Sentence examples for colonial attitudes from inspiring English sources

Its massive stone structure reflects colonial attitudes about the civilized world as a barrier against barbarism.

Even so, few among the arbitrary constructs adopted by the West as a result of 19th-century colonial attitudes can beat the meaningless concept of "Islamic art".

At the beginning of the movie, Rabe is a forbidding paternalist with colonial attitudes; he is outraged that his poor, dim Chinese workers are being menaced.

It associates you in shorthand with having Anglo-Saxon colonial attitudes, which is pretty ironic because we spent a lot of our working lives fighting those attitudes".

That the idea was ever floated offers us another reminder of the colonial attitudes so catastrophically embedded in nuclear policy; a fundamental, fatal dismissal of "ordinary" people.

Dench, as expected, commands the scene with monarchical ease, but, despite the barbs in Lee Hall's screenplay, the fusty colonial attitudes of the period emerge unscathed.

Kadaga accused Baird of having a colonial attitude.

Paul Sandby found himself enrolled in a military occupation army with a colonial attitude.

Thailand's centralized political system has engendered a "colonial attitude of governors" posted here, he said.

"It's the most absurd, simplistic and colonial attitude," he said.

"Frankly there is still a bit of a colonial attitude in the west.