Word: condescendingness
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Not more than two blocks away from the 1980 Republican Love-In, another political party watched the week's festivities with a condescending smirk as it readied itself for the November showdown. The leaders of the National Unity Campaign--Michigan division for Rep. John B. Anderson (R-III.)--insist that...
The condescending tone of your article "Dial Dr. Toni for Therapy" [May 26] did your readers a disservice. They may have been entertained, but you failed to inform them that Dr. Grant's program is one of the most significant in the history of broadcasting.
Despite workers' approval of the settlements, many employees still resent what they perceive as Harvard's condescending mindset toward its support services "They say workers are dispensable. They say they could do outside contracting at a cheaper rate. They say they could bust the union by bringing in part-timers...
Many of those books are written by doctors and, while soberly reassuring and biologically informative, tend to address private qualms in a condescending manner. Cole's book is breezy, full of quotes from mothers, and reassuring. She points out, for example, the almost always overlooked distinction between being pregnant...
Finally, like many others before him, King declines to deal with Black and women Renaissance writers (excepting Lillian Smith) because "they were not concerned primarily with the larger, cultural, racial and political themes that I take as my focus." His attitude is chillingly condescending. By choosing to contemplate solely the...