Sentence examples for this ridicule from inspiring English sources

This ridicule may even serve a social purpose, making news organizations a bit less likely to treat these pundits as fonts of wisdom.

All of this ridicule is just a distraction from the zucchini's many charms, which are especially apparent in young, slim specimens.

Jonas, a sweet, conscientious policeman who sacrificed his career ambitions to care for his dying wife, knows he doesn't deserve this ridicule.

Given this ridicule, it is imperative that corporations like ours demonstrate that calculating a CEO-worker pay ratio will take the maximum possible amount of time and cost.

Some critics conjecture that Voltaire meant to spare Pope this ridicule out of respect, although Voltaire's Poème may have been written as a more direct response to Pope's theories.

Perhaps some of this ridicule is warranted, given that these days, at least in our country, the word can be associated with shallow narcissism, the sales of yoga mats, the wearing of silver amulets, the slurping of energy drinks, and chanting in dead languages.

There it was a subject of ridicule -- this ridiculous American capitalist wasting so much of his money on a single painting.

This includes the ridicule of art lovers, dire poverty, and the lack of formal education.

This elicited ridicule from his cellmates, who accused him of playacting, something they thought typical of a bookish poet.

While this attracted ridicule – he gamely provided links to parodies of the speech on his Twitter feed – the drones' role seemed limited to being bargain helicopters: providing aerial shots of floods, for instance.

There has been no official statement since Mr Obama's announcement but CBS quotes Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil as saying: "If the US has postponed its decision, or retreated... this invites ridicule from all sides".