Sentences with phrase «mockery of attempts»

There's a suggestion of psychic transport, yet also gentle mockery of attempts to escape the human condition.

Barclays was tonight accused of making a mockery of attempts to call a truce with the government over «banker bashing» amid fresh expectations that its chief executive Bob Diamond would be awarded a bonus of at least # 8m.

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But such attempts are rare enough to make one almost grateful for even the contemptuous attention of an atheist like Flaubert, who depicted religious experience with rancid mockery: «When she sighed her last breath she thought she saw an opening in the heavens, and a gigantic parrot hovering above her head.»

Thus his being numbered among the transgressors, as well as his refreshment with a drink (or perhaps it was an attempt to benumb his senses, Mark 15:23), the casting of lots for his garments, and also the mockery of those who passed by — all these details are understood as evidence of the will of God.

Because the Abe government's attempt to pass the bills that make a mockery of constitutionalism irreparably undermines not only peace but also logic — two key prerequisites for education and scholarship.