Word: condescendingness
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Muffled lives explode in such understatements. Jhabvala adopts the identities of characters from an alien culture without romanticizing or condescending. Her spare prose leaves little room for metaphor; her India emerges out of small specifics, accretions that summon up heat, hope, squalor and a vast expanse of sky. These stories...
Such sentiments were noble in intention, if condescending in conception. But Wilson's gravest mistake was in his determination of how to "properly direct" the Mexicans. His policy of supporting an armed resistance to a nearby regime he disliked was not only politically illegitimate and morally questionable, it was also...
But the putative heroes of these two bloodbaths--the kid who cried vampire too much and the I-eat-steal-wontons tough cop in Dragon look and feel so ... phony. More to amateurish acting in Fright Night and more to Mickey Rouke's pretentious acting in Dragon, both movies convey...
Older audience members seemed content with the purely sensual poetry, but students in the audience had various criticisms to offer on the format. While Vivian Wong of the Harvard Advocate thought its was a generally good idea to get poetry out into the public spaces, she felt" the program could...
For many in the audience, the big draw of the event was the appearance of Garrison Keillor. And his performance did not fall short. Keillor read naturally, repeated sections as he saw fit, and, without being condescending, made sure the audience followed along. Ironically enough, however, it was a "product...