He said he'd taken the boots to a shoe repairman who asked, apparently with great derision, "Who de-siii-ggggnnned these?" Not quite "Who are you wearing?" Fiorentini & Baker 54 Mercer Street (between Broome and Grand Streets); (212) 212-7212.
And so no president, I'm guessing, would know that the Maxwell House Haggadah -- the flimsy, wine-stained, rote, anti-intellectual Haggadah you get when you buy a can of coffee at Shoprite) -- is the target, alternatively, of great derision and veneration among American Jews (at least, I'm told there are people who venerate it).
This has caused great derision, though businesses have been doing it for hundreds of years.
"On the other hand, Nintendo's Wii was met with great derision when it first launched but ended up soundly trouncing everyone else in terms of sales numbers".
My derisive response to the news that Obama will have a poem written for and read at his Inauguration was greeted with even greater derision by bloggers and other readers, including one who signed off her e-mail as "Miss Terri Ford, the righteous redhead of Minneapolis, Minnesota," after clobbering me with eloquent outrage: George, poets everywhere are frothing at their literary mouths.
It is also a politically shrewd move by Mr. Bruno to address the failing by the Legislature that has attracted the greatest derision: 14 consecutive years of late budgets.
And why should those attempting to view the world and themselves honestly, critically, with empathy and idealism however misguided their conclusions, impractical their methods, or unlikely their outcomes be subject to greater derision than the cynical profiteers, the polluters, and the narcissists?
His initial deployment of just 2,500 U.S. troops to Australia seemed a slender down payment on his "deliberate and strategic decision" to become America's first "Pacific president," producing a great deal of premature criticism and derision.
Rolling eyes is a great way to express irritation or derision towards another person.
Besides being, curiously, a great artist, Daumier remains the Homer of topical derision, and rivalled in history only by William Hogarth, the caricaturist's caricaturist.
