condescension

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Though I love these scores, I wouldn’t go that far: Condescension endures toward Bernstein’s unabashedly theatrical symphonies.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2017

For younger readers the most pleasing of the prose works are the comparatively simple sketches, "My Garden Acquaintance," "Cambridge Thirty Years Ago" and "On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners."

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by Long, William Joseph

Nor must we omit the Person of Raphael, who amidst his Tenderness and Friendship for Man, shews such a Dignity and Condescension in all his Speech and Behaviour, as are suitable to a Superior Nature.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

Condescension in the circumstances was synonymous with insolence.

From The Street Called Straight by Lowell, Orson

"Condescension in foreigners" is bad enough, but condescension in a native who has lived abroad is far worse.

From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)