Sentence examples for a note of derision from inspiring English sources

What happened before that?" Mention-Schaar drew much of the material for her film from the work of Dounia Bouzar, an anthropologist and former youth educator who has become known in France, sometimes with a note of derision, as "Madame De-indoctrination".

Mr. Mohammed's comments included a familiar tone of derision toward Americans.

For many a cynical cricket fan, describing someone as a "character" is an act of derision.

I had only to touch the sore spot to send her into an aria of derision whose first notes I had heard a few months earlier, and which I would continue to hear throughout our acquaintance.

If the defender does not reply within a time frame, an expression of derision is witnessed.

There's a bilious cacophony, a running commentary of derision.

With a snort of derision?

"It was a subject of derision and contempt," he recalled.

Yet the speech created a storm of derision.

I felt this shower as a kind of derision.

He was a figure of derision for some.