Sentences with phrase «derision in»

I was relieved to see Mills arriving at court on foot, rather than in a wheelchair, as her previous appearances at court in a wheeled conveyance were the subject of speculation and derision in the press.

For evidence of this, consider well - respected consultant and legal futurist Richard Susskind whose early work «The Future of Law» was met with considerable skepticism and even derision in some legal circles.

Dominated by simple geometric forms and their interrelationships, the movement was often held up for derision in the popular press and the non-art world as the ultimate in «the Emperor's New Clothes» syndrome — when Andre's Equivalent VIII (1966), a rectangular arrangement of 120 firebricks on the floor, was bought and exhibited by the Tate Gallery in London in the 1970s, there was a considerable hoo - ha.

While that label — «linear» — might have been often used as a term of derision in relation to interactive entertainment, here it works wonderfully.

Not only is there less time and energy wasted on bad - mouthing Seattle here in Frankfurt than in many such earlier gatherings, but one rant against the retailer has been met with stark derision in the publishing community, and, in a more signal moment, a major leader in the business has waved the closest thing we've seen yet to an olive branch.

The players that deserve your derision in this standoff are Hachette in particular, and the New York «Big Five» in general.

This earns him some verbose derision in the comments, all of which he handles with calm and grace.

Hopefully this educator is taking this stance and willingly risking ridicule and derision in order to serve as an example of the very type of authority young people should question.

Scientology has been played largely as a figure of derision in pop culture but Gibney seeks to show the dark side here, how it controls people and ruins lives, despite essentially being started as a way of writing off tax.

The mother of the lovechild bastard is hippie Maureen (Juliette Lewis), made the object of absolute derision in the only way Grant (Ever After, Erin Brockovich, 28 Days) is apparently capable of conceiving a mistress.

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.

David Cameron faced mockery and derision in the Commons this lunchtime, after Ed Miliband used the government's alcohol pricing U-turn to pour scorn on his rival's leadership.

While Johnson's suggestion that the UK should be positive about Trump prompted some derision in the Commons chamber, MPs such as the SNP's Mhairi Black also took to Twitter to express their disdain.

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

The editors there seem incapable of hearing the derision in their voices as they explain that Trump's appeal is based on «fear» and «hate.»

Although the idea of historical progress has received its share of derision in recent years, the fact is that many facets of history, and even whole historical eras, really are progressive.

Not exact matches

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.

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon in his new book expressed derision and astonishment over a 2016 meeting between Trump Jr., his father's top campaign officials and a Russian lawyer, terming it «treasonous.»

Home espresso machines are subject to derision from some coffee snobs, That's because most models «do a half - assed job,» in the words of 30 - shots - a-day drinker Danny O'Neill, founder of Kansas City - based coffee company The Roasterie (That's why he put professional grade machines in his kitchen and tree house.)

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.

The Canadian Alliance's «humiliation» in Perth - Middlesex in 2003 convinced Harper to pursue a merger with the Progressive Conservatives; Deb Grey's victory in Beaver River in 1989 constituted Reform's «breakthrough»; and last year's NDP win in Outremont buried Stéphane Dion in an «avalanche of derision.»

A company that accidentally leaks its top hires may earn a little derision, but one that then gags those hires for weeks and keeps its workforce in the dark about them gets more.

Those are the people who deserve your greatest derision and anger, and who in a just world would be arrested and jailed, and made to pay restitution to their final dollar.

One of my regular readers, who unfortunately prefers to remain in anonymity and wrap his / her sometimes insightful comments in insults and derision, points out that there are important differences -LSB-...]

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.

The theist, on the other hand, it quite smugly certain that he has all teh answers to life, the universe and everything explained neatly in a single book and reacts with hostility and derision when anyone refutes the contents of said book.

(Despite the fashionable derision, one may gratefully note that the great bulk of what the churches actually do in response to myriad human needs is charity, or what used to be called the corporal works of mercy.)

I find the unremitting hostility and animus of atheists like «Derp» baffling; for all the seemingly wonderful life he is enjoying, he seems compelled to get on this site and spew derision, mockery, and hatred against others.I simply do not, can not grasp that mindset; to claim to actually derive pleasure from in effect being a bully - again, that say a whole lot about his true character.So... Peace & Love to all!!

In my case I was caught «sinning» and thereafter treated with derision.

I confess that beneath my playful derision lies a hint of fear, not that I'll be «left behind» but that I'm already caught up — in a delusion, in false hope, in a God of my own making... and perhaps, in a looming Great Disappointment.

«While the church is laughable to Chaucer,» Klassen writes, «he does not laugh in derision.

• So, having heaped upon the National Council of Churches» screed against the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Columbus» arrival in the Americas a small measure of the derision that it deserves («Repenting of America 1492 - 1992,» October 1990), we are asked how Christians should think about the occasion.

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.»

Moreover, the Zoroastrians held the unmarried clergy in derision.

Psalm 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them (unbelievers) in derision.

He was the son of «Okie» migrants to California, fleeing economic devastation and treated in their new home as immigrants often are — with stereotypes and derision.

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.

Some were called in derision «Holy Rollers» or «Holy Jumpers.»

I can not mock something I don't believe in, so your god story is also safe from my derision.

This use of human symbols in describing God calls out the derision of the unbelievers.

This needs to be heard in this day of suspicion, derision and division.

7), and he must have suffered more than once the cutting public derision to which he refers in 28:9 f.

He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision.

The early church believed Jesus and followed his example, so much so that even the Roman authorities noted (often with derision) in their letters and journals that the church was made up primarily of women, slaves, and poor, uneducated laborers.

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.

He who sits in the heavens shall laugh as He shall have them in derision.

In contrast to our derision, Jesus receives Nicodemus as a pilgrim, a sincere religious seeker.

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.»

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.

The continued string of derision of me as a Catholic or of Catholics in general doesn't advance an argument for your side.