Sentence examples for Patronizing attitude from inspiring English sources

By E. B. White The New Yorker, May 5, 1951 P. 23 Comment on the movie "Beaver Valley" & on Hollywood's patronizing attitude toward nature.

Fleming, the creator of 007, was an elitist's elitist -- the books are filled with the brittle, patronizing attitude of a man still under the illusion that the sun never set on the British empire.

Writer deplores her patronizing attitude.

They bristle at what they see as a patronizing attitude.

"What upsets people more than anything is this patronizing attitude," Archbishop Venables said.

"We are dealing with a combination of arrogance, elitism and a patronizing attitude," Mr. Stern said.

Carolyn's romance with Pumpkin certainly challenges some well-intentioned, patronizing attitudes about disability.

Divorced, with two children who evinced no interest in seeing him, Partridge inhabited a sensational isolation of his own making, which was reinforced by his room-emptying prejudices, his patronizing attitudes toward women, and his appalling taste.

Patronizing attitudes die hard, and yet considering the extremes to which many elite men's ski jumpers have gone in their quest to lose weight and travel farther after takeoff, ski jumping might actually be a less salubrious sport for men than women.

Russ is the Ultra Extreme Evil Douchebro: He combines all the terrible parts of Erlich -- the status-seeking, the unthinking materialism, the loud arrogance, the patronizing attitudes -- without displaying any of the good ones.

In some schools patronizing attitudes were displayed, while in others, individual teachers dared to challenge the existing gender regimes.