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These blind spots can make the album’s appeal to just relax and go outside feel a little patronizing at times.

Members of the royal family—including the tsar’s rather bohemian favorite uncle, the aforementioned Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov—began patronizing temperance.

The sales tax factors in big too, Gin said, since visitors and tourists normally would be patronizing restaurants and shops.

He said Moscow would ignore the patronizing statements of Western leaders on the case.

Mehta was himself accused of highhandedness at times, notably in a 1989 article in the satirical magazine Spy, in which former assistants described him as patronizing and domineering.

It is loathed by some critics who find it patronizing, silly, and superficial.

Many commenters found her essay less empowering and more patronizing.

Among the explorers, a state of mind developed that was patronizing and paternalistic.

We will gladly continue patronizing those stores, but will not be taking our rifles.

Or they might stop patronizing Starbucks and start patronizing a hipster java upstart like Stumptown.

Hence we find them frequently patronizing "mediums" and fortune tellers of various kinds.

His merit was his patriotism, and his patronizing such men as Burke, and bringing them into influence.

Even masters entering through the swinging doors seemed glad to pass beyond the range of the heroes' patronizing contemplation.

She was getting impatient of their patronizing laughter, as if she were a child.

To him, despite his well-exploited and patronizing devotion to them, the lower animals are disgustingly low.