Sentences with phrase «attract derision»

If the $ 100 billion valuation is to be believed (and it's worth noting that the figure has already attracted derision), the company has more than doubled its valuation in four years.

Not exact matches

When they launched at the start of the year, the ads attracted the attention of secular media, including The Huffington Post and The Daily Telegraph, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, some derision.

For example, the Work and Pensions Secretary claimed he could get by on # 53 a week and met with such derision that a petition calling on him to prove it attracted hundreds of thousands of signatories within a couple of days.

Emulating blockbuster productions is a bit of a double - edged sword, as it will attract a sizable audience which likes those kinds of films, but at the same time, they are also so well - known and oft - watched, if you aren't going to bring anything new to the story, you are likely to be greeted by scorn and derision, even among fantasy fans.

While it's attracted its fair share of derision for having any fewer than eight cylinders (the 2005 - ’06 Ford GT, like the classic GT40, called upon a V8 for power), a version of the same engine powers the lauded 2017 + Ford F - 150 Raptor, to great effect.

They use a default cover design which attracts more derision than attention.

Even before the release however, the game was attracting interest — and derision — for its use of full motion video.

Hunt's early work attracted abuse and derision, but by the 1850s he had won an increasingly admiring audience.