#descending

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar. ↗

— Eric Liu

#citizenship #conversation #descending #everyday #feel

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#hate #place #skulls #vulture

Kyo: Of course, I'll beat YOU, too! Yuki: Don't you ever get tired of saying that? Kyo: Beating you is my vocation! It's my goal in life! Yuki: It's so unfair that I keep having to take abuse just because you can't meet your goals. Kyo: THAT CONDESCENDING ATTITUDE OF YOURS REALLY PISSES ME OFF! Yuki: And that revolting thought process of yours pisses me off. ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

#condescending #fight #humor #attitude

I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#before #camp #climbers #concerned #could

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending. ↗

— Sherry Stringfield

#doctors #find #i #patient #terrible

After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first. ↗

— Howard Carter

#after #afternoon #almost #came #clearing

They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train. ↗

— Charles Godfrey Leland

#dream #loveliness #saw #train

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. ↗

— Scott Adams

#condescending #done #find #how #show

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#day #first #half #labor #try

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#condescending #each #end #first #first thing