Sentence examples for mock power from inspiring English sources

The new left did get Kissinger's humour, but recoiled from its use to serve, rather than mock, power.

The radiation-hardened crawler could climb stairs and manipulate objects in mock power plants.

In Morocco and Manhattan, I was channeling the art's twin desires to mock power and to please.

In the 20th century it developed into a national festivity for Americans, retaining the old custom of dressing up to mock powers of dark, cold and death, and a transforming one by which poor people went door to door to beg for food for a feast of their own, morphing again into the children's one of trick or treat.

Self-mocking power ballads!

Mocking the power of mass media, they found their way on to all the main channels.

He mocks her power naps and uses "low energy" as an insult, despite being obsessed with sleeping in his own bed, and often looking exhausted.

When Frank fails, she becomes a punishing voice, mocking his powers and subverting them with scorn.

Tabloids should be irreverent and should be able to mock those in power.

The industry's three great recent stumbling blocks, the Fukushima accident of March 2011, the exceptionally low price of natural gas and a recession that has stunted demand for power, mock the idea that dozens of new reactors are waiting in the wings.

In keeping with satirists the world over, those producing satire in Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere in the region use the subtle and layered art of satire rather than direct speech to mock those with power.