Word: condescendingness
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It is very easy to write off the people who hold these positions as unchangeably ignorant bigots, and same-sex advocacy organizations often unwittingly do just that. For instance, the Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s Nov. 3 press release emphasized that marriage amendments failed in urban areas...
The Herald’s written editorial commentary deals largely in vitriol, name-calling, sarcastic quotation marks and condescending rhetorical questions. One of last Thursday’s editorials was entitled: “Safety vs. Union ‘Rights’” (note the quotes around...
Maya’s incomprehensible interest in Miles is troubling in that Payne simultaneously seems to celebrate ordinary people like Miles and Maya while being condescending towards them—why on earth would the gorgeous and intelligent Maya want to go out with a bum like Miles? Is it...
One condescending smile is enough to dash my hopes of visiting one of the most celebrated opera houses in the world, host to an exclusive festival each summer. It’s the middle of June, rehearsals are well under way. My presumption that a day in Bayreuth (I am...
These were not the kind of smiles I am used to receiving upon telling someone where I’m working this summer. Usually I mumble, or lower my voice, or try hard to make my voice sound somehow ironic—anything to escape the inevitable bemused and condescending...