Sentence examples for point of ridicule from inspiring English sources

Waugh fought, sometimes to the point of ridicule, to preserve the image and the ethos of the Australian cricketer.

I didn't want to become some sort of point of ridicule for people to poke fun at.

No, what we're seeing more and more of now are the minority voices within minorities who are policing communities and culture to the point of ridicule.

Let's hope that the decision by Philippe de Montebello, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to return the Euphronios krater to Italy will set an example to be followed by the British Museum's directors, whose stubborn and not gentlemanlike behavior concerning the fate of the Parthenon (not the Elgin) marbles has reached the point of ridicule.

The commentary added: "In Charlie Hebdo's choice, there is the sad paradox of a world which is more and more sensitive about being politically correct, almost to the point of ridicule, yet does not wish to acknowledge or to respect believers' faith in God, regardless of the religion".

But everyone missed a much larger point of ridicule.

Mr. Musk has made a point of ridiculing the mainstream auto industry as too slow to change.

After Mr. Trump pointed out the problem, and after Secretary Clinton made a point of ridiculing her opponent as if she disbelieved him, the debate commission issued its statement consisting of one sentence at the slowest point of the news cycle, a Friday afternoon.

Some of them even go to the point of ridiculing them so that they would leave the area.

The growing grumbles from insiders that he may not be up to the job officially made the leap into the popular zeitgeist and made the president's point man for restoring confidence in our finance system a point of national ridicule.

"Children gathered round and howled with laughter, mimicking my trouser-splitting movements and pointing fingers of ridicule at me," he writes.