Sentences with phrase «laughing derision»
They're charming, friendly, warm, helpful, interested and interesting... but in the back of my mind, I always have this niggling suspicion that they're laughing derision at everyone around them.
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«She bat them long lashes at you,» he tells Grant, in laughing derision, «and you fell for it like an egg from a tall chicken.»
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«While the church is laughable to Chaucer,» Klassen writes, «he does not laugh in derision.
Psalm 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them (unbelievers) in derision.
He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision.
He who sits in the heavens shall laugh as He shall have them in derision.
He is making our club a laughing stock and a source of derision to other clubs fans.
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.
Those people may well include the audience; while my black - tie gala crowd leaned in appreciatively at the disclosure of a key twist, I heard from a few colleagues that the same scene elicited laughs and snorts of derision at the press screening.
Although their ostensible purpose is to make people laugh, clowns seem to exist for the sake of sheer perversity and torment, functioning as absurd objects of derision, creepy interrupters, or surreal distracters — and often cruel ones at that.