Patronizing, I treat everybody from another culture as if they were my servants.

Like Egypt s now deposed President Hosni Mubarak, al Zawahiri s tone was patronizing and condescending.

Her default position toward me, as an African, was a kind of patronizing, well meaning pity.

In its combined reports, the State party had used very patronizing language in referring to Roma women.

Stop consoling me, or... patronizing me, or feeling sorry for me, or whatever it is you're doing.

So you've got to take me through like a sixth grader dub, dub, dub but without patronizing me.

So, you've got to take me through like a sixth grader dub, dub, dub, dub, dub but without patronizing me.

This patronizing view conveniently ignores the fact that in the last four elections, Thaksin and his allies won by lopsided margins.

By dismissing European concerns about how such surveillance is carried out, Obama has demonstrated one of America s worst habits that of patronizing Europe.

With citizens of distressed countries bearing the fiscal burden of the crisis, the enduring presumption that they will not act responsibly is patronizing, at best.

I was a doing a Ph.D. at the time, trying to go away from this patronizing bullshit that we arrive and tell you what to do.

True, such measures might come across as patronizing but such forms of public engagement are the only way to avoid making anti extremism look like extremism itself.

But the truth was that as this start becoming popular, a couple rightwing blogs and some message boards apparently found it to be a little patronizing, which I could also see.

But the truth was that as this start becoming popular, a couple rightwing blogs and some message boards apparently found it to be a little patronizing, which I could also see.

Like Egypt s now deposed President Hosni Mubarak, al Zawahiri s tone was patronizing and condescending. If anything, the lecture underscored how out of touch Al Qaeda s senior leaders are with the spirit of the time.

But we shouldn t allow American politicians who do not even possess passports to write us off with the same patronizing sneer that some Europeans used to reserve for President George W. Bush s administration and policies.

But Japan s wealthiest people, such as entrepreneurs, medical doctors, and lawyers, are nowadays less willing or financially able to continue patronizing the sport, particularly since the collapse of Japan s asset bubble in the early 1990 s.

In 2000, Al Gore, was unable to make up his mind about which role he wished to play in his debates with George W. Bush, so he looked shifty and inauthentic, changing from arrogant to patronizing and back again.

This patronizing view conveniently ignores the fact that in the last four elections, Thaksin and his allies won by lopsided margins. Thaksin s rural development policies were clearly welcomed by people who, for the first time, felt connected to the leaders they had elected.

There will be those who argue that identifying the outlines of an eventual political solution is patronizing to Syrians. But when a country s dysfunctional governance has caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and threatens neighboring countries, such complaints have no place in the debate.

I tell you, Bertie, sometimes when he gives me a patronizing glance and then turns away and is sick, as if it revolted him to look at me, I come within an ace of occupying the entire front page of the evening papers as the latest murder sensation.

In 2000, Al Gore, was unable to make up his mind about which role he wished to play in his debates with George W. Bush, so he looked shifty and inauthentic, changing from arrogant to patronizing and back again. He had the better arguments, but he lost the debates (and the election) nonetheless.