Sentence examples for as mockery from inspiring English sources

At the crowded Samuel Kanyon Doe Stadium — named for the military dictator who imprisoned Mrs. Sirleaf, an outspoken former finance minister and economist, in the 1980s — her supporters raced around the infield battering stuffed baboons, reprising the campaign slogan plastered around Monrovia and meant as mockery of Mr. Tubman's campaign: "Monkey Still Working, Let Baboon Wait Small".

When satire is spoken of today, however, there is usually no sense of formal specification whatever; one has in mind a work imbued with the satiric spirit a spirit that appears (whether as mockery, raillery, ridicule, or formalized invective) in the literature or folklore of all peoples, early and late, preliterate and civilized.

The dramatist George S Kaufman famously remarked with regard to New York theatrical tastes that "satire is what closes on Saturday night", which doesn't bode well for the tone of a piece that could also be (mis)interpreted as mockery: the Brits having a go at hapless Americans and their hopeless financial ecosystem.

Joice Heth's own tall tales, Reiss thinks, began as mockery of her puffed-up and ridiculous owner, a theory that may or may not be true but that is far less painful to think about than the ways she was used and abused by Barnum, who, in abolitionist towns, claimed that he was using the money he made by exhibiting her to buy her great-great-grandchildren out of slavery.

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Still, as the promise of winter gives way to the realities of spring and summer, what is written with respect today will no doubt come back as mockery.

The track ends with a burst of laughter that some listeners interpret as a mockery of the song, but Harrison explains: "Well, after all that long Indian stuff you want some light relief.

Mockery, as well as self-mockery, underlay her "Twin Towers Tribute" as she pouted across the stage poking fun at a nation's inability to comprehend why it is so widely hated.

Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert has labelled the controversial 'five-day rule' regarding injured players missing international duty as "a mockery" as he seeks to avoid a row over Christian Benteke's call-up by Belgium.

"And now that that man is coming, racist that he is, the people are taking it as a mockery, as though he's trampling on the Hispanic community here".

That women's ministry, for one thing, never came into being: all that emerged was a "women's unit" which has attracted as much mockery as respect, especially after convening a summit on "body image", and now seems to be fading away altogether.