Sentence examples for derision to from inspiring English sources

If she was a source of derision to some, she was held a hero by others.

Now James gets booed everywhere he goes, and he can expect the Garden derision to be cacophonous.

"It is important to use humour, or derision, to hook the audience, but it's not intended as a funny film.

"In merely 30 years, it has gone from being an object of derision to an object of respect.

Upon his assassination he was followed by his uncle, Claudius, whose personal disabilities made him an object of derision to his contemporaries but who had many statesmanlike faculties.

And he responded with derision to the suggestion that he should make any special effort to reach out to the communities that suffered from the corruption.

You have subjected this dress, which my wife made, to derision and to ridicule.

He played the part in a manner that recalled some of the characters of Evelyn Waugh or Peter Fleming, a British travel writer of the 1930's who combined parody, wit and self-derision to famous effect.

Noise levels of up to 92 decibels have been recorded, and worse still it's an automatic version of the noise we use to infer derision or to imitate swine.

In 1953, two years after the enormous success of "Catcher," Salinger, a man easily aroused to embarrassment or derision, retreated to Cornish, New Hampshire, and remained there until his death, in 2010.

After peaking in the late 1980s to mid-90s, they weathered two decades of derision— clinging to the waists of lifestyle rollerbladers only to resurface as unlikely style staples of the mid-2010s.