Word: condescendingness
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This attitude is highly unfortunate, not only because it is unfounded in fact, but also because it too easily rationalizes snobbishness on the part of many students. It is this condescending attitude, as much as any supposed economic or social differences, which gives rise to anti-Harvard feeling in the...
If you can't write a clever review without taking a negative approach, couldn't you just for once be a little less condescending in your evaluation and exhibit a little more forthright enthusiasm?
Toward the rebels, De Gaulle took a kindly if condescending tone. While "one can be astonished" that the F.L.N. leaders have not accepted the proffered hand of peace, "I admit that it is difficult for an essentially insurrectional organism to tackle questions such as those of peace, of the organization...
Mirsky's inordinate use of Yiddish words; his extraordinary stress on Jewish self-abasement, passivity, and lamentation in Twirckoff's response to crisis; his condescending attitude toward his protagonist; and the intrusion of a phony mystical hallucination at the end to get Twirckoff off the spiritual hook--all of these...
According to Prior, the Church of England "hardly touches what we know as the working class," and this social gap has strong political overtones; he says that the gape came about largely because the Church in the beginning of this century refused to work for the social justice of the...