Sentence examples for forms of derision from inspiring English sources

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.

Another theory, which goes back in some form to ancient Greek philosophy, argues that all laughter is an expression of superiority: it is, in other words, always an aggressive response, a form of derision or mockery (laughing at, rather than with).

But when that humor is used to hurt others, it becomes a form of derision that is inconsistent with humanism's compassionate principles.

I felt this shower as a kind of derision.

He was a figure of derision for some.

Benitez's time at Liverpool made him a figure of derision and dislike at Chelsea.

If the defender does not reply within a time frame, an expression of derision is witnessed.

The fact that it was being used as a term of derision and a form of mockery seemed to go over their heads.