Sentences with phrase «which scoffs»

The main problems with this hokey and overwrought mishap are the beyond ridiculous storyline which scoffs the whole idea of suspension of disbelief, the cringeworthy and repetitive script and the annoying, over the top acting by Bridges.

She fervently exclaimed «We're so spending $ 1000» of which I scoffed at that amount, but looking at some of the games, I'm starting to add up my pre-order total...

On February 15, George Will wrote a column for the Washington Post, in which he scoffed at dire warnings about the effects of global warming.

While the books did require periodic updates, Kantz said Snyder County now is shelling out $ 10,000 each year to maintain its online law library — a sum at which he scoffed Tuesday.

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People scoffed at the Galaxy Note, which carried a 5.3 - inch screen, because it didn't fit the mold at the time.

Domestic fund managers will likely scoff at the theory, which makes for some interesting and potentially tense moments in Australian equity capital markets in the coming year.

This caused them to scoff at the following verses which, they said, taught the opposite...

(Roe's theory of «substantive due process,» which was also the basis for Dred Scoff and Lochner, has always landed the court in trouble, because it strikes down properly enacted laws that interfere with whatever the justices conclude is an important «liberty»)

Finally, there is probably no point at which the spiritual life of persons — particularly young persons — is more affronted than by the fact that one's friends and closest associates either scoff at religion or are indifferent to it.

He did not measure himself by the cultural standards of his day, as did some others, who scoffed at the fact that he was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), nor by the greatness of the order of the intellect (his education was that which could be gained at the local synagogue school) Some of the creatures made by the Word of God are greater in these respects than the one who is the Word of God incarnate, and that one is not ashamed of his inferiority.

While you may scoff at trying to form a personal relationship with any large cosmic force greater than yourself, thinking them innate stardust whose signals can not even propagate fast enough for such communication, others marvel it's effectiveness and capable mechanisms which remain out of reach for human science at present.

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.

Protestants may scoff at the artificiality of it, but there is a form of moral discipline here which ought not to be surrendered without more vital substitutes.

Of course we anticipate the end of the age and the return of Christ, at which you will scoff.

«Scoffing in ambiguous words» (VI, 586)» saying one thing and meaning another or several others» is at once an ability the devils have and a mode of performance to which they are doomed.

So many things which, just 2 years ago, I may have scoffed at, brushed aside as heeby - jeeby, loco, substance-less stuff.

The beans and carrots came with a saffron - infused risotto of which she ate very little, preferring to scoff the fabulous cheesy garlicky roasted vegetables instead.

If you were to tell me back then, that I would later relocate half - way across the globe, and settle for a few years in the South American continent, and more specifically in Buenos Aires, which was known for many decades as the «Paris of South America», I would have really scoffed in your face.

Yet the concept, which began with a single shop, is going international, and the scoffers are increasingly turning to meat free scoffing.

There was only one left, which Kipper scoffed once we were back home in Cambridge.

But one area in which the team is flourishing is clearly their management of drivers, a factor that isn't to be scoffed at considering how often divisions and rifts within Formula 1 teams can spell difficulties and even jeopardy on - track.

If the Suns don't won't 25 (or 30), much less freaking 41 (which is.500 and very unlikely to sniff the playoffs), next year is everyone here still going to scoff at rcastillo for his claim that Booker isn't a winner?

Adam calmly walked over to both before scoffing all the food in the plastic bowl marked with a Dutch flag, at which point every employee at the Copenhagen Zoo rushed to the nearest betting shop, we suggest you all do the same.

Damn, I wasnt finished, just wan na put it out there again to all the lads who scoffed at my summer wishlist of buys which had Scott Parker at the top; the best individual performance on any visiting team in a long long time....

evonne, I was just teasing, I think jibe can mean «scoff — taunt — sneer — ridicule — mockery — jeer» none of which I was doing.

my (then) new husband and I would scoff as we snottily wondered which of the swim - up - barflies were the kids» parents.

Democratic lawmakers in the state Senate scoffed at the Republican tax proposals, which come as Cuomo is seeking $ 1 billion in tax and fee hikes in order to close a budget shortfall.

Lazio scoffed at Cuomo's «new New York agenda,» which calls for sweeping change in Albany and fiscally conservative proposals to bring spending under control, calling it «snake oil.»

Any Conservatives reading this might scoff at the comparison - which only goes to show how effective their leader's exhortations have been.

The development in recent times, it said, scoffs the purpose of the Lagoon which hitherto provided socio - economic benefits for residents.

The bill introduced into the City Council this week would allow for some of them to receive reduced - price green taxi medallions, an offer at which many have scoffed, and also allows for the exploration of other new jobs (electric cars are one possibility that has been floated).

The only drama with this is attempting to eat it in the car which I have done way too many times now, having to scoff a couple of spoonfuls at each red light.

I've also carved out some time in my routine for proper self - care (something I scoffed at for years), which I'll expand on more soon.

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.

She scoffed... and find links in their bios that take them to payment sites through which they can send tributes.

Some notable details: the continual change of Eve's dress, which may reveal her lesbian sexuality, the indifferent scoffing expression of Margo and Karen in the beginning scene and the scene we know Eve has been lying through her stiff shadows.

What that means for me is that instead of being one of 2013's very best films, it settles for the top ten percentile, which is clearly nothing to scoff at.

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.)

That opening menu show's up and it just really sets the mood right for the game, now Jeff Gordon is the man to really introduce the game which will probably make a few hardcore NASCAR fans are going to scoff at the choice, otherwise the game opens up beautifully and allows you instant access to everything the game has to offer.

American and proud, she scoffs at the very notion of nobility, but changes her tune when a baronet by the name of Thomas Sharpe (with Hiddleston's rather dashing face) shows up in town to pitch her father (Jim Beaver) on a machine for mining the blood - red clay on which the Sharpe estate of Allerdale Hall was built.

His work on those TV shows means Gomez - Rejon has experience in comedy and with violence, and while it would be easy to scoff at his work on «Glee,» the show did require a significant use of choreography, which could (perhaps oddly) translate well to the action genre.

This is all to say that I'm sympathetic to any audience member who might have scoffed at the dramatic end of Avengers: Infinity War, the latest and largest of Marvel's ongoing cinematic universe, in which the supervillain Thanos (Josh Brolin) fights for control of the all - powerful Infinity Stones.

Buyers have scoffed at Lincoln prices that got them content near or matching the high - end Fords on which they were based.

To compare, the standard model puts out 291 horsepower, which is nothing to be scoffed at but doesn't compare to the tire burning power of the GSR.

Which sounds a bit stupid; I know some of my self - published author friends would scoff at it.

And what RIM has packed into the 9860 can not be scoffed at — there's a 1.2 GHz dual core QC8655 CPU, 768 MB of RAM and 4 GB of internal storage, which ensures everything ticks along very nicely.

That figure, which is double the number of tablets Samsung shipped in 2012, is certainly nothing to scoff at but it will fall short of Apple's full - year iPad shipments in 2013.

Speaking of the battery, this one clocks in at 34 Wh, which really doesn't tell us very much, but Google is promising over 10 hours of battery life, which is definitely nothing to scoff at for a tablet like this one.

For buyers, it's hard to scoff at those savings, which is why this neighbourhood is up 11 spots from last year's No. 15 rank to No. 4 in the Where to Buy Now in Montreal in 2018.

The tens, if not hundreds of different creatures out there, most of which are tameable by players and the different environments in which these creatures reside is nothing to scoff at.