Sentence examples for slight derision from inspiring English sources

So it was on Friday: Kubrick's movie, which I hadn't seen since college and always recalled with slight derision for its dated paranoid bombast, came to immediate life, as if it were a painting stripped of darkened varnish and rendered contemporary again.

She may be the first woman to get to deliver an action hero's smirk, and with that mouth of hers -- a pair of pillowy lips made for the big screen -- a slight upturn of a corner becomes a shout-out of derision.

There may have been a slight tug of the shirt but not one convincing enough to quell the derision from the stands.

The derision was instantaneous.

Derision greeted Allison's call.

The derision runs both ways.

Conrad Lynn heaped derision upon Martin Luther King.

And cue Internet derision.

The move drew derision.

The letter was met with derision.

These remarks were met by derision.