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Example sentences for: patronizing
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Of course, we don't want to get caught up in the intentional fallacy, and a work of art of strength should be open to a variety of interpretations, but I think there's a danger of missing the plot (and incidentally patronizing African culture) if we deny Ofili's Madonna its subversiveness, iconoclasm, and sheer naughtiness.
) Even nonconservatives praise Watts in somewhat patronizing tones.
He appears to anticipate, and resent, our patronizing spying.
I'm not sure whether the latter has any currency in America, but here in Australia it is often uttered in a pleasant--and perhaps patronizing tone of voice in instances such as, say, insisting to a reluctant teen-ager that he march off and do his homework.
"Of all the patronizing white-witness movies made in Hollywood about the civil rights movement, this has to be the loopiest" (Steve Daly, Entertainment Weekly ). (Click here to find out more about Banderas.)