Sentence examples for patronising that from inspiring English sources

"Can you see how patronising that is?" he replied.

"I don't regret that we did it, but would I ever - in any situation - ever consider possibly patronising that event in any form?

Farmers we've spoken to find it patronising that huge corporations give money to charitable projects while they pay farmers an extremely low price.

He talks about his glory days at Edinburgh, when he won the Festival Critics' Award in 1997 and would stay up drinking until 10 in the morning; and how he went to meet producers in America about a reality show documenting his attempts to break the US, but they were so patronising that he told them where to go.

It is a view, dreamy and at the same time infinitely patronising that has, like it or not, created an emotional excess and pressure on individual success that have inevitably obscured what we might have imagined was the most compelling appeal of this huge festival of frequently brilliant endeavour.

If this feels patronising, that's because it is: "Yes, this completely romanticises what was an incredibly dangerous, back-breaking and even life-threatening job".

The news that Madame Jojo's has had its licence revoked and the doors locked will have stirred a familiar sense of doom – not only in those who patronised that quirky club, but also in the wider fraternity of Soho lovers who feel that the place is rapidly losing its salty charm and succumbing to a wave of upward mobility.

"Well," their rep patronised, "that's not the worst score I've seen…".

On the other, she worries about a patronising "cliche that trans people are brave".

DIANAFICATION, a treacly, patronising populism that has little to do with the good works the late princess championed, does not mix well with science.

Notably, the term "hardworking", and the status and patronising genuflection that goes with it, is something that is handed down from above in most of these senses.