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Перевод: condescension
[существительное] снисхождение; снисходительность
Тезаурус:
- Well aware that before their present position both she and the Emperor would have been officially designated by the sclerotic European courts as "other persons who might be invited", Eugnie had no hesitation in squashing what she considered to be behaviour unsuitable for the Court of Napoleon III, where "other persons" were to be received with dignity and no hint of condescension.
- In 1763 Samuel Johnson in the same manner combined a judgement against the poems of James Woodhouse with condescension toward his trade:
- It is worth noting that what began for Victoria as admiration, tinged with a degree of condescension, developed over the years into genuine friendship and a respect for Eugnie's character which was to link both sovereigns ever more closely until the Queen's death in 1901.
- All these things Victoria did with a sense of duty so deeply buried in her psyche that no trace of condescension or obsequiousness marred the performance.
- Russell's screenplay is full of announced sympathy for ordinary people's lives, and actual condescension.
- The Middlesex secretary of the Edwardian years, who was also secretary of the MCC, Sir Francis Lacey, mixed a curt politeness with public condescension in his treatment of the professional staff.
- There was, none the less, an element of condescension, if not charity, in the American efforts to undo the Suez damage.
- The Attlee governments were faced with a complexity of economic and political problems which should perhaps spare them, above all modern British governments, the condescension of posterity.
- He shows, without condescension, that Sylvia is inherently decent for all that her culture is founded on women's magazines and television serials.
- But condescension was the general attitude.
- Condescension disappeared on 4th October 1957 when the Russians launched their Sputnik 1 into earth orbit, and on 3rd November sent up Sputnik 2 with a dog in it.
- He loved his "Jocks" without a trace of condescension, and when he took over the regiment as lieutenant-colonel in North Africa and Italy, his double-barrelled beer name earned him the affectionate sobriquet of "Colonel Screwtop".
- A crushing piece of condescension that, worthy of a Spanish grandee in about 1700, too proud to notice that the world has moved on.
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