How To Use Mocker In A Sentence

a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine
The Chinese authorities remain acutely aware of Ai's complex and innovative heresy and in China, an "edgy" artist has to face greater challenges than mockery or dismissive critics. Ai Weiwei: The rebel who has suffered for his art
Je vous prie de vous asseoir," he said on such an occasion with gentle mockery. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
He can turn the state of lonely self-loathing into a veritable inferno of seething threats, fans, mockers, competitors.
Ascham, in his elegant description of those whom in modern language we term wits, says, that they are "open flatterers, and private mockers. Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley

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Why make a mockery of a real problem by inviting its perpetuators to condemn it?
The trial was a mockery - the judge had decided the verdict before it began.
The scorn and mockery heaped on this particular law firm was astonishing. Times, Sunday Times
The mocker knocked - he stock with the knots on the stocking and sock.
Shipping Girl Genius (and Other Trivial Matters) "Although strong drink is a mocker, I find that I need to be mocked. Archive 2009-01-01
The inscription above the arch, "To a happy and prosperous entrance," seemed a mockery in the old douanier days, when delays and extortions vexed the soul of the visitor, and produced a mood anything but favourable to the enjoyment of the Eternal City. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
Was it not enough that, like the other insignia, it should be an emblem of scorn and mockery, since that was their aim?
In each of these Leapor takes aim at that object of Scriblerian mockery, the beau.
They were not objects of respect and veneration; they became objects of mockery.
To call that a ‘free choice’ is a mockery of language.
I mean, hell, if I was accused of molesting children, had a face falling apart, a career in shambles, and had become a mockery of my former self, I'd be on drugs too. Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09
The part I don't get is why the really dreadful singers set themselves up for scorn and mockery - and they have to know that's what they're in for.
After a week when racing has come under scrutiny over trainers allegedly cheating, two rank outsiders made a mockery of the conspiracy theories yesterday.
The thing is reduced to a cruel mockery when stores and granaries are over-gorged, while people clamor in vain for clothing and food, and drop dead within reach of these prime elements of warmth and sustentation. Black and White
Any objective scrutiny of the list of banned organisations makes a mockery of this last assertion.
There has been enough mockery in the Western media concerning the proclivity of Chinese people to create counterfeit Western goods.
‘What a very boring man, obsessed with the first world war,’ he says, all self-mockery, behind his cluttered desk in Private Eye's defiantly unmodernised Soho townhouse.
The flying winger was simply unstoppable, his direct running and blistering pace making a mockery of one of the so-called best defences in world football. The Sun
This building plan makes a mockery of the government's environmental policy.
Native upland vegetation is probably mixed oak forests and beech-oak forests; white and black oaks along with American beech, pignut and mockernut hickories, black walnut, tulip tree, and red maple once occurred. Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
In his last two films (Caro Diaro and Aprile) he’s basically played himself, establishing a neat line in absurdist self-mockery and thoughtful observation, looking ridiculous on a moped while obsessing about “good-bad” Hollywood movies and musing on life and politics. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Our arguments, our anger, the anxious pleading of philanthropists who saw the young on the East Side going to ruin, the warning year after year of the superintendent of schools that the compulsory education law was but an empty mockery where it was most needed, the knocking of uncounted thousands of children for whom there was no room, uncounted in sober fact; there was not even a way of finding out how many were adrift, 3brought only the response that the tax rate must be kept down. II. The Outworks of the Slum Taken
This was not good-natured banter, it was mockery. Times, Sunday Times
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
Ethel could scarcely feel that it would not be a mockery to declare, on her behalf, that she renounced the world. The Daisy Chain
Ascham, in his elegant description of those whom, in modern language, we term wits, says, that they are "open flatterers, and privy mockers. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
Or does that make a mockery of the system? Times, Sunday Times
The first theme, a lickety-split series of parallel chords hopping up the keyboard, sounds like the giddy mockery of an older person's pomposity.
Then, in a mockery of the political process, they set up a polling centre amongst the ruins and called it democracy.
He's all mockered-up in his corduroy pants!
What eventually took its place was a travesty of the real thing, a mockery of the power that could raise men to heaven and give them the glimpse of God for which they gladly died.
It was plain that this person, in the course of her reflections on life, was regarding her own case, and had arrived at the conviction that in order to preserve herself from the mockeries of life, she was not in a position to do anything else but simply "croak" -- to use her own expression. Best Russian Short Stories
The scheme was not an unqualified success, with persistent abuse and mockery from drivers and onlookers. Times, Sunday Times
To us it makes a mockery of the show 's premise if foreign acts enter, let alone win. The Sun
It's a little higher and faster, but with odd, devastating pauses and saturnine shades of mockery.
But it overlooks, in the evolution of belief, the key role played by mockery. Times, Sunday Times
Yet, our intrepid movie mockers come up with classic lines, time and time again.
There could have been an overtone of mockery in Romira's interjection. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
There was a tone of mockery in his voice.
I happened to like it, but I'm in disagreement with the rest of the brood of mockers with whom I saw it.
Obama, in short, ridiculed the very idea that we should see Chavez as a threatening figure, and threw in a bit of mockery of the reporters, to boot. Blueollie
The auditory ease of the merry mockeries of maidens is abruptly undermined by the trochaic retarding of the ‘sharp voices’ insisting on ‘maiden labour.’
This building plan makes a mockery of the government's environmental policy.
Amid national and international obloquy and mockery, progress could only be made very discreetly.
As you know, my nickname on blogspot is indeed a mockery of the flufian accent (struggling pronounced schrugglin). I'm from Philly
They liked irreverence, taking the mickey, politically incorrect humour, mockery, satire.
I've been where you and the others are - I was a 'mocker' too. CNN.com
The bill makes a mockery of the double-dividend-tax repeal the President is seeking, with its partial, phased-in cut that would cancel out the desired effects.
But it overlooks, in the evolution of belief, the key role played by mockery. Times, Sunday Times
This man was a Socialist, and since an Anarchist; yet his highest idea for woman was serfhood to husband and children, in the present mockery called “home.” Ladies and gentlemen, the Libertarian Party candidate for the President of the United States of America
G rejected, Summers should be a shoo-in with the Senate, and now Obama can have his woman-mocker in place like he wanted all along. Tim Geithner — does he belong in the Cabinet or the prison?
Learn from it and never again devolve into this shameful mockery of justice. Primaries over, Democrats promote unity
He smiled, his familiar smile of self-mockery, but to Joanna, it was unexpectedly suggestive of sadness. HERE BE DRAGONS
But the whole book smacks of self righteous mockery and I hardly think this is the way a responsible, caring parent would wish to raise their children.
The situation makes a mockery of the law. Times, Sunday Times
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
Its doctrine of preemptive war makes a mockery of the principles of non-aggression and international legality laid down in the charter of the United Nations, whose resolutions Washington claims to be defending.
`You climbed up there in the dark of night with a cold chisel and carved a petroglyph, to make a mockery of his avocation. HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES
It would have been a mockery of the British way of life to stand by and let a man like him terrorise me on my own doorstep.
In January and February 1953 Hough's battalion endured a winter that made a mockery of their long johns, fleece-lined trousers, parkas, gloves and mittens. British veterans of Korean war: 'It was like stepping into medieval times'
Ignacio particularly loved to imitate exactly the way María Elena walked, turning one foot inward, in adulation rather than any sort of mockery. Three Tamales for the Señor Part One
The cynics and the mockers and the doubters can say what they like, but that's what these protests are about.
‘Religion as mere sentiment,’ he wrote with denunciatory directness, ‘is to me a dream and a mockery.’
The mockery of wit gives place to quiet trust and tenderness. The Times Literary Supplement
What makes an even greater mockery of the codes is that the Torah today is somewhat imprecise in that some of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet can be replaced by vowels and we are not certain whether the vowel, or the letter itself, should be in certain passages. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Rise of the Religious Charlatans
much of the stuff we need to know is in the show itself, like its frequent mockery of the WB's original conception of F! as a "toyetic," merchandisable show. Tiny Toons and Freakazoid DVDs Announced
He first tried mockery as he called the characterization ‘the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in my life.’
The medical examination was a mockery; the doctor hardly looked at the child.
It makes a mockery of any residual ambivalence about his claims to greatness. Times, Sunday Times
Advisers say that this makes a mockery of a system that is meant to offer flexibility. Times, Sunday Times
Actually, however, it is too naive to assume simply that ` jargon 'equals "long words" even though we can see why we feel the temptation, when the enemy called taxmen inland revenue officials or when mockery devises artificial bipartite abdominal integument as a replacement for trousers. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 2
As people struggle through financial uncertainty and poverty it makes a mockery of their hardship. The Sun
This lifelong is leaving this corrupt party that made a mockery of equality and justice for all. steveda - poconos, PA Clinton may have key role before November
It's a kind of Carry On Shakespeare, a loving send-up without mockery.
The Labour MP has branded the fines dolled out for breach of disability laws as a mockery of the government's zero tolerance policy.
How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
She still held him off with the gentle mockery of her smile. The House of Mirth
This temperate deciduous oak-hickory forest is dominated by oaks including white, black and chestnut oaks, Quercus alba, Q. velutina, Q. prinus and hickories including pignut and mockernut, Carya glabra and C. tomentosa with some beech Fagus sp., maples Acer spp., tulip tree Liriodendron tulipifera, ash Fraxinus sp. and eastern red cedar Juniperus virginiana. Mammoth Cave National Park, United States
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
They make a complete mockery of the policy. Times, Sunday Times
Elsewhere sardonic mockery gave way to the radiant Mariinsky chorus and the harmonies of the Orthodox church. Times, Sunday Times
Still, such people are base indeed; they fornicate against thee, for they love the transitory mockeries of temporal things and the filthy gain which begrimes the hand that grabs it; they embrace the fleeting world and scorn thee, who abidest and invitest us to return to thee and who pardonest the prostituted human soul when it does return to thee. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
With greetings of hope and yet of sarcastic mockery the crowd cheered his emerging form.
Common hardwoods of the oak-hickory association include scarlet, post, and blackjack oaks (Quercus coccinea, Q. stellata, and Q. marilandica, respectively), and pignut and mockernut hickories (Careya glabra and C. tomentosa). East Central Texas forests
And since it contains its share of articulate losers, it is also about mockery, the put-down, the loser's shrug("whaddya gonna do").
With its suffocating pretensions and frequent idiocies, television has always cried out for sardonic mockery.
When you see Gingrich and company and their mad admen making a mockery of history -- as Palin did in Boston last week when she recast Paul Revere's ride as an NRA commercial -- it doesn't take a whole lot of free will to resist the nonsense. Michael Sigman: Memo to 2012 Candidates: Thanks (But No Blanks) for the Memories
More recently the hotel descended into a mockery of its former self, snobbish for snobbery's sake, until rescued in 1995.
The Five howled mockery and derision, the cards danced and beckoned luringly in the mellow lamplight, the Judge pulled his coat-tail, the Major Premise tugged. The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On
The trial was a mockery of justice.
They are making a mockery of RTE by getting free publicity by way of having their name bandied about on a current affairs program.
What eventually took its place was a travesty of the real thing, a mockery of the power that could raise men to heaven and give them the glimpse of God for which they gladly died.
But, have you ever had anyone try to make a mockery of you, try to take away your dignity, your pride, your own self-worth?
The other day she was mockered up in her hard hat at some dreary construction site.
Again, you sense the battle between his pride in Scotland and his resentment at a national discourse based on a mockery of beauty. Times, Sunday Times
It was strongly fortified and deemed so impregnable that the blind and lame were sent to man the battlements, in derisive mockery of the Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Debate the guy, denounce him, subject him to ridicule and mockery at every opportunity.
The same folks blubbering about the reigning obsession with thinness as an insult to fatness are making a disgusting mockery of starving people's plight.
The myth of coequality protects our delusional democracy and makes a mockery of our constitutional republic. Constitutional Rubbish
She also recalled that when she first approached her neighbors about greening the area, she was met with mockery and rejection.
Some of these CPI ingredients -- product substitution weightings, "hedonics" (price reductions for added product quality or satisfaction), and use of owner's equivalent rent (instead of home ownership costs) -- have a comic aspect suitable to mockery by Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart. Kevin Phillips: Washington's Great "No Inflation" Hoax
To Thyrsis this mockery came like a blast of fire in the face; he did not know that it was the regular method of the newspaper -- a method by means of which it had made itself known as the cleverest and most readable paper in the country. Love's Pilgrimage
They make a complete mockery of the policy. Times, Sunday Times
In the end, we had to move campsites - the racket from their generator and their powerboats made a mockery of the idea of communing with nature. The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
Even from the depths of death he must come to my call clad in a mockery of life, and comfort me. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot
As a northerner who is admittedly guilty of having done some southern bashing in my time, I am ashamed of the intellectual vanity of these people, and of my own past mockery.
In a mortuary silence, the colonel, seated beneath a gasalier adorned (the mockery of it!) with Corporal Sam and Other Stories
What a mockery of all that is modest and decent. Times, Sunday Times
His face was inches from hers, his icy grey eyes glinting with mockery.
That most of the Hill's leading Republican voices, and their bastions of the airways, Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, spew distortions and mendacities by the hour is the constant banter of this publication, the Jon Stewart show, and Stephen Colbert's Fox-mockery. Brian Ross: The Steep Distortion Curve of Republican Populism
Leicester made a mockery of their lowly position. The Sun
I love when bloggers censor and moderate comments - their blogs then go through a honey coated sunshiny period, blissfully free of what one commenter today is calling mockers and troublemakers. When a wanker's snark would exceed her grasp.
It's a mockery of the game to play it in forcibly sanitized conditions.
It makes a mockery out of death and mourning. Times, Sunday Times
They stagger like wounded dinosaurs from one foot to another, swaying in a lame mockery of all things with rhythm. 21 DOG YEARS
I wish Karen no ill, of course, and intend no mockery.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
It has made a mockery and a farce of the commencement date.
His murder is an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of everything that Danny's kidnappers claim to believe in.
Whenever you saw him, he was all mockered up, as neat as a beetle in its shell.
To only serve eight weeks makes a mockery of our justice system. The Sun
Awards to so many civil servants make a mockery of the idea that an honour should be given for work beyond the call of duty. Times, Sunday Times
They make a complete mockery of the policy. Times, Sunday Times
The former Leicester City boss also believes that Porto's time-wasting and all-round behaviour made a mockery of UEFA's Fair Play campaign.
So if the draft breaks like one of the top "mockers" out there thinks right now, we very well could be lucky enough to land the best safety to come out since The Phinsider
Its first enemy is not a demonic power but prejudice and mockery. TOLKIEN AND THE GREAT WAR: The Threshold of Middle-earth
The human rights brigade make a mockery of our laws. The Sun
It took me a long time to realize that Oprah is not my friend, she is really a mocker of faithful, (dowdy?), mothers, even though she says her biggest mission is to help us moms out (by giving us all make-overs, I guess - that's everyone's answer to all problems). Portrait in Blue, by Gabriel Nicolet, 1856-1921
More straightforwardly aggressive 12 months ago, yesterday he mixed contempt with pitying mockery.
So he thought he'd devise a sort of mockery of panel shows to fill the same airtime but with less writing time. Times, Sunday Times
They've perverted the constitution, corrupted our institutions, made a mockery of our schools, a nightmare of our cities, destroyed the middle class.
The trailer shows a few seconds of gameplay before the camera pans round to show a nauseatingly smug lifestyler hamming her way through a mockery of the control scheme.
This was not good-natured banter, it was mockery. Times, Sunday Times
‘The public consultation is a mockery,’ said Mr Putwain who had brought to the meeting a final position statement of the CHC before it disbands on December 1.
Anything's open for ridicule or criticism or mockery.
There was a hint of mockery in his voice.
The reality is far from that and a regular fixture would give these teams a chance to prove themselves to the mockers.
CP chief negotiator Tom Langley, speaking at a joint Cosag Press conference on Monday, accused the Government and the ANC and their allies at talks of making a "mockery" of the term sufficient consensus. ANC Daily News Briefing
He, perched upon his canoe, looked on in mockery; yet the ancestors whose seed he bore pressed heavily upon him, and he swore his strongest oaths that his courage might be cheered. THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
Maybe I've strayed off-topic here, but I think that mockery and derision is, oddly enough, part of the stuff of taking religion seriously.
This was not good-natured banter, it was mockery. Times, Sunday Times
This temperate deciduous oak-hickory forest is dominated by oaks including white, black and chestnut oaks, Quercus alba, Q. velutina, Q. prinus and hickories including pignut and mockernut, Carya glabra and C. tomentosa with some beech Fagus sp., maples Acer spp., tulip tree Liriodendron tulipifera, ash Fraxinus sp. and eastern red cedar Juniperus virginiana. Mammoth Cave National Park, United States
Its first enemy is not a demonic power but prejudice and mockery. TOLKIEN AND THE GREAT WAR: The Threshold of Middle-earth
As a regular myspace mocker I had to love this one. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic: Pencils Ahoy!
If he was a fool, what were those his folly whipped into orgies of vicious mockery?
Online mockery that the beetle was a stinkbug was 'nonsense' propagated by people with 'no culture', he added. Times, Sunday Times
Is it an important step towards reconciliation or a mockery of democracy?
The mockery of wit gives place to quiet trust and tenderness. The Times Literary Supplement
The unfair and hasty decision of the court made a mockery of the trial.
She stood quivering in anger and loathing fear, unable to bear his mockery. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
He gets into his old mocker and gets stuck in.
Native upland vegetation is probably mixed oak forests and beech-oak forests; white and black oaks along with American beech, pignut and mockernut hickories, black walnut, tulip tree, and red maple once occurred. Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
Unlike Colbert, who more fully understands what the term mockery means than anyone I've watched in recent memory. Scott Thill: Truthiness and Consequences
The idea of him doing pottery makes a mockery of the justice system. The Sun
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
National Party health spokesman Dr Kobus Gous said the way the bill was "bulldozed" through Parliament made a mockery of the parliamentary process and the Constitution. ANC Daily News Briefing
We can detect that mockery as a characteristic thread throughout the oeuvre.
The "purple" is the badge of empire; even as in mockery it was put on our Lord. decked -- literally, "gilded." stones -- Greek, "stone." filthiness -- A, B, and Andreas read, "the filthy (impure) things. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Associated species were pignut and mockernut, hickories, black gum, red maple, sassafras, sourwood, and white ash.
Her voice dripped with the sharpness of mockery as she pronounced these last words.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
And he allows himself to be mocked without taking revenge on the mocker.
But the glint of mockery in his dark eyes put paid to that fantasy.
How could such a mocker take the most absurd aberration of the 20th century seriously?
'Je vous prie de vous asseoir,' he said, on such an occasion, with gentle mockery. Chopin : the Man and His Music
'mocker' in medical practise that it has been pronounced in holy writ. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
The popular image of polka as unfashionable is often simply mockery of working-class folks.
There was a hint of mockery in his voice.
Now, the mocker is the Floreana Mockingbird, which according to Karen is "the bird that inspired Darwin to doubt the Lecturer Notes
Early release makes a mockery of resettlement and sentence planning. Times, Sunday Times
The guffaws and giggles cackled around the school for all to hear and my bubble of individuality was burst with the finality that only mockery by one's peers can accomplish.
In 1030, the legendary King Canute, who once tried to command the tides of England in mockery of his flattering courtiers, invaded the lands of Olaf in Norway. The Last Viking Warrior | Heretical Ideas Magazine
There aren't that many more sure-fire ways to ensure your own mockery than to bring up UFOs in a serious conversation.
It is called the mockernut because while the nut is large, usually larger than the shellbark, the kernel is very small and difficult to take out of the thick shell. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls
Over quite a large section of the United States the mockernut is the prevailing hickory, and in that section the mockernut will be most generally available for top working; moreover it will grow well in sandy soils where the shagbark is not found. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. September 26, 27 and 28 1923
Wulfgar turned to face her, lifting a tawny brow in mockery as he watched her lips tighten and her eyes narrow. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
There may have been feelings too painful to probe, feelings for which he overcompensated by an excess of not entirely convincing sardonic mockery.
No. First of all, Polanski is guilty of two crimes, and to not allow him to reside the rest of his natural life in prison makes a mockery of our justice system, affirming that money and celebrity supporters get one off if one simply flees justice. Should the victim’s wishes be respected above all? « Dating Jesus
The question of the compatibility of species and varieties is really a very important one because in some localities either the pignut or the mockernut is the prevailing species, and we wish to know with what species and varieties they may be successfully grafted. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924
His mockery frightened her and cut her to the bone.
There be three reasons why the head is bare, of which S. Denis assigneth the twain, and saith the rasure and cutting off of the hair signifieth pure life and clean without any arraying withoutforth; for like as hairs be naturally for to adorn the head, right so deform they the head when they be cut off by mockery or otherwise. The Golden Legend, vol. 3
The trial itself made a mockery of justice. Times, Sunday Times
The mockery of wit gives place to quiet trust and tenderness. The Times Literary Supplement
This change was supposed to be championed at institutions of higher learning and technology, even though Tyler's mocker was allegedly a college student, and his weapon was a high-tech video camera. Tom Davis: Whatever Happened to Tyler Clementi?
The plants were beautiful, organic masterpieces of life, but still the terrariums were poor mockeries of the verdant excesses outside.
Indeed, as the study of anatomy and human physiology developed, the soul became an object of ridicule: “Where is it?” the mockers asked. In the Valley of the Shadow
But its aim, despite what was recently claimed in one mirthless broadsheet, is not meanspirited mockery of struggling authors. Times, Sunday Times
Does it matter that Matlin got to mock her mockers? Marlee Matlin spoofs self on Family Guy's 'Almost Live' special: Funny? | EW.com
Its doctrine of preemptive war makes a mockery of the principles of non-aggression and international legality laid down in the charter of the United Nations, whose resolutions Washington claims to be defending.
My example of the "walking" was one such attempt: I didn't say it was likely that such would happen in practise (it is not), but rather that, legally it wouldn't make sense to assume the literal right to assemble without the incorporation of some panoply (or "penumbra") of associated rights that, while not explicit, in their absense would gut or make a mockery of the one right explicitly given. Balkinization
Is it a flamboyant mockery of colonial history and military prowess? Times, Sunday Times
And while this showed them (at their core) to be closer to historical, conservative orthodoxy than many thought, yet (for one) the promoting of annihilationism is no peripheral issue, and which (for one) makes a mockery of Christ's repeated warning to cut of an offending member rather than to enter unquenchable fire. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Again, you sense the battle between his pride in Scotland and his resentment at a national discourse based on a mockery of beauty. Times, Sunday Times
But there were to be no accusations or punishments, merely regal stiffness tempered with gentle mockery. Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State

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