Word: condescending
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When the non-Russian recruit enters the world of Conrad's professor, he is bound about with rules which at first seem incredibly naive. The details of conspiratsia involve the dimmest kind of drudgery. No thriller writer would condescend to invent a scene as clumsily conceived as the actual meeting of two spies in a Geneva street. One of them thus summarized his instructions from Moscow: "I was to be wearing a white scarf and to be holding in my right hand a leather belt. As the clock struck noon, I would be approached by a woman . . . holding...
Although Jordan doesn't want to show the Cornell scouts too much today, local fans hope that he will show them enough so that they will condescend to stay for the second half...
Even as the one new thing around, Ken Murray's vaudeville is by no means a treat. Part of its fantastic Hollywood success may stem, indeed, from its being just the kind of flesh & blood show a movie metropolis can condescend...
...agree that the Spellman-Roosevelt controversy is extremely distasteful but only because a man of his stature would attempt, or rather condescend, to enlighten such an obvious publicity seeker...
...students at registration. We admit that our relations with the student body are not so close as they might be, and we should welcome additional help in improving them. It is devoutly to be wished, therefore, that next year instead of burying his talents, the polemical Prins will condescend to help us in productive work. Richard N. Swift...