Sentences with phrase «patronizing terms»

There's a great moment during an awkward game of charades where Goodman's character can't conceive of calling a woman by the term «woman,» instead relying upon patronizing terms like «girl» or «princess.»

by Walter Chaw There are bad movies, and then there are Nancy Meyers movies (first What Women Want, followed by the similarly excrescent Something's Got ta Give): chick flicks in the most damning, insulting sense of the patronizing term and reason enough to question the wisdom of ever spending money to see a movie.

The dust jacket of her Practically Seventeen speaks tellingly about these romance novels: «In recent years, permanent recognition and popularity have been accorded the «junior novel» [this patronizing term was used to describe books for teens in the forties and fifties], the story that records truthfully the modern girl's dream of life and romance and her ways of adjusting to her school and family experiences.

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

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.

Frankfort also is conscious that he is innovating, and he states the point almost in the terms of my present argument: «Erman... gave... a masterly but patronizing account of weird myth, doctrines, and usages, while the peculiarly religious values which these contained remained hidden from his lucid rationalism....

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They worked in story terms and emotional terms, and told its tale with buoyant invention, a tale of small - town daughter of a carrot farmer — a rabbit, female, patronized right and left but undeterred — who becomes Zootopia's first rabbit cop and cracks an insidious political conspiracy with the aid of her fox pal.

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.

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Despite the dismissive, patronizing, false characterizations of my views here in similar / the same terms, it is absolutely true: This is the greatest opportunity humanity has ever had because it is the biggest challenge we have ever had.

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.

Of course accomodation is necessary, but some of the criticism of the original article on how to dress (which I haven't read) sounds patronizing (and I use that term deliberately).

In terms of brand loyalty, RBC found that more than 83 % of current iPhone owners polled planned to continue to patronize Apple when it comes time to buy a new smartphone.

While the intention of the CREA President's subject statement was to patronize the national membership and soften dissension, it was an awkward misstep because it has some potential to be prejudicial — in terms of consumer perception.