Sentences with phrase «scoffs from»

Though an initial show at a Dupont Circle theatre gallery in 1961 drew scoffs from some viewers who compared his paintings to awnings or slipcovers, Davis eventually sold his first artwork of five horizontal planks in 1962.

After a moment of silence, I heard a few scoffs from the audience and even, «I don't believe that!»

The utility's plans forecast 3.3 GW of distributed solar, but those projections drew scoffs from environmentalists, who noted that APS has fought efforts to install panels on residential and commercial rooftops.

It is always easy for journalists and clinical scientists to scoff from the sidelines, but the incident with the Terrence Higgins Trust has created damaging publicity for ACT UP just when the group does not need it.

Not exact matches

Facing opposition from internet pioneers, online companies, members of Congress and the vast majority of Americans — all of whom are worried about broadband providers offering cut - down packages of services rather than the full internet — he released a jokey video scoffing at their dire predictions.

Arizona's fearsome rushing attack is nothing to scoff at, but Purdue has come so far from a team that Vegas set at 2.5 wins at the start of the season — they'll come out looking to cap the season with a win.

I have heard everyone from my Inc. colleague Howard Tullman to venture capitalist Peter Thiel scoff at the value of a four - year - degree experience in today's work environment.

The friend, who came from a family of entrepreneurs, scoffed.

Some may scoff, but to the well - heeled traveller with the right connections, membership to a club like the Soho provides a port - of - call in most major cities — a plush haven where one can entertain a client away from the prying eyes of the hoi polloi or, in some cases, crash for a few days on nothing more than your own recognizance.

Don rightly scoffs at this idea («Don't be so cynical») when Sally parrots it on the phone — and we are reminded of his recoiling, in Season Five, from Lane Pryce's anti-spending slogan: «Pennies make pounds.

Castro himself was rather upfront about the departing citizens: «Those that are leaving from Mariel are the scum of the country... who are welcome to leave Cuba if any country will have them,» he scoffed at a 1980 May Day celebration during the height of the migration.

I used to scoff at the idea of a single entity that was in the evil business, thinking those people weak of mind as to need one bogeyman to distract from their own weaknesses.

Many with whom the French Revolution was popular were inclined to scoff at Christianity as an outworn superstition from which man was to be freed in the new day.

People hear our sermons sprinkled with Greek, Hebrew, and quotations from theology books, and they realize they don't have the time or training to do all this study, and when they try with the limited time and resources they do have, more often than not, they get scoffed at or ridiculed by someone with more training and knowledge for having a view that shows their ignorance.

Before you scoff, there is hardly a fraternal church - related insurance company» Thrivant for Lutherans, for instance» that does not have in its history from a century and a half ago the early experience of stern opposition from pastors on exactly those same grounds.

Even though popular culture is still open to supernormal appearances from the «beyond,» many sincere seekers of truth now scoff at the very idea of revelation.

Started in 1981 to study what happens during the transition from chemical to organic agriculture, the FST surprised a food community that still scoffed at organic practices.

I scoffed at him and said I'd make them from scratch.

I didn't mention anything about the roasted pumpkin seeds salvaged from my Jack - O'lantern, she would've just scoffed at that.

I'm just being picky because as I'm writing this I'm scoffing a giant piece of this cake but it's a comment I get from my family / friends and has made me notice it more... let me know your thoughts..

No sooner had I finished the dish then my kids walked in from school and scoffed the lot.

Sharing it with others would also stop you from scoffing the lot and make you popular at the same time!

I scoffed at the idea of making a cookie the size of a walnut (grew up in the nation that decided «bigger was better»... yeah, still trying to move away from that) and so I decided to roll out normal sized cookies.

Mr. Frugal (the husband) scoffed at the idea of purchasing a scale since he couldn't figure out why on earth we needed one — mind you, I bought it second hand from Goodwill for $ 10 bucks.

I can scoff at this from a pure quality standpoint — Baylor ranks 10th in the F / + rankings and eighth in the Massey Composite, while Iowa ranks 17th and ninth.

You'll see from the video below that he takes a cheeky look to see if any coaching staff are watching, ignoring the vast array of cameras directed toward the pitch and bench, before scoffing a tea - cake.

A day earlier, on a sports radio show broadcast from Birmingham, he'd scoffed at Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville for voting, in a survey of conference coaches, against playing at LSU on Saturday night.

Jake Delhomme scoffs at the notion that he's taken the Browns» quarterback situation from bad to worse

«Net Spend» is a much scoffed at phrase in modern football, but to transform Liverpool into the gegenpressing, offensive monster we often see now, from the weary, possession - obsessed «animal» it was at the end of Brendan Rodgers» reign — while making # 34m — is nothing short of...

Not your boring common or garden # 80m or # 100m offers for a striker, or two, obviously, but $ 200m for Neymar or Mbappe (yes him again) and we all laugh holding our bellies, and scoffing at these crazy stories, until, in keeping with this cornucopia of scrumptious jelly and cream La La Land make believe, the reality squirts out from the asshole of the transfer window — Citeh sign Walker — yes that Walker — from the Spuds, for # 55m — now that is both unbelievable and incredible, and shows reality can outshine even the most fanciful banality.

Lots of people scoff at the giant turkey legs, but if you figure you could probably feed your whole family from it plus some veggie sticks or fruit, and you've got decent food at a decent price.

Milk is an infant's main source of nutrition for the first year of life and when they are transitioned to whole milk at one year of age, some scoff at the idea of milk from a cup and some still happily guzzle it down several times a day.

We, her ever - resistant offspring, scoffed because the granola wasn't from a box and she usually added wheat germ and raisins and about 1/3 of the sugar.

Now, no one wants to pooh - pooh the prospect of little kids falling ill from food poisoning, but I know I'm not the only parent (and daily packer of school lunches) who heard about this study and, well, scoffed.

But penal experts scoffed at that defence, saying prison libraries are often extremely limited and unable to get books from outside.

McLaughlin scoffed at the notion that the city's minority populations have benefited sufficiently from Sheehan's tenure.

He has also scoffed at the idea of applying outside income restrictions on statewide elected officials like himself, challenging anyone to identify how those paying his book contract benefited from his policies.

Even with several of his top aides and donors facing charges of bid - rigging and bribery, Gov. Andrew Cuomo scoffed today at the Observer's question about whether he might stop accepting or soliciting political contributions from entities doing business with the state.

Funiciello scoffed at Derrick's pivot to condemning the role of money in politics, an issue that has largely been absent from his campaign in favor of trade issues, including his opposition to the Trans - Pacific Partnership.

Arthur Winfree from the University of Arizona, who has made a long study of biological clocks, scoffs at the meal - time and caffeine regimen, but says the light part makes some sense.

«Some people thought it came from outer space,» scoffs Athens University physicist Yanis Bitsakis.

She also scoffs at the attempt to decouple the earth sciences from planetary sciences, a discipline Cruz and Culberson strongly favor.

A new survey from The Harris Poll says that you're healthier than the Bud - swilling bros you scoff at.

I am a habitual over-packer but I am determined to travel lightly (or should that be, «lighter») this time — to this end, I've purchased a new 69 cm suitcase (I don't think I could do just carry - on like you) but have received scoffing comments from family that it's far too small, especially with all the shopping opportunities out there.

Online dating has gone from something that was scoffed at a few years ago, to a ubiquitous technology that is as mainstream as ordering pizza.

Book a foraging walk with former gastropub owner John Rensten and over the next two and a half hours he'll show you which plants you can scoff as well as letting you taste dishes and drinks he's made from wild food he's already picked.

Though her superior scoffs at the notion, Hazel and her colleagues, Detective Ray Green (Gil Bellows) and Ben Wingate (Topher Grace), a young new transfer from Toronto, treat the investigation as such and look for common clues among the area's rising corpse count.

If this doc doesn't make that list, it will probably recede from most radars and not quite live up to its strong word of mouth and potential (although $ 700,000 at the box office is nothing to scoff at) which would be tragic in my mind, because it is one of the best documentaries of the year and if it gets on the shortlist, it has a good chance of getting nominated (but not to win, as I'll explain in a bit.)

He confides his women troubles in and borrows money from his daughter Susan (Jenna Fischer), as her son (Jake Richard Siciliano) worships him and her husband (David Costabile) scoffs at and scolds him.

Scoffing at gross - out comedies just because they aren't in accord with what has traditionally been construed as quality cinema doesn't mean that this type of film should forever be banished from award ceremonies.