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condescending

«Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.»
«For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.»
«Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.»
«Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.»
Author: John Updike | About: Grace | Keywords: condescend, condescended, condescending
«Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.»
«If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.»
«Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.»
«'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit, Will condescend to take a bit»