Sentences with phrase «derision directed»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

But Piven and screenwriter Eliot Laurence push this conceit to its most uncomfortable and hilarious limits, harnessing the uneasy question of whether Alice is meant to inspire empathy or derision, and directing it into some of the biggest laughs of any movie this year.

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).

(Indeed, Anson's article treated those skeptical of the extent of the Y2K problem with the sort of derision that's currently directed toward climate skeptics.)