He had kind, if slightly patronizing, words of praise for the Arab Spring.
But its patronizing view of its heroine doesn't keep Ms. McDonald from building a fully authentic character.
But if Skvorecky's hackneyed and patronizing view of Canadian life rings false, what it reveals about this émigré's psyche is deeply resonant.
If you were hoping for the right-of-center moderate Mr. Bush campaigned as, or if you shared the patronizing view of the president as a good-natured boob tugged along by avuncular ideologues, this may strike you as chilling.
And then the south, and Miami in particular, is referred to, with a slightly patronizing nod by its northerly brethren, as the Sixth Borough -- as in the sixth borough of New York City -- a Democratic bastion, if one subtracts the roughly 700,000 Cubans who live in Dade County.
The sense of wonderment, then, that greeted Miss Lilly's bequest betrays what you might call a patronizing view of poetry, best reflected in a comment made around here last week by a writer who happens to be no enemy of verse.
There's a real patronizing view toward people who don't make $100,000 starting".
In it's own twisted, psychedelic, confounding way, it happily plays with the slightly patronizing conventions of rural-ambience.
Clearly not everyone agrees with Dines' standpoint: some would argue her assessment of female sexuality is slightly patronizing, and when it comes to 50 Shades, at the height of its popularity two copies of the book were being sold every second.
Clearly not everyone agrees with Dines's standpoint: Some would argue her assessment of female sexuality is slightly patronizing, and when it comes to 50 Shades, at the height of its popularity two copies of the book were being sold every second.
