Sentence examples for derisive joke from inspiring English sources

Matisse coined the name Cubism as a derisive joke.

Better to meet for silent contemplation punctuated by the occasional, sometimes quivery interjection (hence the name, which was originally a derisive joke).

Yes, President Obama was smiling during the White House Correspondents Associationn dinner on Saturday evening when the comedian Wanda Sykes made a derisive joke about Rush Limbaugh.

It's supremely elegant, supremely derisive, and supremely creative.

The derisive jokes about boardheads have stopped, too, as more orchardists have taken up the sport.

But whatever one calls it, the story has spread throughout the Hasidic world, inspiring debate, Talmudic discussions and derisive jokes.

It is in fact quite classic looking, the sort of abstract work that was being used at least four decades ago in derisive jokes about about how fraudulent modern art is.

To arrive at this point, one must conclude that multiple reports of police hurling racial epithets at black residents and a string of racially derisive jokes e-mailed between Ferguson court and police officials do not represent "a culture of racial animus".

Whatever one calls it, the tale of the talking fish has spread in recent weeks throughout this tight-knit Rockland County community, populated by about 7,000 members of the Skver sect of Hasidim, and throughout the Hasidic world, inspiring heated debate, Talmudic discussions and derisive jokes.

The question provoked a derisive laugh.

Take a look at the YouTube comments on the video above to see the full range of reaction to Newman's latest: self-satisfied "I get it" boasts; derisive "It's a joke, idiots" attacks; confusion; anger.