Sentences with phrase «widespread derision»
"Widespread derision" means that a lot of people are mocking, ridiculing, or making fun of something or someone. Full definition
Following the 2005 election, Johnson was initially announced on 6 May 2005 as being «Secretary of State for Productivity, Energy and Industry», but after just a week, on 13 May, it was declared that the new title would not be used, after widespread derision of the new name, because the abbreviation for Johnson's title, Productivity, Energy and Industry Secretary, would have been «PENIS».
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Other movies attracting widespread derision on Rotten Tomatoes include such undoubted mainstays of your DVD collection as The Ridiculous 6, starring Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy's A Thousand Words, and a rare misstep for the National Lampoon team, Gold Diggers.
But the scale of the bloodshed and the general impression of panic aroused widespread derision.
by Walter Chaw Its final cut a full thirty minutes shorter than the one that was shown to widespread derision at last year's Cannes Film Festival, Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny is laced with melancholy and a crushing sense of loneliness.
The book that followed, Portrait of a Killer (2002), identified British painter Walter Sickert as the culprit — and earned Cornwell widespread derision among so - called Ripperologists.
In 2000, I wrote a short paper entitled «Death of the Risk Premium,» with Ron Ryan, which was received with widespread derision, but ultimately proved correct: plain old 10 - year government bonds have produced higher returns than stocks since then, by a cumulative margin of over 30 %, despite the durable bull market since 2002.
After a decade in which sane commentators have been angered and frustrated by the purblind adherence to the warmist superstition by followers of the Al Gore cult — prominent among them our own esteemed First Minister and President for Life Designate — the whole climate change scam has finally degenerated into a joke, provoking widespread derision.
Juicero attracted widespread derision for its $ 400 «smart juicer», which does little more than squeeze pre-made organic fruit and vegetable juices out of a bag and into a cup.