Inefficiency and incompetence are not punished by "consumers" of their products or services spurning the UN and patronizing a competitor.
But I think there's something else at work here: For your typical self-conscious but wealthy New Yorker with egalitarian ideals, it's hard to imagine anything more uncomfortable than patronizing a store meant just for rich people.
Heather Roberts of Sugar Land, Texas, made a point of patronizing at Chick-fil-A on Wednesday while visiting Atlanta for a conference.
They have worked too hard, they have sacrificed too much for a patronizing pat on the back.
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Women benefit from professional, objective (non-product driven) financial support as long as it is not delivered in a patronizing manner or women are ignored.
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They are perfectly happy to let the Syiems carry on with their cultural functions. (Most senior officials including the Chief Minister and the Governor of Meghalaya turned up at the Nongkrem dance.) But when it comes to the actual business of governance, such as law enforcement or revenue collection, they are a little patronizing about the authority of the Syiems.
In this movie, as in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, " the physically slight, baby-faced actor is called upon to soak up a lot of patronizing put-downs.
So is this insulting and patronizing, or does it reflect a genuine attempt to reach out to voters traditionally underrepresented in America's political conversation?
Therefore, when a presenter states the obvious in a paraphrase, it sounds patronizing to the audience.
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It really opens up the opportunity for the parent and child to interact in a way that is not patronizing.
But then, there will be the jobs that are lost or not created because the sequester goes into effect -- around businesses that close -- small businesses that close or cut back, support services around them whether they're restaurants or barbershops and the like, that are affected and don't hire a new worker because there are fewer patronizing their businesses.
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