Sentence examples for at condescension from inspiring English sources

WE TV has been faring ably at condescension since 1997, when it began as a channel called Romance Classics.

What about Barbie Silently Furious at the Condescension of an Apparently Ageing Media?

Look at the condescension and snobbery oozing from elite quarters, her backers say.

The disciples are furious at Jesus' condescension, except for Judas, who thinks he knows what the laughter signifies.

Mishra's Rousseau, infatuated with a dream of ancient Spartan order and inflamed with resentment at the condescension of the Enlightenment élite, is more recognizable.

The conventional wisdom is that the party should redouble its efforts to appeal to "Bubba", the white working-class southerner who loves God and guns and bristles at the condescension of effete north-eastern liberals.

Krapp's ritual of recording a birthday retrospect (a case of many diminishing returns) creates a bleak vista of bitter schadenfreude and Gambon conveys all the grim comedy of this as he chuckles sometimes with, sometimes at the condescension of the mid-lifer towards the taped resolves of a still younger self.

The reader squirms a little at the condescension shown to the likes of the "she-Cockney" Patty Ringrose in Eve's Ransom; or the "shrill" Polly Sparkes in The Town Traveller, who threatens the servant: "If it wasn't too much trouble, I'd come out and smack your face".

Ashraf Ghani, the worldly and exhausted former World Bank official who is now the government's minister of finance, sits in a wood-paneled office in the prime minister's compound and directs his ire at the condescension of the U.N. bureaucracy and Western governments.

Humans are very good at detecting condescension and insincerity, and it often makes us angrier.

I was awaiting his judgment, expecting condescension at best, contempt at worst.