Sentence examples similar to act of ridicule. from inspiring English sources

No, the place is worth a detour not in order to admire Blaine, but to participate in an exhilarating act of collective ridicule.

In The Guardian, the columnist Catherine Bennett encouraged Londoners to join in "an exhilarating act of public ridicule" by taunting Mr. Blaine with food.

This art of ridicule operates everywhere.

Willis endured a fair bit of ridicule for this 'discovery'discovery

And this high-wire act of self-ridicule continues!

He shows dedication in the face of ridicule".

"The ways of injuring a child are infinite, while the ways of being useful to them are few... the slightest mistrust, the smallest unkindness, the least act of injustice or contemptuous ridicule, leave wounds that last for life in the finely strung soul of the child..."...

Tottenham fans have called themselves "Yids" "Yiddos" or the "Yid Army" for many years as an act of defiance towards those who ridicule the club's links with the Jewish community.

ALBANY — The State Senate, bloodied after weeks of infighting and gridlock that made it the object of ridicule, tried to clean up its act on Thursday by passing a package of changes to its house rules.

It turned out that capitalism, armed with its media spear of advertising, was fully capable of incorporating into itself rebellion as a life style, black consciousness as a pop-culture and consumer fashion, and hipsterism as a joking irony that ridiculed the act of selling even as it sold everything to everybody.

And if they are open, they are so afraid of ridicule that they have limited capacity to act.