Despite his Brazilian accent causing mockery among some Colombians, Moura created a compellingly complex villain – one whose actions were made all the more shocking by their proximity to historical fact.
One well-deserved cause of mockery was my decision to have an official box made up with the title "Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister" emblazoned on it.
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.
But strongly defending the Buchanan faction and affirming its legitimacy, he warned the opposing group, "If their plan is to cause a mockery of democracy by storming the convention, they would be guilty of the same thing they accuse other people of doing".
The novels feature numerous abductions of the heroine, a trait which was the cause of mockery by early and later critics.
His lament about referee Karl-Josef Assenmacher was the cause of mirth and mockery not head-bowed concern.
It was their feelings of weakness, or grievance, and openness to mockery that caused them to riot; it was their sense of themselves as beleaguered and powerless underclass that caused their objection to the play.
She was barely involved in her husband's campaign (when she was,she proved to be more of a liability than an asset), and her one moment of public independence, when she announced that she would spearhead a campaign against cyberbullying as first lady cause, was met with deserved mockery.
She was barely involved in her husband's campaign (when she was, she proved to be more of a liability than an asset), and her one moment of public independence, when she announced that she would spearhead a campaign against cyberbullying as a first lady cause, was met with deserved mockery.
