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- adjective Not
condescending ; free ofcondescension
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Examples
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What blazes through each page is French's absolute and uncondescending engagement with India.
Book reviews roundup 2011
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His regard for their magazines was considerate, focused, uncondescending.
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His regard for their magazines was considerate, focused, uncondescending.
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A series of scenic vignettes, all shot in and around the northern village of Lanna, the film harbors an obvious nostalgia for a simpler time, but it never exoticizes the hard agrarian life; the filmmaker's rapt, uncondescending eye keeps sentimentality at bay.
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The company's productions are models of uncondescending theatrical populism, reaching out to contemporary audiences without watering down Shakespeare beyond recognition.
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There was a flavor of this in tuba player Zach Spellman's interactions with the kids, which was both over the top and completely uncondescending.
Adventures in Music 2 sfmike 2008
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This 84-minute black-and-white film is harrowing and at times weirdly funny -- a portrait of the down and out that is strikingly honest, uncondescending and unsentimental.
Any Given Sundance 2008
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There was a flavor of this in tuba player Zach Spellman's interactions with the kids, which was both over the top and completely uncondescending.
Archive 2008-04-01 sfmike 2008
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Like the best of Hallstrom's films, "My Life as a Dog" and "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," it has a fresh, uncondescending appreciation of the lives of people far outside the mainstream.
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After David roundly trounced Monk in chess (and I was so impressed with Monk's grace in losing, as well as David's unrelenting and uncondescending rapport.)
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: October 2005 Archives 2005
hernesheir commented on the word uncondescending
A vowel followed by 2 consonants, repeated 4 more times.
November 27, 2011