Sentence examples similar to condescendingly allow from inspiring English sources

She got into Oxford, where a few women were condescendingly allowed by the male authorities to study but not to take degrees, and spent a year reading English at Somerville.

In "Clouds of Sils Maria," Assayas kids himself, or, rather, gulls the viewer into the feeling that he himself feels a little cloistered in the rarefied realm of the art film and magnanimously opens himself up to the invigorations of pop movie-making and the people (substantial ones, he condescendingly allows) who are engaged in it.

There are definitely one or two situations where I was treated condescendingly and I allowed it to happen, and I definitely wouldn't let that happen today.

In his blog, Lindsay wrote that "it's nice that some politicians are finally willing to acknowledge our existence, but are we so desperate for acceptance that we'll allow others to condescendingly misdescribe us as adherents of a faith?

When a Colombian performer can accept an award without the Hollywood powers-that-be feeling the need to condescendingly draw attention to how MARVELLOUS it is that our society now graciously allows 'those people' onto stages and screens, that will represent real progress in ethnic diversity.

MALLOY (clearing his throat — condescendingly): We'll let bygones be bygones, my boy.

"I'll let you have that one," I thought, condescendingly.

"It could be taken condescendingly.

"And I don't mean that condescendingly.

The assessor spoke condescendingly to her, she said.

He laughed when I called, but not condescendingly.