1 Stop patronising me - I understand the play as well as you do.

2 This patronising obfuscation was never very convincing.

3 That is a patronising approach which would deny widening choice to many local authority tenants.

4 Trevor Sorbie thinks the patronising attitudes of some salons can be explained by the youth of the stylists.

5 I run the risk of sounding patronising here, but I do feel that this is a point worth making.

6 It is one that patronising and superior Brits frequently sneer at.

7 It is probably patronising to say that in both cases the window dressing is up to Kensington standards, but it is.

8 Self-help has become a vicious and patronising fiction which is deployed to excuse society's neglect of its lowest earners.

9 Reports are commonly prosaic, dull, pompous and patronising and written with selfish disregard for the reader.

10 Or make some patronising remark about her cute rear end and how he would be delighted to give her a lift over?

11 Not office gossip or patronising shit about trusting the Registry files.

12 He showed a patronising attitude to the homeless.

13 One of the rather patronising defences often put forward about why such relics should stay put is that they will be better cared for, or reach a wider public, than if they were to be returned "home".

14 I wish he wouldn't keep calling me 'dear' - it's so patronising!

15 As a gay man I find your sudden input of gay advertising patronising.

16 The Student Cook Book provides basic helpful advice without sounding patronising.

17 It was therefore a shock to face such hostile and patronising attitudes when I arrived.

18 Because exam questions and essay titles often ask you to judge texts, it can be difficult to avoid such patronising effects.

19 He writes with masterful facility, and succeeds in making his subject accessible to an audience of non-specialists without patronising their intelligence.

20 In flaccid prose Shaftesbury rambles on with an air of affected conversational ease which projects the persona of the patronising aristocrat.

21 And more than half the women interviewed hate the label housewife because it sounds so patronising.

22 Until the opening of the Marlborough galleries had tended to treat artists in a patronising way, as underlings.

23 I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive.

24 Fiona Grogan, 17, portrayed orphan Sophie with the right quality of childlike credibility without patronising children.

25 My children are very sensitive about being treated in a patronising way.

26 The former was written in the style of an internal memo while the latter was crass and patronising, he said.

27 Their attempts to be casual have so far just looked arch or patronising.

28 Ms Gilan says: "That voice does make men very patronising and very comfortable and not at all worried about competition."

29 Full of fire as he was in his public life, he could also unbend graciously so as to talk on the most difficult subjects to a stripling like myself without any trace of a patronising tone.

30 Said by a white Texan dynast in Ghana, an African country once ravaged by the slave trade, that unexceptionable insight might sound a shade patronising.

1 Stop patronising me - I understand the play as well as you do.

31 His friends aren't interested in talking to my friends. And my friends think his friends are boring and patronising.

32 When she first joined the Wasilla city council, she found it full of patronising old men.

33 It's super easy to do so there is no need for a patronising explanation and it makes for the most perfect holiday hair.

34 Ferguson used to speak of City in the kind of slightly patronising way someone might refer to a little cousin.

35 "DEVELOPMENT depends on good governance. " Said by a white Texan dynast in Ghana, an African country once ravaged by the slave trade, that unexceptionable insight might sound a shade patronising.

36 History of China shows, she has always maintained "hostility" towards her larger or powerful neighbours and extremely patronising, "pat on the shoulder" friendship with smaller, weaker neighbours.

37 Even SNCF, France's national rail company, is considering buying them for the Eurostar, its trans-channel service, rather than patronising Alstom, the French national champion.

38 His more sensitive supporters would be right to feel it is patronising.

39 Whether he comes to you in anger or merely to give you a patronising pat on the back, you are done for, cracked in either case.

40 I find this just as patronising as 'a glass of dry white wine for the little lady'.

41 China's approach to our needs is simply better adapted than the slow and sometimes patronising post-colonial approach of European investors,[http:///patronising.html] donor organisations and non-governmental organisations.

42 Giles's condescension. Mr. Giles looked round with a patronising air, as much as to say that so long as they behaved properly, he would never desert them.

43 Michelle Dewberry a former winner of The Apprentice, said the motion was patronising.

44 The sentiment behind the utterance is undoubtedly a sincere and genuine one, free of any deliberate intent to patronise, but it was patronising nonetheless.

45 The " ordinary man in the street" or " ordinary men and women" - very patronising. Who are the people who are so different and not ordinary?