Sentence examples for mocking fate from inspiring English sources

A people who suffered so completely from a racist ideology, and whose very existence was denied for over a century, now have to face once more their recurrent, mocking fate: the derision of a world that, in the end, still thinks they don't exist.

Within hours of Robles' death, hundreds of commenters on sites such as Reddit, and Taringa left virulent messages mocking his fate and denouncing him as a fraud and a bully who deserved to be killed.

If I were in the bad spot that many of the guys there seemed to be in — broke, in ill health, separated from family — I think a glimpse of that kind of long-shot payout would feel like fate mocking me.

"I have maligned her in the past, mocked her strange fate and refused to meet her," he wrote.

But for how long he is able to keep his freedom while mocking the Russian state – bucking the fate of generations of Russian revolutionaries – is anyone's guess.

Two years earlier, he had announced his retirement from directing, citing at various times a desire to have more time to read, to mow the lawn and, mocking both his interviewer and his own fate, to smoke.

The Jester is obscene and irreverent, mocking both the state and the church – and suffers an unenviable fate.

Of course, fate, or at least the fate of women, mocks her aspirations and arranges things differently, as her mother had warned: "Boring or not, you'll have to get on with it, like everyone else".

Or mocking.

Her voice mocking, disdainful.

Was he mocking Christianity?