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  • I thought of how I had used my literacy to ridicule Hassan.†   (source)
  • Halliday's Easter egg gradually moved into the realm of urban legend, and the ever-dwindling tribe of gunters gradually became the object of ridicule.†   (source)
  • I mean, nobody wishes more than I do that it had all been quick and clean, and my head had come off properly, I mean, it would have saved me a great deal of pain and ridicule.†   (source)
  • The truth was, I was tired of taking on people who ridiculed us for the way we lived.†   (source)
  • Indeed, he delighted in ridiculing the policies of the Democratic Party and was a vocal admirer of Ronald Reagan.†   (source)
  • Instead, they mocked and shouted and ridiculed as the Launchies tried to master difficult skills with untrained muscles.†   (source)
  • He was often ridiculed by the other children at his school and had shown up more than once with wide red welts on his arms which Lillian Jean, his older sister, had revealed with satisfaction were the result of his associating with us.†   (source)
  • After I explained my theory, the scholars and my bosses all ridiculed it.†   (source)
  • We laughed at the panhandler on the block, but he wasn't just an object of ridicule, he was an unsettling omen.†   (source)
  • You are as white as a ghost, the inmates ridiculed as the guards marched him in, naked and cold.†   (source)
  • Seiler ridiculed the prosecution for inconsistencies in the statements of its expert witnesses—most notably Dr. Larry Howard, director of the State Crime Lab.†   (source)
  • Horace Whaley would not ridicule him now about playing Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • And in spite of no publicity and ridicule and stiff opposition, it's a pretty lively and growing association.†   (source)
  • One hundred lousy bucks a day to be publicly ridiculed and humiliated.†   (source)
  • It was bad enough, Owen maintained, that he was subject to seasonal ridicule for the role he played in the Christ Church Christmas Pageant.†   (source)
  • "Yes, and I'm sure he's very sensitive about that, so don't ridicule him," Mr. Poe said, coughing again into his handkerchief.†   (source)
  • The last case was a plump tavern singer, accused of making a song that ridiculed the late King Robert.†   (source)
  • Taunted and bullied, ridiculed and abused by other children.†   (source)
  • She ridiculed her own attempts at genealogy; the family tree was wintry and bare, as well as rootless.†   (source)
  • High marks could open you up to ridicule, to name-calling, to being made an outsider.†   (source)
  • I wanted to ridicule him for using chatspeak IRL, but I found myself lacking the energy.†   (source)
  • Suddenly he blundered into the open, found himself again in that open space—and there was the fathom-wide grin of the skull, no longer ridiculing a deep blue patch of sky but jeering up into a blanket of smoke.†   (source)
  • He ridiculed them for accepting the wages they did, when their own government, the People's Government, was in power.†   (source)
  • I've been ridiculed, mocked, and screamed at until my ears rang.†   (source)
  • I feared ridicule and censure.†   (source)
  • In my case, though I didn't know how to write or paint, I had a great need to conceive and imagine, so compelling, so encompassing, I had to do it even when I knew my works would be subject to ridicule, would be called stupid and naive.†   (source)
  • No sarcasm, no ridicule.†   (source)
  • His work was dismissed, ridiculed, described as derivative and silly.†   (source)
  • "This" was the ridicule, which was a result of the interrogation, where he admitted that he joined Dauntless to escape his father.†   (source)
  • Life is full of little ironies, and one of them was the fact that, after months of searching, we settled on a house in the one South Florida city I took the greatest glee in publicly ridiculing.†   (source)
  • Hatsumomo's ridicule would do me such harm in the eyes of men, and even in the eyes of women in Gion, that I would be better off staying home.†   (source)
  • This sign of respect in America and Europe, this symbol of heritage and lineage, would be ridiculed in India.†   (source)
  • I couldn't stand being ridiculed.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he wants to ridicule his poor hero.†   (source)
  • But the best news came the next day, when officials of the World's Columbian Exposition Company, whose boasts had been ridiculed far and wide, presented a check for $1.5 million to the Illinois Trust and Savings Company and thereby extinguished the last of the exposition's debts.†   (source)
  • In Black Hawk Down, he was a large man who wore nice clothes, coolly smoked a cigar, and ridiculed his captors.†   (source)
  • Nelson had ridiculed Gbenye's aim by calling him nkento.†   (source)
  • Others stopped and joined in his ridicule.†   (source)
  • Anyone who simply shrugs their shoulders at the society they live in and wants to 'find their soul/ will therefore be ridiculed.†   (source)
  • I knew only the Lestat who sneered at my library, called it a pile of dust, ridiculed relentlessly my reading, my meditations.†   (source)
  • From the first play of the game the Munford defensive end who lined up directly across from Michael targeted him for special ridicule.†   (source)
  • I had never thought of love until I met Rosa, and romance struck me as dangerous and pointless; if a young girl caught my eye, I didn't dare approach her, since I was afraid of being rejected and ridiculed.†   (source)
  • You will regret those moments of ridicule for a long time.†   (source)
  • The boys on the Under 15s felt the conflict between the two worlds more acutely than their younger siblings, if only because they had spent more time in their home countries, which was borne out in the older boys' thicker accents and fondness for the native dress of their parents, proclivities that sometimes drew ridicule from the American kids at school.†   (source)
  • In a moment of recklessness, I had ridiculed Eros's archery skills.†   (source)
  • I can tolerate amazing amounts of stress and ridicule.†   (source)
  • By the time they found the house, gangs of ragged children were chasing the carriage and ridiculing the theatrical finery of the coachman, who had to drive them away with his whip.†   (source)
  • The article was written by a columnist who had previously worked for Monopoly Financial Magazine, making a name for himself as one who cheerfully ridiculed everyone who felt passionate about any issue or who stuck their neck out.†   (source)
  • Also, Eragon was afraid that such a link would reveal his new and confused feelings for Arya, and he had no desire to be ridiculed for them.†   (source)
  • The ridicule began another rite of passage for the new guys, one in which their SEAL Trident pins were prominently displayed in a glass case inside the entrance to the quarterdeck, a continual reminder that they were not yet official U.S. Navy SEALs.†   (source)
  • She still had a slight accent, and she did not like to speak in public, subjecting herself to her classmates' ridicule.†   (source)
  • As Mernissi notes, Aisha ridiculed that as nonsense: "You compare us now to donkeys and dogs.†   (source)
  • And that somehow she kept his father, who ridiculed the idea of earning a living through music, from stopping it as well.†   (source)
  • Ridicule would destroy me.†   (source)
  • And that Perry could not abide: anyone's ridiculing the parrot, which had first flown into his dreams when he was seven years old, a hated, hating half-breed child living in a California orphanage run by nuns-shrouded disciplinarians who whipped him for wetting his bed.†   (source)
  • (She and WALTER shake hands to ridicule the remark) MAMA: (Sadly) Lord, protect us ....RUTH: You should hear the money those folks raised to buy the house from us†   (source)
  • It wasn't a ridiculing laugh; it was a happy laugh at a good joke.†   (source)
  • Me killing myself, getting ridiculed, and for what?†   (source)
  • Undeterred by any thought of rejection or ridicule.†   (source)
  • Thinking about the ridicule that would involve, he decided just to let the boot squish.†   (source)
  • For the rest of the afternoon Scanlon and Martini and I ridiculed what Scanlon called that crummy sideshow fake lying there on the Gurney, but as the hours passed and the swelling began subsiding around the eyes I saw more and more guys strolling over to look at the figure.†   (source)
  • I do all in my power to keep the ball up—I have all ranks of officers at dinner, give them good wine, laugh at the Yankees and turn them into ridicule when an opportunity offers.†   (source)
  • The lingerie enhanced the charm of her femininity, while the hard masculine hat denied it, violated and ridiculed it.†   (source)
  • He goes heavy-lidded and growly, making sport of one man's ragmop toupee, ridiculing a second for the elbow patches on his tweed jacket.†   (source)
  • It was a system of belief that seemed all the more worth studying because it was so widely misunderstood and ridiculed.†   (source)
  • If you are spotted picking your nose in class, you get ridiculed.†   (source)
  • The colonel stopped in his tracks again and eyed the chaplain sharply to make certain he was not being ridiculed.†   (source)
  • I would have ridiculed this, but his flock was six hundred strong, which led me to believe that there were enough people in this world who wanted to tuck their prayer requests beneath windshield wipers to be collected, and to receive Communion from altar girls on roller skates.†   (source)
  • Max ignored Alex's words as the older boy ridiculed him.†   (source)
  • It was a nasty rebuke to lawyer Atlee and he was ridiculed for years, until he got himself elected Chancellor.†   (source)
  • Ridicule?†   (source)
  • On the other hand, he had fanatically ridiculed Eisenhower about Castro and knew he would look soft on communism if he did nothing to deter the brutal dictator.†   (source)
  • My granddaughter paid dearly for her sins, and I will not see the rest of my loved ones dragged down into public ridicule.†   (source)
  • He rode the boy hard, pointing out every screwup, making him the butt of his jokes and ridicule, until Captain Severance finally noticed the problem and reassigned the boy as a runner, a messenger reporting to headquarters.†   (source)
  • Both facts made me an object of curiosity—and ridicule.†   (source)
  • For generations they had that vowel sound in common with New Yorkers, the traditional "oy" sound often ridiculed in the pronunciation of Thirty-third and Third as Toity-toid and Toid.†   (source)
  • And I remember too, how we confronted those others, those who had set me here in this Eden, whom we knew though we didn't know, who were unfamiliar in their familiarity, who trailed their words to us through blood and violence and ridicule and condescension with drawling smiles, and who exhorted and threatened, intimidated with innocent words as they described to us the limitations of our lives and the vast boldness of our aspirations, the staggering folly of our impatience to rise even higher; who, as they talked, aroused furtive visions within me of blood-froth sparkling thei†   (source)
  • They don't ridicule the laws, not this way; the jail sentences are too severe.†   (source)
  • Cartoons continued to ridicule Catherine O'Leary and curious tourists came to gawk at the O'Learys' property.†   (source)
  • When word got out, the Howard team would be widely ridiculed.†   (source)
  • Lourdes suddenly remembers how her daughter had ridiculed Armstrong's first words on the moon.†   (source)
  • It entrances me, it always has, so it's what I dodespite occasional ridicule.†   (source)
  • She felt free to act, not by rules, but at her own pleasure, with sudden confidence that the rules had fused into a natural habit-she knew that she was attracting attention, but now, for the first time, it was not the attention of ridicule, but of admiration-she was sought after, on her own merit, she was Mrs. Taggart, she had ceased being an object of charity weighing Jim down, painfully tolerated for his sake-she was laughing gaily and seeing the smiles of response, of appreciation on the faces around her-and she kept glancing at him across the room, radiantly, like a child handing him a report card with a perfect score, begging him to be proud of her.†   (source)
  • He ridiculed and insulted me.†   (source)
  • If not, we are faced with the scorn of our mothers-in-law, the ridicule of our husbands' concubines, and the disappointed faces of our daughters.†   (source)
  • His classmates were less supportive; the ridicule was frequent and varied.†   (source)
  • The poem I'd had to read that Christopher ridiculed?†   (source)
  • I can remember drawing such mustaches myself, and the spite that went into them, the desire to ridicule, to deflate, and the feeling of power.†   (source)
  • They didn't question him, didn't laugh or ask why, they didn't ignore him and continue with the ridicule, and they didn't turn their derision on him.†   (source)
  • What belief did I ever hold in my father, whose daily life I so often ridiculed and looked upon with such abject shame?†   (source)
  • (Quietly, but with great intensity) Do you think I like having that ....whatever-it-is ....ridiculing me, tearing me down, in front of ....(Waves his hand in a gesture of contemptuous dismissal) YOU†   (source)
  • We showed no mercy, and tenderhearted Jan, who often cried in frustration, was not consoled but ridiculed.†   (source)
  • She is ridiculed by her enemies.†   (source)
  • They ridiculed me, but I knew it was a vampire.†   (source)
  • I've meant to talk to you about this before, but I was afraid of your ridicule.†   (source)
  • If I seem to be ridiculing Charley, look you at what I was doing in the next half hour and also what my neighbor was doing.†   (source)
  • I knew that the mouse—wolf relationship was a revolutionary one to science and would be treated with suspicion, and possibly with ridicule, unless it could be so thoroughly substantiated that there would be no room to doubt its validity.†   (source)
  • He was a comic genius who worked effectively by ridiculing the racists.†   (source)
  • Among his colleagues he was considered something of a dandy, though not absurdly so; his considerable academic reputation was a safeguard against ridicule.†   (source)
  • There wasn't any resemblance in her outward identity: I am not musical, not a teacher, nor foreign in birth; not humorless or ridiculed or missing out in love; nor have I yet let the world around me slip from my recognition.†   (source)
  • The courtroom seems to resent DRUMMOND'S gentle ridicule of the orator.†   (source)
  • Five years ago our African people, with that cruel humour which is theirs, would have laughed, and that ridicule would have destroyed our country, with its still frail bonds.†   (source)
  • Jan also feared ridicule quite as much as anything that the Overlords might Conceivably do to thwart him.†   (source)
  • And in quiet derision Adams, who thought most members of the Senate "more grotesque than ridicule could make them," had replied, "If a Congressman is a hog, what is a Senator?"†   (source)
  • She reserved her scornful ridicule of him for when her friends came to tea.†   (source)
  • But he never lorded this over me, or ridiculed me for not having enough dough to teleport anywhere.†   (source)
  • But there were also text messages which ridiculed the army.†   (source)
  • This was her way of ridiculing me for having grown a finger's-width taller than her.†   (source)
  • Ridiculing the whole Disney experience is a favorite sport in the circle of parents I run with.†   (source)
  • I was amazed at how the kids who had ridiculed me before were now hanging on my every word.†   (source)
  • Colin felt an odd mix of feelings, like his talent was at once being inflated and ridiculed.†   (source)
  • Frederic knew when he was being ridiculed.†   (source)
  • just by listening to what I have to say, but I've even been ridiculed for being smart.†   (source)
  • "I couldn't care less," replied the merchant, who was then ridiculed.†   (source)
  • He had been ignored, ridiculed; he had very nearly died in the process.†   (source)
  • If Ta-Kumsaw noticed how he was being ridiculed, he showed no sign of it.†   (source)
  • This is the only answer I can give, to anything, that will not be ridiculed or questioned.†   (source)
  • "Patriotism is ridiculed," he had warned Adams.†   (source)
  • He was ridiculed as old, addled, and toothless.†   (source)
  • Wolcott, for his part, often privately ridiculed the President for being abnormally suspicious.†   (source)
  • For a moment, everyone in the gym was silent, and the place had never been so quiet, not even in the moments before the Colonel ridiculed opponents at the free-throw stripe.†   (source)
  • H mmm,' she said, frowning, 'I notice they don't mention the fact that it was them doing all the ridiculing and slandering in the Prophet...'†   (source)
  • "I realize," Katherine said, "that modern medicine ridicules healers and shamans, but I saw this with my own eyes.†   (source)
  • The other was his marriage to a beauty from the lower classes, without name or fortune, whom the ladies with long last names ridiculed in secret until they were forced to admit that she outshone them all in distinction and character.†   (source)
  • Over the years, Mariam had learned to harden herself against his scorn and reproach, his ridiculing and reprimanding.†   (source)
  • When they ridiculed me .†   (source)
  • Luther Driggers was a friend of long standing, but Williams recalled how Driggers had ridiculed him for not being clever enough to dispose of Danny Hansford's body before the police had come, implying that Williams had been guilty of murder and therefore should have removed the evidence.†   (source)
  • He himself had always ridiculed farmers in retirement, and spoken with respect, even envy, of Ty's father's heart attack in the hog pen.†   (source)
  • What happens, as you can tell, is that the eiron spends most of his time verbally ridiculing, humiliating, undercutting, and generally getting the best of the alazon, who doesn't get it.†   (source)
  • The same ladies from fine families who at first had scorned and ridiculed her for being an upstart without a name went out of their way to make her feel like one of them, and she intoxicated them with her charm.†   (source)
  • In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who will make small demands on life, who will never burden others, who will never let on that she too has had sorrows, disappointments, dreams that have been ridiculed.†   (source)
  • Looking back, Deo felt she was both beloved and ridiculed by neighbors, because she was always giving things away, such as milk and especially salt, the sine qua non of the local cuisine, sold by the pinch in the markets.†   (source)
  • Children cursed with a cat lip were rarely allowed to live; they were difficult to feed, and even if the parents could feed them, such children would suffer a miserable lot: shunned, ridiculed, and unable to make a suitable match for marriage.†   (source)
  • My Clark Kent personality was the child called "It"—an outcast who ate out of garbage cans, was ridiculed, and did not fit in.†   (source)
  • The writer Christopher Buckley used Pittman's high-altitude tribulations as the punchline of a joke on the back page of The New Yorker 112 By autumn, things had gotten so bad that she confessed tearfully to a friend that her son was being ridiculed and ostracized by classmates at his exclusive private school.†   (source)
  • I know I would have ridiculed them when I was young: I would cringe and grow ashamed and angry at those funny tones of my father and his workers, all that Konglish, Spanglish, Jive.†   (source)
  • I'm not ridiculing you.†   (source)
  • Though he was ridiculed by some of his teachers and taunted by his classmates, Cristian was convinced, even by age six, that he was smarter than most of them.†   (source)
  • There was vehemence in his voice, and I felt I was its object, as if I had already ridiculed Dr. Pérez.†   (source)
  • I was ridiculed by my air force instructors for my lack of concentration and never ending clumsiness.†   (source)
  • La Cucaracha" was a song created by followers of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, ridiculing the government forces they said couldn't fight without smoking marijuana.†   (source)
  • The civil rights leader ridiculed their fears, implying they were cowardly, thus shaming them into joining the fight.†   (source)
  • I hate to see that ridiculed.†   (source)
  • The comic La Cucaracha is shocking to many and draws plenty of hate mail because it ridicules Hispanic icons as readily as it mocks U.S. politics—evidence that the Latino presence in the United States has evolved to a level with many nuances.†   (source)
  • Others have been discriminated against at work, passed over or ignored; or their art has been ridiculed, dismissed as too feminine.†   (source)
  • Stephen writes me letters, in pencil, on pages torn from lined workbooks, in which he ridicules everything he can get his hands on, including his fellow camp instructors and the girls they go drooling around after on their days off.†   (source)
  • "Checks and balances, Jefferson, however you and your party may have ridiculed them, are our only security," he wrote in another letter.†   (source)
  • He was called a nobody, ridiculed for having insufficient means to conduct himself in proper fashion.†   (source)
  • Can you imagine hiding for six months, terrified that your friends might see you, that you might be discovered or ridiculed and talked about at dinner parties?†   (source)
  • Bitterly assailing the collection of measures which formed the "Great Compromise" and scornfully ridiculing its sponsors, he complained when he was constantly called to order by the presiding officer.†   (source)
  • This was how, while appearing just to restate old principles, the President also acknowledged and ridiculed new criticism, whether it was of the madonna cult or of the shortage of food and medicines.†   (source)
  • Taunting him with his approaching defeat in Missouri, and stinging under Benton's counterattack, Foote ridiculed Benton as one "shielded by his age ....and shielded by his own established cowardice.†   (source)
  • "I know what 'ridicule' means," he said.†   (source)
  • Now, suddenly; even my own thoughts were being offered up for ridicule.†   (source)
  • I couldn't endure the mockery, or the disgrace, or the patriotic ridicule.†   (source)
  • You didn't hold me up for ridicule, did you?†   (source)
  • It didn't matter what it was, disapproval, ridicule, even sympathy or fondness.†   (source)
  • A daily gauntlet of ridicule, abuse, and isolation.†   (source)
  • I was prepared to face opposition, even ridicule, denunciation.†   (source)
  • And Sewing Mistress will ridicule you if you sew a green rose.†   (source)
  • But with no rancor and no ridicule, just because he knew.†   (source)
  • Months of pampering and the ridicule of my cousins had turned me inward.†   (source)
  • Few people wanted to antagonize someone as big as Luis, so the ridicule decreased.†   (source)
  • This, of course, was the signal for our crew to taunt and ridicule Edrick's crew.†   (source)
  • You can't sit with your legs spread apart, or jump too high or hang upside-down, without ridicule.†   (source)
  • I once thought he would ridicule me, if he found out about Josef.†   (source)
  • In his years in office Adams had felt obliged to say nothing when subjected to ridicule and abuse.†   (source)
  • But it was not Jefferson who had suffered abuse and ridicule in thepress.†   (source)
  • I now resorted to my last weapon, ridicule.†   (source)
  • Nor did I try to ridicule the stories or make the children renounce their fears as superstitions.†   (source)
  • To my certain knowledge, many people conceal experiences for fear of ridicule.†   (source)
  • What Streicher has done in his newspaper all these years has brought only the greatest ridicule.†   (source)
  • You ridicule Charleston and the people who are so proud of her history.†   (source)
  • You ridicule General Durrell and all the tactical officers.†   (source)
  • You ridicule the South even though you're Southern.†   (source)
  • It wasn't easy tolerating him talking this way to her, to bear his scorn, his ridicule, his insults, his walking past her like she was nothing but a house cat.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the morning on which she entered the kitchen and found a cup of coffee offered her by a pale and bony adolescent with a hallucinated glow in his eyes, the claws of ridicule tore at her.†   (source)
  • I have encouraged the girls to find clumsy sentences in newspapers and magazines, and to bring them into class for our hearty ridicule— and that bit about "any money's being spent" is enough to turn an English teacher's eyeballs a blank shade of pencil-gray—but I knew that Claire Clooney was trying to get me started; I resisted the bait.†   (source)
  • Charles T. Root, editor of the New York Dry Goods Reporter and no relation to Burnham's dead partner, published an editorial on Thursday, August 10, 1893, in which he cited the ridicule and hostility that New York editors had expressed ever since Chicago won the right to build the exposition.†   (source)
  • In that moment he realized he had to look beyond them, beyond their ridicule, and find a way to make it past the impossibilities.†   (source)
  • 'A lone voice of truth...perceived as unbalanced, yet never wavered in his story...forced to bear ridicule and slander...†   (source)
  • 'They reflect the age in cynicism which cannot comprehend the death of possibilities, fatuous sophisticated indulgence in the parody of the miraculous, decadence whose last refuge is self-ridicule, a mannered helplessness.†   (source)
  • Each time he was captivated by the absurd, tragic, yet oddly inspiring story of Akaky Akakyevich, the impoverished main character who spends his life meekly copying documents written by others and suffering the ridicule of absolutely everyone.†   (source)
  • He had been woefully unprepared to lead an Arctic expedition, and upon returning to England, he was known as the Man Who Ate His Shoes, yet the sobriquet was uttered more often with awe than with ridicule.†   (source)
  • Tired of defending his honor from ridicule and gossip, Esteban allowed his son to take whatever name he wanted, provided that it not be his own.†   (source)
  • Carter uses Fevvers, with her mix of earthy sexuality and avian ability, to comment on the situation of women in English society; it's a strategy that is perfectly normal for Carter, whose novels typically, and comically, undercut assumptions about masculine and feminine roles, holding up our received notions for scrutiny and occasional ridicule.†   (source)
  • Someone said there was a new kind of bomb worse than tear gas, that provoked diarrhea attacks terrible enough to discourage the bravest, because of the stench and the ridicule they caused.†   (source)
  • 'Ridicule' means 'tease.'†   (source)
  • The only possible explanation was that one of the great poets had devised the joke in order to ridicule the Poetic Festival, and that the Chinese had been a party to it and was determined to keep the secret until the day he died.†   (source)
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