Often there is a deep-seated fear of rejection pushing condescension.
Rather than presenting predictable scenes of racial disunity, they challenged a nation to face the individuals it had reduced to collective symbols of fear, condescension and hate.
To keep silent is not a sign of respect but of sloth or fear or condescension.
There is a growing perception of condescension surrounding the selling of the White House's health care plan.
One of the authors believes this is France's way of masking its own failures, while another sees French anti-American sentiment instead as an old tradition, mixing fear and condescension, in which conflicting political and intellectual interests find a rare piece of common ground.
"Rell's attitude was one of condescension.
He also detects a whiff of condescension.
Diplomats treat their Western counterparts with a tinge of condescension.
They're aware of this kind of condescension.
"There is a lot of condescension," Mrs. Cowley said.
