Sentence examples for derision at from inspiring English sources

Derision at such elision is misplaced.

Even then, my friends' derision at the childish and cheesy entertainments didn't ring true.

'It will be like a nunnery under an Abbess – a peaceful, harmonious sisterhood.' I snorted derision at this idea.

For days now, the conservative media has been a seething mass of anger and derision at the President.

It becomes an object of derision at its première — and, soon, mockingly celebrated for its unmatched badness, it becomes a cult classic.

Mr. Haider's reference to a man called "Greenberg" from the "East Coast" prompted hoots of laughter and derision at a rally last month.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation announced Wednesday that it was withdrawing its $12 billion bid to buy complete control of the satellite giant British Sky Broadcasting, a move intended to calm the torrent of derision directed at the company since journalists at its British newspapers were implicated in a widespread phone-hacking scheme.

Harrison, for all the derision flung at him, has endured hardship.

As the daughter of a sick parent, I was aware very young of the subtle yet consistent derision directed at the ill or disabled.

Early in "Talking Back, Talking Black," McWhorter brings up the legacy of racism, only to reject it as an adequate explanation for or tool in arguing against the derision levelled at Black English over the years.

The level of derision directed at Mr. Hagel from Republicans has been striking not just because defense secretaries are usually confirmed on a simple up-or-down vote, but also because Mr. Hagel, a Republican, served with many of them in the Senate until 2008.