Word: condescending
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...parent, I am happy to take him to see this film--not just for the dazzling special effects or the exciting story but because the Star Wars saga celebrates free will and contains lessons about persistence, faith and the necessity of hope. These stories appeal to children; they never condescend but include their young audience in the fantasy and fun. My son proclaimed, as he finished your magazine and headed to school, "May the Force be with you!" BARBARA LEE WILLIAMS Oakland, Calif...
...have to... for something that is purely for them, I haven’t had anything other than headache because of it.”The Khoshbins were also emphatic that the time was right for increased security, that they were not trying to patronize or condescend to their residents, and that the bell’s desk would remain a center of social life in the House.“Things nationwide seem to be intensifying. Fitting that together with what we know about the neighborhood...it seemed like the right time,” Laura Khoshbin said.Not...
...York City kids don’t share the common memories of driver’s ed. Among 20-somethings from New York, having a driver’s license is not common. And honestly, it’s easy to condescend them for it. In Illinois, not having a driver’s license before turning 17 is embarrassing. In New York, however, it’s completely acceptable...
...please—for the love of God—don’t pat me. Don’t condescend to me so blatantly, and then turn around and say that sexism is a thing of the past. Not doing that is one way—and the only way—to kill this elephant on the ballot…and in the room...
...assume you know more than your characters do, or condescend, even to children. A young girl, Munro's alter ego, tells an affluent employer how, where she comes from, "children walked barefoot until the frost came in order to save on shoe leather" and people ate "dandelion leaves, nothing else, for supper." Just as we're shaking, she admits (to us only) that not all of this is strictly true--and so tells us as much about the sly, storytelling imagination of the girl as about rural circumstances that really were desperate...