Sentence examples for tradition of mocking from inspiring English sources

The tradition of mocking him is as old as the tradition of revering him.

The money angle lay not in ridiculing Acosta, though "The Daily Show" has a great tradition of mocking CNN personalities.

Native English speakers have a long tradition of mocking foreign restaurants for their attempts to translate menus into English.

On the other hand, it forms part of a long tradition of mocking the clergy, which I think is a good thing.

The entrenched tradition of mocking religions and clerical institutions explains the success of long-living publications such as Le Canard Enchaîné (a satirical founded in 1915) and Charlie Hebdo (founded in 1969).

Since then the legislators have granted two reprieves, continuing the tradition of mock execution that now seems to be standard with tax legislation.

They're amusing and join a tradition of ads mocking advertising that stretches back to at least the early 1960s.

It follows on - thematically at least - from the tradition of thrillers mocking, warning against or exposing the activities of the espionage establishment that got under way in the late Fifties and early Sixties with Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana, John le Carre's The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and Len Deighton's The Ipcress File.

This burst of mocking miserablism helped".

And on Oct. 25, the class of 2017 will continue the tradition of holding mock elections at Maine East and South, and once again Hillary will be running for president.

Far from adding dignity to the business of the council, the mock-bronze inadvertently honours the Brussels tradition of making do.