Sentence examples similar to mocking act from inspiring English sources

By Adam Davidson The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 is perhaps the single most frequently mocked act of Congress in history.

Turning toward the door, where the sheriff was knocking, Cooper took on Bob's rictus grin, and starts mocking his act: "How's Annie?

The sex act is a religious act & when it occurs without God it is a mock act or at best an empty act.

Some mocked the act of prayer as "childish behavior," "a primitive superstition" and "sending telepathic thought messages to an invisible being in the sky".

It was Mr. Hold, Mr. Birbiglia said, who encouraged him to write about himself, and that inward focus led to years of touring the country perfecting his personal, self-mocking act, and eventually to "Sleepwalk With Me".

Mr. Saeed's very public life seems more than just an act of mocking defiance against the Obama administration and its bounty, analysts say.

The film is "a deliberate and premeditated act of mocking at and insulting the Korean nation," the news agency said, citing the bulletin, and shows that the United States is "the root cause of all disasters and misfortune of the Korean nation," "an empire of evil" and "the headquarters that spreads abnormality, degeneration, violence and fin-de-siècle corrupt sex culture".

She concluded that the group had "deliver[ed] a brilliant high-wire act" between mocking and exploiting rock music clichés, a comparison also made by stage designer Williams.

Even Press Secretary Robert Gibbs got into the act by mocking Palin when he showed a grocery list written on his hand.

The press mocked his "Rambo act".

Another act mocked the provincial premier's plan to develop northern Quebec, while others took on a corruption scandal in Quebec's construction industry and the local government's ham-fisted response to it.