies go on the offensive against whistleblower complaint, Democrats Sunday shows — Impeachment grips Washington MORE, saying the whistleblower complaint "drips with condescension, righteous indignation and contempt for the president.
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