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- Condescension or Condescendence is a form of incivility wherein the speaker displays an attitude of patronizing superiority or contempt. Condescension...
- (Divine) Accommodation (or condescension) is the theological principle that God, while being in his nature unknowable and unreachable, has nevertheless...
- sighings of my heart, O You who bowed the heavens by your ineffable condescension. I will wash your immaculate feet with kisses and dry them again with...
- manner". In its original use, mansplaining differed from other forms of condescension in that it was said to be rooted in the ****umption that a man is likely...
- insincere, pejorative usage, pity connotes feelings of superiority, condescension, or contempt. Psychologists see pity arising in early childhood out...
- with in the movies, but McConaughey nails this guy without a hint of condescension or whimsy, claiming this character for all time as his own". In 1994...
- old school friends, who are in secure positions and treat him with condescension. His aggression turns inward on to himself and he tries to humiliate...
- to express genuine sympathy but sometimes as an insult that conveys condescension, derision, or contempt. It may also be spoken as a precursor to an insult...
- behavior, especially later in her career, was also in response to the condescension and ****ism of her male co-stars and directors. Biographer Lois Banner...
- overly forceful while slow or nasal speech creates an impression of condescension. These attributions, which are commonly found in patients with ASD,...