He was an awesome storyteller, too, and there was nothing better than flopping down on the sofa and hearing his sweet, hilarious versions of A. A. Milne's Pooh stories or, later on, his wacky mock attempts to help me with my Virgil translations.
Mock attempts to rethink the classic Schechnerian model of performance (1977), as represented by static concentric circles, in the context of the ongoing debate over liveness between Peggy Phelan and Philip Auslander.
Meanwhile Republicans openly mock attempts to include family planning as a part of the economic recovery, actively work to defund Planned Parenthood, promote policies that encourage health care workers to deny patients access to contraception, and defend programs that withhold basic information about contraception to sexually active teens.
He has been appealing against this sentence ever since, and This is Not a Film was shot in his Tehran apartment as a mocking attempt to adhere to those draconian conditions.
Lawmakers have mocked attempts by the police to investigate MPs for corruption.
Even as Mr. Bush won new support from the Europeans, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran responded by mocking attempts to rein in his country's nuclear program, which Iran maintains is for peaceful development of nuclear energy.
Although hinted at indirectly in some poems, Riley wrote very little on serious subject matter, and actually mocked attempts at serious poetry.
We demand innovation, then mock an attempt at something novel… even when that attempt has been clearly labeled as an experiment since day one.
He might mock the attempt, and surely never read one.
But the effect is not to mock the attempt to find truth, or to dismiss its possibility.
