Highlight Package for the Divas I...I don't know what this is but it highlights all the patronizing things that the Divas do -- from fashion-shoots to serving as game show models to walking red carpet premieres -- none of these things actually involve competing like athletes.
As a Sunday Yahoo News story noted, it has been called such things as "patronizing" and the "kumbaya caucus" -- possibly because its centrist branding seemed out of step with a political era in which parties are dominated by their margins.
Lyrically he favors boilerplate jet-set luxury, occasionally spicing things up with some patronizing pillow talk ("Dress You to Undress You") or a halfhearted glimpse of past struggle ("The Black Flag").
I was patronizing about the first few rejections, thinking things like, "Who do they think they are rejecting me?".
Karen Allen is charming as the girl Frank leaves behind in his ruthless climb to the top, and John Glover is the ever-smiling, patronizing new boy at the network who, if things go wrong, will be Frank's successor.
Blythe Danner, Martin Starr, Sam Elliott and appealing cast get to the heart of things like loss and love without patronizing or parody.
Director Brett Haley, who co-wrote the film with Marc Basch, has managed to create a film about those final years that gets to the heart of things like loss and love without patronizing or parody.
He recounts, practically snorting with disdain, that he once watched a children's author who concluded her reading with the patronizing clich 1/8: "Remember, reading is the most magical thing in the world".
His Continental Resources (NYSE CLR) has been avidly exporting its shale oil abroad, "allowing oil buyers to avoid patronizing hostile regimes". And despite this bonanza, a funny thing happened with America's carbon emissions.
Wood sees herself as a kind of children's public defender, protecting their imaginations from all things threatening, confusing or, worst of all, patronizing.
