Sentence examples for In mockery of from inspiring English sources

In front of their biggest attendance of the season – as Rangers fans will note – there was a glee to Motherwell's celebrations that took in mockery of the former Glasgow giants.

In mockery of all the Western books about Africa, Achebe ended Things Fall Apart with a colonial official observing Okonkwo's fate and imagining the book he will write: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.

They excel in mockery of state authority.

LAST WINTER, bitter cold on the East Coast prompted Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla). to take a snowball onto the Senate floor in mockery of climate scientists.

Earlier Elizabeth Banks came on stage in silhouette surrounded by dry ice, in mockery of Trump's entrance to the Republican convention last week.

Rose's gripping tale gets to the heart of a terrible slander — that Jews tortured children in mockery of Christ and the Crucifixion, and used their blood for ritual purposes — and examines how it was invented, embellished, and transmitted.

Humour itself may distort reality crudely, as in slapstick, or corrosively, as in the mockery of a stand-up comic.

Few groups in recent French history have been more passionately "minoritarian" — more marginalized or on the outs with the political establishment, more vitriolic in their mockery of power, more courageous in ridiculing people of far greater influence and power.

So it was both surprising and not-all-that-surprising that during this weekend's Oscars, when host Chris Rock joined in the mockery of the awards' glaring whiteness he also threw in a weak-ass bit about Asians.

He also indulged in some mockery of "wealthy, successful Americans" who overestimate their own abilities.

Kevin is himself accomplished in the mockery of his mother's liberal self-righteousness.