Sentence examples for open derision from inspiring English sources
Curbed's open derision can certainly infuriate the city's developers and brokers.
What's most striking about this exchange is not Dutton's open derision for evidence and argument.
The current breakaway by France has featured the first open derision of the cult of infallibility in which the Moscow Party has from early days swathed itself.
Ramos-Peterson and other former Youth Court jurors said that the open derision that some defendants carry into youth court sometimes melts with jury service.
Now and then, there were unpleasant squalls of racial spite, but only on the fringes of the action — nothing like the open derision that was paraded on center stage in the Trump campaign, and no audible calls for a wall.
James G. Watt, who served as President Reagan's first secretary of the interior, proved a fund-raising bonanza for environmental groups because of his efforts to privatize public resources and his open derision of his opponents.
Because of its oh-wow aesthetic, its refusal to adopt a critical distance from the '60s drug culture, its tacit approval of the characters' antiwar activism and its token attention to the decade's racial strife, "Across the Universe" leaves itself wide open to derision, complaints and endless nitpicking.
There's conspiracy theory, suspicion of fellow Britons, open-mouthed derision for the dancing skills of the former politician and despair for the hard-working men and women who really care about ballroom dancing.
A black woman in America is damned to unrealistic expectations and is an open target for derision when finding themselves in the public eye: Serena and Venus Williams at Indian Wells, Anita Hill testifying in front of Congress, Michelle Obama's tenure as First Lady, and now, her teenage daughter allegedly smoking weed at a music festival.
"It was a subject of derision and contempt," he recalled.
The Rev. Richard Cizik, president of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, said: "To those who would exercise derision, bigotry, open rejection of our fellow Americans of a different faith, I say, shame on you.
