Sentence examples for mockery in which from inspiring English sources

I also remember how they looked two days later, in the hands of someone else, a girl I loathed, with whom my friend had shared them, unable to contain his amusement, and the way my prose, on which I had spent careful hours, sounded when rolling loudly off the tongue of someone who hated me, how ridiculous it seemed, every word of it trite, the girl's mockery, in which others joined, deserved.

This work might project elegiac feelings, but in the context of a show in which mockery is the prevailing spirit, it's potentially offensive.

Shameful too was the skit performed at the prosecutors' annual dinner in which mockery was made of Mr Chen famously protesting at the humiliation of having to wear handcuffs.

SCORECARD -- Mr. Franks earns points for mockery in this ad, which adheres to the maxim that the best defense is a good offense.

In the best episodes, the denizens of Dave's world upstage Dave, a far cry from the jocular mockery of so many comedy shows in which interview subjects are made out to be happy idiots.

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has been weathering a Twitter storm of mockery for comments he made yesterday in which he appeared to suggest it would be the intention of a future Conservative government to ban strong encryption.

It is never enough, whatever the temptation, to mock the age in which you live; the mockery must continue to peal, like an echoing bell, long after the objects of your scorn have been decently laid to rest.

He was effective in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and in "127 Hours," in which he redeemed, with self-mockery, the absurd situation of a mountaineer trapped at the bottom of a slot canyon.

The boys find Cruise crying for a place in which he can live without fear of mockery.

Back when the "Late Show" host was still doing "The Colbert Report," he often referred to the "Colbert bump" — a phenomenon in which guests who experienced his character's irate mockery could expect a subsequent rise in popularity.

There are two sides to this story, either side of the class divide: there are the liberal patricians whose connections were vital; they were and are subject to ridicule and mockery – teasing which persists in movies like Kind Hearts And Coronets and Mary Poppins.