patronizing

1 The white people patronizing those places can afford it.

2 The explanations one might try to attach are, in the end, patronizing, a means of trying to incorporate into ordinary life something that insists on being outside it.

3 I could mimic my classmates’ cadence and save up for their clothes, but I believed I could detect a patronizing tone in their polite questions.

4 In what could not be characterized as other than a patronizing manner, Herbie patted the horse.

5 And you don’t want to come off as patronizing or condescending, the way Mike Bloomberg did with his soda ban.

6 My trepidation was that the streaming show, the brainchild of Ken Daurio and Paul, would be another patronizing lampoon of characters breaking midsentence into song.

7 Part of the pleasure of watching “Green Book” is precisely that it feels so old-fashioned, while being self-aware enough to avoid the most patronizing pitfalls of the genre.

8 They hardly need such patronizing, offensive lessons about not committing massacres.

9 I now had more money than I had ever had before, and I began patronizing secondhand bookstores, buying magazines and books.

10 Patronizing these actors was considered a sign of " refinement . "

据说这是 风雅 的事.

11 Tillman also found the midwife’s terms of endearment “patronizing, belittling and misogynistic,” though common.

12 But while it’s silly it’s also patronizing, because by attempting to portray Molly as any kind of female victim — and by glossing over her culpability — Mr. Sorkin only ends up denying this character her agency.

13 Amaka smiled into the mirror, a thin, patronizing smile that seemed to say I should not have bothered lying to her.

14 She has little patience with the patronizing, pitying narrative that is often attached to Mr. Lane, who died alone, without family.

15 He intertwines both painter and thief in compelling fashion, humanizing the latter without patronizing him.

16 By the same token, the patronizing, condescending tone directed toward him from many reporters at news conferences during his career arguably invited his contempt.

17 When the blowup comes, from the seemingly meekest of the group, it’s because he feels that this kind of talk is patronizing to him.

18 It is also what led some critics to write that McCullers was “before her time,” that most banal and patronizing of descriptors.

19 That abject hypocrite, Pumblechook, nodded again, and said, with a patronizing laugh, “It’s more than that, Mum. Good again! Follow her up, Joseph!”

20 Lam had eaten these dishes with his parents at a nearby restaurant and kept patronizing it as an adult until the food changed and, heartbroken, he stopped going.

1 神气十足

proud as Punch with dignity

2 恩人气派

patronage

3 赞助的

friendly

4 资助

greenbacking support aid patronage subvention sponsor stake subsidize patronize imburse

5 摆架子

air airs and graces

6 屈尊

stoop deign

7 傲慢

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8 赞助

friendly patronage countenance auspice boosterism sponsor patronize

9 支持的

sustentacular friendly supporting supportive

10 支持

sustentacular friendly supporting supportive support strength behalf identification sanction advocacy endorsement backing patronage countenance sustenance auspice underpinning aliment backstay advocation sustentation with root side identify plunk bolster backstop back second hold stay maintain champion favor advocate sustain stake prop uphold nourish underpin underlie fortify crutch buttress patronize undergird underprop come in favor of carry the banner for stand up and be counted hold a brief for take up for in favor of hold hand stand with carry along

11 光顾

patronize

12 傲慢的

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