Sentence examples for been derided for its from inspiring English sources

The nation's largest public works project, the Big Dig has long been derided for its habitually rising price tag (it leveled at $14.6 billion) and for continuously lagging behind schedule (completion is now expected in spring 2005).

Its latest incarnation, on blue-collar-hero Cooper, is a notable revival because it's recently been derided for its hipster association.

Australia has often been derided for its lack of culture.

Bungie's online shooter has been derided for its dull faltering narrative and its obtuse endgame.

While the group has been derided for its low-key approach, its recommendations have been largely embraced in New Delhi.

Eggleston's photography has been derided for its ordinariness, for its compositional blankness, even for its use of colour.

Schopenhauer said of an idea that initially may be derided for its simplicity or its ambition: "First, it is ridiculed.

Long gone are the days when the city was derided for its food scene or seen as sleepy and staid.

The Galaxy S5, which Samsung introduced in January, was derided for its cheap plastic casing.Low-cost makers from China, such as Xiaomi and Huawei, and new European brands such as Wiko and Archos, are attacking Samsung's market from below.

Its admirers believe it saved country music from the rock 'n' roll juggernaut, brought the music to mid-America in a way that had not been experienced since Gene Autry, and turned Nashville into Music City U.S.A. Once success was achieved, however, the the style was derided for its homogeneity and lack of backbone.

In "Less Is Less," a 1986 essay in Harper's Magazine by the novelist Madison Smartt Bell, such writing was derided for its alleged "obsessive concern for surface detail, a tendency to ignore or eliminate distinctions among the people it renders, and a studiedly deterministic, at times nihilistic, vision of the world".