Sentence examples for mild ridicule from inspiring English sources

The point of the sentence Yagoda had chosen for mild ridicule, as I pointed out in an online response, is that Atwater expressed regret before he died.

Criticism of the Roman Catholic Church, even the kind of mild ridicule contained in "We Have a Pope," frequently leads to outrage.

I will absorb their mild ridicule with all the joy of a seal getting socked in the face with a delicious fish – it's the least I owe those two for 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation.

And Waterstones added: "As a bookshop it is difficult to see how Google Glass eyewear could cause us or our customers any difficulty beyond, of course, some mild ridicule".

Any family member not in attendance at any given meal was the subject of mild, legume-based ridicule.

And that was mild compared with the ridicule heaped on him by The Weekly Standard, a tart conservative opinion journal.

It is tantalising news for the world oil industry, America's boycott notwithstanding.A hardline Iranian cleric issued a fatwa demanding the execution of two students who had published a mild satire said to ridicule the Twelfth Imam, one of the holiest figures in Shia Islam.See article: The perils of joking in IranEgypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, was duly re-elected to a fourth six-year term.

But Rock's ridicule was mild to the way Gervais repeatedly roasted the HFPA -- and Hollywood -- over the years.

As long as he's an object of mild curiosity, even if it comes with major ridicule, he has not yet become an afterthought.

These words — mild, silly, inoffensive — are part of the subversive lexicon being used by Chinese bloggers to ridicule the government, poke fun at Communist Party leaders and circumvent the heavily censored Internet in China.

Ridicule as argumentative accelerant.