Sentence examples for sort of mockery from inspiring English sources

There is a German word for this sort of mockery, and it's fremdschämen.

Expressed in its broadest, vaguest terms, that theory has come in for the sort of mockery that the idealistic vision of Oslo's effects suffered from the right.

Everett and Kincaid have so many targets that everything, their authorial selves included, gets sprayed with a curiously flat sort of mockery.

The tokenism of various kinds that still represents the media's best efforts at diversity remains a sort of mockery of the term.

As Dan Ben-Amos, a folklorist at the University of Pennsylvania, has pointed out, the humor of Jews does not consist only of the sort of mockery that qualifies for inclusion in a collection of Jewish jokes.

It is a fact that false accusations are exceedingly rare, and no wonder: Who would choose lightly to expose herself to the vile sort of mockery that Mr. Trump is now deploying?

It was this same lack of ironic self-awareness (or rather, this absence of any sort of mockery-avoidance technology) that led my generation to pillory the hippies and progressives that's why we were South Park Republicans before we were Daily Show Democrats: because back then, standing for liberal values meant something, and that made you look lame.

It undermines his attempts to be taken seriously as a campaigner, and it opens him up to all sorts of mockery on that world wide interweb.

Hence the endless fixation on Edward Snowden's tone and choice of asylum providers, the flamboyant denunciations of this "29-year-old hacker" for the crime of exposing what our government leaders are doing in the dark, and all sorts of mockery over the drama that resulted from the due-process-free revocation of his passport.

How can a serious sports car attract this sort of undeserved mockery?

This sort of gentle mockery seems a much more genuinely democratic and "anti-totalitarian" approach than pulling down monumental statues to build new ones.