Sentence examples for mocking kind from inspiring English sources

He'd become a meme, as he later put it, in a mocking kind of way — think-piece catnip, a Miley Cyrus for the clever kids.

"To the sun!" Lewis thinks, mocking the kind of absurd toasts prompted by his celebrity.

Members of the audience clearly read the novel, in part, as mocking a kind of national hubris.

It was only five years later that "Seinfeld" and "The Simpsons" arrived, each mocking the kind of idealized family life that programs like "The Cosby Show" portrayed.

It turned out that Ms. Davis was mocking the kind of mawkish speeches that leaden the Academy Awards: she admitted that she had made the anecdote up and that the affecting moment never happened.

Mr. Walsh is of course mocking the kind of award lust that overtakes Broadway this time of year, but you also get the sense that he sympathizes with those who have it.

Rudd's floridly obnoxious character occupies the role of camp stud, a staple of the genre being spoofed, but the role is really mocking a kind of person — the handsome guy who gets away with everything, and who gets rewards he doesn't deserve.

Here, Allen gets the tone exactly right, simultaneously avoiding and knowingly mocking the kind of historical pastiche Max Beerbohm was sending up in the celebrated stage direction to his Renaissance playlet Savonarola Brown: "Enter Boccaccio, Benvenuto Cellini and many others making remarks highly characteristic of themselves".

Truman, onstage, turns away from his own front door in a mock kind of sardonic response to all the accolades and good will being offered.

I would never mock any kind of male escape alternative.

(Child mocked the kind of gastronomy that alluded to "cobwebbed bottles" and "anecdotes about charming little restaurants").