A half-hearted holiday celebrated with a certain self-serious condescension.
After three months of this, for a reason I now forget, I ventured solo into Simpson's in the Strand, a clubby British beef parlor with paneled walls, waiters in tails and a serious air of condescension.
Reporters may have viewed the social secretary's job with a certain condescension, but it required serious organizational skills, since Mrs. Kennedy was proving to be a popular first lady and the focus of countless requests.
First, there's a lesson for would-be experts everywhere: Gruber's sin — a serious one — was the expression of condescension toward his fellow citizens, voters and the hundreds of elected officials who actually shaped and shepherded landmark health reform legislation.
Serious but not solemn, vibrantly informative without condescension, and above all illuminating reading, Minding Movies offers ideas sure to set film lovers thinking and keep them returning to the silver screen.
To her surprise, she realizes that he is a serious though austere figure who speaks to her without condescension, as if she were a responsible adult.
Who knew condescension could taste so good?
These subjects may parade in peculiar attire, but they are serious about their mission, and Mr. Barnett appropriately renders them without condescension.
"One person asked me, 'Wouldn't you have rather won the National Book Award for an adult, serious work?' I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian — that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A".
The Asian ghost story has a distinguished lineage: serious filmmakers like Kenji Mizoguchi, Masaki Kobayashi and Stanley Kwan have worked in the genre without shame and without a hint of condescension to the shades and specters and odd bits of ectoplasm that populate it.
And Shoshanna and Jessa are cousins, the first is ditzy, hare-brained and American, the latter British and self-regardingly hip (when Jessa confesses she's never seen Sex and the City, Shoshanna is appalled, saying: "Are you serious? That's like not being on Facebook". "I'm not on Facebook," Jessa replies, with languid condescension).
