Sentence examples for mockery with from inspiring English sources

Can anyone crack the whip of mockery with quite the sizzling sting of Edward Albee?

He says he doesn't mind the hint of affectionate mockery with which his presidency is treated.

"Ballad of a Thin Man" sharpened its mockery with something Mr. Dylan rarely uses, an obvious electronic effect: an echo repeating his vocal lines.

But the foreign secretary was still subject to damaging mockery, with the Sun polling its readers on the romantic power of his ginger beard.

Mr. Stockwell and Mr. Herek balance mockery with affection: they acknowledge both the visceral power of the music and its absurdity.

The woman, Ms. Hobbs explained, "did not want to relive the incident, relive the mockery" with "defense investigators and members of the press ceaselessly harassing her".

The Economy Kills Everyone Some greet the effects of the down economy on the media with mockery, some with mournfulness, some with a combination of the two I shall call mournckery.

I think Gore Vidal said this first, and he said it, not quite with mockery, but with lively scepticism.

This Quebec-based troupe, which opened the New Victory in December 1995, combines high circus arts and ingratiating self-mockery with nostalgic costumes, eclectic music and song, evocative lighting and creative choreography in two hours of fun calculated to please children and adults alike (2 00).

His copious learning, never competitive or vain, comes at you maniacally layered in self-mockery with a slightly crazed theater of the absurd delivery that evokes all the tweedy, eccentric professors one ever loved to impersonate.

The conflict in the South Atlantic – and especially the memory of those who lost their lives in the war on both sides – deserve to be treated not with malicious mockery, but with understanding and respect.