Sentence examples for ridicule into a from inspiring English sources

And what he actually said on the spur of the moment to Bishop Wilberforce, comparing a "miserable ape" favourably to a powerful and brilliant man who used his gifts "for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a scientific discussion", is funnier and sharper than the monkey-bishop joke to which it has been reduced.

"We've turned that laughter and ridicule into oxygen and wind at our back," Tyler Winklevoss said in an interview last week.

Now is the opportunity for the mother country's players to convert themselves from objects of ridicule into the roguishly cuddly personae that used to charm their way out of trouble.

But, two years later, the village has reassessed their attitudes and turned their ridicule into gratitude, reports the New York Times.

And now we have another John to add to the satirist hall of fame; another genius of reactionary polemic ready to steer the sturdy ship of ridicule into the warm red sunset of political misgivings.

The chances are, moreover, that if Hitler is portrayed sympathetically, the program will be ridiculed into oblivion by a society that knows what it thinks of the most destructively repugnant figure of the past century.

Malcolm might be ridiculous, but our ridicule turns him into a serious proposition.

Yet even those who ridiculed his calcification into a hectoring papa drudge are becoming what they beheld.

In seven minutes we see the proverbial class clown or village idiot bullied and ridiculed then transformed into a beautiful swan by baring her soul to all who then forgives us and makes us feel ashamed for prejudging her.

"He was ridiculed in a way.

The remaining opposition is largely within the evangelical Christian community, but it's foolish to think this group can be ridiculed into submission or silenced into oblivion.