Sentences with phrase «derision at»

I would go further and snort with derision at the notion of the Church of Global Warming being motivated primarily by ideology and passionate belief in their pseudo-scientific religion.

This was met with howls of outrage and derision at such an assault on established science.

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.

Those people may well include the audience; while my black - tie gala crowd leaned in appreciatively at the disclosure of a key twist, I heard from a few colleagues that the same scene elicited laughs and snorts of derision at the press screening.

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

by Walter Chaw Its final cut a full thirty minutes shorter than the one that was shown to widespread derision at last year's Cannes Film Festival, Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny is laced with melancholy and a crushing sense of loneliness.

There are all the Chekhovian trappings of helplessness, nihilistic flippancy and bickering about tea, in equal measure, rendering obsessive scientist and master of the town Protasov's household a tinderbox of middle - class terror, guilt and derision at the rumblings of the imminent 1905 revolution.

Although there was some derision at this rather contrived, and potentially patronising approach, most notably from bona fide northerner John Prescott, who tweeted: «So in this #reshuffle «flat caps» will be «knocking on the door of the Cabinet.»

Inevitably social media was filled with derision at England's chances of actually doing that and consequently during his next engagement, a Today programme interview with John Humphrys, he was asked about the same issue.

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But when the company tried the same shtick a month later with Raptors star Kyle Lowry hurling basketballs at drones in a gym, YouTubians responded with derision — exactly what a brand - driven company doesn't want in a branding exercise.

The Resistance lives in fear and doesn't hesitate to shut us down at the first sign of possible derision or the first hint that we might be ostracized.

I am surprised at the amount of derision and down right hatred directed at believers in God here based on nothing but media influenced bigotry.

Aflame with a faith to which they felt they must bear witness at all costs, these early Christians braved the fires of public derision and persecution.

These and scores of similar stories ought to make us cringe at the ease with which Bible - based diet books (and the writers of them) are fodder for highbrow derision, as when B. Laurence Moore in Selling God cattily dismisses them as «merchandise in questionable taste» and lumps them indifferently with «love - making manuals» and «the Christian equivalent of Harlequin romances.»

Any disgusting being who would build and maintain hell isn't worthy of any worship at all; that being is only worthy of derision.

We need to remember this when we celebrate our faith as Catholics, even if at times we meet scorn and derision like our divine Master.

It also said: «Children should be at liberty to explore the possibilities of who they might be without judgement or derision.

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.

Whether the offended individual sits broken - hearted, staring almost like a beggar at the Paradox, paralyzed by his suffering, or he sheathes himself in the armor of derision, pointing the arrows of his wit as if from a distance — he is still passive and near at hand.

Lucas Leiva has seemed to improve year on year at Liverpool, and is no longer the subject of derision from the terraces and on the messageboards, but Christian Poulsen has not proved a popular purchase and at the age of 30 is unlikely to improve.

The American sports fandom paradigm of our time is that of derision, amazement, and laughter in all its forms, and all at once.

Allen has not always managed to hold down a first team place during his time at Anfield, and has often appeared as a target for hate and derision amongst his own fans, but has silenced his critics somewhat recently with a series of strong performances.

Now, in spite of the fact that the players still line up, doff their caps and bow at each other before every game, the spectators have discovered the true appropriateness of vocal ebullience and downright derision, which add considerable color to their contests.

There was moaning, abuse, derision, etc etc — at least in the # 80 seats.

Patience is running thin at Goodison Park and every pass that goes astray will be met with howls of derision.

It's a long road, and often frustrating when it seems like there simply are not any answers (or, easy answers, at least) and there is only contention and derision.

Seriously, I hate to break it to you, but I think if you guys (and ladies) believe you have any sort of chance at helping change the minds of nutjobs... and more over you believe in your heart of hearts that fear, ridicule, shame, and derision is ACTUALLY going to accomplish that... then you are the bigger nutjobs.

At one point, to general derision, he denied the existence of the Mafia.

Lettre's competence was a topic of derision following his failure to provide a rational cost analysis for the repair of the Senior Citizen Centers at a Planning Board meeting last year.

Latterly, in the West at least, eccentrics have shown a remarkable capacity to flourish while inviting and suffering derision, as demonstrated by numerous «bad» poets and singers stubbornly and unaffectedly proud of their dubious gifts, as well as the many self - styled emperors and statesmen.

As is often the case with bold, new ideas, it was met at first with puzzlement and derision.

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.

At first, the other guys who work with Andy (at some fictionalized Circuit City clone at an L.A. strip mall) have little use for him except as an object of mild derision and disbelieAt first, the other guys who work with Andy (at some fictionalized Circuit City clone at an L.A. strip mall) have little use for him except as an object of mild derision and disbelieat some fictionalized Circuit City clone at an L.A. strip mall) have little use for him except as an object of mild derision and disbelieat an L.A. strip mall) have little use for him except as an object of mild derision and disbelief.

The night begins at The First Post, where the guys establish an order of four beers and one water; Andy's sixteen years of sobriety open him up to derision from Gary, whose inability to mature past adolescence is painfully obvious to these family men.

«She bat them long lashes at you,» he tells Grant, in laughing derision, «and you fell for it like an egg from a tall chicken.»

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.

Self - involved twentysomethings living off their parents dime in Williamsburg are easy targets for derision, and Charles Rogers and Sarah - Violet Bliss sharply aim their arrow at their bullseye throughout their debut feature Fort Tilden.

That certainly sounded promising at the time, but that was before anyone had seen The Mummy — a truly terrible movie met with such derision that it put the future of Universal's much - hyped «Dark Universe» of monster movies in doubt.

Prior to this, her apathy suggests that the worst she could do to someone is glare at them in frustration or derision.

As with any hardcore audience, attempts to streamline - particularly in how individual armour skills now disincentivise building full sets over hours of grinding - may be looked at with derision.

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.

doesn't really dispel the derision and anger that was directed at Tonya Harding in the 1990s as much as it transfers those emotions to new targets, particularly Eckhardt and Harding's mother (Janney is deliciously evil, and also too easy to hate).

He shows up at his first practice wobbly in figure skates, proceeds to give his teammates a sound beating for their hooted derision, and is promptly called up to the bigger minor - league team the Halifax Highlanders.

Clearly I was wrong, and the powerful gate - keeping bloggers are at fault for their choices and deserving of your derision.

This has been true despite the fact that romance novels are viewed with «a certain amount of derision» - people will publicly look down their politically correct noses at the genre, while secretly, their e-readers are full of romances.

Gamers do tend to suffer from at least some derision every now and again.

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.

Key projects include curating the exhibitions «Romancing the Fragment,» featuring the work of Avery Singer and Cayetano Ferrer, and «Classical Derision,» featuring Ida Applebroog, Hans - Peter Feldmann, Gabriel Orozco, and Ned Smyth; co-founding the transdisciplinary curatorial journal aCCeSsions at CCS Bard; and serving as curator for the Bard M.F.A.'s graduate thesis exhibition in 2014.

It may seem almost absurd to even suggest that the influence of the works of the so - called French, German, and Italian «Post Impressionists,» «Futurists,» «Cubists,» and other «ists,» as exemplified by representative examples at the Armory show, can have any immediate, or even near future effect, upon the generally strong, good and, from the conventional art viewpoint, sane, American painting and sculpture of today, but there is no doubt that the study of these new groupings, called «movements» in painting and sculpture, which have so emphasized and influenced the art of Europe today, for the past 5 years, and even the derision which they have excited, and will continue to excite, has had and will have a stimulating effect.

Stephanie Hargrave at Shift Gallery through Sunday, Feb. 25 2018 Hargrave's solo exhibition Obeisance / Derision is a balancing act.