Sentence examples for Subtle mockery from inspiring English sources

The artist, a sly, conceptualist Disney, created a subtle mockery of the wisdom of crowds.

It also evokes the subtly threatening authority that the military represents in the story, and a subtle mockery of the officer as well.

Bigelow takes the macho bullshit that underpins parts of the surfer worldview and pulls it apart with sustained but subtle mockery.

Liang Long's earnestness as he played the Errenzhuan was entertainingly outrageous, and his subtle mockery of Chinese authority — the costume, the military salutes, the occasional allusions to Communist-era songs — betrayed a real irreverence.

Serebrennikov's approach is also more powerful because it is in the best Russian traditions of political satire and subtle mockery of the powerful — summed up by a phrase which translates to English as "middle finger in the pocket," the rough equivalent of flipping people the bird as soon as they turn their back.

He responded to her taking a new lover with "subtle mockery," advising Jean-François de Saint-Lambert, the young poet with whom Du Châtelet became involved after Voltaire began an affair with his own niece, to take Du Châtelet "quickly to her toilette," rid her of her "old black apron" and cleanse "her hand dirty with ink".

This works especially well for injecting an ironic tone into your writing if you're writing with subtle-mockery about how much you love your boss's wardrobe, and link in a picture of the boss from Office Space, we'll get the picture loud and clear.

(Johnson) Les Rogers: 'Summer Swells' (closes on Sunday) The stylistic promiscuity and subtle self-mockery characteristic of this painter become more substantial when deployed on small wood panels, the outer borders of which have been stained to resemble frames.

(Cotter) Les Rogers: 'Summer Swells' (through Sept. 2) The stylistic promiscuity and subtle self-mockery characteristic of this painter become more substantial when deployed on small wood panels, the outer borders of which have been stained to resemble frames.

Through Sept. 2 Les Rogers's abstract paintings always involve an element of subtle self-mockery, but lately he has brought it out into the open, making it more pointed and, in a way, more substantial.

The results were consistently disheartening, ranging from subtle glances of disapproval to full-blown mockery.