Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has hit back at ridicule of his claim that Islamic explorers discovered the Americas three centuries before Columbus, accusing his Muslim critics of lacking "self-confidence".
And while there is much tweeness, and the heavily echoing bar-room piano could be seen as a cynical contrivance in this modern age, I believe this track could never be dented by any attempts at ridicule.
"Our father was very good at ridicule," Frederick and Steven report; and it was worst, they say, for Donald and their sister, Joan, who were the oldest, and who "often alluded to the terror of our father's attention in their childhoods, a kind of vague, best-left-unsaid eyebrow-raising that effectively communicated the terrifying things they had once been subjected to".
Irreverence, neglect, contempt, dishonor, insult, indignity, outrage, discourtesy, mockery, jeer, scoff, taunt, sneer, slap in the face, push aside, overlook, turn one's back upon, browbeat, dishonor, desecrate, insult, affront, laugh at, ridicule, abuse, rude, sarcastic, unworshiped, unenvied and disregarded.
