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Example sentences for: patronizing

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In the last debate, Hatch gave a patronizing lecture about how the unseasoned Bush would make a fine vice-presidential choice for him.
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.
Though meant as praise, it is in fact highly patronizing.
In defending this scenario, Bennett, Hatch, and others have already used the same argument conservatives denounce as elitist and patronizing in the case of the affirmative-action initiative: that disingenuous wording misled voters about the measure's real effect.
When I called you the conscience of the American cinema, I was being neither ironic nor, I hope, patronizing.