Sentences with phrase «talking down to someone»

I know I said I would keep the talking down to a minimum, but I am just so excited about this room I had to talk about it!

«They don't want the older agent that is kind of talking down to them, or trying to be that father figure,» he said of 20 - somethings searching for real estate agents.

I'm moderately handy around the house, and he answered all of my questions quickly and in a way that made sense without over-explaining or talking down to me.

I set a few straight when they began talking down to me upon meeting me, but I understood why they initially assumed me to be what they stereotypically harboured within their minds.

You are being led around by the nose by a bunch of political amateurs accustomed to talking down to amateurs and getting away with it all.

You'll never feel like she's talking down to you and you'll instantly sense her compassion.

Therefore positive parenting does not encourage yelling, spanking, making threats, talking down to etc..

Don't be the guy who demonstrates how smart he is by insulting and talking down to those interviewing you — and deciding your fate as a candidate.

Very good, straightforward language, no talking down to you.

Keep looking for a WI company who know how to respond to your requests for information in an efficient manner without talking down to you or making your Franklin renters insurance credit score questions sound ignorant.

You want someone who will listen to you instead of ignoring you or talking down to condescendingly.

Don't make it more difficult by talking down to them.

Even worse than just talking down to clients, I see attorneys treat clients like they are below the attorney.

Also, avoid talking down to visitors or filling pages with unhelpful, over-optimized, keyword - stuffed copy.

You never, ever got the sense he was talking down to his audience, or that he felt some things were just too difficult to discuss.

Whether you feel Dr. Lacis is talking down to you (strangely, I get no sense of this myself at all) or not..

The fact remains that Dr. Lacis is talking down to us, assumes we are ill educated buffoons and hopes to wow us with his pronouncements from the mount.

It would be useful if Vaughan stopped trying to play the role of the professor talking down to his «students» with his silly parables and realised HE may be able to learn something.

One of the reasons I responded to her work at an early age was because I didn't feel she was talking down to me.

I remain cautiously optimistic about the game, but regardless if the producer of the show thinks they aren't talking down to the audience it doesn't make the dialogue / banter any less cringe worthy.

I also don't appreciate one of their forum mods coming online and talking down to the fans like begging dogs or mindless children.

If this is a game for kids, Knack almost feels as though it is talking down to its audience - a far cry from the pitch - perfect Lego games, which have the depth and the accessibility to appeal to an enormously wide cross-section of the gaming community.

But they aren't just MGS fans, they're console specific fans, on a thread not about their console, talking down to people.

What upset me most was his facial expression showing disgust in my question and his attitude answering «everyone on this flight has flown in from the United States and already got an amenity bag so we don't give them out again» I can't believe he was talking down to a first class passenger And why do they print it on the menu and put it on the website???

One of the things that sets DDR apart from other organizations is its commitment to never talking down to people, and always empowering them.

If you're gone for a work day, you can find ways to keep puppies engaged without making a mess of things, though you run a risk anytime you leave a puppy alone for an extended period of time (we're talking down to the minutes & even seconds).

I find that kids really appreciate it when you speak to them at a level they can understand without talking down to them.

He continues to speak to me in a nasty tone, talking down to me.

Also: a novelist was once talking down to a young photographer who'd been sent to take his picture.

So these are really characters that are true to life, without judgment and written in a direct and simple language that treats people with respect instead of talking down to them.

Trust me when I say I'm not talking down to you as I recall this memory, and many others, in great detail.

You can't motivate a child by talking down to them.»

Valuable lessons benefit students without talking down to them.

«So often in anything you do in education, in life, students always feel like, «Adults are talking down to me.

While techinically your movie did not make me cry, due to the stomach churning similarities between my recent break up and the alternate ending (I'm talking down to seemingly - impossible exact phrasing on Ramona's side) you are now the one and only director who has produced something that has made me produce tears.

He provides a mix of technical and narrative observations, with plenty of screen - specificity and no interest in talking down to the youngsters who might have chosen this soundtrack.

It is starting a fairly interesting dialogue about the general concept of believing in a deity, without talking down to non-believers or pushing an agenda.

It often feels as if Schrader is talking down to the audience.

These are pretty heavy subjects for any child to face, but the film is better off for not talking down to kids and teaching them that death and loss are part of life.

There's a big difference between not talking down to your audience and sending entirely the wrong message over and over again.

«If you do a lecture about race or some social issue, people feel like maybe you're talking down to them, like you're forcing your views on them,» Peele said.

But without talking down to us or explaining the rules in overwritten dialogue, the movie makes us absolutely aware of the game's intricacies by the picture's final, tense minutes.

It flies by, not talking down to kids like so much modern entertainment.

«It doesn't make people feel like you're talking about things that are happening right now, so they don't feel like you're talking down to them.

Laight as the put - upon but understanding Harper has a tricky role, but she is the character that resonates the strongest with the audience and never comes across as mean - spirited, even when talking down to Philip.

It's beautifully handled by directors Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall, everything working on the perfect childlike level that speaks directly to the youngest of children without ever once talking down to them.

It's an exciting escapist adventure that'll entertain the whole family, without talking down to kids or pandering to parents with pop culture references.

Exposing the inequities in our financial system and the political machine that supports it, The Big Short fully explains CDOs and other derivatives for the common viewer without talking down to them.

Never talking down to his audience, he rather pulls them up to an intellectual level where other filmmakers fear to go.

Talking down to waiters or spending the entire date glued to your phone is a kind of behavior cougars do not appreciate.