Sentence examples for A condescension from inspiring English sources

Upper-class Brits have a condescension chromosome when it comes to antipodeans.

There's a condescension for popcorn entertainment in that omission which I think fails to value the worth of that film.

"Unlike so many in Whitehall, she does not suffer from a condescension chromosome".

There is a condescension in the general, black-and-white view of Appalachia — the kind that bothers Catte so much.

After the second movie, I compared his epic military setpieces to Kurosawa, but it's a condescension he no longer deserves.

"Yea for Lori," his sons say, with a condescension that seems to be a Walton family trait.

But her opening words would usually be in Tamil, a tortured, practiced Tamil, as a grand condescension of a national figure from Delhi to the peripheral people of Tamil Nadu.

But, mention the Magnolia plantation just a mile down the Ashley River Road, and a decided condescension seems to enter the conversation.

Implicit in her assessment, however, was a bourgeois condescension; she viewed the lower classes as a group separate from herself, at one point describing their behavior as "picturesque".

Documentaries about eccentrics (like "Grey Gardens" or "Grizzly Man") can engender a kind of ironic appreciation — or its equally queasy flip side, a romantic condescension.

There's also a cool condescension about Mr. Jagger's contributions to the duo's songwriting.