Or I talked myself out of trying, by belittling it from the start.
Instead, Smith believes, Galloway did the opposite, by "belittling rape victims".
Mr. Romney has in the past stood tall by belittling the president as a well-intentioned man with misguided policies.
But in his anxiousness to be this person he may be overplaying his hand by belittling people. . . .
Once you've made the decision to invite a tyrannical leader, you can't undo it by belittling him in public.
It was suggested that at Shiloh Sherman might have been overcompensating for the accusation of timidity by belittling the notion of a rebel attack.
Don't turn into a bully yourself, by belittling a town that Senator J. William Fulbright, the musician Lucinda Williams and the Clintons once called home.
Here is a woman who professes to love her pupils yet thinks nothing about displaying pictures of the most vulnerable, accompanied by belittling remarks, from on high.
By belittling the struggles of trade unionists in places such as Zimbabwe, Iran, Guatemala and Colombia, they offended me as a trade unionist.
In his world, he's king, an ignorant but fast-talking swashbuckler, whose speech is garnished by belittling profanities tucked into the corners of sentences — you have to listen hard to hear them.
Feeling America's fly-whisk ReprintsIn the past, Russia has allayed western fears by belittling Iran's nuclear expertise, and drawing attention to an agreement whereby Russia would take back used fuel from the reactor at Bushehr.
