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Right down to the shots of skateparks in the final montage, that condescending gaze on the "grittier" parts of British culture – unworthy of being included in the main thrust of the film, but fine for scenic padding – is probably the most offensive thing about it.
No condescending gaze: a tender, swift brushing along stones, people and horses.
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He calls it the punctum: that aspect (often a detail) of a photograph that holds our gaze without condescending to mere meaning or beauty.
They said he had not exercised the courtesy of even returning Mr. Obama's gaze, suggesting that he was being disrespectful or condescending to his rival.
By writing musical, dramatic, and theoretical works, and through acquaintances and long correspondences — many of them eventually published — with the likes of Sterne, Sancho gains real, if more than slightly condescending, renown among the English literati, eventually making him worthy of the painterly gaze of a Gainsborough.
Talk about condescending talk?
It's not condescending.
BARTLET Appear condescending.
"They were very condescending.
"It felt condescending".
She wasn't condescending.
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