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"look down on" Definitions
  1. to think that you are better than somebody

313 Sentences With "look down on"

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Cord-nevers look down on cord-cutters, who look down on landliners, who look down on TV-setters, who look down on AOL-addressees like me.
Seeing as you look down on Asians, then don't come.
Some people, they look down on us because we're inmates.''
But that's no reason to look down on these devices.
"I know you look down on me, Rachel," Alison says.
I wonder if Steve King would look down on her.
Who was she to look down on other sex workers?
"Some are racist, they look down on us," Guifarro said.
They don't look down on convicted felons here, Jackson notes.
Ian says I want to look down on the world.
Some people, they look down on us because we're inmates.
"It's easy to look down on fast food," he writes.
Sometimes, they look down on the rough arrangements of simpler times.
"They look down on us," Bevan says, nodding toward the man.
" He continued, "Most everywhere I go, people look down on me.
You can't get a job, and people look down on you.
If they could look down on me, that was a plus.
And then they look down on others who don't have laurels.
None of these people seemed to look down on the addicts.
I look down on that person that would say something like that.
They were given [the n-word] to hate and look down on.
Those people, they look down on us 'cause we don't do tech.
In fact, there's a pretty good chance you look down on millennials.
In fact, many of our citizens silently look down on our military.
"I don't look down on anybody who uses food stamps," she said.
Am I so quick to forgive that people look down on me?
And part of that means refusing to ever look down on others.
I'll be honest, they look down on Americans a bit over there.
"They look down on my airline and my country," he told Reuters.
I began to look down on my grandmother and my own family.
Gluttony is gluttony and there's a reason why people look down on gluttons.
Who is he if he can't look down on all of his rivals?
I am so proud of it and I never look down on it.
They look down on the people and want to decide in their place.
All of us, in our own individual petty ways, look down on others.
If those we look down on disappeared overnight, how would we go on?
Whether we acknowledge it or not, people love to look down on the femme.
They spoke Cantonese and tended to look down on the poorer, less cosmopolitan mainlanders.
When you reach the mountain top, try not to look down on any one.
Middle-class people often look down on public transport as the poor person's choice.
Whether we acknowledge it or not, people love to look down on the femme.
Do I look down on the people in my life for being too kind?
For wealthy residents, towers provide lofty views from which to look down on neighbors.
Believe me, if anybody needed counseling, nobody was going to look down on them.
Obviously some people still look down on us, but change is a gradual process.
They tended to look down on other prisoners who weren't as educated as them.
Are you hiding something from a lover or friends who would look down on you?
It's so easy to criticize, to look down on me for what I was given.
It's pretty great, being able to look down on all those dirty rascals down there.
Many of us even look down on fellow Chinese who have darker skin, especially women.
I never look down on somebody who sticks with a gadget simply because it's familiar.
The natives look down on him, he says, because English is not his first language.
Chances are you live in an iffy neighborhood and European Jews look down on you.
Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
They like to portray Democrats as self-serious elites who look down on ordinary Americans.
And not just any mountain: Grouse Mountain, whose ski slopes famously look down on Vancouver.
Hong Kong (CNN)The United States used to look down on the Russian and Chinese internets.
When we are on our knees, it is much harder to look down on our neighbor.
With the Heavy Sea photography series, he doesn't want to preach or look down on anybody.
"I really look down on those kids who don't rely on their own abilities," he added.
I'd rather look down on a beautifully made, crafted object that's like a piece of jewelry.
It seems so 20th century now to choose one side and look down on the other.
But he cannot avoid its burned windows, which look down on the porch of his residence.
Executives at ascendant tech titans like Amazon and Google tend to look down on their predecessor IBM.
While he exhibits a dry sense of humor about it, Wiseman doesn't look down on this world.
Yet there is a widespread tendency in China to look down on other races, especially black people.
Kim followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, whose portraits look down on Pyongyang streets.
Ms. Mar might draw more customers if she didn't seem to look down on vegetables, for instance.
Conservatives argue that it has been decimated by cosmopolitan cultural elites who look down on rural rubes.
Never, only to tourists… No, people do not look down on me here because of my work.
For Sebastian, it's being just high enough to look down on his fellow servants at the manor.
" McDonough made it clear that he does not look down on soup: "The soups here are excellent.
At the same time, they look down on other people as misguided souls, if not wicked infidels.
Aren't you tired of arrogant leaders who look down on you, instead of serving and protecting you?
Look down on Buenos Aires from the sky, and you can learn a fair bit about the city.
Visitors are fingerprinted before they can enter the buildings and look down on the world's largest trading floor.
It shouldn't matter whether people look down on you for spending your free time watching something you enjoy.
Others believe that Jatts celebrating their caste does not necessarily mean that they look down on other castes.
The sailing crowd (who tend to be old European or New England money) look down on the motorised lot.
And it's not just random skeptics who look down on horoscopes — even career astrologists can be dismissive of them.
Was it hard to keep a straight face with a line like "I look down on people with love"?
We put the founders on an imaginary pedestal to look down on our own politics as beneath their contempt.
Most people immediately think I am pro-Erdogan, and I get the feeling that they look down on me.
An elite group is elitist if it tends to look down on and behave somewhat disparagingly toward the nonelite.
Last year astronaut Anne McClain shared what it feels like to look down on the Earth at Christmas time.
" Similarly, a Tea Party voter in rural Louisiana commented, "A lot of liberal commentators look down on people like me.
It tells us far more about the smug, closed-minded certainty of illiberal liberals than those they look down on.
One was a suburban neighborhood and the other a rooftop whee you could look down on the buildings around you.
"Trends make the public look down on other styles that may not be considered 'fashion' at the time," he explains.
Yes, that's kind of rude, but let's not look down on the Tully monster for the mistakes of its children.
Unobstructed views from its surrounding balcony are spectacular (look down on the puny Wythe hotel and teeming mortals in scorn).
Specifically, the museum's second floor, where an exposed platform lets you look down on various high points of colonialist engineering.
Do you think people overlook her business success because they look down on QVC and red carpet commentary in general?
As you look down on the toilet bowl, if it looks like a true circle, you have a round toilet.
Instead of posing questions about myself through others— Am I so quick to forgive that people look down on me?
That's something that I think a lot of people still look down on for females and I think that's sad.
" Jane from California: "I often read or hear that climate change believers are 'elite' and look down on upon nonbelievers.
Friends know you as a blue-bubble buddy, and you look down on anyone who forces you to text in green.
Serious runners may look down on listening to music while training, but us commoners need all the distraction we can get.
Pro wrestling: Folks who love it really love it, while folks who don't like it love to look down on it.
The people who defend gun rights believe that snobbish elites look down on their morals and want to destroy their culture.
"Unfortunately a lot of museums look down on dolls as being a collectible, not a work of art," Mr. Holbrook said.
I used to look down on people who had cellphones because I saw them as this tool that just encouraged laziness.
Your rules were simple: treat everyone equally, don't look down on anyone, use your voices for good, read all the great books.
That approach is perhaps what threw off so many of the film's critics, so quick to look down on the intended audience.
Because he eliminates the mediating distance of history, I didn't look down on the benighted people of Salem who believed such nonsense.
I would like to believe that if Reeva could look down on me, that she would want me to live that life.
So let's have a period of exaggerated respect for reason; and let's look down on people who use language without respecting it.
The only person she doesn't look down on, it seems, is her best friend, Amy, played with wry sensitivity by Kaitlyn Dever.
If you decide to splurge and go up it, check out the recently installed glass floors and look down on everything below.
Those practicing Pharisees who are "confident of their own righteousness and look down on everybody else," he declared, are not really righteous.
"He didn't look down on foreign places he visited and their 'quaintness/backwardness/insert-usual-derogatory adjective,'" the journalist Rania Abouzeid tweeted.
It's time to accept that not everyone is on your level—don't look down on them for it; be a leader, instead.
The disdain between Persians, who look down on Arabs, and the Arabs who resent Persian arrogance, is as old as both civilizations.
It would help if they did not look down on bachelors: some make it hard for unmarried people to get hold of contraceptives.
She also thinks that the relatively young age of the app's users makes it easier for people to look down on the content.
Larger, floating cat faces look down on you approvingly, and eventually, a giant cat with a bottle of champagne appears, concluding the festivities.
"A lot of people do seem to look down on pornographic art and, as an extension, the people who create it," he said.
We look down on this sense, considering it so animalistic that Sigmund Freud rated the loss of smell as a sign of civilization!
When you're flying into LA, if you're observant and on the north runway, just look down on the right side of the plane.
In reality, however, the two fields used very different models, had very different intellectual cultures, and tended to look down on each other.
"He's not going to be taking care of the sugar daddies who look down on the hardworking people of America," Mr. Cloutier said.
That simply cannot happen when we look down on teenagers or look at them askance, as this list almost invites us to do.
When I went through boot camp in 2008, my fellow male Marines and I were taught to look down on our female counterparts.
So, I've begun to build a little collection of volcano images taken by Planet Labs' fleet of doves that look down on Earth's surface.
Once so confident, she's now lost and unsure of herself in this big city of snobby intellectuals who look down on her Southern charm.
TO FLY NORTH from Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), is to look down on a country that has become hell.
"I've had people look down on me, put me down because I didn't look like them — I look stronger," Williams said at the time.
"Coming from a reality show, people look down on that — a lot of people in the fashion industry don't respect that world," she said.
The fly-through starts in the station's cupola, a set of huge windows that let astronauts and cosmonauts look down on Earth from above.
Bishop denied that he's trying to stop lobbying, litigation or other activities, but he does look down on the groups for suing the administration.
In Chinese society, the pressure to marry can be intense, and families often look down on women who remain single into their late 20s.
I think a lot of people look down on that now in new music—everything is supposed to be authentic, straight from the hip.
"They look down on us; only a few people show us respect," said Tang Zhengqu, who has worked as a porter for 20 years.
And they sing, all 2249 of them, all through the day, while the spectators look down on them, benevolent and pitiless as the sun.
Tyler is the outcast of the group of teens who find themselves the subjects of Hannah's tapes, the one they all look down on.
In an interview, she said she opposed impeachment for Mr. Trump and did not look down on Trump supporters, who include her in-laws.
Like Arya, Brienne seems to bristle at terms like "lady" and can seem to look down on conventional activities and symbols associated with women.
I'm from Chicago and both cities have their issues, but we know there is beauty in these cities that other people may look down on.
Anna Wintour In Heels — 5-Foot-7The severe bob might even add another inch, giving the Vogue editor one more person to look down on.
He knows the cultural elite look down on his rural Georgia roots and slam him for singing about dirt roads and beer cans in koozies.
According to Martin Fackler in The New York Times, many Japanese today look down on the few remaining itako, believing that they simply promote superstition.
This creates the side benefit of giving observers and photographers the unique ability to look down on the jets as they scream by, afterburners lit.
But we—those of us who look down on Serena Joy—already know with the sluggish horror of a nightmare that nothing will be done.
So, make no mistake about it, a job is a wonderful thing to have, and never look down on it as if it's beneath you.
And some in the working class are just as animated by a stereotype of "elites" as people who look down on everyone without a doctorate.
Again, I think that might have been a byproduct of seeing things from a great height: He was determined never to look down on anyone.
This bunker sits high on a hill, allowing you to look down on the charred remains of town and the starving masses you now rule.
The road was excavated, documented and enclosed in a gallery with a glass roof, so that patrons of the restaurant can look down on it.
The elites look down on us regular folks so let's show them a thing or two is a well-worn page in the Huckabee handbook.
The North Koreans had also secretly sawed several inches off the American delegate's chair so their negotiator could look down on him during the haggling.
Today, there are too many Willy Lomans in the world, too many people who look down on the working class like they lead subpar lives.
But it feels fundamentally divided into two camps, the camp of people like you and the camp of people who look down on people like you.
Kardashian fan Kelsey wrote a letter to Khloé, stating how, in 2016, people still look down on Kelsey's relationship with a man of a different race.
"We are all ... a breath away from mental illness, homelessness, all these things we tend to look down on," she told a Toronto convention in 2006.
However, I am here to say embrace the embarrassing and open yourself up to the possibility of enjoying something your peers may wrongly look down on.
They look down on an area that suffered massive damage in a conflict that brought down the medieval covered souk, smashed mosque domes and burnt churches.
Continue to sprawl out on your puffy white cloud eating cotton candy and grapes from the vine as you look down on the rest of us.
You can zoom out to look down on its roofs from above or swoop the camera to street level and be among the streets and houses.
We're thus doomed to look down on people we're not familiar with — to "otherize," in modern academic jargon, those who don't look or speak like us.
Past research has shown that people worry that those who claim the moral high ground will look down on others whose behavior seems unfavorable by comparison.
On the whole, Northerners look down on Southerners — though not of course to the degree that East Coasters do — while Southerners tend to ignore the rivalry.
" Aya Darwazeh, who is Palestinian-Jordanian, said that she was upset by the way Americans "look down on Middle Eastern women in terms of their dress.
"We have to hear and listen and understand why folks voted the way they did and not look down on people, not judge people," he said.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews, the fastest-growing segment of world Jewry because of their high birthrate, look down on secular knowledge and most reject a university education.
She has kept shamefully silent about it, fearful, perhaps, of upsetting ethnic Bamar, who are mainly Buddhists and many of whom look down on the Muslim Rohingyas.
But, I am here to say, embrace the embarrassing and open yourself up to the possibility of enjoying something your peers may wrongly look down on. ….Anyway.
It lends grandeur and dignity to their doings, and allows them to look down on the notionally more successful societies of the West as doomed and decadent.
Harwood: Steve Bannon says that he's going after the people who are part of the global establishment clique, who look down on the blue-collar Trump voters.
Or just kind of open, so people can kind of criticize you and look down on you, but also sort of be inspired, or just decide, essentially.
Even though ham snobs may look down on it, it's a rare critic who won't grab a slice of the tender, pale pink meat given the chance.
Before I had solved the titular theme clue, I enjoyed the cleverness of Ms. Long's making us figuratively look down on others to completely get this puzzle.
If you look down on your phone to find that Guac Mode is activated, you should high-tail it to your nearest Chipotle before it's too late.
"Leave your mother alone," Louis C. K. says, imagining her in heaven turning down a party with angels because she has to look down on her son.
If you want to look down on them all, the Hong Kong photographer and skyscraper expert Edward Barnieh recommends the panoramic Lugard Road lookout on Victoria Peak.
Well, friends, I'm here to get up on my high horse, look down on you all, and tell you this is stupid and we should stop this shit.
During their talk, Blanchard got candid about the way adults sometimes look down on teens when they are struggling with some very real stuff for the first time.
There are riffs on the clothes of parish priests, cardinals and bishops; high-fashion angels look down on the crowds of visitors from the top of arched doorways.
When you look down on the screen, it comes in colors, like if something's ... If you think somebody is doing a really good job, it's in bright green.
Metal staircases allow players look down on a holographic spinning globe, a strategic map of the earth lines the dominant wall, and another screen crawls with ominous statistics.
LOOK DOWN ON ME, BECAUSE I HAVE ONE KID AND AM EXPECTING ANOTHER, WHEN YOU KEEP RUNNING OUT OF SUPER LIKES BECAUSE YOU CAN'T EVEN AFFORD PROPER TINDER?
They say academics and journalists look down on people like them, and agree that discrimination against whites has become as big a problem as discrimination against minorities. Nov.
Even if some haters choose to look down on her for her sexuality, thousands of fans see her for what she really is: a badass, sex-positive advocate.
Sleeping on the job is one of those workplace taboos — like leaving your desk for lunch or taking an afternoon walk — that we're taught to look down on.
Even as rivals in Iowa look down on Biden's organization, higher-information voters keep getting data to suggest that he'd run stronger against the president than anyone else.
Ms. Killingsworth said that she had never had a signature of her own, but that she didn't look down on those who do — well, not all of them.
A senior executive at a Mongolian bank thinks many in the city tend to look down on ger districts and unfairly blame the residents for the poor conditions there.
A real-time video taken by British astronaut Tim Peake gives people on Earth a little taste of what it's like to look down on the planet from above.
Google executives and employees alike look down on leaks, and sources who spoke with BuzzFeed News were concerned about the repercussions they might face for talking to the press.
Playing on the idea that Taiwanese look down on mainland Chinese for being poor and unable to afford good food, they flood Taiwanese websites with photos of mainland delicacies.
It used to be a desolate place, but now the waterside open-plan penthouses look down on it, and the joggers in their upscale sports brands run along it.
Rounding the top of a knoll, we look down on an expanse of tundra that bristles with so many sensors and cables that it resembles an outdoor ICU ward.
If the idea of being able to look down on the wasteland and dictate the ins and outs of your favorite faction appeals to you, you'll enjoy the experience.
Inside the restaurant, serenity reigns, with sloping glass walls that look down on a piazza below inducing the woozy, soothing impression of being aboard a boat in central Milan.
But in Prague, the teams are sitting on couches on adjacent platforms that look down on the action, separated only by the narrow walkway leading to the locker room.
During free falls, skydivers can look down on a neighborhood called Monument Park, now known to the outside world as the Turpin neighborhood, about a mile from the airport.
And on a clear night you can sit by the fire-pit and look down on the entire city... with no horrible power lines to kill the mood... priceless.
She refers to Lady Bird's "wealthy friends" with a kind of bitterness that paves over insecurity, and she's clearly terrified that Lady Bird will look down on her parents.
Bleth leads us to some windows that look down on the large hangar below, where we can see SpaceShipTwo, Branson's rocket-­plane—or rather, a full-scale replica of it.
It's strange to think I look up to people a lot younger than me for my style inspiration, which obviously means, depressingly, that they would look down on my choices.
Ultimately, it boils down to the sad fact that people would see me as gay if they knew, and people I love would look down on me because of that.
Dothraki is the guttural language of a horse-borne warrior nation, but high-born Daenerys Targaryen does not look down on it; methodically learning it is key to her rise.
"Being on the street, people look down on you, thinking that's the way you're going to live the rest of your life," said Jones, who now works at Christ House.
Not that Scotty and I were much better when we were starting; we had just learned but could look down on the next set of performers with some veteran ease.
Hell, I was even able to look down on the roads below and people watch as they walked thru town, in a non creepy, but sorta creepy way of course.
But that is not all there is to me as a person or as a solver, so I'm always baffled by those who look down on pop culture in crosswords.
My advice: If your religion is causing you to spew out words of hate, judge, or look down on others because of who one loves then you need to change it.
" Imploring the company to "provide a happy experience for all of its customers," McCord suggested they "hire individuals who despise hate, not love; who embrace difference, not look down on it.
Purists look down on them, yet they could prove useful "gateway drugs" into what VR could eventually become, says Anjney Midha of KPCB Edge, a technology investment firm in Silicon Valley.
Martin Pei, the engineer behind the project, promises that by 2020, passengers flying to the nearby Luleå airport will be able to look down on a 50-metre-high test plant.
If you kind of look down on the idea of storytelling as just show business and not really substantive, then you're ceding the opportunity to tell the story to someone else.
But to grasp the full military import of this place, the Kola Peninsula — Russia's northwestern-most territory — you would have to look down on it with thermal imaging from high above.
If you're not fortunate to have the sunshine on your side then it's still worth a trip to look down on the city as if it were a child's play toy.
"I never did drugs, not once, and used to look down on people who use drugs, but now I have empathy for them after what happened to my brother," he said.
Our world is designed to drive us nuts: we prize a beauty standard that all but necessitates plastic surgery, and then we look down on the people who get work done.
Discerning snobs may look down on it as lesser than a "true" Range Rover, but the Range Rover Sport surely conveys more wealth and status than a BMW X23.3 or Volvo XC25.
That certainly feels true when you look down on Los Angeles—a meshwork of highway laid over a fractally complex mesoscale of avenues and boulevards and a microscale filigree of surface streets.
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Stilt walking across the exercise yard, 24-year-old Tadas Voitiukas is making his circus debut as fellow prisoners look down on him in silence from their barred cell windows.
Signa Lab concluded that "Loot A Walmart," in tandem with the gas-hike hashtag, helped generate a mass panic, leading people to look down on the protesters and fear leaving their homes.
He added a cafe, store and sprawling showroom, from whose large windows visitors can look down on dozens of workers building furniture in the slightly more than 21,500-square-foot space below.
They see bright lights, tunnels, deceased family members, and very commonly, they have an out-of-body experience (OBE), where they float above their body and look down on it from above.
In this dispiriting system the only privilege many of them can claim is the power to look down on even newer Marines — the "boots," a clueless population subject to harassment and ridicule.
I admit, I have let my own snobby attitude as a person who trains (and would like to compete seriously) in combat sports allow me to look down on an art form.
Being cool is more important than being the best—among skaters, the word style is as common as it is vague—which is part of why so many look down on contests.
Euron is not that respectable in many ways, but the people of the Seven Kingdoms would probably look down on Cersei having her brother's baby, whereas Euron frees her from that potential scrutiny.
Russia has been conditioned by its history of expansion into Asia to look down on China as the lesser power, so its current status as a source of commodities for China feels humiliating.
We want to be part of the solution, where part-time work is not something that you look down on, where you can have your freedom and safety net at the same time.
A free flow of ideas and personnel can open the door to claims of theft or copying, but technologists often look down on companies that resort to legal action to kneecap a competitor.
Luckily, Dion's science teacher intervenes, but Dion ends up fearing the principal after Nicole explains to her son that some people will look down on him because of the color of his skin.
"Because she wants to" is reason enough, and it doesn't mean such parents don't love their children as much as others, and it doesn't mean they look down on you for your choices.
Climate-policy purists are focused on the notion of a carbon tax to discourage greenhouse gas emissions, and they look down on any proposal that doesn't put such a tax front and center.
I've always been fascinated by the overview effect -- a new clarity that astronauts describe experiencing when they look down on Earth from space and become overwhelmed by how beautiful and fragile our planet is.
The same people who actually cringe at the thought of America again leading on the world stage and the same people who sadly but routinely look down on you, us, we, the American people.
The sad thing is, my husband's family tend to look down on how we do things now, maybe as a result of the age difference between us, which was a problem at the start.
" Neri continued, "Everyone looked up to France and Britain, but there are other cultures that are far older, and they also have refinement and beautiful art, and we should not look down on them.
And yet, because athleticism is only part of the equation in races that are just as much about your tolerance for extreme mental and physical strain, mainstream runners often look down on the ultra­runner.
Ten hours after we left Ulaanbaatar, along with Hongoroo, the driver, and Zorig, our guide and translator, we crested a mountain to look down on the village of Binder and the Onon River valley.
I had no real understanding of what my spending should look like, and I was also scared that people would look down on me if I used money as an excuse not to hang out.
"The parents are very nervous about coming forward with their confessions, mainly because they don't want their families to look down on them, or their children finding out, and having issues arise," Zephyr told me.
Benny Safdie and Pattinson You understand, at that moment, that Connie's contempt is part of his world view, that he gets his highs off having someone around to look down on, push around, or control.
And they walk up to me—and I can look down on most people—and if you're smiling when you're doing that, it really puts you in a position like, 'I'm not worried about anything.
"As a culture we look down on and devalue emotions that are seen as feminine, in the same way that we devalue and mock female pleasure (Magic Mike XXL, Book Club, 50 Shades)," says Woods.
But for the fortunate few like Mr. Anand, it can be enjoyable to look down on one of those New York traffic jams that seem to go on as long as the Hundred Years' War.
But for the fortunate few like Mr. Anand, it can be enjoyable to look down on one of those New York traffic jams that seem to go on as long as the Hundred Years' War.
After law school at the University of Virginia — one of a few prestigious schools that did not look down on his Vietnam service, he would later say — he began angling for jobs as a prosecutor.
But it may well speak to many of them, while also attracting voters currently sitting on the sidelines who feel, not without reason, that leftist elites look down on them and their old-fashioned patriotism.
The gorgeous rust-colored outcroppings of sandstone are the most obvious attraction — the auburn cliffs, some thousands of feet high, look down on Joshua trees, agave and other flora and fauna of the eastern Mojave Desert.
So if I want to see interesting Twitter commentary about the game, I have to watch the game on one screen and then periodically look down on my phone, where I have a curated Twitter stream.
She has been doing this for about a decade now, which means she was able to look down on the benign mayhem that was unfolding in front of her and pick out exactly what she needed.
They should have a change of heart and mind, not to look down on us island communities or countries that are all affected by climate change....corporations should start doing today to fight the climate crisis?
Where things were blurry, they're now crisp — for example, when you look down on New York City, you can now see details like skyscrapers, building shadows and baseball fields in Central Park, thanks to Landsat 8.
The home's concrete shell, covered in solid white surface stone, creates a cantilevered mezzanine for sleeping, allowing residents to look down on the living spaces below, or out to the landscape through carved, box-shaped openings.
That they cost hundreds of dollars for just a few minutes of thrill-seeking, forcing tourists literally to look down on the rest of us, make them an almost-parodic symbol for the age of inequality.
Nowadays, it seems required to not only disagree with the policies of the other side, but also to look down on the policies and the people that have them with new levels of disdain and disrespect.
There's this interesting dynamic between the two countries, where British people slightly look down on and then slightly look up to America, as having more money and more glamor, but maybe, in their view, being less sophisticated.
"I let go of my claim on you, it's a free world/ You look down on where you came from sometimes/ But you'll have this place to call home, always," he croons, finding closure in the relationship.
It's important to remind people who look down on Black Lives Matter or other groups that take direct action, that [those activists] are doing the same thing that won us some of the rights we have now.
From her fifth-floor office, Phyllis J. Randall, a Democrat and the first African-American woman to lead a Virginia county board of supervisors, can look down on the courthouse square in Leesburg, the Loudoun County seat.
But the building boom appears to have created a problem: Residents of top floors of the buildings can literally look down on state buildings where Mr. Kim, the North's godlike totalitarian leader, and other party elites work.
Of course, to treat the failure to use the Oxford comma as a mark of mental messiness is a handy way to look down on what will perhaps always be a majority of people attempting to write English.
"In the Philippines, we don't look down on powerful and rich men having mistresses—sometimes it's even celebratory," said Jean Encinas-Franco, an assistant professor the University of Philippines-Diliman (UPD) specializing in women's rights and legislative politics.
Here's to raising a glass to birthday parties planned by dads; to workplaces that don't look down on employees who have to leave by 6; to quality and affordable child care spread far and wide across the land.
"She symbolizes as a San Francisco Democrat this sense that Democrats are coastal elites, and they look down on ... your average people, and of course she's been demonized that way purposefully by the Republican Party," Teixeira told Hill.
"To be able to look down on this chaos and not hear anything — and then to open the window…" Mr. Caratowsa said, filling the room with the noise of cars honking and cement trucks spinning across the street.
"If we didn't live in a country or world where being of color predisposed society to look down on a person, the published sentence [would] not raise an eyebrow," White-Stern wrote in her email to the authors.
Elle is kind and compassionate toward even those who look down on her, and in a cutthroat environment like Harvard or a law firm internship, she finds room to nurture friendships with other women rather than competing against them.
It's laughable, in a way, that these pale, subdued people are what's left of Westeros' leadership, but they're still arrogant enough to look down on their own people, and laugh at them having any say in their own rule.
"What you call 'Kentucky anger' is being fed in part by the feeling that the most powerful people in the government, economy, and society no longer care about them, or look down on them," Mr. Clinton responded via email.
Tickets can generally be bought by anyone from anywhere in the worldBig time brokers look down on so-called "beer money brokers" and "soccer moms" who casually scalp tickets to major events that are nearly certain to be profitable.
One would think that someone who rids towns of evil monsters and is relatively attractive in a supernatural way would find it easy to make friends, but that's not the case, as regular folk look down on his profession.
In "Newspaper Stand," the gnarled, haughty faces of the upper class look down on an emaciated figure in a black robe; in "Tourism on the Karntnerstrasse," a veteran on crutches begs for change, his body revealed as a skeleton.
I will always love her, and I hope to God that the day that she's inducted and I can accept for her… that she will look down on me and say, 'Mom, I'm happy for you to accept this for me.
With the box overlaid on the item, you can change to the angle to look down on the box from the top, look on the sides and the back to see if the item is fitting all the way around.
If you fuck with Green Day but not Robert Glasper, if you went from Led Zeppelin to Puce Mary, a logical journey, but look down on Dave Clark Five, skipping right to Ornette Coleman, how deep is your love of jazz?
According to a study that came out earlier this month, not only do most people choose to remain willfully ignorant of the conditions in which their clothing is made, they also look down on the type of consumers who do care.
I feel I understand a little more what astronauts mean when they talk about the nearly indescribable feeling they get when they leave the Earth and look down on it from above — a feeling of unity and potential, of a rose-tinted futurity.
Others have embraced the culture that sprang up around the movie, working the convention circuit, and the glimpses of that world are sad somehow, especially the descriptions of a hierarchy in which actors who had defined roles look down on mere extras.
"My duty is to be close to those who are afraid, to reassure them, to liberate them from fear," Mr. Minniti said, arguing that the left can no longer afford to ignore or look down on people scared by immigration or terrorism.
He grew up, as many populists do, full of resentment—in his case, that of a white Southerner who feels he is not taken seriously by the Ivy League crowd of upper-class Brahmins who look down on people like him as rednecks and hicks.
For his mother, he's an angel and a monster and her only hope in the world, the golden child who promises to take her "sky high, where they all look down on us" but fractures her shoulder when she tries to hold him to it.
The crown jewel of the system is brilliant young shortstop Gleyber Torres, acquired from the Cubs midseason in exchange for closer Aroldis Chapman (who the Yankees promptly re-signed as a free agent this winter), but there's talent everywhere you look down on the farm.
The produce also bears the responsibility of uniting, however briefly, all ex-Soviets in the metropolitan area, most of whom do not actually reside in Brighton Beach but look down on it as a backwater dump where those who failed to move forward got stuck.
"When you heard the Hillary Clinton thing about the basket of deplorables and people are irredeemable, there are a lot of Americans out there who think the people in the media and the political world that look down on them and have contempt for them," he added.
Directed by Peter Segal ("Anger Management"), the movie underdevelops its most promising theme, with Maya feeling held back by "the educated people," who look down on those who don't share the same academic pedigree regardless of how innovative and industrious they are -- qualities Maya abundantly possesses.
VCs acknowledge that diversity within a firm leads to better financial returns, and some founders have even made rumblings in recent months that they would look down on firms — and perhaps walk away from deals — that have a team that does not reflect some sort of diversity.
I know that sometimes my pride of being Chamorro can lead me to thinking that our people and our culture are better than everyone else's, using it as a tool to look down on those who are different from me, but this is not the Chamorro way.
" Rusdi Kirana, the founder of Lion Air, whose 737 Max was the first to crash, has been outspoken about his disappointment with the company, telling Reuters in April that Boeing officials "look down on me and my airline" and were using him as a "piggy bank.
"People onshore used to very much look down on the lives of the people living on boats," said Xie Diying, a retired cultural affairs official in Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong, who has spent decades recording and preserving traditional Tanka saltwater songs and promoting their revival.
Coastal liberals, meanwhile, have often seemed to look down on those who do no share their progressive inclinations -- and cling to "guns or religion" as Barack Obama once put it -- so are partly to blame for the political distemper that led to Trump's anti-establishment blitzkrieg.
Their tendency to look down on other social sciences is ripe for change, too (one study showed that articles in the American Economic Review cite the top 25 political-science journals one-fifth as often as articles in the American Political Science Review cite the top 25 economics journals).
The terrain around Laredo is a smuggler's paradise: thick groves of mesquite trees and 25-foot-high stalks of an invasive weed called carrizo cane block most of the view from government cameras, mounted on high poles that look down on 170 miles of border in the region.
The terrain around Laredo is a smuggler's paradise: thick groves of mesquite trees and 25-foot-high stalks of an invasive weed called carrizo cane block most of the view from government cameras, mounted on high poles that look down on 170 miles of border in the region.
Most undocumented immigrants are Latino, and some sanctuary supporters believe that the Asian-Americans who oppose it — and who came to this country by airplane to earn graduate degrees — look down on those who crossed the border on foot, as a matter of race, class or misplaced fear.
Absolutely—"Concrete can build, but concrete can kill" is just awful—but the most revealing exchange in a mostly excellent script takes place in Lee's study, when Andrew psychoanalyzes his host's plan to build a tower so tall that its observation deck will look down on the Sears Tower.
Most of the time, passengers on Turkish Airlines Flight 800, flying from Panama City to Istanbul, can look down on Puerto Rico just after takeoff, then the blue of the Atlantic Ocean for a few hours, then Southern France and Northern Italy before arcing south over Greece and touching down.
As I listened to the album and pondered the hate mail arriving in my inbox, I realized it was time to go outside and do something I imagine Thom Yorke would advise against or at least look down on, by virtue of it being a mass-marketed, readily available concept.
To test the waters of public alone time in a culture that often seems to look down on it, Fink challenged herself to eat out, visit a museum, and go to a movie (a scary one, too, her least favorite kind) without these distractions — and she was happy she did.
Like any first-year graduate student who is simultaneously eager to please and determined to find somebody to look down on, I proudly took on the mantle of being an "institutionalist," and even learned to showcase the requisite disdain for anyone who failed to see the wisdom of the movement.
As best as I can tell from the endless series of interviews with white guys in diners — who are, we all know, the only Americans who matter — these voters are driven more by animosity toward immigrants and the sense that snooty liberals look down on them than by trade policy.
Man, take the baby to the top of a tall hill or mountain and have it look down on the world a bit, get it some perspective, see how we're cradled in this bountiful hearth, born of it, nurtured by it, to serve and return to it, not control and destroy it.
Yet, rarely mentioned was that Sharron Angle emerged from an extremely weak field, Joe Miller defeated a Lisa Murkowski campaign that did not take his campaign seriously, while in Delaware, Republican Mike Castle acted as if he should be appointed to the seat, seeming to look down on campaigning, and it showed.
Begala's views are shared by Sosnik, who emailed me along the same lines: More than any set of issues, the first thing that we Democrats need to do is to deal with the perception that the party is controlled by elites on the coasts who look down on the rest of the country.
After Hager's death, Sandy moves in with Tempy, and with his usual levelheadedness is able to see the futility of her and her husband's way of thinking: They look down on the Baptist church for its "nigger music" but are still made to use the servant's entrance at some of the town's finer white establishments.
" — Kathryn Derringer Underwood "I vividly remember, as a teenager, being asked to pray for more men to be called to be priests because they were supposedly so desperate, and sitting there with my blood boiling, thinking, 'How much must they look down on women to beg like this when they exclude half the population?
You know what I mean: interviews with down-on-their-luck rural whites who are troubled to learn that all those liberals who warned them that they would be hurt by Trump policies were right, but still support Mr. Trump, because they believe that liberal elites look down on them and think they're stupid. Hmm.
"We have people who we elect who look down on us because we're struggling to make ends meet, and they question whether we have the ability to balance a budget — but they're millionaires and we have yet to see a budget that works for us," Harris declared at a recent town hall at the University of Delaware.
But now many people look down on it as something used only by time-rich, money-poor people—at best by students going on a Greyhound bus across America for the summer on the slimmest of budgets; at worst by homeless people who "carry all their stuff in plastic bags", as one of Gulliver's interviewees unsympathetically put it.
The only way to make sense of what happened is to see the vote as an expression of, well, identity politics — some combination of white resentment at what voters see as favoritism toward nonwhites (even though it isn't) and anger on the part of the less educated at liberal elites whom they imagine look down on them.
The right-leaning think-tank also argues that the market alone cannot solve the problem because it is dominated by vested interests, such as giant housebuilding companies (the only ones with the time and resources to negotiate the complicated planning laws) and architects (who for the most part subscribe to modernism and look down on what they regard as "twee" designs).
Riemen's book is admirable in many ways, but it is an unusually hermetic example of the thinking that led so many Europeans to believe in the first place that it was possible, necessary and desirable to produce a civilization in which citizens are expected to look down on the love that has always defined citizenship — the love of one's own.
Do all that and you'll have a wonderful experience, against a backdrop of almost inconceivable magnificence, along a stretch of border where, for now, you can climb to the top of a bluff pockmarked with perfectly round mortar holes left by ancient civilizations, look down on the gently moving river, and wave to people on the other side, a stone's throw away and a world apart.
"My office is situated in such a way that you kind of look down on the door that everyone comes in the building everyday, and I just got so accustomed to see her come in each day, and leave at the end of the day, and I don't know, there's just a part of me that can't get over it, I'm waiting for her to walk in through the door," he says.
Everyone would do exactly what he liked and nobody would gossip about anyone or look down on anyone or consider anyone slutty, and all the houses would be exactly the same size, and if someone started to build some fancy addition, bang , everyone would be right there, going, No you don ' t , we are all equal here , and if the person made a fuss about it, they'd simply—well, there'd be some sort of council.

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