Sentence examples for patronizing way from inspiring English sources

What Wong hopes to illuminate in Wong Street, is the patronizing way that Americans view Africans.

"He covered the whole plight of the working class and he didn't do it in a patronizing way".

In a somewhat patronizing way, Whitman said, "You know, there's a lot I like about Governor Schwarzenegger".

He could not have asked it in a more patronizing way if he had illustrated his remarks with pictures of large, brightly colored stick figures.

Your Aug. 15 article about "patient power" prompted a reader (Letters, Aug. 22) to observe the patronizing way a doctor will introduce himself by using his (or her) last name and the patient's first name.

If, for example, your boss speaks to you in a patronizing way that upsets you, "it could be that you're not thinking like a 40-year-old man but catapulted back to being a 4-year-old boy whose father is arrogant and condescending," she says.

However, don't let real dependence attract codependence; sometimes the risk of getting help from family is being trapped in unhealthy family relationships, especially where they behave in abusive or patronizing ways.

Go see one right now!" She shakes her head and snorts in a semi-patronizing way.

She shakes her head and snorts in a semi-patronizing way.

In its hip, condescending way, the new movie is every bit as funny as the earlier film, which painted an amusing but patronizing portrait of a Missouri town staging a tacky historical pageant with Broadway pretensions.

"To add insult to injury, he suggested the reason none of us could grasp this is because we are Somali, and could benefit from looking 'beyond your Somali navel.' So not only was he wrong, he was wrong in the most patronizing and insulting way possible," said Aidid.