Articulating the culturally current association between women and horses, opponents of fashionable dress attempted through moralizing mockery to expose its fatuous character and make clear their own superior sensibilities.
I tried to conjure up in my mind pictures of noctur nal landscapes, giving way to bloodstained quasi-ecclesiastical imagery and cruel mockery, returning f inally to nostalgia and sunlit warmth.
However, neither his language nor his attitude shows undiluted mockery.
The worst thing an orator could do was to sound only rehearsed or ' memorized'; to be caught speaking entirely by rote was to invite mockery and condemnation.
To refuse to grab such an opportunity to make a fortune is to make oneself an object of reproach in some cases or of mockery in others.
Rendering artists impotent through mockery and stereotyping (what is there to be afraid of ?).
A cunningly devised mockery of freedom is guaranteed to them, and that is all.
The second two ke9ilu tokens (275), however, are a self-mockery of her own abundant use of ke9ilu.