Word: condescendingness
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Blithe Humor. Hearts of the West, Director Howard Zieff's second movie, abounds in happy eccentricity and cleverness, blithe good humor about fate and a buoyant faith in the happy ending. Lewis, the dumb but ingratiating innocent, is treated with the sort of subdued affection that never becomes condescending...
Theresa leaves her Bronx home to attend City College, where she becomes entangled with a sadistic, egotistical, boorish college professor and willingly loses her virginity. The professor is the only man in Looking for Mr. Goodbar that Rossner is able to portray convincingly. No longer young, he is interested in...
Chen is not shy in his bearing or self-conscious in his responses to questions. Nor is he at all condescending, yet he leaves the impression of a man aloof from others, immersed in his art, pursuing a solitary vision.
Critics of the mission who have complained that the Soyuz spacecraft is too "primitive" to bother docking with should realize that if it weren't for the launching of that spacecraft, we would not be launching an Apollo for any reason. The Soyuz program, however primitive it may be...
BUT THERE are pitfalls to the personal involvement method, pitfalls of which Ephron is often aware. she is careful not to make the mistake of generalizing from her own experience when it comes to consciousness-raising; she knows that her conclusions are limited to a certain group of women conclusions...