Word: condescendingness
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The chief characteristic of this artificially theatrical approach to the work yesterday was Mr. Goldovsky's evident insistence that everyone do something while singing. All the staging seemed forced. People would pace about the stage, look at the audience and toward the rear of the stage, and whisper in other...
Lamont workmen used blowtorches. Mayor Curley used MIT's flame, throwers, Boston used every available street cleaner and a condescending reporter from the Globe. The railroads used well-paid volunteers from Harvard.
Shaw, never a systematic nor an original thinker, preached socialism-but a brand so condescending and aristocratic that both Hyde Park revolutionists and solid trade unionists regarded him as an interloper. His bureaucratic socialism was a mixture of the Enlightened Gentleman and the Robot Superman. His heated exposes of the...
TIME'S London bureau cabled last week: "The secret of Douglas' success in dealing with Britons is that he remains thoroughly American, yet manages to be the complete antithesis of the grotesque caricature so many Britons have built up of the typical American: loudmouthed, loud-suited and inclined...
"Its aristocracy were, though not particularly powerful, numerous and, though stupid, generally condescending; they often had beautiful American daughters. They lived in castles of the very largest size and were much addicted to . . . foxhunting. This was normally carried on in the height of summer (fog being perhaps less prevalent at...