Sentences with word «derision»

There has been a long debate about importing an «opt out» process but this is usually met with howls of derision of the horrors of the US class process (which they imported from us and we then abandoned).

Our suggestion that America should bring back the 55mph speed limit to conserve fuel was met with derision from many quarters, and the argument for a universal 30 mph a limit was apparently in danger of discrediting» the entire pro-environmental movement by making them look like a bunch of lunatic extremists.»

I recognized many faces from classes and activities; I heard words of support and snorts of derision from the crowd.

On the other side of the coin, Jan De Bont's Haunting will likley always be an object of derision for most people who care about movies.

One reason that orthomolecular psychiatry was treated with such derision in the 1960s and early»70s was that biologists had only a faint understanding of the physical effects that nutrients had on the brain.

Made all the more daunting by NASCAR and BMS officials continued efforts to restore the physicality that was once Bristol's trademark, but eroded in the last decade following a 2007 repave and reconfiguration that was met with much derision by drivers.

They are the subject of much derision in the US this morning after posting this cringe - worthy text on their website!

Thing that's interesting about «The Simple Life» is that it's as worthless and worthy of derision as Nicole and Paris, products, both, of a fast, facile culture that favours beautiful people so vacuous that as soon as the wind shifts, the destruction of them is brought to pass with zero effort in zero time.

The comedy and drama are heart felt and affectionate (even if the characters would snort with derision at such emotion).

Pulis's men however, resisted a repeat of such derision from Man City, and even though they narrowly lost 0 - 1, they had to be proud of what they mustered.

Other movies attracting widespread derision on Rotten Tomatoes include such undoubted mainstays of your DVD collection as The Ridiculous 6, starring Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy's A Thousand Words, and a rare misstep for the National Lampoon team, Gold Diggers.

Juicero attracted widespread derision for its $ 400 «smart juicer», which does little more than squeeze pre-made organic fruit and vegetable juices out of a bag and into a cup.

It was one of the journal's top three most - accessed papers that year, and she received dozens of e-mails from labs worldwide expressing praise, not derision.

I snorted with derision when I read the title of this puerile article about this serial weed and con man.

Because, as I've noted again and again, it's faculty that have ruined law schools» once - sterling reputation and made them the object of well - deserved derision.

Gargon, taking the moral high road, urges Kennedy to do the right thing and resign, and not follow some of his baser instincts — such as wearing a neck brace to Mary Jo's funeral when he clearly didn't need one, an act that drew derision in press accounts at the time.

It's a case of public derision of people.

Not a few leading gay and lesbian activists cast derision upon the alphabet soup ridiculousness, deciding to just toss the whole senseless effort to include everyone.

Whether other things work is a point of scientific contention, if not outright derision, but players have tried plenty.

When the E60 5 - series debuted for 2004, it earned derision from some for its styling and its iDrive technology, but it still excelled as a driver's car.

Lawyers expressed derision when face with repeated media coverage of the business benefits of online interaction and advertising.

Beyond that, we've gone from general derision directed at Nintendo and its flailing, confusing Wii U to the kind of awe and respect the company has known and — let's be honest — expected from us players for many a year.

The book that followed, Portrait of a Killer (2002), identified British painter Walter Sickert as the culprit — and earned Cornwell widespread derision among so - called Ripperologists.

Seemingly not as the UK Met Office stopped publishing theirs a while back because of the national derision heaped upon them for predicting a barbecue summer that wasn't.

Never a major box - office presence with his microbudgeted, sex - drenched horror, women - in - prison, and porn films, Franco also spent the majority of his hyper - prolific career toiling in critical derision, often even among genre fans.

Like those in the Denver Museum exhibition, these three artists struggled against derision from their male peers, lack of access to the art institutions, holding down multiple jobs with paltry wages, and the demands of raising a family.

Gordon Brown invited derision a few weeks ago by suggesting that Labour, not the Tories, was the party of the aspirant middle classes — but he was right to recognise that this is where the election will be won and lost.

The business secretary was aware that his decision to speak up in favour of a liberal immigration policy would attract derision from the rightwing press and some politicians.

THAT BRINGS OUR CLUBS NAME INTO DERISION AND DISRESPUTE.

In taking them on, he was committing himself to originality, which risked failure, and to unflinching truth - telling, which risked elite derision if he succeeded.

As usual they were met with derision because Christians do not kill people over stupid things like burning holy books in the trash.

Had there been any social healing in his time, then there would not have been as much social derision towards Him either in His time or now.

I've heard derision of this film over at IMDB, partly over the minor connection it draws between the sports - culture in America and the connection with wartime machismo.

Until Wenger leaves we have no chance of winning anything but more derision from clubs not fit to be in the league,.

Only Honda's touchscreen system received near universal derision for eliminating all physical radio buttons.

His words can apply to any number of instances today where Canada faces derision for pursuing destructive pathways for short term economic gain.

The loneliness of Christ is a key theme for Mark, who shows a Messiah whom only the demons recognize in mock derision (cf. Mk 5, 7).

They're charming, friendly, warm, helpful, interested and interesting... but in the back of my mind, I always have this niggling suspicion that they're laughing derision at everyone around them.

The election of Boykin comes after derision from other progressive county Democrats, particularly from the political activism group Indivisible Westchester, who argued that Boykin's apparent alignment with board Republicans ran counter to the progressive movement.

As Manchester won some national derision for crossing church — state lines (read more in this David Carr column), the Tribune company endured four years of bankruptcy torture that finally resolved and resulted in a corporate split.

And while many women of marrying age have at least one story of a friend - turned - wedding - monster, Mead writes that the now fashionable derision of Bridezilla «provides a way to separate off, into safe quarantine, the disconcerting sense that the way we conduct weddings has somehow gone wrong.

That is almost certainly true, but it's easy to stand on the periphery pouring derision on the efforts of those politicians trying to make a difference.

There has been, of late, open derision directed against those «tradition - impaired» seminaries (as Thomas Oden has called them) that are still chasing the caprices of theological novelty or getting caught up with the whirling dervishes of ever more rarefied political interest groups.

It says a great deal about the depths to which America's values have fallen that Tim Tebow — who, once upon a time, would have been the wholesome, women - and - mom - respecting, clean - playing, fresh - faced and faithful Hollywood ideal of a football hero» is the target of such deep derision from so many sources, and in an era of such vaunted «tolerance.»

Neither, apparently, will controversy over, expressions of derision toward, or causality of negative events assigned to those who woo.