There is certainly a kind of everyday snobbery toward what Isenberg calls "white trash" which has become routine and reflexive, a condescension that, for example, makes poor-white subcultures on reality television seem so exotic and fascinating.
Women writers have their bugaboos, foremost among them wrinkles and sags, causing young women reporters to impose upon us phrases like, "She's 45 but she still looks fabulous," a condescension unmatched for its deflating power over middle-aged woman readers, not to mention the celebrities who are objects of brutal day-to-day assessments of their faces and figures.
Albert Goldman's "Elvis," published in 1981, exhibited a striking authorial condescension for its subject.
"One person asked me, 'Wouldn't you have rather won the National Book Award for an adult, serious work?' I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian — that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A".
For Mr. Murphy, Buddy Love is a sketch character, with condescension for this loud-mouthed player manque built-in.
There is still a role for the learned and independent public critic, who writes well and seriously, and without condescension, for a large, non-specialist readership.
Any mention of a larger Southern city (even from the former Atlantan Amantha, who has a liberal hipster's condescension for her home town) makes it sound as distant as Mars.
We all knew that," but it didn't hit me until just now when I starting writing this, so hold back on the condescension for a quick second.
"Yea for Lori," his sons say, with a condescension that seems to be a Walton family trait.
Although Brock's correspondence indicates a certain amount of paternal condescension for the First Nations, he seems to have regarded Tecumseh himself very highly, calling him "the Wellington of the Indians", and saying "a more sagacious or a more gallant warrior does not I believe exist".
