Word: condescendingness
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“On television, you have to bear down and try to translate these complicated decisions without condescending or pandering,” said Wiehl, who is a legal analyst at Fox News.
When researchers followed up with the doctors in 2005, they found that the docs' scores in communication were strongly correlated to the number of patient complaints they had racked up in their first years of practice. Overall, the 3,424, physicians had 1,116 complaints among them, of which 696...
Uplift and empowerment are all well and good--girls kick ass; we get it--but showing that women can be as good as men without showing that they also can be as bad is condescending. And it's boring. As Nancy Miller, Saving Grace's creator, puts it, "Being tough...
The matter of style is obvious: he talks too much, and often imprudently. At the Durham house party, Biden wandered garrulously through a series of themeless anecdotes, which were often interrupted by other anecdotes, punctuated by gloppy attempts at folksiness ("As my mother used to say, 'No purgatory for you...
When a person goes to one of these communities, class distinctions can be apparent immediately, and people in the communities can tell whether or not we are being condescending. None of us likes to be looked down upon, and it would be foolish for us to believe that members of...