Sentence examples for mock authority from inspiring English sources

"I'm a nursing student," he said, with mock authority.

"The Vietnam war," he writes, "was a permission slip for nice middle-class kids to mock authority figures, vandalise property and get chased by the police".

Instead we have a constellation of cultural stars who shock without shocking anyone, mock authority that gave up the ghost long ago, and delight a generation of avant-garde grandparents.

Saturday morning kids' TV taught us to question adults, to mock authority, to see through marketing hype, to laugh at the surreal and the ridiculous, and to appreciate a well-delivered punchline.

Anti-Vietnam protests gave us an excuse to mock authority and vandalise property; free love did not demilitarise the world and anyway our happy-go-lucky promiscuity was soon curtailed by herpes.

But the itch to mock authority always upset his courting of the polite world, and after the success of A Harlot's Progress in 1732, the first of his "modern moral subjects", he turned to engraving for the wider market, defiantly hanging a tradesman's sign outside his door.

Carnival mocks authority, and is spontaneous.

You might think that mocking authority is what a joke quite often does.

One moment, he is clucking how "disturbing" it is that teenagers like Mr. Lebed are mocking authority.

My kind of satire is the type that punches up, the type that holds the powerful to account and mocks authority – there is a huge difference between mocking the clerical class that used to rule France through privileged access to power and mocking the faith of the descendants of immigrants largely locked out of power and experiencing acute levels of prejudice.

Perhaps it's violating rules on inappropriate suicide content, but it is also mocking authority.