| People here don't want others to look down on them, so they'll go anywhere to earn more. |
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| I think it's anti-feminist to look down on any choice a woman makes in how she spends her time. |
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| The residents of Miami used to look down on Hispanic food and culture, but now they can't get enough of it. |
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| Historical lexicographers, like myself, even look down on what is regarded as the Golden Age of Language. |
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| From there they could look down on the city's fine new skyscrapers and modern apartment blocks. |
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| Now I find more than a few Brisbane sophisticates similarly look down on culturally deprived bushies such as myself. |
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| There have always been classical and opera snobs who look down on the inferior world of pop and rock. |
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| Government ministers look down on the health service and don't quite understand. |
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| I wonder if the people look down on us queuing up and laugh, thinking you wouldn't catch me in a car. |
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| On the way from Delhi to Jaipur are the hill forts of Jaigarh and Nahargarh that look down on the city. |
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| They put him up high so, when we go to pay our respects, he can look down on us for a change. |
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| When I went higher still, I was able to look down on a great expanse of white cloud, looking like giant clumps of spotlessly clean cotton wool. |
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| The park has a really cool hawk tower where you can look down on the Olive Sparrows and ducks, grebes and herons on the water. |
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| We're not slumming, we don't look down on you and we're here to have fun, too. |
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| In Greenland, I was helicoptered up to the top of a mountain, from where you can look down on these amazing blue structures. |
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| Narrow decks with ship-like railings look down on a starkly plain, half-moon courtyard, empty except for two dead trees. |
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| Jocks respect physical prowess and look down on unfit people for being weak and lazy. |
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| It's easy to look down on down-and-outs and forget that they are a community in their own right. |
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| She was at least a head shorter than he and he could look down on the top of her head, smell the light, flowery fragrance of her hair. |
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| He can look down on all of us, has side windows through which to view the world, and a skylight to the stars. |
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| I told you that people from the city look down on us people from the countryside. |
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| You can look down on this brilliant carpet of blooms after scaling the skyscraping Gloucester Tree with metal spikes. |
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| We do not need to lecture them or look down on them or give them a public display where we just rant and rave. |
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| The young people and the others who look down on the Chamber today wonder what we talk about. |
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| You would have to stand on a chair, a swivel chair, to be able to look down on the top of this machine. |
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| Taking pride in their stature, they look down on other Houses, degenerate and weak to their eyes. |
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| Is it the fact that they can read that makes these people look down on others, or is it only money? |
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| She would probably look down on me, if she didn't literally spit in my face. |
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| From here you can climb to the top of Mount Acropolis to look down on Labyrinth and its elegant lakes. |
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| That is why we can never look down on others in his name, but only welcome them and let ourselves be welcomed by them. |
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| Most people touring the 302-square-kilometre Lushan National Park will be unruffled when they stand in front of perpendicular cliffs and look down on deep valleys. |
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| Stand aft to look down on the wake frothing up from the propeller wash. |
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| I glance out of the window and through a late-afternoon haze look down on a sea that is the light blue of a blackbird's egg, its texture that of ruffled taffeta. |
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| The crowd has swelled so you can't move, let alone photograph, so I make for a restaurant on a first floor from where I can look down on the concert below. |
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| Occasionally he climbed the belfry to inspect the faulty bell, and then he was able to look down on the whole village as it went about its business. |
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| Renovated and restyled a few years ago, The Roman Bath was formerly structured to allow punters to look down on to the 2,000 year old caldarium from which it takes its name. |
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| It's made even worse, since my traditional Conservative family in the shires would look down on arriviste Dai Cameron. |
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| He does not think highly of himself and does not look down on others. |
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| At the same time, the community may look down on them, considering them to be spoiled and unfit for marriage and as having a corrupting influence on other young people. |
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| This history, stretching over centuries, certainly does not entitle us Europeans to look down on the peoples in various regions of the earth today who are finding the practice of tolerance difficult. |
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| But if we fly over some parts of the Delta region of my own country, Nigeria, you can look down on hundreds and hundreds of gas flares which have been operating for the past four or five decades. |
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| It is very convenient for Russia and for President Putin for there to be a country that they can look down on in that part of Europe, and for there to be a regime that can be seen as the black sheep of Europe. |
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| Knowing that others look down on them, they look down on themselves. |
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| If someone from another planet were to look down on this earth, he would think that mankind wished to destroy itself and had no desire to survive. |
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| When the rest of us look down on the upper class, it's called inverted snobbery. |
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| We mustn't look down on this new art expression in the form of luminous pictures, for fear of falling behind and of depriving ourselves of a strong element of success. |
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| The Mediterranean is, to all intents and purposes, the only European sea, and as long as we, in our plans and policies, look down on the other side of the Mediterranean from on high, then we shall get nowhere. |
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| I'm about a foot taller than Doris, so I look down on her tiny curls, each one a perfect rosette of blue icing under a saranwrap tent. |
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| Most of the people in the club are snobs who look down on people who attended public schools. |
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