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Example sentences for: condescension

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By contrast to the condescension of Pleasantville , genuine tenderness for the time could be seen in The Last Picture Show , a 1971 film about real life in 1951.
A review of Boutros Boutros-Ghali's new memoir berates the former U.N. secretary-general for his arrogance and condescension.
With its belligerent grossness and misogyny, Hustler rebelled against the establishment men's mags' class condescension, the earnest philosophizing about the sexual revolution, the "thinking men's sex bomb" syndrome, at the same time that it was deliberately goading feminists.
It astonishes me that Ann Douglas, in "Psycho Dramas," her review of the Sam Tanenhaus biography of Whittaker Chambers, acknowledges that Chambers was right about everything, but still maintains the old liberal condescension for this perennially maligned figure.
But when her web of lies begins to unravel and he calls her "pretty bird," she rolls her eyes in a gesture at once accepting of his flattery, aware of her deceit, and resentful of his condescension.