Condescension

Assuming too much knowledge makes text impenetrable for the non-expert, but getting caught up the finer details is recipe for condescension.

Like the first cornerstone, westsplaining reveals a cringe-worthy air of condescension and arrogance.

These range from mild alcoholism, bouncing from job to job, lack of purpose, vaccine conspiracy theories, inability to commit, condescension and an inability to lean in when things get hard.

And, hopefully most significantly, Waldman writes about people radically unlike herself skillfully and without condescension.

Coupled with such condescension and Hollywoodification of Indian cinema, songs are finding little space here.

Nobody looks down at someone who drinks anytime anywhere, such misplaced condescension is reserved for imbibers of vodka and Tequila.

Seemingly sane if smug urban hipsters and academics urge us, with their customarily curled lips of condescension, to vote to ratify this monstrosity by casting a ballot for this unspeakable genocidaire.

What these perspectives have in common is a paternalistic approach to criminal-justice reform that treats residents of these areas with condescension.

American attitudes toward Mexico were an uneasy mixture of idealism and condescension.

Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court gave that network and its progressive allies another opportunity kindle the fires of resentment and condescension while pretending to neutrality.

But conservatives also know that the public is repulsed by open displays of sadism and hatred, so instead we get this pursed-lip, praying-for-you condescension, clad in pseudo-feminist drag.

Much like public opinion, history deserves and demands thoughtful contemplation, not condescension.

But traditional conservatives, moderates, liberals, and even many fellow leftists/progressives/radicals will feel some of that condescension aimed at them.

For once, male condescension worked in Bentley’s favor.

I can sense the shaming, criticism and condescension coming my way, let me be clear: I am not a joyless person.

In another of such pictures, where he acted the same way, his condescension was made more glaring by his deputy, Philip Shaibu, who stood up right beside him, to pump hands with Oshiomhole.

Speaking to white and black readers sans condescension, Kuzmarov shows how many white progressives, who, in their anxiety to reject any racist appearance, embraced this warmongering president.

He makes short shrift of intellectual condescension toward Puccini, and of serialist composers’ snobbish disdain for tonal pieces.

Humbly, delicately and without an ounce of condescension toward those who disagreed, he began walking us all through the details of the case.

I am remembering this moment now and the full weight of the racist condescension behind his comments hits me as I’m on the bus leaving Vision Towards Peace.