Sentences with phrase «of derision»
On the other side of the coin, Jan De Bont's Haunting will likley always be an object of derision for most people who care about movies.
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The narrow Blaine Amendments bar state money for any sectarian institution — «sectarian» being an old theologically - liberal term of derision for the Catholic Church and, more generally, for a church that acts on its own.
While Freud's statement was met with howls of derision from the other side of the House, I can't help but wonder if he has a point.
Still an object of derision for the political right, Mr. Gore has seen support for his views rising within the business community: Investment in renewable energy sources like wind and solar is skyrocketing as their costs plummet.
Introduced by Porsche amid financial uncertainty in 2003, the Cayenne elicited howls of derision from Porsche enthusiasts - and curious glances from everyone else.
While in the Commons even a mention in passing of the word «savings» or «efficiencies» is met with hoots of derision by the Conservatives or Liberal Democrats.
But the LLC loophole — long a source of derision for critics of the state's campaign laws — was not addressed.
On the other hand, the image of Michael Fassbender wearing the Magneto helmet has become the subject of some derision as it does seem to be a wee bit oversized.
I recognized many faces from classes and activities; I heard words of support and snorts of derision from the crowd.
Thing that's interesting about «The Simple Life» is that it's as worthless and worthy of derision as Nicole and Paris, products, both, of a fast, facile culture that favours beautiful people so vacuous that as soon as the wind shifts, the destruction of them is brought to pass with zero effort in zero time.
Well, it's taken SEGA 17 years to realise it, but it seems they too have caught on to the fanbase's near - constant clamouring for Big to have his own game — the cries of derision when they instead announced Shadow would be having a starring role in 2005 still echo in one's ears — as today has seen the release of Big's Big Fishing Adventure 3 for essentially every system under the sun.
Scientology has been played largely as a figure of derision in pop culture but Gibney seeks to show the dark side here, how it controls people and ruins lives, despite essentially being started as a way of writing off tax.
In some conversations with fans I've heard a surprising amount of derision for this move.
While that label — «linear» — might have been often used as a term of derision in relation to interactive entertainment, here it works wonderfully.
It never does, but at least the movie becomes more deserving of derision than of scorn.
The combative midfield was often the target of derision from opposition fans for his reckless tackling and ability to wind - up opponents.
And it's this level of derision from the city's athletes that makes Charlotte unique in the state of modern protesting during a renewed age of activism.
He invites a lot of derision by his demeaning of the scientists hereabouts.
Such folks for believe past, provable events are false are worthy of derision by a scientifically informed public.
Although the idea of historical progress has received its share of derision in recent years, the fact is that many facets of history, and even whole historical eras, really are progressive.
There has been a long debate about importing an «opt out» process but this is usually met with howls of derision of the horrors of the US class process (which they imported from us and we then abandoned).
The infamous Cannes boobirds welcome Gus Van Sant's latest with a chorus of derision while Woody Allen keeps on keeping on and the Italian Woody Allen, Nanni Moretti, offers a tonally woozy mix of comedy and drama.
I had a skim, gave a few snorts of derision at the inaccuracies — er, no, she's not all settled and content behind bars, it's bloody depressing in there — and put it back on the shelf with an annoyed flourish.
But lest we throw the baby out with the bathwater, we need to be certain that The Counselor is ultimately an object of derision because it's a bad film, and not simply because it's a poor box - office performer.
this 2013 Mini John Cooper Works GP is a bit over the top — I think those from Mini's homeland would refer to it as «boy racer» with a hint of derision.
With Cohn stepping down, the revival of «globalist» as a term of derision against him raises the prospect that Trump intends to fill vacancies with «nationalists» and take a more protectionist tilt from here on out.
BERLIN — U.S. President Barack Obama was a subject of derision Saturday as hundreds of thousands of Germans across the country marched against a White House - backed trade deal.
The point of those analyses and «historical genealogies» that have become an object of derision among the liberals — oddly, from those who advocate a return to Madisonian principles — is certainly not to retreat to the comfort of the library or the coffee shop; nor is it to deny the contingencies of history by suggesting that 1968 follows upon 1776 with some kind of mechanical necessity.
• So, having heaped upon the National Council of Churches» screed against the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Columbus» arrival in the Americas a small measure of the derision that it deserves («Repenting of America 1492 - 1992,» October 1990), we are asked how Christians should think about the occasion.
And it's true that no - one has explained better than her how the Icarus - like dreams of the 60s, having fallen from the sun and crashed back onto low reality, can curdle into the poisonous habits of derision and Manichaean politics.
His beloved walks around the streets of the city became a continual gauntlet of derision.
It is rivaled only by the wrath directed at conservative Protestants who are routinely consigned to the catchall category of derision called «fundamentalist.»
It was a common term of derision applicable to any product shoddily made or easily broken.
Whether the offended individual sits broken - hearted, staring almost like a beggar at the Paradox, paralyzed by his suffering, or he sheathes himself in the armor of derision, pointing the arrows of his wit as if from a distance — he is still passive and near at hand.
The continued string of derision of me as a Catholic or of Catholics in general doesn't advance an argument for your side.
They suffer from ideas of reference (believe that they are the butt of derision, contempt, and condemnation) and are mildly paranoid (the world is out to get them, which explains their personal misfortune).
He felt the sting of derision the day he hit town.
Neither, apparently, will controversy over, expressions of derision toward, or causality of negative events assigned to those who woo.
If you really want to help, the best way possible, don't go to games, keep up the campaign of derision on social media and ABOVE ALL, do not despair.
Instead of derision, we're getting some quiet murmurs of agreement from the Gooner camp.
When Corbyn put his name forward for Labour leader, he also put himself forward for years of derision, mockery and scorn.
Perhaps some might be honks of derision, with a different digit held up.
Lettre's competence was a topic of derision following his failure to provide a rational cost analysis for the repair of the Senior Citizen Centers at a Planning Board meeting last year.