Sentences with phrase «lampooning in»

Both were ripe for lampooning in the latest episode of Saturday Night Live where the award - winning actor made his hosting debut.

It was the out - of - touch PC maker that comedian John Hodgman lampooned in TV ads for Apple in the late 2000s as a hapless corporate stiff.

He was hated as a radical and lampooned in the press as a traitor, but he stood his ground.

The minister and married mum of three was lampooned in some quarters, but stuck with the misguided strategy during her subsequent doomed Tory leadership run.

Cisco management, and the rest of the Internet, took no time in discovering the message, and the sorry tweeter — mockingly dubbed «Cisco Fatty» — was soon lampooned in tweets, Web sites, and even videos.

Even forgetting the completely silly and incongruous ending — which, in characteristic Italian fashion, implies that marriage is a fate far worse than death — «The 10th Victim» is a messed - up ball of competing impulses and half - baked ideas, and probably most famous among younger cinephiles, in pay - it - forward fashion, for inspiring the machine - gun - bosom lampooned in «Austin Powers.»

Credit due too in large to the script also, which meanders around chronology at an easy pace, dealing anecdotes as a means to a thematic narrative rather than the more traditional model excellently lampooned in Walk Hard.

The movie's old school conception of heroism and values wouldn't work without some nifty writing — Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely's script makes it clear Steve wants to go to war not to kill the enemy but to keep some other poor soul being killed — and a great central performance by Chris Evans's, who sublimates all the cockiness he displayed in Fantastic Four (and then expertly lampooned in Scott Pilgrim).

Jessica Lange is really quite amazing as Babs, the sorority girl lampooned in Animal House but with depth and an ironclad sense of honour.

Briars added that the new Common Core standards are aimed at boosting conceptual understanding, and that's one reason teachers are asking students to draw all those crazy pictures that are lampooned in the media.

Abstract expressionism came with a lot of critical as well as artistic bullshit, much of which Ad Reinhardt gleefully lampooned in his coruscating cartoons and statements.

So this lionizing process of first obfuscating mediocrity and then elevating the mediocre and greedy and power - hungry is what Federico Solmi seems to lampoon in his visually stunning animated paintings which were one of the highlights of the Bushwick Open Studios.

So all I'll say on the subject now is to discreetly note that there appears to be a certain, Pentagon - bound, Klingon element in the Navy, of the sort lampooned in H. M. S. Pinafore, that, metaphorically, needs a spell in the dry - dock where its hull can be scraped clean of encrusted «Beltway Barnacles».

Not exact matches

In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attack, publications in Russia, China and Malaysia — all of which have been criticised for suppressing free speech — said the magazine was wrong to lampoon IslaIn the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attack, publications in Russia, China and Malaysia — all of which have been criticised for suppressing free speech — said the magazine was wrong to lampoon Islain Russia, China and Malaysia — all of which have been criticised for suppressing free speech — said the magazine was wrong to lampoon Islam.

In honour of this latest bit of inter-brand lampooning, here are a few other mocking ads that hit home.

He was certainly one of the most lampooned, as evidenced by a recurring «Tonight Show» gag involving a dance troupe called «The Dancing Itos,» clad in glasses, beards and judicial robes.

The Netflix bashing had gone mainstream a week earlier when Saturday Night Live lampooned the company's YouTube video in a searing skit that mocked everything from the name of the spinoff to Hastings» goatee.

Among Mr. Gurley's main concerns are Silicon Valley's growing self - importance, which he has said is expertly captured in «Silicon Valley,» the HBO show that lampoons the misadventures of several entrepreneurs who hope to strike it rich.

I think also that because a good deal of it will be reactionary, it will for a time, be riding an undercurrent of disrespect, ego, a kind of self - righteousness (oddly enough), and an antagonistic — almost bullying — mentality lacking in grace or love, lampooning those thinking differently.

Lampooned mercilessly as «Professor Bakhlam» in Agnon's novel Shirah, Uncle Joseph gets tough but sympathetic treatment in Oz's memoir.

They either write as though Adam Smith never existed, or else they caricature his views in the way that William Jennings Bryan lampooned Darwin in the infamous Scopes trial.

Milwaukee Journal cartoonist Doug Sanders lampooned those assumptions in a panel that pictured a grimly determined matron forcibly leading her bleary - eyed spouse from «Art's Bar and Grill,» as he protests, «But honey!

In «Mr. Bad Example,» he lampooned the greed of the eighties, and in «Boom Boom Mancini» and «The Hockey Song» he questioned the hidden violence which often drives American sportIn «Mr. Bad Example,» he lampooned the greed of the eighties, and in «Boom Boom Mancini» and «The Hockey Song» he questioned the hidden violence which often drives American sportin «Boom Boom Mancini» and «The Hockey Song» he questioned the hidden violence which often drives American sports.

Galileo Galilei lampooned the misuse of Occam's Razor in his Dialogue.

In «The Fightin» Side of Me,» he lampooned antiwar protesters: «I read about some squirrelly guy who claims he just don't believe in fightin» and I wonder just how long the rest of us can count on being free.&raquIn «The Fightin» Side of Me,» he lampooned antiwar protesters: «I read about some squirrelly guy who claims he just don't believe in fightin» and I wonder just how long the rest of us can count on being free.&raquin fightin» and I wonder just how long the rest of us can count on being free.»

In lampooning my reference to sentiments, Professor Arkes confuses a moral sentiment with a passing fancy.

Comic strips from the 1950s through the 1980s took an increasingly secular attitude toward religious symbols, Heeren said, whereas The Simpsons displays a «much greater freedom in the lampooning of these symbols.»

I see myself, however, as having depicted and lampooned «another Jesus» (2 Corinthians 11:4), the one made over in the image of those whose PC propaganda he is made to spout.

The Men in White angels lampoon the science class's view of evolution, calling it the «goo to you» approach because they want to speak of humans as souls made in the image of God.

As such it traffics in hyperbole and lampoon — a purposeful distortion that helps us see the truth.

But often a misunderstood one; he is very pro-Wenger and he just holds a mirror up to the instant gratification crowd with his outlandish off - the - cuff statements, he lampoons a section of supporters who have a very singular way of improving Arsenal FC — buy, buy, buy and buy big and make sure you buy every flavour of the month along the way and if we are ever in doubt then just buy some more players.

He also knows — after having so much of his early career lampooned with the notion that he could not «win the big one» — that walking away a champion in his last game leaves a permanent marker of doing exactly that.

At no point in this Godforsaken experience of losing a 25 - point lead in the Super Bowl have I stopped loving the things about this lampooned, derided sports team that makes a grown man dry heave in anger.

We were then lampooned for not winning anything even though we qualified for the champions league every year (this now seems to be a wonderful achievement since we failed last year) and have won the FA cup three times in the last four years.

I suppose that those who prefer to refer to «historians» as opposed to acknowledging and observing the legacy from concrete, bricks and mortar bequeathed to them by those who fought in and won the Second World War also prefer to listen to the likes of Savage or Murphy, gibbering plundits who were presciently lampooned by the Super-Plundit himself: Alan Partdrige, about twenty years ago:

Against this backdrop, the VP, going by what the masses are saying, has made himself the symbolic «pulpit» that expressed the silent fears of Nigerians who in recent times lampooned the purported corruption fight as more of a well said than a well - done affair.

McMillan came to national attention as a political novelty for his performance in a 2010 gubernatorial debate, which was subsequently lampooned on Saturday Night Live.

In the traditional tongue - in - cheek address to the Washington press corps on Saturday night, the president lampooned the Republican frontrunner's foreign policy and business credentials while also mercilessly mocking the efforts of his fellow Democrat to appeal to younger voterIn the traditional tongue - in - cheek address to the Washington press corps on Saturday night, the president lampooned the Republican frontrunner's foreign policy and business credentials while also mercilessly mocking the efforts of his fellow Democrat to appeal to younger voterin - cheek address to the Washington press corps on Saturday night, the president lampooned the Republican frontrunner's foreign policy and business credentials while also mercilessly mocking the efforts of his fellow Democrat to appeal to younger voters.

His cartoonist Christian Adams repeatedly and pointedly lampoons Theresa May, who sacked Osborne from the Treasury when she took over as PM in 2016.

One was Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell's reference to an obscure «incest and folk dancing» quotation to (I think) lampoon the SNP's desire to demand more than Labour can offer in any coalition deal.

The challenger later claimed to «have great knowledge of foreign affairs» based on his overseas vacations and his operation of a foreign exchange student program in Japan at a Brooklyn high school — which culminated in a vicious national lampooning on the Daily Show.

The «interactive» elements of the exhibition — suitably underdone for a publication which so often lampoons the techno - obsessed — superbly conjure up what the curator, Julius Bryant, calls «the creative mayhem in the editor's office, the Aladdin's cave of detritus».

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has lampooned the state House of Assembly over threat to issue warrant of arrest against former Governor Kayode Fayemi if he failed to appear before it.

In the days that followed, Smith was widely lampooned.

Mark and Sue were sacked last autumn for unsubstantiated allegations relating to a satirical newsletter in which some senior managers felt they had been lampooned.

Sharpton also lampooned Rangel for saying he wanted one «final» term in office, in order to «wrap it up» with President Obama.

Mr. Schneiderman's reputation for propriety was so entrenched in Albany that he was meant to be lampooned at a legislative correspondents» variety show on Monday night — before the story broke — for being «so lame,» and unscathed by the scandals that have often waylaid Albany politicians.

A judge of Federal High Court in Abuja has lampooned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over an alleged shoddy handling of a fraud case before him.

The British satirical magazine Punch, which back in 1859 had lampooned «mauve measles» as a fashion epidemic that should be treated with a «dose of ridicule,» by 1888 was singing the praises of aniline chemistry, with only a tinge of sarcasm:

In its day, Lamarck's theory was generally ignored or lampooned.