How To Use Mockery In A Sentence
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a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine
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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
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Je vous prie de vous asseoir," he said on such an occasion with gentle mockery.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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Why make a mockery of a real problem by inviting its perpetuators to condemn it?
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The trial was a mockery - the judge had decided the verdict before it began.
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The scorn and mockery heaped on this particular law firm was astonishing.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Was it not enough that, like the other insignia, it should be an emblem of scorn and mockery, since that was their aim?
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In each of these Leapor takes aim at that object of Scriblerian mockery, the beau.
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They were not objects of respect and veneration; they became objects of mockery.
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To call that a ‘free choice’ is a mockery of language.
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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
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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.
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After a week when racing has come under scrutiny over trainers allegedly cheating, two rank outsiders made a mockery of the conspiracy theories yesterday.
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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
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Any objective scrutiny of the list of banned organisations makes a mockery of this last assertion.
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There has been enough mockery in the Western media concerning the proclivity of Chinese people to create counterfeit Western goods.
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‘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.
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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
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This building plan makes a mockery of the government's environmental policy.
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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
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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
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This was not good-natured banter, it was mockery.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Ethel could scarcely feel that it would not be a mockery to declare, on her behalf, that she renounced the world.
The Daisy Chain
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Or does that make a mockery of the system?
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Then, in a mockery of the political process, they set up a polling centre amongst the ruins and called it democracy.
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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.
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The scheme was not an unqualified success, with persistent abuse and mockery from drivers and onlookers.
Times, Sunday Times
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To us it makes a mockery of the show 's premise if foreign acts enter, let alone win.
The Sun
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It's a little higher and faster, but with odd, devastating pauses and saturnine shades of mockery.
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But it overlooks, in the evolution of belief, the key role played by mockery.
Times, Sunday Times
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There could have been an overtone of mockery in Romira's interjection.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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There was a tone of mockery in his voice.
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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
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This building plan makes a mockery of the government's environmental policy.
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Amid national and international obloquy and mockery, progress could only be made very discreetly.
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As you know, my nickname on blogspot is indeed a mockery of the flufian accent (struggling pronounced schrugglin).
I'm from Philly
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They liked irreverence, taking the mickey, politically incorrect humour, mockery, satire.
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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.
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But it overlooks, in the evolution of belief, the key role played by mockery.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Learn from it and never again devolve into this shameful mockery of justice.
Primaries over, Democrats promote unity
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He smiled, his familiar smile of self-mockery, but to Joanna, it was unexpectedly suggestive of sadness.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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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.
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The situation makes a mockery of the law.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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.
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`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
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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.
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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'
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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
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‘Religion as mere sentiment,’ he wrote with denunciatory directness, ‘is to me a dream and a mockery.’
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The mockery of wit gives place to quiet trust and tenderness.
The Times Literary Supplement
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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
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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
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He first tried mockery as he called the characterization ‘the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in my life.’
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The medical examination was a mockery; the doctor hardly looked at the child.
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It makes a mockery of any residual ambivalence about his claims to greatness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Advisers say that this makes a mockery of a system that is meant to offer flexibility.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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As people struggle through financial uncertainty and poverty it makes a mockery of their hardship.
The Sun
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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
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It's a kind of Carry On Shakespeare, a loving send-up without mockery.
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The Labour MP has branded the fines dolled out for breach of disability laws as a mockery of the government's zero tolerance policy.
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How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
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She still held him off with the gentle mockery of her smile.
The House of Mirth
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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.
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They make a complete mockery of the policy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Elsewhere sardonic mockery gave way to the radiant Mariinsky chorus and the harmonies of the Orthodox church.
Times, Sunday Times
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With greetings of hope and yet of sarcastic mockery the crowd cheered his emerging form.
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And since it contains its share of articulate losers, it is also about mockery, the put-down, the loser's shrug("whaddya gonna do").
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With its suffocating pretensions and frequent idiocies, television has always cried out for sardonic mockery.
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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
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More recently the hotel descended into a mockery of its former self, snobbish for snobbery's sake, until rescued in 1995.
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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
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The trial was a mockery of justice.
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They are making a mockery of RTE by getting free publicity by way of having their name bandied about on a current affairs program.
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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.
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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?
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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
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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
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Debate the guy, denounce him, subject him to ridicule and mockery at every opportunity.
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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.
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The myth of coequality protects our delusional democracy and makes a mockery of our constitutional republic.
Constitutional Rubbish
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She also recalled that when she first approached her neighbors about greening the area, she was met with mockery and rejection.
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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
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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
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They make a complete mockery of the policy.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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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.
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In a mortuary silence, the colonel, seated beneath a gasalier adorned (the mockery of it!) with
Corporal Sam and Other Stories
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What a mockery of all that is modest and decent.
Times, Sunday Times
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His face was inches from hers, his icy grey eyes glinting with mockery.
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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
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Leicester made a mockery of their lowly position.
The Sun
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It's a mockery of the game to play it in forcibly sanitized conditions.
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It makes a mockery out of death and mourning.
Times, Sunday Times
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They stagger like wounded dinosaurs from one foot to another, swaying in a lame mockery of all things with rhythm.
21 DOG YEARS
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I wish Karen no ill, of course, and intend no mockery.
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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.
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It has made a mockery and a farce of the commencement date.
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His murder is an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of everything that Danny's kidnappers claim to believe in.
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To only serve eight weeks makes a mockery of our justice system.
The Sun
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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
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They make a complete mockery of the policy.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Its first enemy is not a demonic power but prejudice and mockery.
TOLKIEN AND THE GREAT WAR: The Threshold of Middle-earth
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The human rights brigade make a mockery of our laws.
The Sun
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More straightforwardly aggressive 12 months ago, yesterday he mixed contempt with pitying mockery.
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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
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They've perverted the constitution, corrupted our institutions, made a mockery of our schools, a nightmare of our cities, destroyed the middle class.
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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.
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This was not good-natured banter, it was mockery.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘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.
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Anything's open for ridicule or criticism or mockery.
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There was a hint of mockery in his voice.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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This was not good-natured banter, it was mockery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its first enemy is not a demonic power but prejudice and mockery.
TOLKIEN AND THE GREAT WAR: The Threshold of Middle-earth
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If he was a fool, what were those his folly whipped into orgies of vicious mockery?
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Online mockery that the beetle was a stinkbug was 'nonsense' propagated by people with 'no culture', he added.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is it an important step towards reconciliation or a mockery of democracy?
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The mockery of wit gives place to quiet trust and tenderness.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The unfair and hasty decision of the court made a mockery of the trial.
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She stood quivering in anger and loathing fear, unable to bear his mockery.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Unlike Colbert, who more fully understands what the term mockery means than anyone I've watched in recent memory.
Scott Thill: Truthiness and Consequences
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The idea of him doing pottery makes a mockery of the justice system.
The Sun
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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.
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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
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We can detect that mockery as a characteristic thread throughout the oeuvre.
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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
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Her voice dripped with the sharpness of mockery as she pronounced these last words.
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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.
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But the glint of mockery in his dark eyes put paid to that fantasy.
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'Je vous prie de vous asseoir,' he said, on such an occasion, with gentle mockery.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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The popular image of polka as unfashionable is often simply mockery of working-class folks.
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There was a hint of mockery in his voice.
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Early release makes a mockery of resettlement and sentence planning.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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
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There aren't that many more sure-fire ways to ensure your own mockery than to bring up UFOs in a serious conversation.
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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
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There may have been feelings too painful to probe, feelings for which he overcompensated by an excess of not entirely convincing sardonic mockery.
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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
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His mockery frightened her and cut her to the bone.
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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
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The trial itself made a mockery of justice.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mockery of wit gives place to quiet trust and tenderness.
The Times Literary Supplement
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But its aim, despite what was recently claimed in one mirthless broadsheet, is not meanspirited mockery of struggling authors.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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
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Is it a flamboyant mockery of colonial history and military prowess?
Times, Sunday Times
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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]
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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
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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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Add Colbert's razor-sharp mockery of Right-Wing extremism, and you have two seminal events that will wake up the young, and, hopefully, more minority voters who came out in 2008, and remind them that their vote does indeed matter.
Brian Ross: Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert To Turn the Tide on the Tea Party Tehranization of America
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There are the cutting remarks, the sarcasm, the mockery, the name calling and in some cases cursing.
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the scholarly man or boffin has similarly had something of an image problem, sexiness-wise, but whilst geeks have recently entered the popular vernacular as actually rather desirable despite themselves, female scholarliness has not fared so well, and the attribute 'inventor' or 'genius' is synonymous with the male mind. i dont recall albert enstein, despite his dishevelled appearance, experiencing much mockery or ridicule, and it certainly didnt put marilyn monroe off...
Brilliant women - the 18th century bluestocking
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With unrelenting precision and distinct overtones of mockery, Tolstoy dissects the notion that men dictate events.
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The mockery of wit gives place to quiet trust and tenderness.
The Times Literary Supplement
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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.
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His mockery of bourgeois values and high society, both of which he rose above through personality and style, illuminated the dandy's appeal to Depression-era audiences.
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I believe that fundamentalism makes a mockery of Jesus Christ in that it disconnects us from one another, objectifies and denies the God-given worth and dignity of every human being.
Rev. Dr. Cindi Love: Jesus: The King Of Connection
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They negotiate the dicey line between mimicry and mockery partly by dint of fascination with details.
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From the very site of 9/11 comes this onomastic mockery of the "Big Apple," inscribed on a traditional Islamic jihadist weapon, no less.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Amelia addressed him now, with an effect of angry mockery, as my dear old Frank Bronson; but that (without the mockery) was how the Amberson family almost always spoke of him: dear old Frank Bronson.
Chapter 13
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And by now, opinion was evenly divided between outright mockery and superannuated wonder.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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It makes a mockery out of death and mourning.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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The song is a savage indictment of the advantages that educational privilege brings, and its selection provoked mockery.
Times, Sunday Times
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What entered now was the sound of the hums and moans of everyday life, the quiet laugher, the mockery, the sound of horses and oxen.
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I saw there many women, dressed without regard to the season or the demands of the place, in apery, or, as it looked, in mockery, of European fashions.
Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman.
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S: Allah shall pay them back their mockery, and He leaves them alone in their inordinacy, blindly wandering on.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
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They make a complete mockery of the policy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Early release makes a mockery of resettlement and sentence planning.
Times, Sunday Times
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It would also open the door to other claims against the mini-pill and intra-uterine devices such as the coil, which would make a similar mockery of the law outlined in the Abortion Act and of basic common sense.
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a hint mockery in her manner
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Life's statistics make a mockery of our cultural dedication to monogamous relationships.
Times, Sunday Times
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But when it came time to dismount, the formation lurched to one side before breaking apart, sending one cheerleader tumbling to the turf and prompting a volley of mockery from the broadcast booth.
Alumni Dust Off the Pom-Pons
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But before that nameless prejudice that leaps beyond all this he stands helpless, dismayed, and well-nigh speechless; before that personal disrespect and mockery, the ridicule and systematic humiliation, the distortion of fact and wanton license of fancy, the cynical ignoring of the better and boisterous welcoming of the worse, the all-pervading desire to inculcated disdain for everything black, from Toussaint to the devil, — before this there rises a sickening despair that would disarm and discourage any nation save that black host to whom "discouragement" is an unwritten word.
Strivings of the Negro People
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They negotiate the dicey line between mimicry and mockery partly by dint of fascination with details.
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This action makes a mockery of the Government's continuing protestations of concern.
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Is it a flamboyant mockery of colonial history and military prowess?
Times, Sunday Times
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Sorry Bob, mockery is the only answer to your GOOOOLLDDDD buggery.
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Fed Stifling Recovery?
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Thank you, guv ,' said Bowler, just staying this side of open mockery.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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I read intelligence, warmth, cynicism, and self-mockery in it.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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In the first eleven months, burglars broke into 1,734 houses and looted valuables worth crores of rupees, making a mockery of the night police patrol.
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If insulted, he retaliated swiftly and turned mockery against its instigator.
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He replied with a note of mockery in his voice.
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In addition, the tribunals are to allow unsworn written and telephone testimony by prosecution witnesses, making a mockery of the principle of facing and cross-examining one's accusers.
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iran elections a travesty mockery a victor without a victory turning green with envy the peoples verdict bought down like a debris que sera sera whatever will be will be the mandate has a right to disagree a looming shadow of doubt to some degree the curse of the holocaust will bring his ego down to his knee enter the dragon a voice of the people called mir hossein mousavi
Archive 2009-06-01
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They prayed, waved flags, sang the rebel anthem and united in chants of mockery of the deposed dictator.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the first time, it seemed, there was no mockery or teasing in George's voice.
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To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
