Sentence examples for mockery which from inspiring English sources

Mr. Burton veers between his usual course of portent and mockery, which can be glimpsed in the opening credits.

He asked the international community "not to turn a blind eye toward the big state mockery which is under way".

Burt and Verona are immune from the slightest mockery, which gives the film's comic moments a bullying, self-righteous tone.

He added that mockery, which the terrorists tried to silence, is part and parcel of what "living in a free, open and democratic society is about".

Indian food, she wrote, had been "shrouded in mystique and subjected to a mockery which has served to alienate many Westerners" from the cuisine.

Thus: "In the summer of 1976, author and journalist Tom Wolfe announced that the United States had entered 'the me decade.'... Wolfe's mockery, which suggested that nothing good could come of introspection and individualism, was unfair.

Apparently, he made his way not through novelty or superior skill but by droll self-mockery, which sometimes involved letting the audience see how a stunt was rigged.

A poet who refers to one of his later collections with a collusive wink as "a transitional volume" is either insufferably pompous, which Heaney is not, or given to likeable self-mockery, which he abundantly is.

Janet Maslin of The New York Times considered the film formulaic and "half an hour too long, thanks to the obligatory shoot-'em-up conclusion, ... nevertheless the dullest sequence here" but praised Moore's performance and the film's "share of self-mockery", which she found refreshing.

Some critics are now claiming that the spate of ISIS-mockery which has proliferated in the year since the Islamic State seized control over large swathes of Iraq and Syria may not only be insulting to those whose lives ISIS has upended, but may actually help the group.

He said it amounted to "hostile mockery to which other people are not subjected".