Sentences with phrase «little patronized»

Although I suppose this spares both parties some embarrassment, the DVD is elsewhere so eager to involve us in the artistic process that one can't help feeling a little patronized.

It's more than a little patronizing to think that the arrival of the Big Mac could deal a blow to Cuban sandwiches, ropa vieja, or fresh lobster.

This is a sentiment often repeated by reviewers about children's books and one that I can't help thinking is a little patronizing; I dread to think how many references go over my head when I read a book, but it doesn't stop me enjoying it, so why should it be different for children?

It seems a little patronizing to assume that the public can't understand differences, no?

Calling Litecoin a testnet might sound a little patronizing, especially when Winklevoss said bitcoin really is like digital gold — except better at being gold than gold is given the cryptocurrency's far greater portability — and Ethereum is like an oil, the fuel for a protocol layer on which developers can build all sorts of applications.

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Your whole little diatribe about se.x causing pregnancy, using birth control, etc. was unnecessary and patronizing.

Someone who patted me on the head in a patronizing manner when I got angry because my poor little brain would never understand how great and mighty he was.

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.

If you want to play your little guessing games, go ahead, but your patronizing att.itude seems misplaced, if you can't back up your own claims.

I know it can sound a little obnoxious and possibly patronizing to suggest that every difficulty is an opportunity for growth (or «AFOFG,» «Another Fucking Opportunity for Growth,» as I like to say), but this mindset has transformed my life, and I believe in it 100 %.

Firth's patronizing skeptic is more irritating than comical and Stone's mystic is given very little depth.

To explore issues like classism and racism without ever being sanctimonious or preachy, to show the story through the eyes of a child without ever getting cutesy or patronizing, to weave together all those separate little storylines without ever letting them feel sloppy or disjointed — it's a rare author who can manage even one of those, and Harper Lee makes them all look effortless.

The two duos — sort of famous - big - sister / obscure - little - sister — can also seem a bit patronizing.

To refer to Olga's assertions as having little creedence b / c they are unsourced is innacurate and perhaps patronizing.