Примеры mockery

• One of the mockeries of the present age is that it is said that devaluation is an opportunity.

• We may be called upon, if we recognise this minimum wage, to consider whether the wages already granted are not vain and idle mockeries.

• If she does, she will find many mockeries already within the two and three-mile limits.

• Once organized they were able to arrange punitive expeditions to the other quarters to punish the local boys for the mockeries.

• Without some level of promulgation, and of publication, he says, the practice of legislation is 'a cruel mockery'.

• I am glad that someone sneaks in there and makes a mockery of the business.

• The granting of amnesty and government posts to the rebels made a mockery of the basic principles of human rights and democracy.

• The second two ke9ilu tokens (275), however, are a self-mockery of her own abundant use of ke9ilu.

• A cunningly devised mockery of freedom is guaranteed to them, and that is all.

• Rendering artists impotent through mockery and stereotyping (what is there to be afraid of ?).

• 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.

• 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.

• However, neither his language nor his attitude shows undiluted mockery.

• 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.

• 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.