The minister laughs at the new horse and condescendingly tells Jess that there is nothing personal in passing Jess every Sunday (First Day to the Quakers), it is simply an eternal law that a swift horse passes a slow one.

Burnett also, according to Greenwald and various other commentators, got her facts wrong, especially when she condescendingly told one protester that the bailout made money for the taxpayers, a claim so extraordinary it sounded untrue and, lo, turned out to be so.

"Shortly after we bought the house, one new neighbor condescendingly told me, 'You paid too much - nobody pays more than $25,000 for a brownstone in Park Slope,' " Mr. Labine recalled.

Helen tries to convince Poppy to be more responsible, condescendingly telling her she's too childish, but is ultimately ignored.

When she last appeared on Broadway five years ago, she was merely a megastar, Dame Edna condescendingly tells her audience; now she is "a glittering gigastar."