Sentences with phrase «derision by»

These days, after a couple of years in a BigLaw firm doing the lowest level possible of quasi legal work, not so much., Sad to say, but I think that proposal to market such a person, perhaps with a PhD in the «intersection between the law and basket weaving» or some other risible contrivance of the new academia, would be met with derision by the business community (in general, exceptions, of course, notwithstanding).

He invites a lot of derision by his demeaning of the scientists hereabouts.

The fact that some folks didn't like it was not surprising — most anything on climate change is met with derision by somebody.

Such folks for believe past, provable events are false are worthy of derision by a scientifically informed public.

Any other path is often looked upon with derision by peers, as though leaving academia means you can't handle the academic track.

«Their idea was met by instant ridicule and derision by most geologists and paleontologists,» recalls paleontologist Michael Benton of the University of Bristol in a recent book.

No one had yet disproved that a murine leukemia virus was spreading through human population, she insisted — an observation greeted with skepticism and occasional derision by scientists who were following the controversy.

The decision was greeted with derision by sources within the Boris camp, with one aide texting: «Gove is a c *** who set this up from the start.»

We in UKIP have been seeing an inexorable decline in Labour support in the North since 2010 which has been denied with derision by Labour.

Ed Miliband's promise to hold four million doorstep chats with voters during this year's electoral campaign was met with derision by some commentators.

In the same vein, though sometimes effective in eliciting support, historical analogy as a marketing tool tends on occasion to simplify reality more than is warranted and can thus lead to derision by a sceptical audience.

The last - minute inclusion of Jeremy Corbyn as a contender to the leadership of the Labour Party was received with derision by mainstream media and party figures.

And that is why the report in The Mirror today about the Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho making an audacious bid for Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain can be viewed with amusement and even derision by Arsenal fans.

Not exact matches

There will be times when you can't find common ground, your sincerest questions are met with derision and you get drowned out by a half - dozen other voices that disagree with you.

I stand by ridicule, mockery and derision as the only weapon against the Holy Trinity.

The point of those analyses and «historical genealogies» that have become an object of derision among the liberals — oddly, from those who advocate a return to Madisonian principles — is certainly not to retreat to the comfort of the library or the coffee shop; nor is it to deny the contingencies of history by suggesting that 1968 follows upon 1776 with some kind of mechanical necessity.

I spent the remainder of the school year under heavy scrutiny by that teacher, not to mention a fair bit of derision from a number of other students.

«When we were young and went to school, there were certain teachers who would hurt the children any way they could, by pouring their derision upon everything they did, exposing every weakness no matter how carefully hid by the kid.

I hadn't spent much time thinking about what it's like for gay kids to overhear their parents talking about gay neighbors with derision and fear, for example, or how narratives about judgment and hell can be processed by kids in some pretty destructive ways.

Because it's a heck of a lot easier to dish it out than it is to eat it up, let me tell you, and I think sometimes we inadvertently perpetuate celebrity culture by railing so loudly against it, by feeding into the caricatures with our derision.

When Judah finally fell, her neighbors Ammon and Moab incurred the enduring hatred of all the surviving inhabitants by further humiliating the shattered people with acts of plunder and cries of 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.

Sat there last night in a stadium with more and more empty seats on view and with derision instead of support being offered by the fans was evidence yet again that can not continually be ignored.

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.

Her words were greeted with derision bordering on fury, not least by senior Conservative MPs who told her she must be more contrite and express sympathy for colleagues who had lost their seats.

The prime minister has prompted scorn and derision from commentators and rival politicians by...

One Democratic legislator noted that if Bloomberg had been the one delivering that statement he would have been met by derision and vitriol but Democratic legislators bit their tongues.

The decision was met with derision and vows of an appeal by Piagentini and the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, which helped her file her lawsuit opposing parole.

The jury listened to some four dozen secretly recorded telephone conversations, many between the senator and his son, which contained angry rants by Adam Skelos about his father's political rivals — including a profane derision of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo — and criticism of Adam Skelos's business associates.

And by the way, for once all this commenter derision is warranted.

The revelation that Cameron spends a couple of hours with his missus over the weekend has precipitated a bout of appalled derision from the press and shadow chancellor Ed Balls who, while acknowledging that politicians should be given time off to go to the toilet semi-occasionally, snuck a crafty one through the net by following it up with «But I often feel he's not on top of the issues.»

HELD in derision on account of its inherent weaknesses, the Nigerian prison system is constantly being exploited by criminal elements.

Derision from deniers Muller's work has been rejected by climate skeptics, including some he once called collaborators.

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.

Scientists who have been engaged in a decades - long hunt for these cells — and have endured derision for working in a field tarnished by dubious research — say they feel vindicated.

There is frequent open triumphalism — open derision — as concerns expressed by representatives of entire communities are batted away.

Still, it aims low for a film that seeks to make superstars out of its performers, and doesn't succeed even in its limited aspirations, such that perhaps From Justin to Kelly actually benefits from its perpetual critical derision, as only the very lowest of expectations can have viewers feeling pleasantly surprised by the miniscule returns in entertainment the film provides.

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.

With a sneaky comic tone swerving between earnest compassion and snarky derision, a middle - aged protagonist chewed up by ennui, and a colorful array of character actors populating a kitsch - Americana setting, «Downsizing» has all the hallmarks of an Alexander Payne film.

It's earned him the derision of his peers, led by Alvin (Christopher Mintz - Plasse), the contempt of his cheerleader sister (Anna Kendrik), and the consternation of his parents (Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin).

Richard Linklater's 12 - year project, chronicling the filmed - in - real - time tale of young Mason (Ellar Contrane) as he grows up from the age of six to the age of eighteen, has seemingly received just as much praise as it has derision, particularly by critics who were lukewarm on it amongst everyone else's ebullient praise, perhaps out of irritation.

«With a sneaky comic tone swerving between earnest compassion and snarky derision, a middle - aged protagonist chewed up by ennui, and a colorful array of character actors populating a kitsch - Americana setting, «Downsizing» has all the hallmarks of an Alexander Payne film,» IndieWire's Ben Croll wrote in his B - review out of Venice.

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.

Introduced by Porsche amid financial uncertainty in 2003, the Cayenne elicited howls of derision from Porsche enthusiasts - and curious glances from everyone else.

In 2000, I wrote a short paper entitled «Death of the Risk Premium,» with Ron Ryan, which was received with widespread derision, but ultimately proved correct: plain old 10 - year government bonds have produced higher returns than stocks since then, by a cumulative margin of over 30 %, despite the durable bull market since 2002.

Unfortunately, the company seems oblivious to the consequences of their actions, not realizing the perceived victory it handed to the online hate groups who are now pursuing the dismissal of other women game developers by derision and defamation to their companies.

Wii U, by contrast, is Frankenstein's console, a strange assemblage of divergent technologies and ideas, and in that sense it's more like the DS (which, lest we forget, was initially greeted with confusion and derision).

Such a complex analysis of a whole country's history, culture and tradition will be explored by examining artworks and literature in which ancient kings and heroes are used in later contexts as examples of idealism and virtue, or as objects of derision.

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.

In Britain, the rise to prominence of the Young British Artists (YBAs) after the 1988 Freeze show, curated by Damien Hirst, and subsequent promotion of the group by the Saatchi Gallery during the 1990s, generated a media backlash, where the phrase «conceptual art» came to be a term of derision applied to much contemporary art.