Higgins tells his mother that Eliza will marry the vacuous and indolent Freddy Eynsford-Hill, and then laughs in repeated mockery at the stupidity of this arrangement - serving only to underline the problem that this outcome is not prepared for by the play, and that the consignment of his heroine to an unhappy, unintelligent and unworthy future leaves a sour taste.
This is not an exercise in mockery at those who haven't joined the debit or credit revolution - I'm genuinely interested.
Mrs. Bachmann did better than survive sneers and mockery at the hands of the mainstream news media.
The works of both are now available in anniversary collections that illuminate the enduring appeal of mush and mockery at the hotly contested border between jazz and pop.
For City's fans, the win ended decades of mockery at the office water cooler, long years when United fans — and many of City's — built up an anthology of jokes about City's dismal performance.
I still could not read her tone and was not certain that there was not an edge of mockery in her voice, perhaps mockery at the very idea of having a friend who lived in a provincial part of the United Kingdom.
Unfortunately, the way most companies approach this task is so generic, so removed from the business's frontline realities, and, frankly, so dull, that the very prospect of the campaign and the new coffee mugs is likely to prompt a collective groan, or, worse, mockery at the water cooler.
They are full of humble characters striving desperately to maintain their social positions and convince themselves of their ascendancy over the people around them – a struggle that nearly always involves them in a complicated balancing act of disdaining those on the upper rungs of the social ladder while aiming endless volleys of mockery at those who might be supposed to occupy the echelons below.
Obviously it's a lot harder to shirk your responsibility when you're not the only one paying attention — better to go for it than risk public mockery at the hands of your skinny siblings.
Published, the claim prompted a round of invented-the-Internet-style mockery at Mr. Weiner's expense on Thursday.
