Both were ordinary astronomers who happened upon the alien question and never let go, regardless of the indifference, derision and outright hostility they encountered.
Intel Capital's enormous VC investment portfolio has been the subject of some derision.
The festival's publicity campaign, however, has also been the subject of some derision.
From being an object of some derision – just an enlarged iPhone?
In the letters, he spoke with familiarity, and with some derision, of specific members of the Howard University faculty, terming one well-known Dean, an "ass".
Instead, Jiménez has pinned his hopes on tourism's black market, hustling as an informal guide -- a class of people known locally with some derision as "jineteros".
This of course has been met with some derision amongst film viewers, since the film was considered to be of less then stellar quality.
The combination of ambition and pretension met with some derision.
Specifically, the paucity and the fragmentation of planning processes involving both the health sector and the complementary sectors whose plans and interventions are critical to the production of good or bad health would be viewed with some derision.
It was a brief, shining moment — that decade bracketed by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the destruction of the World Trade Center, when the United States was what the French called, with some derision, a "hyperpower".
(Oxford's site, rechristened to some derision last year, is around 60 miles from London; Ibaraki's lies roughly 50 miles north of Tokyo).
