Sentence examples for cause for mockery from inspiring English sources

Writer-director Kevin Smith and his co-star (the utterly charmless Jason Mewes) play the New Jersey stoners who've progressed from minor characters to title heroes, which elevation is, like everything else, a cause for mockery: "They don't deserve their own movie", writes one Internet critic, and within 10 minutes I was in passionate agreement.

She did, however, have an appealing instinct for self-mockery.

I longed for a day when such habits weren't the cause of mockery but were, if not accepted, at least ignored.

The novels feature numerous abductions of the heroine, a trait which was the cause of mockery by early and later critics.

But for Homer the cause of the Trojan War, its length and its squabbles are not occasions for mockery.

The class caused a small media tornado in 2000 when word of it was picked up for mockery by conservative news outlets.

He is an easy target for mockery.

But it makes him a target for mockery, too.

Efforts to calm the uproar came in for mockery.

This is legitimately, unmistakably sad and not open for mockery.

I wore a surgical boot until I was 13, which made me a target for mockery.