He doesn't condescend to them.
He doesn't condescend or pander.
Mr. Levy gives Howie a wolfish smoothness, and he doesn't condescend when he gives her project pearls like "You got me straight trippin', Boo".
He doesn't condescend or oversimplify nearly as much as politicians often do, and he speaks in paragraphs rather than sound bites.
Yet Ishiguro stops just short of parody, and though he won't let his readers surrender to the genre, he doesn't condescend to it either.
Mr. Bush isn't going to challenge these corporations any more than Mr. Gore or Mr. Lieberman are, but at least he doesn't condescend to us by pretending he will.
He doesn't condescend to any of the people for an instant, and his affection for the characters -- the kind of people he might have made fun of as a younger man -- is contagious.
He doesn't condescend to the facile cheapness that Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel lavish on the script -- based on a novel by Billie Letts -- though they don't stray too far spiritually from the book, which turned Novalee into a magnet for misery.
One of the great singers and lyricists in popular music, Mr. Blades since the early 70's has combined political acuity with a strong, communicative musical enthusiasm; he doesn't condescend to his audiences by overmoralizing when he sings about political issues.
The nice part about Walsh was that he did not condescend.
