Sentence examples for obvious derision from inspiring English sources

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He said with obvious derision that when his team won two close games, they were called lucky victories.

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And tagging Ann Romney as sheltered and old-fashioned is such an obvious, facile and reductive putdown, just as the Catholic League's subsequent derision of Rosen's sexuality and family — she's lesbian, with adopted kids — is cheap and gross.

All of which sounds obvious and unobjectionable, especially in a country where "socialist" is a term of derision, not a mainstream political party.

Well, that was a startling thought". Indeed, it startles a reader who has been hit with ample doses of derision toward Allen, dubbed the "Thadmiral". The best insight Safina has to offer is too obvious to wait 300-plus pages: "The worst environmental disaster in history isn't the oil that got away.

The solution to this health crisis should be obvious, but the suggestion that Africans change their behavior, when it is offered at all, is met with scorn and derision.

Singer Adele made it into two top 10s - number two on the fastest-rising people list, just above the less obvious pop star Rebecca Black, whose debut single catapulted her into the limelight when it was released on YouTube to universal derision.

After a few terms in office, he was considered a star of the Democratic Party and an obvious Presidential candidate — until he delivered a famously long-winded speech at the 1988 Democratic National Convention which was met with derision by the clearly bored delegates and which one Arkansas newspaper called "an unmitigated disaster".

The derision was instantaneous.

Derision greeted Allison's call.

Miller snorted with derision.

Cue snorts of derision.

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