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Example sentences for: condescension
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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.
These antipathies mellowed into condescension in W.E.B.
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.
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.
Happiness is an aching roundelay, a triumphantly benumbed ensemble farce that mingles condescension and compassion in a manner that's disarmingly--and often upsettingly--original.