Sentences with phrase «in mockery»

On January 6, 2006, at some point prior to the corrective action meeting, Herman Vijayakumar (a co-worker) was the target of a joke, where he was handed a toilet seat as an employee award in mockery of Canac's service award.

As the couple overtake the man, the boyfriend makes an ambiguous but apparently obscene and racist gesture, holding his upraised middle finger close to the corner of his eye, «slanting» his eye in mockery of the Asian man's eyes.

Fellow artist Louise Lawler included Ruscha in her piece Birdcalls (1972/2008), an audio artwork that transforms the names of famous male artists into a bird song, parroting names such as Artschwager, Beuys, and Warhol in a mockery of conditions of privilege and recognition given to male artists at that time.

One can not step back from Minimalism in mockery, not when it invites every viewer to experience art as the theater of one's own life.

Examples include Pissed Off, 1981, for which the artist urinated on the notorious Richard Serra sculpture, T.W.U., installed the same year; Bliz - aard Ball Sale (1983), for which the artist sold snowballs to passersby, in a mockery of conspicuous consumption and the desire for ownership of even ephemeral objects; and How Ya Like Me Now?

Instead, the voice he heard sounded nasally and pinched and, worse, not very well educated, as if he were a bumpkin who had been called, perhaps even in mockery, to testify about holy things, as if not the testimony but the fumbling through it were the reason for his presence in front of some dire, heavenly senate.

How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?

A litigious teacher might argue about the «seriousness» of the profession in question and that the theory here presented might question the integrity and result in a mockery rather than an echt enrichment of the same.

Some of the jokes at Star - Lord's (Chris Pratt) expense remind us that despite their testosterone - heavy surface, the Marvel films have been relentless in their mockery of macho posturing and male rivalry.

Dill Scallion is at times hilarious in its mockery of the country music business.

Both films skewer political ethics but it is Election, thanks to Payne's acerbic wit, which takes the clear lead in its mockery of the campaigning system.

Hoyle was vehemently opposed to the big bang theory (in fact, he had coined the name «big bang» in mockery).

Lowry was a bit brighter in his mockery of Cuomo on this issue, saying he was surprised he was not asked for a visa when he landed at the Albany airport.

Insiders claimed that some Benue workers have concluded plans to storm IBB Square, the venue of the handover ceremony, with live pigs in mockery of Suswam.

I hear them recite them in a mockery of my voice: go to the bathroom before getting into bed, only one story and its sleepy time, brush your teeth and wash your hands, etc..

Even some of the Barcelona players have spoken out about the disrespect shown by Blatter in his mockery of Ronaldo, but FIFA seem immune to criticism.

all the pics made in the mockery of our team, the fans and Wenger.

Many Muslims see any depiction of Mohammed as blasphemous, particularly when it's done so in mockery, as evidenced by the ultraconversative Muslims who have vented their rage over The Innocence of Muslims film.

For instance, one of Hamann's works composed in French is a sardonically fawning open letter to Frederick the Great (whose superstitious servility to the mythology of Enlightenment reason Hamann particularly detested) called To the Solomon of Prussia, a text so savage and unrestrained in its mockery that no one would publish it when it was first written for fear of the state censor.

There are even Oz - like moments when one suspects that all the elaborate concealments exist to conceal precisely nothing, and the story is an exercise in mockery, put forward by an author who himself felt perpetually misunderstood and undervalued.

Other players criticize and scoff at him: Two Detroit Lions players recently knelt in mockery of him during a game, one after sacking Tebow for a loss and the other after scoring a touchdown....

Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and even Jon Corzine are also included in the mockery.

Not exact matches

If they engage in innovation theater, they risk the mockery of snarky columnists like me.

The hokey slogan has long invited mockery, most famously in a series of skits on Rock et Belles Oreilles (think Kids in the Hall in French).

In hindsight, as an editor, if you are going to expose someone to mockery there needs to be a point to it.»

The scene comes to mind in the aftermath of Mark Zuckerberg's Congressional testimony, which chewed up two days on Capitol Hill this week and triggered an outpouring of social media mockery aimed at the «elderly» senators (that was Day 1) asking «grandpa» questions of the Facebook CEO.

It's also possible that Harper, himself, could pull the plug on his minority administration at some point before the next fixed election date — just as he did in September — although such a move would make an utter mockery of Harper's own, now - tarnished, fixed - election law.

«This is a frivolous and blatant, politically - motivated complaint that makes a mockery of the Federal Election Commission process,» the Tillis campaign said in a statement, adding it «never employed foreign workers or improperly coordinated with outside groups.»

Forbes told us he was disappointed in the tax bill, which he said makes a mockery of tax reform or simplification.

Without engaging in impious mockery, let me say that it was immoral of the God of Israel to allow its followers to engage in slavery.

Many Christians are up in arms about Creation, but seem hell - bent on destroying all of creation, and that in and of itself seems to make a mockery of all the claims.

While Greg Tonkinson said: «Honestly wondering why it's acceptable, as you see it, to make a mockery of something others believe in?»

«That Sudan continues to prosecute these men, and without even allowing them free access to their legal team, makes a mockery of the judicial process and is a clear violation of fair trial principles, as articulated in Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) and Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Sudan is a party.

Kierkegaard lived in what he called «Christendom,» a world of superficial, second - hand religiosity, a kind of diluted piousness that in his judgment made a mockery of true Christianity.

Hollywood, of course, is neither weak in terms of cultural influence nor particularly noted for self - mockery.

Kumail escapes imprisonment in an artificial America - Pakistan by performing his comedic routines on his family, and overturning his expulsion from the family through playful mockery.

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!!

Mockery, satire and sarcasm aren't simply mean - spirited responses, they're rhetorical weapons in the hands of those on the bottom.

At a time when the tragic death of Chester Bennington is already transitioning into a punchline in parts of pop culture, we can choose to rise above the mockery and hate.

You're not interested in actually hearing it, you're interested in making a mockery of it.

The silly catch phrase of «love the sinner but hate the sin» becomes nothing but contemptuous mockery because they literally ARE the sin in the eyes of the self righteous religious community.

Murders most foul, on a massive scale, in the name of the United Nations makes a mockery of human rights and a trickery of the Universal Declaration.

His obedience in humbling himself, in loving his enemies, caring for the poor, welcoming the marginalized, and turning away from violence made a mockery of this opulent, bloodthirsty, and oppressive Empire.

All romancing and trumpeting abroad about one's cleverness in penetrating the God's incognito, though without receiving the condition from the Teacher; that one took notice of him by the impression he made, such a strange feeling coming over one in his presence; that there was a something in his voice and mien, etc., etc. — all this is but silly twaddle, by which one does not become a disciple but only makes a mockery of the God.1 The servant - figure was no incognito.

This new «leader» turns them back to their own ways and makes a mockery out of the cross, which was all done so we may believe in Him so we may enter God's kingdom.

But the God did not assume the form of a servant to make a mockery of men; hence it can not be his intention to pass through the world in such manner that no single human being becomes aware of his presence.

In my 11 years of ministry, no other topic has brought more mockery and frivolous joking.

If God's truth is in fact to be found where Christ stands, the mockery visited on him redounds instead upon the emperor, all of whose regal finery, when set beside the majesty of the servile shape in which God reveals Himself, shows itself to be just so many rags and briars.

Taking over # 8m in its opening weekend in the UK alone, the resulting mass audiences, many of whom returned to see it several times, made a mockery of the film's $ 60m budget.

But if we let our heritage slip from our hands, if we do not understand what we are, then Lincoln's great words about us, words we find it hard to understand in these closing years of the twentieth century — that we are «the last best hope of earth» — will in the end be nothing but a mockery, a sarcastic epithet for a fallen republic.