Sentence examples for mocking call from inspiring English sources
A distinguished philosopher, Thomas Taylor, reacted to Mary Wollstonecraft's 1792 call for "the rights of woman" by writing a mocking call for "the rights of brutes".
Finbar Flynn has become part of lore and one night, after a ballad about him makes its way to video, Danny receives a mocking call from his old friend, who says he is in Stockholm.
Jimmy Fallon, who got his own late-night show, last year, on NBC, had such a moment — for one viewer, anyway — a couple of weeks ago, when he did a parody of an "American Idol" auditioner, singing the man's original song, a hortatory, mocking call to young men who dress sloppily to clean up their act ("Pants on the ground, pants on the ground, lookin' like a fool with your pants on the ground").
Being the first group of hippie "longhairs" ever to play at the venerable country music institution, the band was met with heckling, booing, and mocking calls of "tweet, tweet" from the conservative Opry audience.
The Byrds opened with a rendition of Merle Haggard's "Sing Me Back Home", which was met with derisive heckling, booing, and mocking calls of "tweet, tweet" from the hostile Opry audience.
In March, Vladislav Y. Surkov, often described as the Kremlin's chief political strategist, publicly mocked calls for reform.
Stern is relentlessly mocked, called a "pussy boy" when he won't go swimming, and asked "Is your dick hard yet?" as some Las Vegas chorines grind in his face.
Stars of reality shows are regularly mocked, called bad role models, and blamed for the dumbing-down of American culture.
In September of 2015, Telegram's founder and CEO, Pavel Durov, reportedly mocked calls to remove ISIS channels from the app: "I propose banning words.
Naturally, something tells me mocking mass would be rather less frowned upon than mocking the call to prayer.
He adds, without reservation, "Encouraging students to be what mocking neoconservatives call 'politically correct' has made our country a far better place".
