Sentence examples for mockery it from inspiring English sources

Mockery, it turns out, can be lucrative.

Cynicism, sarcasm, mockery – it isn't taking us anywhere.

For all the mockery, it looks as if the diet is here to stay.

It responds to America's tortured relationship with race in the past and the present with the mockery it deserves, sprinkling jokes steeped in tragedy throughout.

"This disgraceful smear of Ed's dead father shows once again what a mockery it is for the Mail's editor to have overseen the code on standards at the discredited Press Complaints Commission.

If the video makes it across the threshold of a few news cycles of late-night mockery, it will be because of those eyes, which give us, in just a few minutes, a full narrative arc of dread, desperation, decision, and regret.

With nods to sci-fi and B-movies, as well as its effective self-mockery, it's an easy way to get acquainted with the musical comedy genre.

"The Conservatives have not yet broken the British system of democracy, but through their hubris and incompetence they have managed to make a mockery of it," it said in an editorial.

He is more likely to say something like "being a writer can save one from insanity or cancer" or "when your prime character is a man... the real question is, How tough is he?" or, with that familiar topspin of self-mockery, "it's not a good idea to try to put your wife into your novel.

But the mall-thronged butt of "Valley-Girl" jokes has finally had it with mockery: its residents have grabbed a chance to assert their independence.That chance will come in a ballot on November 5th on whether or not the Valley should formally split itself off from the rest of Los Angeles and become a separate city.

Quoting random voters whom you have bumped into on your travels has become so overused as a device that it invited the mockery that it duly received.