Sentence examples for certain ridicule from inspiring English sources

Being a flagrant exhibitionist when it comes to baring the naked contours of my Pollyanna soul, I risked certain ridicule in answering recently: "the power to make smiles".

The state censors were outraged that the author drew no moral lessons from Emma Bovary's adulteries, and they felt certain passages ridiculed religion.

Actually it was composed by two young soldiers who wished to ridicule certain aspects of contemporary poetry.

Astonishment and a certain amount of ridicule have greeted the praise lavished on Oscar Wilde by the Vatican's official newspaper L'Osservatore Romano this week.

This decision, made by the Bundestag (German parliament) in 2007 following many years of negotiations, invited a certain amount of ridicule at the time.

The way in which the chancellor and the prime minister have been travelling the country together, implausibly presenting themselves as an inseparable couple, has aroused a certain amount of ridicule.

Executives expect a certain amount of ridicule for their unconventional and risky approach to problem-solving.

To begin with there was a certain amount of ridicule.

"The Lemon Song" is a parody of itself, one that demands a certain amount of ridicule from anyone who ever sat slack-jawed in wonder during Howlin' Wolf's incendiary "Killing Floor" — or fell in love with a well-crafted McCartney or Bob Dylan line.

And yet, for reasons of decorum, many scientists worry that ridiculing certain religious claims alienates the public from science.

Just last week, someone questioned my decision to use a certain toilet and ridiculed what I look like.