Sentence examples for element of derision from inspiring English sources

When Panahi makes a film now, it's an act of political revolt — and, when he films himself making a film, it adds the element of derision, of contempt for the absurd application of absurd laws.

We started this campaign one year nine months ago, and it was greeted with howls of derision from certain elements of the community, but they don't howl quite so loudly now.

In those terms, his tap-dancing demonstration with Ms. Dickson during the lecture was less convincing than his sarcastic lecturing style, which had elements of what he labeled "the aesthetic of the cool" and "a dance of derision".

There are snorts of derision.

With a snort of derision?

"It was a subject of derision and contempt," he recalled.

Yet the speech created a storm of derision.

Mr. Rivkin recalled, "We were met with howls of derision".

Republicans and Democrats alike were targets of derision.

And she has a sense of humor, of derision.

Both Pukwans burst into howls and sneers of derision.