Sentence examples for derisive tone from inspiring English sources

Putin has adopted a haughty, derisive tone toward the West.

Despite his derisive tone (or perhaps because of it) Souvestre scores an impressive number of predictive hits.

On The Spectator and then on Private Eye, he sharpened his pen and his derisive tone -- and remained curmudgeonly in character the rest of his life.

The judge, in a derisive tone, suggested that perhaps the bank and its law firm "do not want the court to confront the conflicted Ms. Stewart," according to a transcript.

Ms. Ralph, who came here from Antigua, said that some parents asked her, in almost a derisive tone, "Why do you do this?" Her response, she said, could not be simpler: "Because my child is there".

I wanted to flee, but the surgeon ordered me to stay so that he could narrate, in the most sarcastic and derisive tone imaginable, every remedial step; how he was obliged to insert, painstakingly, a T-tube into the previously unnicked and profoundly important common bile duct".

In my secular, urban and urbane world, God is rarely spoken of, except in mocking, derisive tones.

The Talmud the authoritative compendium of law, lore, and commentary speaks of the Boethusians in derisive tones.

On Thursday, in the derisive tones of a radio talk-show host, he said Mr. Obama's cabinet looked like Mickey Mouse and Goofy.

In its ruling, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council found that the slur "although lightly sarcastic in its application in the song, was not used in a 'sneering, derisive, nasty tone.' " Nevertheless, the panel concluded that any use of the word was inappropriate in today's context.

What's really radical about the song is its derisive look at his privileged listeners.