All these romantics aren't good for you, you know," he says, rather patronisingly, as he helps her collect the books she has hurled out of a window in a fit of teenage angst.
It opens with a sentence that could pass as a summary of the whole Blackwood project: "Hibbert, always conscious of two worlds, was in this mountain village, conscious of three... ...... There's the world of the wealthy English tourist, the patronisingly observed "peasant world" and "this other – which he could only call the world of Nature".
For her part, Ms Mogherini is patronisingly cast as inexperienced and soft on Russia.
Mr Scott, he suggests patronisingly, is just a pawn for the extreme right.South Carolina's other senator, Lindsey Graham, hopes to be re-elected to his third term in November.
In a joust with the NDP's leader, Rachel Notley, during a television debate he patronisingly observed that "math is difficult".
And people who develop type-2 diabetes can improve their health by doing the same.Because of the linkage between obesity and type-2 diabetes, the disease is sometimes patronisingly treated as a fringe issue another problem for those poor, backwards Southerners.
Then he deployed the array of one-upmanship tricks he has honed in office: his stiff-looking guest, Mr Bush said patronisingly, had "proved [his] worthiness as a leader"; in June's botched terrorist attacks he had "got a taste" of the struggle for civilisation that Mr Bush, by implication, was leading.
Or was he as much lucky as brave (he was known a little patronisingly in the region as the "PLK"—"plucky little king")?
You also criticise what you patronisingly call Mr Klaus's "passion for laisser-faire".
Everyone knows the host makes these decisions, Mr Li said patronisingly, "particularly if the host is a lady.
Here's the summary of the events for the Patron's Lunch, otherwise known (slightly patronisingly) as Britain's Biggest Street Party, on the street otherwise known as the Mall.
