Mr. Isermann crafted each piece by hand and took, one sensed, an uncondescending pleasure in his sources.

Golaszewski has a devastating ear for the tiny bizarreries of this near-phatic communion, plus the uncondescending ability to keep the characters juicy.

The Times ventured somewhat more positively that "While nobody would call it an original musical comedy the scenes all have the familiar freshness that springs from an uncondescending invention".

Setting ideology aside, Edward Lansdale wins our respect for his uncondescending way with the people of the Philippines and Southeast Asia, his instinctive ability to win their hearts.

There are dazzling pyrotechnics in the Dewdrop's dancing and charming simplicity in the uncondescending steps Balanchine gave the smallest soldiers, Candy Canes and baby Polichinelles.

The choreography, by teachers at the school, offered the children an uncondescending chance to shine at a variety of simple and difficult steps and to gobble up the stage space with buoyant well-trained dancing.

Like Sander, he has consciously set out to chronicle the faces of his time; and like Arbus, he photographs with stealth, cunning and an uncondescending sympathy for the outcasts among us.