Sentences with phrase «laughed at a member»

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He worked with the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R - AK) and the late Senator Daniel K. Inuye (D - HI) on the project and recalled that Stevens, who served as a pilot in the Army's air force during World War II, was eager to investigate claims that service members were often hesitant to report sightings to their superiors due to fear of being laughed at or stigmatized.

Sadly, however, it's not anything to laugh at — not only has the controversy reconfirmed the Internet's proclivity to breed hate and misogyny, but the Gamergate controversy sparked a series of online and offline threats, directed at members on both «sides» of the issue.

We members of the Flat Earth Society get laughed at and ridiculed all the time too by all those smarty pants know it all types.

At church we just laugh when they talk about all our members worlwide.

You can't spend millions of dollars targeting the civil rights of a minority group then cry victim when some members of that group have a few laughs at your expense.

I like to think Jesus was laughing with delight when he prayed, «I thank thee, Father...» Stage directions for reading this would perhaps indicate that the laughter here is the laughter of relief, not laughter at a person, but laughter with a person — in this case, laughter among the members of the Trinity.

He recalled how his fellow priests had in many cases become very casual, and how in Rome «I heard, among other clever and coarse anecdotes at mealtimes, members of the papal curia laugh and boast about how some said Mass and with reference to the bread and wine spoke these words: ««Panis es, panis manebis; vinum es, vinum manebis» — «Bread you are and bread you shall remain; wine you are, and wine you shall remain» — and with these words they elevated the host and the wine in the usual way.

It might need a complete overhaul at Arsenal, manager, players, board members, ideology etc before we can at least once again laugh at our once lumbering and mediocre neighbours down at White Hart Lane

As Paxman looked unimpressed, some audience members simply laughed at the prime minister's response.

Senior members of the Liberal Democrats allegedly «openly laughed» at a female party activist when she told them former chief executive, Lord Rennard, propositioned her during a party dinner.

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This point was rammed home to me as I sat in agonized silence, fingers sporadically jammed into my eyes, while audience members laughed at the latest shockingly boring Melissa McCarthy / Ben Falcone cringe machine.

Even as characters are tweaked and actors bring a slightly different energy than his other movies, The Best of Me is still the same mushy Nicholas Sparks adaptation with drama so overwrought audience members can't help but laugh — at least until they're sniffling during the closing credits.

As the red carpet in South Africa swirled with stunning outfits and exclamations in the local isiXhosa language used in Black Panther's Wakanda kingdom, cast member John Kani laughed at the US president's views.

Sloane laughs at his prospects of winning against one of the most well - funded lobbyists in D.C. Nonetheless, the next day she shockingly resigns in front of her team to join Schmidt in passing the gun regulation bill and poaches several members of her team.

I'm very happy I did, as Cheap Thrills turned out to be one of the best films at the festival that delivered on laughs, violence, and possibly some career best performances from all cast members involved.

On Broadway it had people screaming as well as laughing at its depiction of terrible human behavior, usually among family members, in remote, forbidding Connemara, Ireland.

As the red carpet in South Africa swirled with stunning outfits and exclamations in the local isiXhosa language used in the film's Wakanda kingdom, cast member John Kani laughed at the U.S. president's views, which several African nations have openly scorned.

But even if audience members at the 10 a.m. Friday screening seemed puzzled at first, they soon broke into raucous laughs at regular intervals.

That showing would not have been marred by audience members laughing much too hard at the occasional tension - slicing moment, talking too much about what is going on, and cheering too hard for the heroes to catch the villains.

The movie was screened before an «invited audience» in a Michigan Avenue theater, where two small groups of audience members laughed loudly at almost everything, and just about everybody else waited politely until it was over and they could leave.

Maybe it's because I found myself being so amused at how effectively this laugh - cue extravaganza appeared to work on my fellow audience members.

Replaying wooing mistakes we've all made, the smart writing and quirky jokes in this movie gives audience members a chance to laugh at the dilemmas of dating.

Many of the lines that family members toss off elicit laughs, but they're also meant to hurt, or at least shift the blame.

As the red carpet in South Africa swirled with stunning outfits and exclamations in the local Xhosa language used in the film's fictional Wakanda kingdom, cast member John Kani laughed at the U.S. president's views, which several African nations have openly scorned.

Though, the fact that the film isn't entirely without obvious merit confuses things even further: Krauss is wryly brilliant as Krauss and delivers the film's biggest laugh with his Herzog - ian reasons for using a wheelchair; Gael Garcia Bernal has a great time as a lecherous member of Laura's delegation, spinning his suitcase with the sneering verve of a cartoon villain who twirls his mustache and gleefully acts smarmy before being felled by his own beleaguered bowels; Herzog's shots of Diablo Blanco, portrayed by Bolivia's real - life Uyuni salt flats, are among the most stunning in any film released this year; Shannon has fun in the impromptu photo shoot that takes place toward the end of the film; and as expected, there's a fascinating push and pull in the battle between human and nature at the heart of the film's central premise.

I laughed at that bit, but most of the flick is aimed at the youngest members of the family.

The opening 30 minutes in particular are chockfull of laughs, fully embracing the zany humor of the band members with such manic energy that it's almost impossible to keep up at times.

Although I did mention that the film doesn't go for big laughs, once you come to like the characters, you'll laugh at the folly of their situations just as you would members of your own family.

One audience member shouted «rubbish» while a handful of others jeered and some laughed at the minister's suggestions.

There is so much to laugh at in this satire: Raymond is a member of an almost - all - female book club that reads cheesy novels that are filled with actual recipes.

I run across a new article nearly every day where a writer complains about or derisively laughs at a friend / co - worker / family member who says, «I'd write a book if I had the time.»

If you were to ask the same question to staff members at the pound in Davidson County, North Carolina — people who like to put cats and kittens in the gas chamber with raccoons in order to sadistically watch them fight before turning on the gas, laughing while they do it — they would not raise their hands, either.

Picked this up on e-mail and laughed at the bottom where it said if you are a member of The Mark Steyn Club and take issue with this opinion.

21 Realtor / Affiliate Members and 20 children from the Bridges for Kids Cortland YWCA Program came together at Beaudry Park in Cortland for a day of games, crafts, sun, laughs, and food.