Sentences with phrase «object of ridicule»

Meanwhile, the judiciary, many of whose senior-most officers have become objects of ridicule at the instance of the EFCC and the DSS, must somehow bring itself to arbitrate with a straight face the winners and losers in this squalid mess.

A host of other Obama - era climate, environmental, and health rules have also been objects of ridicule by Trump officials.

Reveling in the detritus of established good taste, Lee's work intentionally evokes many of the common trappings of contemporary art, mimicking and appropriating the clichéd tropes relied upon by artists and their supporting institutions, transforming objects of luxury into objects of ridicule.

Part Woody Allen, part cheeky postmodern critique, these mini statements pick at the authority of artspeak and the unique language that the art world has come to rely on, presenting Singer as the main object of ridicule.

The sculptures, which often take fruit or vegetable as their subject matter, transform the furniture from objects of luxury into objects of ridicule.

Glass had more features and uses than Spectacles, but its $ 1,500 price tag, creepy sci - fi look, and eager adoption by elite techies made the device an object of ridicule.

Indeed, those who have argued that the figure of the emperor is a sustained concern of any part of the New Testament have often found themselves the object of ridicule and their interest regarded as, at best, somewhat eccentric (an example of this can be seen in R. P. Martin's remarks about Karl Bornhäuser's Jesus imperator mundi in the former's Carmen Christi).

ridicule ˈridiˌkyoōl noun the subjection of someone or something to mockery and derision: he is held up as an object of ridicule.

Both would become the objects of ridicule and scorn.

In the 1988 campaign President Bush invoked the American flag in a way that trivialized that symbol, and Michael Dukakis became an object of ridicule by donning a tank - driver's helmet — an ineffective use of an empty symbol of patriotism.

Ive always been the object of ridicule & rejection.

What about the objects of ridicule?

Exactly davidnz — but some people are only comfortable in making Giroud the object of ridicule in his CF role.

Farage's angry reaction comes not long after James made him an object of ridicule on social media by screwing her face up and recoiling from a kiss that he tried to give her the party's annual conference in Bournemouth.

The popular alt - right website Breitbart News Network was the object of ridicule Sunday after it published a story ostensibly to discredit the Washington Post's exposé on U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama.

Mr. Silver had expressed regret that his actions made the State Capitol the object of ridicule.

A similar defence cooperation agreement between the Kenyan Government and the British Government which has gone viral on social media has deepened our woes, and Ghana, a country used to be the trailblazer and shining example for other African countries is now becoming an object of ridicule on the continent.»

The New Patriotic Party government was the object of ridicule at the maiden National Conference of Ex-MMDCES as former President Mahama threw jabs at the Akufo - Addo administration.

«We will be the object of ridicule throughout the United States if we were to elect these reprehensible semi-criminals,» she continued.

Being the prime minister's spouse is one of the more thankless jobs in British politics: the previous incum - bent, Cherie Blair, like Sarah Brown a successful professional involved in good causes, had gone from admired role model to object of ridicule and fury.

Patricia Neal comes to Washington on behalf of the preservation of the California Condor; she finds herself the object of ridicule for almost everyone, including leading man Victor Mature, a lobbyist for the oil interests who threatens a large bird sanctuary.

But rather than jumping on the making - fun aspect of our fanhood, Franco finds a kindred spirit in Wiseau and approaches the material with a knowing sense of what it's like to dream big, and also what it's like to have big dreams become the object of ridicule.

In contrast, the preacher emerges not as an object of ridicule or as a con artist in The Apostle, but as a complex man whose strengths and weaknesses bring about his fall as well as his redemption.

The filmmaking is remarkably non-objective, to the exclusion of any sort of male perspective on the events at hand: The men in the film are quite simply either with Jessica and co. or against them — that is to say, objects of ridicule and / or scorn.

Wilkinson runs away with the picture, however, with his sympathetic (if anti-Wildean) take on a character usually purveyed as an object of ridicule.

Spade's title character is an unattractive, unwashed janitor at a Los Angeles radio station who is brought on the air by a DJ (Dennis Miller, one of the film's few bright spots) for the sole intention of being an object of ridicule.

Young Tessa is a diminutive girl, far too small for farm work and the object of ridicule by both her own family and the other children in their isolated Midwestern community.

Your dog's name should be appropriate, as it is no joke to go through life as an object of ridicule.

And yet it almost exclusively depicts the fat body, my body, as a noxious threat, a monstrosity, an object of ridicule, something to be dealt with violently.

We look forward to seeing a potential AAA game based off of a AAA movie, as games based off of movies are often the object of ridicule and overall gaming disgust.

He exudes pride when the object of ridicule, struggles to find in his place in an undefined world: he's a man, not a boy; too real for the other toys and too strange to be loved by a child.

«They had an incredible burst of popularity among a certain economic group and, after their cultural moment, became an object of ridicule.»

I agree with Angela that it is time for the judiciary to act responsibly in these matters rather than indulge themselves at the expense of families who are made the objects of ridicule as a result.

But Howell makes the point that women's committees, if ineffective, actually do more harm than good because they may wind up as an object of ridicule.

Lawyers have been the object of ridicule for about as long as there have been lawyers.

His constant bellyaching about Bitcoin has made him an object of ridicule in the crypto world.

So why, when see working people on the TV, are they always the object of ridicule?