Sentence examples for used mockery from inspiring English sources

Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire often used mockery to show the absurdity of  ideological stances — including religious ones — that were considered sacrosanct.

Often using mockery – and almost always smiling – he attacked Trump's supposed strengths.

Grutas Park is unapologetic about using mockery as a weapon: on special occasions, they employ lookalikes to pose as Lenin, Stalin et al, and put on performances by young actors dressed up as Pioneers.

And many in the Republican Party began using mockery to question Mr. Gore's veracity even before the nation was put through the turmoil of President Clinton's lies about his relationship with a White House intern.

Voltaire often used satire, mockery and wit to undermine the alleged rigor of philosophical dialectic, and while Socrates saw this kind of rhetorical word play as the very essence of the erroneous sophism that he sought to alleviate, Voltaire cultivated linguistic cleverness as a solvent to the false and deceptive dialectic that anchored traditional philosophy.

"Powerless and marginalized groups have always used humor and mockery as a weapon," Savage wrote back.

Politicians who run for president are used to scorn, mockery and a healthy skepticism from the American people.

But Mr Jobs used that term in mockery, since many of these phones are, to him, so patently dim-witted.

Farce, for one thing, is the only way to characterize a movie in which Hugh Grant plays a melancholy Pole (Frederic Chopin, a lover of Sand not depicted in "Children".) More to the point, Mr. Lapine treated the manners and affectations of the mid-19th-century bohemian crowd with affectionate mockery and used their high-minded bed-hopping as an occasion for sophisticated sexual spoofing.

It was unclear to me if the word "scholar" was being used in earnestness or mockery.

"Nothing if Not Critical" was the title, taken from Iago, that, with mordant self-mockery, he used for a collection of his criticism.