Sentences with phrase «mockery of american»

This is a mockery of American democratic values, and we must all act to ensure it does not happen again.

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But Orrin Klapp had earlier observed that «mockery of heroes is not only a literary mode — an amusement for satirists and tired intellectuals — but has entered popular thought and is an important feature of American society» (p. 167).

Maybe the only comfort we the comfortable can legitimately embrace lies in the realization that God can not be forever mocked — that his grace will not forever endure ridicule, that the mockery of easy American Christianity will not endure forever.

But if the filmmakers sometimes indulge in easy mockery of the South and its people, they also deliberately subvert such glibness through their brilliant and entirely sincere use of American folk music.

In a film full of so many incredibly bad elements, the fact that they were able to cast an African - American willing to make a mockery of the legitimate pleas of actual victims of racist police brutality is beyond comprehension, especially a comedian held in such high regard.

(9) As with The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China was ahead of its time, and audiences in 1986 were not ready for the flamboyant Hong Kong style action films or for the mockery of the emblematic American action hero.

It's confident that Saturday Night Live - level mockery is unnecessary to highlight the absurdity of what's being proffered to the American public — and what that public is eating up.

I also think Stephen Colbert should be boycotted for making a mockery of the U.S. Congress, Jon Stewart should be punished for his unwillingness to treat serious American politics seriously, and South Park should be banned altogether.