Sentence examples for at mockery from inspiring English sources

The objective, of course, is to smoke out those who would take deep umbrage at mockery, while celebrating the good sports.

His challengers should know by now that they can't beat Donald Trump at mockery, although Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz tried anyway in Thursday's two-hour presidential debate.

The post of poet laureate can seem like a poisoned chalice - just look at the mockery aimed at William Wordsworth by the painter Benjamin Haydon: "What would Hazlitt say now?

Scare tactics and over-the-top drug PSAs (U.S. Navy's "Zombie Bath Salts," anyone?) geared at teens and 20-somethings incite apathy at best and mockery at worst.

Her stifled pain — at her father's absence, at the gossip it sparks, at the mockery and ostracism that she endures from the popular girls, with the more perfect wardrobes and the more glittery manners, such as her next-door neighbor, Veronica (Rowan Blanchard) — compacts itself into an opaque expression and a far-reaching gaze.

The Onion is not alone at press mockery.

As a good Guardianista I should pull my cardigan tight and frown at such mockery of liberal values.

As for the question of why Portlandia has worked while other attempts at liberal mockery have not, the clever writing is certainly one factor.

We can only hope that, as Mr. Davis wished, further investigation will conclusively exonerate him and that public revulsion at this mockery of justice will strengthen the effort to abolish capital punishment in America.

The city's press has done a good job of digging up dirt on the candidates, fueling public interest (or at least mockery) in the campaign that culminates Sunday.

Thus his exchanges with Afrikaner leaders had something of the flavor of a family feud: however bitter the relationship, some National Party leaders even went to his shows and laughed at the mockery of themselves.