unpatronizing

Mr. Leigh's gift is to find the tenderness in these characters' harsh lives, and to translate this desolate scene into an unpatronizing celebration of marital affection and friendship.

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Turbulent Family Life Paul Levy 2011

The unpatronizing Mrs. Edwards sounds like an adult speaking to adults.

Sunday Reading 2007

Their work at its best makes honest efforts to explain what they feel is unfair or wrong and to document those things in ways that are rousing, humorous and unpatronizing to working class people.

Reaching my father: A tribute-and a warning 2008

The unpatronizing Mrs. Edwards sounds like an adult speaking to adults. . .

Archive 2007-04-01 2007

Of course, Merina and I were more interested in pop singing than in fund-raising, and not having expected a reply, we had only a passionate defense of the rhino and few feeble suggestions of cake sales and sponsored swims to offer the minister, but he made a church and steeple of his fingers and gave us his undivided and unpatronizing attention, and we all smiled at one another under an un-smiling portrait of Mugabe.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

Of course, Merina and I were more interested in pop singing than in fund-raising, and not having expected a reply, we had only a passionate defense of the rhino and few feeble suggestions of cake sales and sponsored swims to offer the minister, but he made a church and steeple of his fingers and gave us his undivided and unpatronizing attention, and we all smiled at one another under an un-smiling portrait of Mugabe.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

Wonderland isn't just an uncommonly rich and intimate look at high school life; it's the best piece of decent-minded, unpatronizing Americana I've read since Jim Wilson's Vietnam-themed The Sons of Bardstown (1994).

The Kids Are All Right 2004

Wonderland isn't just an uncommonly rich and intimate look at high school life; it's the best piece of decent-minded, unpatronizing Americana I've read since Jim Wilson's Vietnam-themed The Sons of Bardstown (1994).

The Kids Are All Right 2004

Where O'Hanlon differs from Conrad is in his wholly unpatronizing admiration for the natives of Borneo he encounters and for the traveler's skilled, funny Dyak guides.

Traveling Light Dinnage, Rosemary 1985

Only an American in all the world knows how to meet Young Woman eye to eye with totally unpatronizing frankness, and he was without guile in the matter.

The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920