Sentence examples for tragic mockery from inspiring English sources

Nothing less could have led us into such a misadventure in Iraq, the most tragic mockery of America's democratic ideals.

Africa is buffeted by soaring populations, and climate change could yet make a tragic mockery of the best-laid plans.

The playful mockery has an underlying point.

Most of the essays in "Pulphead" are haunted, in a far more persuasive way, by what Mr. Sullivan refers to with only slight self-mockery as "the tragic spell of the South".

But not just mockery.

Even so, the antiromantic irony of Tartarin de Tarascon gave place to a realism akin to that of the Pointillist and Impressionist painters in Lettres de mon moulin, which was followed by the tragic tone of L'Arlésienne as a corrective to his earlier mockery of southern characteristics; also there is more sympathy and anxiety than irony in Le Petit Chose and Contes du lundi.

This character study seems entirely senseless and only makes a mockery of something that is of the utmost seriousness, a tragic shooting.

One of the most tragic aspects of their position is that it counters every core Jewish value, thus making a mockery of the spiritual legitimacy of a Jewish State.

Mockery does.

"Mockery causes deaths.

It's mockery.