Sentence examples for extreme derision from inspiring English sources
He said of "The Dalkey Archive" that it was "not a novel" but "really an essay in extreme derision of literary attitudes and people, and one pervasive fault is absence of emphasis, in certain places, to help the reader".
Back in the sixties, I went up to 125th Street to Amateur Night quite often, not so much in the hope of being in on the discovery of a great talent as to enjoy being part of what was essentially a kind of "happening," and to admire those who were courageous enough to risk the most extreme forms of derision.
As she pursues the implications of her mystical visions, Jeannette summons a neighbor, Gervaise — who has earned the community's ire and derision by entering a convent and taking her vows — to whom she can confess her extreme religious ideas and test their political consequences.
Certainly most people will find the more extreme comments offensive, but with the picture (above right) I can't help but think that its worth at least some derision, although without the racism chucked in.
The derision was instantaneous.
Derision greeted Allison's call.
The derision runs both ways.
Conrad Lynn heaped derision upon Martin Luther King.
And cue Internet derision.
The letter was met with derision.
