Sentence examples for subtle condescension from inspiring English sources

The Burnham is exactly the kind of high-fashion boutique hotel in which you'd expect a staff of hyperhip personnel, trained in the art of subtle condescension.

It is passive, like not answering pages or phone calls, and tends toward the subtle: condescension rather than outright abuse, and aggressive or sarcastic remarks rather than straightforward insults.

I've witnessed the eye-rolling, the palpable condescension, and the subtle avoidance techniques he deploys when I enter a room he happens to be in (leaping over couches, darting around corners, cowering behind kitchen counters).

Mr. Bolcom's stylistic evocations are subtle and knowing, without a trace of condescension.

In his hugely popular "Downton Abbey," and in the script for "Gosford Park," Fellowes showed a subtle feel for the ironies of class, but his Titanic sinks under the weight of its ideological baggage: the sneering condescension of the first-class passengers is so caricatured that it ends up having no traction.

Condescension can creep in.

Definitely not minimizing condescension.

So condescension passes as realism.

Pratchett hates condescension.

This is not condescension; it is expansion.

"Rell's attitude was one of condescension.