Sentence examples for note of mockery from inspiring English sources

Australians may detect a note of mockery.

Her cheery use of the name of the person she is addressing can seem to contain a faint note of mockery.

The prose is a model of the American stoical, with a very special note of wry mockery buried within it.

(The soundtrack injects just the right note of gentle mockery by playing Della Reese's overblown 1959 hit "Don't You Know?" in the background.) But the film's most enchanted sequence is the sustained romantic pas de deux of Betty and her dream lover, who, despite massive evidence to the contrary, she insists on believing is really Ravell and not a vain young actor named George McCord.

Mr. Hyde Pierce strikes the right note of self-mockery in this speech.

A welcome note of irony and self-mockery suddenly found its way into Creighton's ponderous speaking style; his pronouncement that "at the end, every one of us will be tested, and every one of us will be found wanting" was delivered with deliberately hammy melodrama and offset with a nice little smile.

Mr. Ryan, who persuasively portrayed the gay activist Harry Hay in "The Temperamentals" last year, offers fleeting notes of contemptuous drag mockery in his readings, despite the absence of cross-dressing, in addition to the deafening outbursts.

Trump declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination in June following weeks of mockery in the press, with plenty of skeptical commentators noting that he'd been making similar noises about running for president for years.

Author Bruce Forbes notes that the men in the cubicles are proved unworthy of her and there is an undertone of mockery when Madonna addresses them as 'baby' while shaking her body.

Hoarders shouldn't be the objects of mockery.

In this case imitation is the sincerest form of mockery.