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  • She gives me a patronizing look, the way people sometimes look at children when they act too adult, and snatches the flag from the branch.†   (source)
  • I was working out what I could add about how patronizing he was when I turned and saw that he was still looking at me.†   (source)
  • From this, one might draw the conclusion that Emma has a patronizing attitude toward blacks.†   (source)
  • I said, "You're patronizing me."†   (source)
  • A lecture was coming on, and he was in no mood to be patronized.†   (source)
  • "Don't you patronize me, Dan," my grandmother said.†   (source)
  • His tone hinted at patronizing.†   (source)
  • He means well but comes off as patronizing.†   (source)
  • It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when LIFE in the Khumbu was so much simpler and more picturesque.†   (source)
  • Ullman offered a patronizing little smile, ready to explain as soon as Jack admitted his ignorance, and Jack was happy to respond quickly and crisply.†   (source)
  • He flashes a patronizing grin at me.†   (source)
  • I heard a chuckle, and looked over to see Edward's patronizing smile.†   (source)
  • As word spread that a young, handsome, and apparently unmarried doctor now stood behind the counter, an increasing number of single women in their twenties began to patronize the store.†   (source)
  • I went down in the basement and opened up a can of dog food for Dandy and Poteet, petting and patronizing them to make up for the attention I had given the cat enemy upstairs.†   (source)
  • "Of course it is," Brittain says, and I detect a note of patronization.†   (source)
  • But even wealthy Jewish immigrants like the Blancks patronized few of the same stores and restaurants and ice cream parlors as Jane's former friends; they didn't go to any of the same resorts or tourist hotels or beaches.†   (source)
  • The large square screen flickered to life, and an incredibly patronizing voice warned them about typing addresses into the system while driving, then instructed Josh to hit the OK button, acknowledging that he 'd heard and understood the warning.†   (source)
  • "Oh, it's big enough," he said patronizingly, "but somehow I was expecting something… you know."†   (source)
  • I can't abide being patronized.†   (source)
  • How patronizing.†   (source)
  • Very few men of consequence patronized the Shirae.†   (source)
  • They were patronized by their married contemporaries, they were vaguely felt sorry for, and were produced to date any stray extra man who happened to be visiting their friends.†   (source)
  • "Nora Grey," Elliot said in a patronizing voice.†   (source)
  • But the case was by no means closed for the people of Finney County, and least of all for those who patronized Holcomb's favorite meeting place, Hartman's Cafe.†   (source)
  • I challenged them; I did not patronize them: "If you want to continue living in poverty without clothes and food," I told them, "then go and drink in the shebeens.†   (source)
  • Patronizing.†   (source)
  • I see that I must teach Du Vrangr Gata the same lesson that I taught the Council of Elders: I may be young, but I am no child to be patronized.†   (source)
  • Don't patronize me, Erik.†   (source)
  • And with a patronizing nod to them all, she withdrew and rejoined her guests.†   (source)
  • Sue replied by closing her eyes and then assuming a patronizing lecturing voice.†   (source)
  • Do not patronize me, Magnus.†   (source)
  • Call thought the old man rather patronizing--he knew enough to water a horse before setting off into a desert.†   (source)
  • I heard music in the deep distance, a crooner doing lost songs, the kind of ballad that sometimes included a verse or two in slurred Italian, and it was all nicely subdued, I thought, unaffected, without patronizing humor.†   (source)
  • Americans not only come across as patronizing but also often miss the complexity of gender roles in the Islamic world.†   (source)
  • Trent gave her a patronizing look.†   (source)
  • "Please patronize Dr. Azad," it read, in English.†   (source)
  • It's the small businesses that are most affected— the dressmakers, the corner store, etc. —because the clientele are shy of patronizing such places in public.†   (source)
  • I've lost a job and been patronized by Tom Webster.†   (source)
  • "Don't patronize me," she said as she looked into the twinkling eyes of a hungry lawyer.†   (source)
  • Did he really think she was beautiful, or was he patronizing her?†   (source)
  • "So the guy's some sort of gun freak, a security expert who patronizes companions."†   (source)
  • He patronized the American Festival Cafe and the Taj Mahal in Manhattan, and Tony Roma's in two boroughs.†   (source)
  • He finished his late afternoon lunch of vitello tonnato and dabbed his lips with the bright red napkin, trying to look his usual jovial, if patronizing, self.†   (source)
  • What irritated her most was that they kept brushing off her arguments with patronizing smiles, making her feel like a teenager being quizzed on her homework.†   (source)
  • Worst of all was being patronized by the British.†   (source)
  • He cocked an eyebrow and gave her a patronizing, professional kind of smile.†   (source)
  • I gave her a patronizing smile.†   (source)
  • He had long regarded the departed teacher as a vain and patronizing fop.†   (source)
  • The Blue Fairy Godmother left, amused and patronizing.†   (source)
  • "That's ridiculous and patronizing."†   (source)
  • Taggart achieved a patronizing smile.†   (source)
  • MARTHA (Friendly-patronizing) Oh, George!†   (source)
  • Don't you dare patronize me.†   (source)
  • The scholar could not speak for his disgust, but he smiled patronizingly.†   (source)
  • The man gives Cal a faintly patronizing smile, showing him what he thinks of fathers who let their sons run things.†   (source)
  • "Don't patronize me:' "I'm not patronizing you, but I'm telling you I'm going.†   (source)
  • You used to patronize it?†   (source)
  • —Don't patronize me.†   (source)
  • He'd written some perfectly harmless test-tubey paper on Flaubert that he was so proud of and wanted me to read, and it just sounded to me so strictly English Department and patronizing and campusy that all I did was—"†   (source)
  • I went into a drugstore that I had patronized every day since my arrival.†   (source)
  • After this cowardly threat Caspian changed his tune and started being patronizing.†   (source)
  • One man, not a friend, patronized the kids badly and spoke to them as though he were addressing an assembly of cretins.†   (source)
  • Demina was facetiously patronizing.†   (source)
  • CHAPUYS (Smilingly patronizing) Goodness can be a difficulty.†   (source)
  • His expression was kind, tolerant, amused, patronizing.†   (source)
  • She would not discuss her house with Mrs. Slatter, who was patronizing her.†   (source)
  • I thought, Already he's starting to patronize me.†   (source)
  • Don't patronize me, werewolf If it weren't for you— Don't yell at him!†   (source)
  • I even said it in the same patronizing tone he used with his own father.†   (source)
  • I say it in my most patronizing voice, as if I'm talking to a puppy.†   (source)
  • "Sure, sure," he said, but he sounded more patronizing than agreeing.†   (source)
  • "Don't patronize me," she said crossly, then her tone softened again.†   (source)
  • And it has always been enjoyed by ordinary people rather than patronized by the Imperial court.†   (source)
  • "You look good," Chinita patronized, looking out from behind her camera now with a hint of concern.†   (source)
  • Her slightly patronizing smile frozen on her face.†   (source)
  • His scowl reshaped itself into a small, patronizing smile.†   (source)
  • Max did not intend to sound so patronizing.†   (source)
  • Our children are in good hands; don't patronize me.†   (source)
  • She had just come back from the store, the same one Donna Trenton patronized.†   (source)
  • The clientele who patronized the Five Moons weren't there to socialize.†   (source)
  • I'm not; you're not a woman a man could patronize.†   (source)
  • He was saying, in a tone of patronizing boredom, "Well, I don't know.†   (source)
  • He didn't understand that once you patronize the enemy, you begin the process of your own undoing.†   (source)
  • She couldn't make the mistake of sounding patronizing, as mother would say.†   (source)
  • They didn't patronize the same shops, health centers, or cosmetic experts.†   (source)
  • "Don't patronize me:' "I'm not patronizing you, but I'm telling you I'm going.†   (source)
  • Some know a great deal about cars and will be offended by a salesman who adopts a patronizing tone.†   (source)
  • Did no one else think she sounded totally patronizing?†   (source)
  • There was a restaurant in the building, patronized by Taggart executives, but he did not like it.†   (source)
  • "I often go to Vegas II for a quick weekend, but I don't recall patronizing a casino in that sector.†   (source)
  • "I believe you are patronizing the people you love," Edgar says softly.†   (source)
  • Now Langdon felt patronized.†   (source)
  • "You do not have an elegant mind " Elegant mind was just mathtalk, that patronizing jargon the math nerds used, but it hurt Jimmy anyway.†   (source)
  • There's nothing patronizing in his voice, and yet I can't help thinking he reminds me of a schoolteacher about to ease children into a lesson.†   (source)
  • 'Don't patronize her, dear.†   (source)
  • Poking scrubbed fingers into their lives, asking questions, offering table scraps of patronizing help.†   (source)
  • Now he was just Will—maddening, mercurial, clever, funny Will—who patronized me and liked to play Professor Higgins to my Eliza Doolittle.†   (source)
  • In any case, when an apprentice geisha becomes available for mizuage, she presents boxes of these ekubo to the men who patronize her.†   (source)
  • I always ask to see the manager, the manager is always "in a meeting," I always get shifted off to some smirking, patronizing elf just out of short pants who sees himself as a future plutocrat.†   (source)
  • I win unwinnable cases, and the case that I think you may soon face is—I don't want to patronize you—it's a tough one.†   (source)
  • The only reason a man as wealthy as Dr. Crab patronized such a place is that he hadn't always been so wealthy.†   (source)
  • …when Insley and her dancing-monkey husband made us come over to admire their baby, and we did the obligatory visit to their strangely perfect, overflowered, overmuffined house for brunch and baby-meeting and they were so self-righteous and patronizing of our childless state, and meanwhile there was their hideous boy, covered in streaks of slobber and stewed carrots and maybe some feces—naked except for a frilly bib and a pair of knitted booties—and as I sipped my orange juice, you…†   (source)
  • He was forty by then; he'd worked hard at making his fortune, and now he intended to get his money's worth, which meant being patronized by his new bride about his wardrobe and bullied about his table manners.†   (source)
  • Because Noh is a very ancient art that has always been patronized by the Imperial court, dancers in Gion consider their art superior to the school of dance practiced in the Pontocho district across the river, which derives from Kabuki.†   (source)
  • Or I would go to Diana Sweets for a soda or a cup of coffee: it was a genteel tea room across from the department stores, much patronized by ladies, and I was unlikely to be bothered by stray men there.†   (source)
  • "Don't patronize me."†   (source)
  • But instead of laughing at me or, worse, saying something patronizing and taking off, he seemed to be considering what I said.†   (source)
  • "Don't patronize me.†   (source)
  • They began by treating her with patronizing good fellowship (all high school girls, no matter how good-looking, were Bush League) and always ended up trotting after her with panting, doglike lust.†   (source)
  • Don't patronize me, Thing.†   (source)
  • They had been Junior Agents—just a few years out of Rowan—and although they had meant well, Max had found them to be patronizing before they started and painfully slow once the scenario had begun.†   (source)
  • "Plus we had some new audience research in yesterday, and apparently 80 percent of our viewers feel patronized by some or all of the show's content.†   (source)
  • Perry was well acquainted with the workings of such emporiums, having often patronized them, and happily, since usually he found it "so relaxing" to sit quietly and watch clothes get clean.†   (source)
  • Of Amsterdam, however, Boswell had little to say beyond that it was a place where he could patronize brothels unobserved.†   (source)
  • The MI-17 touched down at the Shangri-La, an expensive fishing resort patronized by Pakistan's generals on a lake an hour west of Skardu.†   (source)
  • These two horse pitiers moved back along the wagon to where they could gaze in patronizing reproach at Billy-at Billy Pilgrim, who was so long and weak, so ridiculous in his azure toga and silver shoes.†   (source)
  • It's dumb and patronizing and phony.†   (source)
  • GEORGE (Patronizing) Blue, Martha.†   (source)
  • I'm in no mood to be patronized!'†   (source)
  • Don't be so damn patronizing.†   (source)
  • That horrible plunge in my stomach, as I heard the patronizing note in his voice and suddenly realized what he thought of me.†   (source)
  • …Buffalo Block, and the once splendid Windsor Hotel, with its still splendid high-ceilinged saloon and its atmosphere of spittoons and potted palms, endures amid the variety stores and supermarkets as a Main Street landmark-one comparatively un-patronized, for the Windsor's dark, huge chambers and echoing hallways, evocative as they are, cannot compete with the air-conditioned amenities offered at the trim little Hotel Warren, or with the Wheat Lands Motel's individual television sets…†   (source)
  • It was a trendy neighborhood, peopled by residents who patronized fashionable shops and private clubs, and who aspired to move just another notch up the social and ecomonic ladder.†   (source)
  • He's patronizing me.†   (source)
  • Her smile came back, as a protective shield, an amused, patronizing smile, intended to convert the subject into a drawing-room issue again.†   (source)
  • Stupid patronizing cow.†   (source)
  • I'm so sorry, Jim," said Clifton Locey smoothly, in a tone that balanced apology, reassurance and the right degree of patronizing confidence.†   (source)
  • Does she dance in the chorus or is she a manicurist in an exclusive barber shop patronized by millionaires?†   (source)
  • Cuffy Meigs sat sprawled in his chair, with a look of patronizing tolerance for their game of wasting time on discussions.†   (source)
  • Dr. Ferris did nothing, he merely looked at Dr. Stadler calmly; but the calm gave him an air that was almost patronizing.†   (source)
  • They met in a distinguished, high-priced restaurant, much too distinguished and high-priced ever to be mentioned in the gossip columns; not the kind of place which James Taggart, always eager for personal publicity, was in the habit of patronizing; he did not want them to be seen together, she concluded.†   (source)
  • There are wonderful night clubs in, Nice but you need not patronize them as the floor show at the beaches is as good …. and free.†   (source)
  • For example, if a black man set up a business, he might very well hear his black potential clients say: "After all this struggle for integration, I'm not going to self-segregate," and refuse to patronize his business.†   (source)
  • "You're a right good gal," she opined patronizingly, "but foolish.†   (source)
  • "I will when I can," said Laurella, patronizingly.†   (source)
  • What is it you don't understand, John?" inquired Miss Lydia patronizingly.†   (source)
  • But they had been through a great deal together, and the gunslinger did not feel he could risk it without an expression that might be taken for patronization.†   (source)
  • I say patronizingly.†   (source)
  • His manner to Poirot was a shade patronizing.†   (source)
  • He looks as though he belonged in a pool room patronized by would-be sports.†   (source)
  • Neeley would have to come along that great day because girls seldom patronized Charlie's.†   (source)
  • Only once did he catch sight of his victim; she swept past him in the hall with a patronizing "Hi!"†   (source)
  • His tone was more patronizing than that of a southern white man.†   (source)
  • The art dealers whom he patronized reported that his judgment was that of a master.†   (source)
  • "You know, Guy," said Keating, in a tone of patronizing reproach, "you shouldn't have run away like that."†   (source)
  • I now had more money than I had ever had before, and I began patronizing secondhand bookstores, buying magazines and books.†   (source)
  • He was the Victorian tourist, solid and patronizing, for whose amusement these foreign things were paraded.†   (source)
  • Americans, Conway reflected, had the knack of being able to say patronizing things without being offensive.†   (source)
  • They alone were deaf to that persistent voice, now grumbling, now patronizing, now domineering, now grieved, now shocked, now angry, now avuncular, that voice which cannot let women alone, but must be at them, like some too-conscientious governess, adjuring them, like Sir Egerton Brydges, to be refined; dragging even into the criticism of poetry criticism of sex; [*1] admonishing them, if they would be good and win, as I suppose, some shiny prize, to keep within certain limits which…†   (source)
  • His posture toward life was very much that of the barker of a carnival sideshow: loquacious, patronizing, and cynical.†   (source)
  • But the waiting-rooms, which could be entered from outside, remained open and, being cool and dark, were often patronized by beggars on very hot days.†   (source)
  • His five tall brothers gave him good-by with admiring but slightly patronizing smiles, for Gerald was the baby and the little one of a brawny family.†   (source)
  • But their smile was rather patronizing.†   (source)
  • Children were the marketers of the neighborhood and they would only patronize those stores that treated them well.†   (source)
  • As he made to her his trembling passionate entreaties, she would smile with an affectation of patronizing humor, make a bantering humming noise in her throat, and say: "Why, say—you can't grow up yet.†   (source)
  • The dark, cellarlike room, below the level of the small yellow street, was patronized only by men, mostly Spaniards, judging by their looks.†   (source)
  • They were too young to remember the old days when the priests dressed in black and wore Roman collars and had soft superior patronizing hands; he could see they were mystified at the show of respect to a peasant like their parents.†   (source)
  • She knew that men patronized these women for purposes which no lady should mention—or, if she did mention them, in whispers and by indirection and euphemism.†   (source)
  • It seemed likely that nothing but the fact of being three celibate Englishmen in a foreign capital could have brought us together, and I had already reached the conclusion that the slight touch of priggishness which I remembered in Wyland Tertius had not diminished with years and an M.V.O. Rutherford I liked more; he had ripened well out of the skinny, precocious infant whom I had once alternately bullied and patronized.†   (source)
  • I had a fine haul—eleven paintings and fifty odd drawings and when eventually I exhibited them in London, the art critics, many of whom hitherto had been patronizing in tone, as my success invited, acclaimed a new and richer note in my work.†   (source)
  • His manner was immutable; it was the same in a drawing room, at a labor meeting, on a lecture platform, in the bathroom or during sexual intercourse: cool, self-possessed, amused, faintly patronizing.†   (source)
  • On two or three occasions Cottard had invited Grand to come with him to the luxury restaurants and cafés of the town, which he had recently taken to patronizing.†   (source)
  • There was a huge library near the riverfront, but I knew that Negroes were notallowed to patronize its shelves any more than they were the parks and playgrounds of the city.†   (source)
  • So, because she was pretty and charming and could appear quite helpless and forlorn at times, they gladly patronized her lumber yard and also Frank's store, feeling that they should help a plucky little woman who apparently had only a shiftless husband to support her.†   (source)
  • In the eight years that Johnny had been patronizing McGarrity's saloon, he had spoken daily to McGarrity in praise of Katie and the children.†   (source)
  • He drew himself up with new confidence, and he said firmly, for the first time in the tone of an old man addressing a youth, wise and gently patronizing: "That doesn't matter.†   (source)
  • Of the eighteen seated about Toohey's living room, none was an architect of distinction, except himself and Gordon L. Prescott, who wore a beige turtle-neck sweater and looked faintly patronizing, but eager.†   (source)
  • He eyed her now with patronizing enmity.†   (source)
  • She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.†   (source)
  • Aziz flamboyant, was patronizing Mrs. Moore.†   (source)
  • He adopted toward him an air of patronizing good humor.†   (source)
  • The brassy way in which, because of Clyde, he presumed to patronize these people.†   (source)
  • He assumed a patronizing air toward Pete.†   (source)
  • No, I'll cross that last bit out--it looks patronizing.†   (source)
  • Ethel Villets was sure you were patronizing her when——†   (source)
  • 'Great is the speed of the te-rain,' said the banker, with a patronizing grin.†   (source)
  • I mean a young man whom you patronize, Monsieur de Treville.†   (source)
  • What the deuce right has he to give himself his patronizing airs, and make fools of us at Vauxhall?†   (source)
  • We will put on your bulletin-board, 'Patronized by the elect.'†   (source)
  • It would be quite odious for me to come talking to you as if I could patronize you.†   (source)
  • "In a line regiment," Clink said with a patronizing air.†   (source)
  • Amuse Kitty by the sight of my wretchedness, submit to her patronizing?†   (source)
  • In this open-air society, it is the rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes.†   (source)
  • What encouraged me not to become your surety, but to patronize you?†   (source)
  • "Say that he wants to patronize me," pursued Mr. Skimpole.†   (source)
  • "I'll help you now, Tom," said Maggie, with a little air of patronizing consolation.†   (source)
  • Kim patronized a third, and was the life and soul of it.†   (source)
  • The little fellow patronized the feeble and disappointed old man.†   (source)
  • "But let me see," said Mrs. Glegg, still patronizing.†   (source)
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