Word: condescendingness
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A rematch is now at hand. The candidates talk a lot about down-to-earth issues: jobs, crime and education. In fact, the central questions are personal: Is the once condescending Bill Clinton now sorry that he put on airs? And will voters give him a second term in Little...
Women's lib it was called then, short for liberation, of course, but unconsciously, closer to women's lip, with all attendant condescending connotations ("Ah shut up, I've had enough of your ..."). It was tough to be called a libber, even if you took pride in the politics, and...
MORE DISTURBING than the reckless pursuit of "success" recommended is the book's paranoia and condescending tones. Consistently exploiting guts puts you a on a rather common level of academic non-achievement. Authors Crafts and Hauther ("one a lawyer one an M.B.A.") would lower the lowest common denominator: The easy...
There is not a false note in Short Shorts. The contents-38 fictions-range back to Leo Tolstoy's The Three Hermits, whose pious innocents forget a prayer and run on top of the ocean to find their condescending teacher. The most recent are powerful condensations of modern life...
For Butterfield is the first to agree that the Communist rule is a marked improvement over that of the decrepit Nationalist regime it replaced. But this apology for China's present problems, he notes quite correctly, ignores the "reality that 65 percent of China's one billion people...have been...