Sentences with phrase «public derision»

News of artists famous in one field crossing over into another is very often met with public derision.

While the world economy slams into reverse and the performance SUV — arguably already the most despised vehicle category on the planet — is hit with another wave of public derision, Merc's go - faster division not only sticks its hand up for inventing the monster - motored 4x4 (1998's ML55 AMG) but also, just to rub it in, unveils two special editions of its current ballistic behemoth, the ML63 AMG, to celebrate the boss ML's ten years of unfeasible haste.

7), and he must have suffered more than once the cutting public derision to which he refers in 28:9 f.

Aflame with a faith to which they felt they must bear witness at all costs, these early Christians braved the fires of public derision and persecution.

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BBC Radio 5 Live's hapless commentator Jack Nicholls said he rated Nico Hulkenberg above Fernando Alonso, much to the derision of his commentating colleagues and the general public and anyone who's watched more three grands prix.

The men who had invested in them were the subjects of cautionary tales, derision, and a fair measure of public loathing.

Regrettably, they must also endure the ravages of urban sprawl and the derision of an ungrateful and ignorant public.»

Also well documented is the outrage and derision the exhibition's more outré selections elicited from the public, turning the show into a succès de scandale and inspiring observers and critics to predict the untimely death of art.

Pompier (used either as a noun or an adjective) became an avant - garde term of derision for the slick tricks of painters who were the popular hits in the nineteenth century's enormous public exhibitions.

This was no small feat; the pervasive mood of a post-Depression era America exuded suspicion of and derision towards what was considered at the time a European art form; the de-moralized public and critics alike in the United States throughout the 1930s and 1940s vastly preferred the narrative and representational redemption in Social Realist and Regionalist art which sought to reassure their beleaguered souls of the values which were truly American.

Pardon while I retch recalling Republican derision of suggestions ranging from those of George Washington to Hillary Clinton that the US needs its own university devoted to maintaining standards of competence for US public officials, particularly administrative appointees, who often seem to lack even a basic understanding of the laws governing municipal basics like utilities.

It was with shock and a sense of betrayal that they saw their dirty laundry being exposed in public and being picked over in detail to general derision.

Such folks for believe past, provable events are false are worthy of derision by a scientifically informed public.

Once the so - called climatologists lose their ability to pursue their delusion at public expense, they will fade away leaving nothing in their wake except the faint sound of derision.

I wonder if Mann is now «a cornered animal» and his illogical, childish lashing out at Steyn merely reflects his general emotional state at the present time as his house of cards falls around his ears, exposing his enormous but battered ego to the derision of a wider public.

Cosmetic measures should be met with derision, not support - and scientists need to get out of their little foxholes and start talking to the public.