Sentence examples for the object of derision from inspiring English sources

We were becoming too free, as the government side of the news became the object of derision and ridicule.

Unlike the conventional squadrons on Tinian, it flew no combat missions until late July, and became the object of derision.

The days when Sarah Bernhardt was the object of derision because of her thinness are irrevocably gone.

That it was the object of derision and amusement in newspapers — including The New York Times — is only a document of the age.

Pity the migrant who returns from whence they came with nothing to show for it: destitute in London and then perhaps the object of derision in Chandigarh, state capital of the Punjab, or Kingston or Dhaka, or Krakow.

But by his final days on the job, he had become the object of derision by Democrats and political cartoonists, scorned by editorial writers of diverse philosophical persuasions, a "political piñata," as Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, put it.

The objects of derision yesterday, however, were not the hapless New York Knicks, but Senator John McCain, the keynote speaker at the New School graduation, and his host, Bob Kerrey, the university president.

Both his parents were Mexican-born and they had 11 children, which made them the objects of derision in certain parts of the neighborhood.

She quickly became the object of global derision.

Often enough, my mother was the object of my derision.

Once again, the franchise is the object of national derision.