He had more business knowledge and commercial acumen in his little finger then I had in my whole body and yet he was able to deploy it and help me learn without condescension or undermining me in my first CEO role.
Witness Cameron's cruel jibes – a brand of sarcasm and condescension learned at Oxford, giving the lie to his early promise to "end Punchy and Judy politics".
She had learned quickly to fight back against condescension and prejudice.
But to suggest that this will have any impact on the rates of eating disorders is tantamount to saying that eating disorders are essentially about silly women wanting to look like models, which is precisely the kind of condescension I long ago learned to expect from people when they talk about a mental illness that largely affects women and girls.
But she has learned from the mistakes of others and avoids Johnson's condescension or Louis MacNeice's misplaced desire to find home or belonging.
But, the argument continues, candidates must express concern for the welfare of their audiences, have a vision of an equitable society, and, perhaps above all, learn to speak without condescension.
One would think, of course, that we learned a few things from the Holocaust, among them that there is no vanity as insidious as the condescension directed toward those who express outrage when the weak are hurt, and no gesture as violent as a shrug can be.
"My response to his condescension was to discuss advanced learning theory and the use of metaphor and semiotics along with the theoretical foundations of design patterns".
As he wrote in a 1947 entry in his candid memoir Japan Journals (2004): "Little America, try though it does to impart democracy and individualism, is always a territory where the Japanese are worried over, and are made objects of condescension … I soon see I will experience nothing, learn nothing if I stay within these commodious and American folds".
In 525, when Confucius was twenty-seven or twenty-eight, he is supposed by the authors of the Zuozhuan to have visited the ruler of the small state of Tan in order to learn bureaucratic history from him and then to marvel, with reflexive condescension, at how such knowledge was lost to the Son of Heaven but "may still be studied among the distant border peoples of the four quarters".
During a financing intensive, where indie filmmakers are invited to pitch their films to investors and producers and learn more about film financing, we were met with disinterest and condescension when talking about the film's subject matter.
