Sentence examples for patronising in from inspiring English sources

To brush off that demand as Greek cultural nationalism is patronising in the extreme.

Did Leigh interpret anything patronising in his interest in her? "No!

There is a cadre of people in Whitehall who were frankly patronising in their attitude to local government Then what?

There's something patronising in the assumption that we can easily rival the wonders of a lost cultural world.

This new list of stars is tedious and patronising in equal measure, a dull squeak of irrelevance.

There is a cadre of people in Whitehall who were frankly patronising in their attitude to local government, and treated it almost as a parent-child relationship.

The embarrassment comes soon after the company was forced to withdraw the Swedish meatballs popular with its customers patronising its in-store restaurants, after tests on the product in the Czech Republic found traces of horse meat.

Jack fails as a rodeo performer, marries the daughter of a rich, farm- equipment dealer, has a son and becomes a moderately successful salesman for his patronising father-in-law's firm.

I don't believe a Broadway audience needs to be patronised in this way.

He was to be persecuted and patronised in almost equal measure".

The Tall Guy, which had the misfortune to be patronised in one sense by critics while not patronised in the other by audiences, wasn't one of them.