Sentences with phrase «as patronizing»

Making a reference to how hard your client may work, as a means of reinforcing their entitlement to own a particular home, runs the risk of being seen as patronizing.

Many changes also function as a patronizing statement to the public that they think most of us are too stupid to understand anything beyond the most generic of terms, and I actually get a kick out of how often even the most erudite profession [al] s reveal their own ignorance when they try to express themselves for general public consumption.

And if you speak in the same local vernacular as your client, you may be perceived as patronizing or even insulting.

Max; to be blunt... your maths sucks rocks, and if this comes out as patronizing; then too bad.

«Bradley rejected an exclusively black show as patronizing and instead specified two conditions: the inclusion of white artists and presentation in a building - in a poor neighborhood - totally unrelated to the local black art establishment,» art historian William A. Camfield, one of two dozen contributors to the book, writes.

Blanket statements like, «Don't worry, everything will be okay» are rarely effective and may be perceived as patronizing.

It was supposed to read as authoritative, but often came off as patronizing instead.

Second, please do not offend our intelligence with the slogan that «America is the greatest (and richest) country in the world» as this can be interpreted as patronizing, arrogant and out of line, given USA's world impact and record, and the shadow of local and global violence in the source of its wealth: I noticed that Native Americans were not meaningfully mentioned in your speech, please acknowledge the enormous sacrifices and wounds of indigenous people in the Americas and elsewhere — again, offer them justice, on their terms, not only «inclusion», listen and let them teach you.

And it's hard to ignore the troubling modern - day implications of Newt's application of the N - word, which is well - intentioned as a show of solidarity but comes across as patronizing and overly simplistic, if not completely tone - deaf.

The dialogue doubles as patronizing directives of what we're supposed to be thinking, carefully dictating Resurrection's themes.

And while I appreciated the effort, the effect came off as patronizing... no, matronizing.

While Oliver's successes on the ground may be limited, and while some write him off as a patronizing self - promoter, it's indisputable that he's succeeded in shining a bright spotlight on obesity in America, particularly childhood obesity, as well as our overly processed daily diet.

* not actually offended by your comment, btw — just saying that I can understand why someone would interpret it as patronizing.

Others are quoted as saying that the Welsh name was used as a patronizing way to discount things.

As you say you have a degree in World Religions and the History of Science and a postgraduate degree in Representation and Modernity ---------- I just have an associates degree in Church leadership ------ so you misunderstand my lack of education and my ablities to present my views clearly, compared to your abilities, as patronizing -------------- No TIGGY, what I just said THAT IS PATRONIZING you.

But, take a minute to think about this: What if you're coming off as that patronizing person in your office?

Not exact matches

Around 2.5 million copies were printed, but not one of them was posted, as officials had last - minute doubts about whether the content was too patronizing or obvious.

Do you, as a consumer, feel any responsibility for the purposes to which the companies you patronize put their profits?

Soviet merchant ships as well as vessels of the U.S. Seventh Fleet patronize its efficient port and repair yards.

The problem is that satisfied customers are not always loyal customers; they patronize competitors» businesses as well.

Watch out for phrases that can be read as potentially sarcastic, insensitive, passive - aggressive, or patronizing.

Green Guerrilla Marketing, developed by Shel Horowitz, takes it a step farther: as consumers become more aware of issues like climate change, buying local, etc., they want to patronize companies that understand that.

Daniel Zhang, Alibaba Group's chief operating officer, said in a press conference last week that he hopes the 11.11 sale will become a true global shopping event in five to 10 years as Alibaba's e-commerce ecosystem, once largely confined within China's borders, continues to expand internationally through collaboration with more governments, banks and postal services in order to give shoppers everywhere a seamless, «local» e-commerce experience — no matter where the merchants they patronize are located.

«If the Church is ever mentioned» in such debates, he pointed out, «it is in the gratitude expressed that we have not attempted to «appease» the Church or the Church hierarchy, or else in the (unintentionally) patronizing allusion to those who care about the University's relationship to the Church as implicitly conceiving the University along the lines of a seminary.»

In his patronizing dismissal of abstinence programs, Saletan speaks of «mating» ¯ meaning sexual intimacy ¯ as an unstoppable force of nature.

A prophet and teacher who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronized; who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as «The women, God help us!»

So he made statements to put the church at ease and may have patronized religion as a way to prevent having to fight the Christian - based church.»

BAC termed integration a failure and viewed as «patronizing» any provisions for white representation in the spending of these funds, or any fiscal accountability.

I am disappointed in my generational peers who look back upon «the»60s» with patronizing scorn, as if we ought to be a little embarrassed for having dreamed those dreams.

In a lower pitch, now patronizing Johan, Marianne lectures him to free himself from the past and make a fresh start as she has.

It may well be attested as truth that the then hierarchies of secularims» patronizings amid the 17th and even into the 18th centuries, were aligned themselves with profiteering principles, but many of those early colonizers were matter O» factly of religious persuasions.

Stating that, it is every bit as much the right of those with opposite views to express them with our wallets by not patronizing Chik - fil - A.

The dismissal of African objections to homosexuality as not indigenous but as «echoes of Western missionary positions» is rather symptomatic of the condescending and patronizing attitudes I pointed out in my article.

Except the term is used embraced by ex-catholics and we use it because the church and other catholics try and deal with us like Marines as in «once a Catholic, always a Catholic», a phrase that is patronizing and far more offensive.

By the nineteenth century, however, patronized religious painting had become essentially trivialized, as John W. Dixon, Jr., indicates in his book, Nature and Grace in Art (University of North Carolina Press, 1964).

Even to propose it as the solution to the racial morass raises derisive hoots in the black community and patronizing shrugs and smiles from whites.»

But in all you have as well given more Christians a good reason to support these businesses because they are owned by Christians, and at least those who patronize them before may not change from doing so.

I'll make sure I patronize all of these companies as often as I can.

do not offend people... just amaze them... which is more challenging; as a spectator... review the exhibit before attending... do not patronize «so - called» businesses that display p0rn and certainly don't buy any of it!

I have to say that being targeted is just about as off - putting as is church - as - performance, because it's patronizing and negligent of the church body in its entirety.

Second, as a Christian, I patronize restaurants operated my Muslims and Jews with overt cultural and religious themes.

I could * try * to be patronizing and tell you, «Yes, Ed, your ideas have just as much merit as any other ideas,» but I would be lying to you.

We believe that the priests of Pantu Baba, known collectively as the Elders or the Old Ones or the Saggy Ones or the Vicious Self - Righteous Blowhards, are to be accorded all manner of honor praise and renumeration in keeping with their great and glorious duty of honoring praising and renumerating Pantu Baba, the Vile, the Irascible, the Arbitrary, Patron of All Who Need Patronizing.

Your inane arguement that belief in the bible as the holy word of a god is not «religious» is abusrd, ignorant and patronizing.

I didn't know HL was against these contraceptives, and as a craft - addict, I will think again about patronizing HL, and go to Jo - anne or Michael's instead.

It is a sport so cruel that its popularity is anything but a credit to those that patronize it, / a number of plump ganders, whose necks are well - greased, are suspended at the regulation height, in much the same manner as rings arranged at ordinary tournaments The «knights» who enlist from the prizes dash out on their horses in courtly fashion and grab each of those down - hanging necks in succession as they pass, the most skillful rider and «puller» winning the prizes.

As part of the popular Maryland - based chain's Funds for Friends program, individual restaurants team up with local organizations or local branches of national organizations, select a specific benefit date and donate 10 percent of that day's total sales to the organization in exchange for the organization having encouraged members, friends company profile and family to patronize the location on that date.

Try to patronize your local grass - fed and grass - finished meat producers, or order meat on line from high quality companies such as Belcampo Meat Co..

Your patronizing comments — to everyone, not just me — are getting old, as is this, «Boo hoo!

The PA announcer even sounded patronizing saying it 15 minutes before the game started, as if he were encouraging the boos that immediately followed.