Word: condescendingness
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The claim is eloquent and sincere. But next to Graham Greene's The Power and The Glory, Under the Volcano is far too hermetic and selfabsorbed. To be sure, its theme is the pathetic death of a talented alcoholic who discovers that his tragedy lay in failing to realize...
DIANA. NBC. Monday, 8:30-9 p.m. E.D.T. The big city is New York, not Minneapolis; the job is fashion designing, not TV newsroom assisting; and the young career woman is Diana (Diana Rigg), a divorced English émigré. Otherwise, the show is an obvious imitation of The Mary...
Academic situations also provide victimization. My first year here, professors often singled me out for especially delicate, polite treatment. Intrinsic to this gentle handling was a condescending attitude. I appreciated the individual concern but abhorred what it represented: I was inferior because I talked differently. As a Southern woman I...
One would be wrong to suppose that Disney-or the "imagineers" who carried this project forward after he died in 1966-planned his World from the outside in, starting with an audience and then successfully condescending to it. "I don't make films exclusively for children," Walter Elias Disney...
It's now 8:25 and we go back to the employment office. As she goes up to the counter. I say "good luck." She smiles back at me with a smile that can only be described as condescending. After signing in, she rejoins me to wait for her turn...