The way she handed Masters' arrest was an intriguing mixture of disapproval, slight mockery and pragmatism.
A Sunday at the Pool has been criticised for its political inaccuracies, bad history and slight mockery of General Romo Dallaire, courageous commander of the UN assistance mission in Rwanda.
The common attitude is one of slight mockery, expressed in condescending jokes about the Gurkhas' supposed naivety and unruly wives and children".They are not connected to all Nepalis, but they are part of Nepali identity and whenever a Nepali does well abroad we are always proud," says Gunaraj Luitel, a writer.
Burt and Verona are immune from the slightest mockery, which gives the film's comic moments a bullying, self-righteous tone.
Most of the essays in "Pulphead" are haunted, in a far more persuasive way, by what Mr. Sullivan refers to with only slight self-mockery as "the tragic spell of the South".
But the ground is a little slippery, since there's a slight air of mockery that runs through most of these works.
If the people would inquire into the abuses of the Court Horse, if each individual could have a slight experience of the mockery of legal honesty and fairness, they would, like the iconoclasts of the reformation, topple from her pedestal the blindfolded maiden, weighing truth in a balance, as a symbol of justice, and erect in her place some hideous monster preying on the vitals of society.
Very few of us haranguing Andy Murray for an errant backhand from the comfort of our living rooms do so without a slight twinkle of self-mockery.
Or the small silences in the pub, where he sat with an air of a man who had spent a lifetime being slighted, wincing even at the everyday mockery of his nickname there – "Commander".
A6 Rice Debates Trade in Canada Condoleezza Rice arrived in Ottawa for meetings with Prime Minister Paul Martin, who has been saying in recent days that the United States is making a "mockery" of free trade rules and humiliating Canada -- perceived slights that may lead Canada to shift a significant portion of its trade, particularly oil, to China.
The vast new Chancellery under construction in Berlin, resembling an outsized ocean liner on the banks of the Spree, has become an object of some mockery partly because the power actually wielded in the building will be slight.
