In a statement today, the Myanmar government maintained its somewhat mocking tone toward the standoff, which it has portrayed as a pleasant outing in the countryside.
Heathfield's consulting company, Future Map Strategic Advisory Services, boasted on its website of "developing strategic proactivity" via such strategies as "executing preemptive strategies," "driving preparedness process" and "engaging stakeholders," as noted in a somewhat mocking July 3 Boston Globe editorial.
This theory, somewhat mocked when first stated, has proved tenacious.
(PayPal even took out a big and somewhat defensive ad mocking Apple's entry into the mobile payments market recently. The ad reminded users that Apple's security measures may not be up to snuff when it comes to something as serious as managing your money).
Are you ready?" a blond-wigged, belly-baring Ross says to Bieber in a somewhat profane roast promo mocking the singer's recent Calvin Klein underwear campaign.
The Church of Scientology has a distinct belief system which, despite its somewhat strange cosmology – mocked by the TV show South Park and many others – is not essentially more strange than, say, the idea of a virgin birth.
His main interest seems to be the mythology of contemporary suburbia, whose veneer of uniformity and perfect happiness is mocked, somewhat predictably, in "The Architecture of Reassurance," which follows a misfit teenage girl on a dreamy tour of a typical subdivision.
The Church of Scientology has a distinct belief system which, despite its somewhat strange cosmology — mocked by the TV show "South Park" and many others — is not essentially more strange than, say, the idea of a virgin birth.
But if we could capture the human child in our imaginations -- then we could capture the man in fact". True, the narrator of "The Alienist" later distances himself somewhat from this outlook by lightly mocking Kreizler's radical determinism.
Given it was a room full of entrepreneurs and techies, no one was too offended that anyone was glued to his or her phone but we were all mocking him about his somewhat dated NASA obsession.
Simonides, whose name may be a synonym mocking Tischendorf, had a somewhat obscure history, as he claimed he was at Mt. Athos in the years preceding Tischendorf's contact, making the claim at least plausible.
