Word: condescendingness
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"It's one big party," one punchee said. "They take you out to the North Shore and play touch football and drink, and I've never found them condescending or stuck-up."
Through an interesting process of historical change, Eubie! probably owes its existence to the current vogue for all-black musicals. Ironically, where a Shuffle Along, a Blackbirds of 1930 or a Chocolate Dandies (two other shows for which Eubie wrote the music) were intended for all-white audiences, the current...
We have to finish once and for all with the current of French tradition, which almost totally dominates German painting," Grosz wrote to a friend as the first World War was ending. "We have to finish with these weary painters of sentiment and vagueness, Cezanne, Picasso and the rest." Certainly...
Grandier (Nicholas Pennell) is the sexiest of priests and the soul of romantic ardor, whether consoling widows or initiating virgins. He is also witty, proud and urbanely condescending, almost courting enemies low and high. The highest, Cardinal Richelieu, has him brought to trial, at which he is condemned and burned...
But if the keynote of the building is a kind of nobility and finesse that, one might have thought, were all but lost to architecture, there is nothing intimidating about the East wing. It is hospitable, welcoming both to art and to its audience, and condescending to no one. Neither...