Sentence examples for speaking down from inspiring English sources
I thought both candidates did a great job in not speaking down to the American people.
Will they ever consider the cultural constraint they impose on American readers by speaking down to translation?
One of her great gifts is much in abundance, however: her ability to ask, and answer, the plainest questions about her material without speaking down to her audience.
At the end of the day, it's a parade of vague platitudes about honor and love and duty and sacrifice – all that stuff that's good but insufferable to hear about when someone is speaking down to you.
"When I hear her speak, it's almost as if I hear her speaking down to me -- as if she clearly has in her own mind the answers to everything".
"The novel itself is, if not 'mansplaining,' at least always insisting on its own mystique," wrote Kirsch, referring to the term for a man speaking down to a woman.
At this, relatively speaking, down-to-earth level, ordinary consumers can begin to conceive of getting in on the action.
I don't like being spoken down to".
He didn't speak down to his children.
BANKERS, erstwhile masters of the financial universe, are not used to being spoken down to.
