| 单词 | mockery |
| 例句 | I gasped, shocked by my father's rude mockery of my virtue. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She gave a little, ladylike cough as she swallowed—he could not be sure whether this cough was genuine or in mockery of him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Most people probably enjoyed the close intimacy of the roaming band, but those unfortunates who incurred the hostility or mockery of their fellow band members probably suffered terribly. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Obinze said “in the game” in a voice thick with mockery. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Then he spoke softly and there was no mockery in his voice. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z His father noticed at once and a mild word of mockery nearly escaped him, but he stifled it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The voice full of mockery—or was it? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I protest this mockery!” he roared, in a voice that silenced every whisper. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “Do not expose him to the mockery of those who do not believe.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I couldn’t endure the mockery, or the disgrace, or the patriotic ridicule. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The fallen torch was on the floor, guttering, making every shadow leap and twist in a monstrous mockery of the dead man’s shaking. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He wished he could tell them this without inviting their mockery or their pity. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Her smile was wistful and she tried her best to put a little mockery in her manner. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “What would you do if I did try to stop you?” he asked with rueful mockery. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Until we spar again,” he says, making a bow that I cannot help feel is nothing but mockery. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He lifts his glass anew, mouth curving in a mockery of a smile. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Some turned to the old traditional verbal mockery to reveal hidden truth. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z From a mockery the tanks have become a terrible weapon. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked at Kurleket, but the man was too dim to taste the mockery. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “This unbaptized limb of Satan has no right to make a mockery of this rite! Would you bring a dog to church?”The people in line had halted. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They, for their part, could not now be still or drop their mockery—for Athena wished Odysseus mortified still more. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And the dust made him cough and retch; in his turning the center of the whole earth shifted, making of space a sheer void and a mockery of order, and balance, and time. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z His handsome face was devoid of mockery or malice, and was instead intent, alive, and fascinated. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Behind her she could hear the murmur of their voices, edged sometimes with malice, sometimes rising in mockery, sometimes touched with a laughter almost of kinship, and she walked on dreamily, hearing them come behind. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Without her mockery, affection for others sank into flaccid disrepair. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He said bhaiyya ingratiatingly, cloyingly, making it a mockery of the word. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He didn’t let her see his sympathy, of course, but hid it behind a mask of mockery and indifference, just as she hid her despair behind rage. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Archie asked, feigning surprise, trying to keep any trace of mockery out of his voice. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell me more about grammar in the Talmud, Reuven,” he said to me, with a gentle hint of mockery in his voice. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z And Carolina, although a little distressed by his tender mockery, quietly smiled. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She gave Scipio glance full of mockery and gentle amusement. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Faces floated in the air—the judge's face crowned with that mockery of grey wool—the cold dead face of Mrs. Rogers—the convulsed purple face of Anthony Marston. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z “None of your mockery! Release me. I have to complete my task lest...lest...” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical delects. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z To tell me that I had already a wife is empty mockery: you know now that I had but a hideous demon. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He turned the Klan’s secrecy against itself by making its private information public; he converted heretofore precious knowledge into ammunition for mockery. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z They make a mockery of the usual sentiments about the pricelessness of every human life. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then it seemed to those who stood by that in the glow the faces flushed softly as with health returning, but it was only a mockery of hope. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z When it was her turn to give an account of recent months, it was impossible not to be influenced by Leon’s tone, though her version of it came through, helplessly, as mockery. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Qotho's lips skinned back from his crooked brown teeth in a terrible mockery of a smile. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Her mockery irritated him, as did the speed with which she had absolved Major Madu of any responsibility for Major Udodi’s boorish behavior. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There was in the air a silent mockery that challenged him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Wang Lung hung his head yet lower and the red blood rushed into his face and he felt as though everyone near looked at him with mockery and listened to the voice of the woman. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She stepped out into the hallway, determined to face down his insolence, or his mockery, and was confronted instead by her sister, clearly in distress. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z "If you don't want to go on," said the voice sarcastically, Ralph heard the mockery and hated Jack. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She eyed him, searching for any sign of mockery. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He drew in the air a Greek letter, making clear the spelling of his mockery. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And when Admetus cried out, “A ghost! Is it a trick—some mockery of the gods?” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was full of sunlight, but there was mockery in her smile. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There were other scholars around, and they added their own mockery. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He had spoken to me in Russian as though he had known the language, not tentatively, but with purpose and a hint of mockery. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But these pictures are not only mockery, not only desecration. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The mockery dripped from her voice like poison. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z But slowly and imperceptibly, with the passing of the seasons, his mockery and feeling of superiority diminished. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually the mockery became so great that the baboons could no longer bear to be together. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “Don’t make a mockery of it,” Dad said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He leaned back and looked Ned full in the face, his grey-green eyes bright with mockery. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z At eighteen, Elizabeth Manwill was an easy target for mockery: glasses perpetually sliding down her nose, forehead knobby with acne, clothes frumpy and ill fitting. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The words were polite enough, but Denzo’s tone was edged with malice, and the eyes of the warrior poet gleamed bright with mockery. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Still the chuckle, almost evil in its quiet mockery. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty years before Hrdlicka’s mockery, a flash flood tore a deep gully into a ranch in the northeast corner of New Mexico, near the hamlet of Folsom. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The grand jury issued a statement: “Such practices should not be endured, otherwise our courts will be a mockery, and justice defeated.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She also glimpsed the sinister power of the Indian and the subtle mockery of the servants, and felt herself a prisoner in the anteroom of hell. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was making fun of his wife, but Obinze knew, from the muted awe in his tone, that it was mockery colored by respect, mockery of what he believed, despite himself, to be inherently superior. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “They’ve made a mockery of mortal age faith. Religion is a cherished part of history, and they’ve turned it into a travesty.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Some feeling was slowly returning to them, mostly a stinging, prickly heat that was like a painful mockery of the soothing warmth I had felt a minute ago when I was drifting off to sleep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It distances the entire thing, reduces it to a farce or prank, in which I have no involvement aside from mockery. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But in thinking of them remember that to many they /are tokens of mockery. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But adults know that life frustrates meticulous planners and makes a mockery of control, so onstage, that is what Volpe takes away from Wayne. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Jon could taste the mockery there, but there was no denying the truth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z No, the old maester thought, this is not you, not your way, you were always just, always hard yet never cruel, never, you did not understand mockery, no more than you understood laughter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It is, in intention, a public mockery of our credulity, our gullibility, our stupidity—engineered, with incredible impudence, by this person who stands here before us today. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z All in black, I saw the loa of Don Carlos putting his finger to his lips in mockery of the last gesture I had seen him make to me that morning. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Their mockery oft came disguised as praise, and sometimes Victarion had not even realized he was being mocked. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And yet, this is something of a mockery because of her lack °f maternal instincts or the ability to care for her young. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “My mockery offends you? My people would welcome your laughter in place of this barbarity.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She was taken aback by the biting mockery in his voice. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She pursed her lips, checking my face for mockery. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z This time, it wasn’t even a mockery of a smile. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Ged said with the same gentle mockery, and then saying, “Watch the air between my hands,” he turned away from the others and stood still. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Fair weather and clear sun had seemed but a mockery to men whose days held little hope, and who looked each morning for news of doom. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z When he spoke again a tightness had replaced the mockery in his tone. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then, almost immediately, he changed himself back into a hare and called out in mockery to Lion. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z If there was mockery in Zemaye's tone, and there had to be, she kept it under her flat delivery. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I was no longer an object of mockery. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am sure,” she said, “I do not like your mockery. Nor your speaking of the gut to a lady.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “My little Suli idealist. All you need is a full belly and an open road?” he said, the mockery clear in his voice. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Ged was not so much baffled as angry, for this seemed like a further mockery to him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He had always smiled at me before, an over-sad pantomime smile, with mockery in his eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Leon accepted this small hint of mockery from Johnson because he was in such a good mood. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Kit was in a mood to overlook his mockery. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He was the butt of cartoonists, thanks to whose constant mockery he became a popular figure and delivered a landslide vote for the conservatives in every election. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A clever look, calculated to fall precisely at the midpoint between mockery and sincerity. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “Certainly I will, since you ask so nicely,” said Minya, matching her gracious tone with just an edge of mockery. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z One day, irritated by the mockery, Fernanda wanted to know what Amaranta was saying, and she did not use euphemisms in answering her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The bells of day had scarcely rung out again, a mockery in the unlightened dark, when far away he saw fires spring up, across in the dim spaces where the walls of the Pelennor stood. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z This work might project elegiac feelings, but in the context of a show in which mockery is the prevailing spirit, it’s potentially offensive. Art Review: Bruce High Quality Foundation’s Hits at Brooklyn Museum 2013-07-11T21:38:26Z This cruelty binds Trump and his supporters—especially conservative white evangelical Christians—into a community that celebrates Trump’s mockery of others and the punitive actions he takes against various people and groups. White evangelical Christians need Jesus — not Donald Trump — if their movement is going to survive 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z I assume that phrase requires no translation, and indeed would resist any; there’s no way to capture that distinctive combination of mystification and mockery in English. Michael Moore, Donald Trump and their joint campaign against reality 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z "Being fat draws a lot of mockery in our society," he said. Taiwan singer conjures up Susan Boyle comparisons 2010-04-09T08:51:00Z Take a look at what we — and most people with a sense of humor — would call the 10 funniest, most insightful moments of mockery from 2017’s late-night laugh cycle : LOLs in Hell: The 10 best late-night Trump slams 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Within minutes, she had followed up with three related thoughts: But it was the first tweet that attracted widespread attention, and in many cases mockery. Joyce Carol Oates on Twitter: Is Nothing ‘Joyous’ in ISIS? 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z I can take friendly ribbing and even a dab of mockery, but I don’t think I can subject my wife to those things. Coming out about spanking 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z The hashtag began as gentle, if pointed, mockery, but soon grew into a rallying cry for film industry diversity. Three years after Moonlight, why are awards shows still so white? 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z THE occasion of taking out my cellphone has provoked considerable mockery in the last 18 months or so. A Hardy Group Holds Out on Smartphones 2012-03-23T20:45:14Z Earnestness and mockery, sympathy and malevolence, doom and glee all ricochet through Faith No More’s songs, both in the lyrics and in music that slams styles and attitudes against one another. Review: Faith No More, Reunited and Reclaiming Its Spot 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z For a photographer so gifted at winning the trust of her subjects, Ms. Greenfield rarely uses that confidence to illuminate their lives, preferring easy satire if not outright mockery. Lauren Greenfield Tries to Capture the Meaning of Money 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z It was an act of faith, but also of mockery. My teenage nuclear fantasies: Imagining apocalypse in America’s atomic age 2014-05-08T12:15:00Z Melody is such a simpleton that the mockery she elicits not only feels cheap but it undermines any credibility in Liam's romantic attachment to her. Chutzpah and humor temper message 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z This is a common refrain heard when the conversation turns to blackface—it’s ridicule, mockery, a kind of costuming designed to laugh at the “Other.” White people have a blackface problem 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Once subjected to the mockery of an insidious white gaze, Baartman's physique is now profitable – as long as these women are comfortable with being objectified. Sarah Baartman’s hips went from a symbol of exploitation to a source of empowerment for Black women 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z The mockery is loaded with a big dose of humble medicine. Mocking Burning Man's muddy catastrophe is just the latest example of how we cope with the rich 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Aeschylus fought the Persians and his play has variously been read as a critique of war, a celebration of victory, a mockery of defeated enemy. The Persians 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z And now Balagan Theatre's third roundup of short-shorts offers comic mockery of the current political circus from a slew of local playwrights. Plays about the Beatles, religion and politics hit Seattle theaters 2012-04-05T19:30:09Z The pandemic itself might be deadly serious; but many responses to it deserve a great deal of mockery, and that has been especially true for the those coming from the Trump administration. How late night comedy shows are making sense of absurd and reckless coronavirus responses 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z In his Dictionary of Weasel Words, the doyen of management-jargon mockery Don Watson defines "to action" simply as "do". 10 of the worst examples of management-speak 2013-04-25T13:01:55Z Mr. Cox seems endlessly game for self-depreciation and gentle mockery, playing along with running jokes about his contempt for chemistry and his growing status as a pop culture figure. ‘Infinite Monkey Cage’ Brings Playful Science Series to U.S. 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z When they did – and especially in Western neoclassical art – it was usually in the form of mischaracterization or mockery. In "Rumors," Lizzo and Cardi B pull from the ancient Greeks, putting a new twist on an old tradition 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z In story after story, the participants say that a lack of basic information fueled mockery, denial, even violence, which makes the effort to ban this illuminating book feel especially heartless. Perspective | For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. How Michel Gondry became cinema's most versatile director 2010-12-09T22:30:00Z The mockeries in this “Henry V” do point to truths — and they’re also a lot of fun. Review | Faction of Fools and WSC Avant Bard offer zany Shakespeare 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The immediate mockery of Ford was all but inevitable on social media. Harrison Ford doesn’t belong in a museum: Indiana Jones in his 70s is exactly the hero we need 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z That Cecil, whose brother marries Daphne, is a thoroughly unworthy subject lends power and irony to the book, sly in its mockery of historical certainty. Books of The Times: ?The Stranger?s Child? by Alan Hollinghurst - Review 2011-12-11T21:24:58Z That is down to McElhenney’s determination to keep subverting expectations, not least with his own physical transformations that make a mockery of the idea that sitcom characters enter a form of stasis. Rob McElhenney: 'I was fuelled by privilege, ignorance and testosterone' 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z But the dominant tone is not mockery; this is a fantasy retirement, overflowing with grandchildren, gardening and a modest cottage on the Isle of Wight. From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “Not only has Kushner’s presence in the White House made a mockery of federal guidelines designed to prevent nepotism and conflicts of interest, it has also raised national-security concerns.” Sunday Reading: The Khashoggi Affair 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Or we believed that mockery and strident opposition would cause him to melt, like a birthday cake left outside in a deluge. One small step on the long march to freedom: This weekend, I will not say his name 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z But Cattelan’s antics were never obscure, never pretentious: they had a rare lightness of tone, a perfect balance of mockery and self-mockery. A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z And its mockery of the egotism and insularity of show folk isn’t exactly original. Comic angst, alive and well on Seattle stages 2013-01-31T23:00:10Z Mr. Helm’s mockery of Mr. Robertson, once his best friend, was lashing. Robbie Robertson of the Band Tells All in ‘Testimony’ 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Oblivious to the mockery of those around them, the Bradys triumphed with their homespun values. Rise of the reboots gives new life to Rocky and Ghostbusters 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Many Canadians, though, have been put off by Colbert's frequent mockery. 2010-02-11T13:31:00Z Her character is a mockery of the nakedly ingratiating artist who disguises herself as a boldly feminist risk-taker. ‘One Woman Show’ Review: Unlikable for Laughs 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z His performance in Creed, though, may be good enough to silence the mockery that has tended to follow him around. Sylvester Stallone: the wacky people's champ who battled his own ego 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Hot Chip direct more gentle mockery at themselves: "My baby said she wanted some action/ I said baby 'I can't give you that, I'm a simple man.'" Readers recommend songs with great opening lines: The results 2010-04-01T21:45:00Z Rather it’s the plain, old-fashioned, over-the-top mockery that shows a White House hopelessly out of control, compromised, flaccid from the get-go and comically inept. Our president is a TV addict. It’s going to get the best of him, but he’ll never get the best of it. 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Thompson sees Coleman's life in three phases: TV superstar, followed by mockery and self-mockery, and a surreal afterlife where everyday there appears a new wrinkle in death. In death, Gary Coleman's life takes strange turns 2010-06-08T21:22:00Z Instead of a complete reenactment of the big wedding, we see just enough to understand that what the world saw on live TV was an elaborate mockery of the fairy tale it pretended to be. Review | The Charles and Diana saga weighs heavy on ‘The Crown,’ but Gillian Anderson’s Thatcher is a triumph 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z At a time when Hitler was seeking the blood purity of Europe, Ophüls made a bold mockery of the notion of aristocratic lineage. Max Ophüls’s “From Mayerling to Sarajevo” 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z For a good many of our writers, slavery seems the ultimate mockery of our native pretensions, blotting all our moral claims. Considering the American Voice 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Because it’s a mockery of what is expected of women. Some Like It Not: Are Men in Dresses Still Funny? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z “I felt like it was much more a celebration of the culture versus a mockery of the culture,” Mr. Sklute said. Toning Down Asian Stereotypes to Make ‘The Nutcracker’ Fit the Times 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z While some responses were favorable, the academy also drew wide mockery, with the social media universe suggesting other categories that might draw more viewers, like hottest onscreen kiss or best stunts. Oscars to Add ‘Popular Film’ Category, Creating Questions 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Taking a page from that master of outrageous parody Charles Ludlam, she infuses her loosely inspired update with a steady stream of madcap mockery. And you thought your contractor was bad. Meet 'The Monster Builder' at South Coast Rep 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z One can only respect the way that he and the Stones have continued to prosper in spite of the ageist mockery. Is Keith Richards a 'good thing'? 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z But as social media supplants gossip blogs, and mockery is replaced by calls for support, it’s created a frenzy of fan speculation around Spears that some in her camp say may be just as detrimental. The battle of Britney Spears 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The women here get their revenge through mockery — and by hogging all the parts. Review ‘Emilia’: An Elizabethan Poet Takes Her Rightful Place Onstage 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Larry’s fanatical devotion and his anxiety about fulfilling it might look ridiculous to those who don’t feel the vitality of tradition, but the humor of “kaddish.com” is infused with delight rather than mockery. Review | Honoring the dead? Nathan Englander’s ‘kaddish.com’ imagines there’s an app for that. 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z She is a loner, a victim of constant mockery and, oh yes, able to move things with her mind. ‘Carrie’ Is Back. Like a Bloody Hand From the Grave. 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z But Iaconis said those groups "didn't look very carefully at the fine print, which is it makes a mockery of `The Admiral of the Ocean Sea.'" Correction: Columbus Statue-Living Room story 2012-08-31T17:47:08Z His writing style suggested a cross between the hedonism of Hunter S. Thompson and the patrician mockery of Tom Wolfe: Self-importance was a reliable target. P.J. O’Rourke, irreverent author and commentator, dead at 74 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z But there’s public mockery, and then there’s something worse. Jon Ronson’s ‘So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed’ 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Photograph: AMC If you just looked at the originally hard-wired components of the show, Halt and Catch Fire would, rightly, be a prematurely obsolete object of mockery, sitting in a drawer, gathering dust. Summer TV catch-up: Mr Robot, Halt and Catch Fire and more hits you missed 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z At first there is a certain implied mockery of those not in on the secret. Critic?s Notebook: Fasten Your Seat Belts And Embrace the City 2010-10-14T15:49:00Z If he feels any lingering sense of injustice about the mockery that was heaped upon him during his relationship with Lopez, he's not interested in sharing it. Ben Affleck: 'It's in the hands of the movie gods' 2010-09-23T21:00:00Z And, now that age has finally lent him an air of vulnerability and constant mockery has finally taught him the concept of self-awareness, he's arguably a better actor than he's ever been. Should Star Trek 2 beam up a cameo for William Shatner? 2011-03-04T10:59:02Z The quality isn't always high: the first half is scrappy, and there's much generic mockery of local towns, as well as duff gags like the one about his brother's reaction to Manford's hypochondria. Jason Manford – review 2013-07-22T17:49:08Z His real ire and mockery were reserved for the prescription-drug industry. John Oliver Slams Big Pharma on 'Last Week Tonight' Return 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Of course, we read the hyperbole as Wordsworthian parody, a mockery of the male poet's elevated view of childhood, based on the fact that his wife and female servants do most of the work. Poem of the week: A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months by Thomas Hood 2010-06-22T09:36:00Z His eyebrows were twin carets, inserting pleasure or gentle mockery into a scene. America Came on Down, and Bob Barker Was Thrilled Every Time 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z Repeated exposure to mockery, even when it is all in the name of "fun", doesn't dull the feeling: it's as hurtful to hear today as it was 10 years ago. Getting a laugh out of disability 2010-04-28T12:00:00Z Others considered it a mockery of those who have committed suicide, a tasteless joke masquerading as artistic representation. Hip hop star convinces fans he has hanged himself on Instagram 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Dec. 13: Ludwig’s intended audience of a moneyed entrepreneurial class at loose ends is often cruelly ripe for mockery. Review | Can a new self-help book cure procrastination? I tried it and here’s what I found. 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z It is a show of inner strength to declare one’s feelings relevant in the face of national scorn and mockery. Donald Trump, FDR and Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson problem: Here’s how we stop defending historical racism and move forward 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement The whole business risks mockery, but it’s played dead-sober, with only Mr. Moyer having some hint of preening fun with his villainy. Review: In ‘The Bastard Executioner,’ a Warrior Switches Blades 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z If his instinct for mockery is as sharp as his instinct for knowing how to make an applause scene, we'll have nothing to worry about. Birdemic 2: it'll be poultry in motion 2013-02-13T11:50:27Z Clips of passionate crowds bearing Trump paraphernalia supplement screenshots of social media posts making a mockery of the event. Here's the Four Seasons Total Landscaping movie trailer you've been waiting for – thanks, MSNBC! 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z However, this out-loud pronunciation is often used for mockery — so use it carefully. 3 internet language trends from 2019, explained 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z His mockery of myths about Africa continues in his pseudo-primitivist paintings studded with nails that resemble the rusty ones found in "fetish" sculptures from the Congo region. How Yinka Shonibare's sculpture park exhibition shoots to thrill 2013-03-03T21:59:01Z There is no mockery in a filmmaking method that is based on close and sympathetic attention. Review: ‘Monrovia, Indiana’ Is a Sharp, Lyrical Look at Small-Town America 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z This food talk is a reminder that “American Psycho” has yet to receive its full due as the most wicked and sustained mockery of the late-80s restaurant scene that we have in our literature. In Hindsight, an ‘American Psycho’ Looks a Lot Like Us 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Case in point: including a gay character for the express purpose of directing mockery his way throughout the length of the film. The 10 Most Disappointing Movies of 2016 So Far 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Some news organizations, which on April 1 often have to fend off fake news, embraced the day's mockery, too. Web gets April Fools' makeover of goofy hoaxes 2010-04-01T17:11:00Z This was mockery wearing a half-baked costume of politeness. Perspective | The exquisite shade of Nancy Pelosi’s applause at the State of the Union 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z A dazzling gold statue, a vague mockery of Michelangelo’s “David,” slouches at center stage, decadent hand on decadent hip. Theater Review: ‘Stop Hitting Yourself,’ a Riff on Excess, at Lincoln Center 2014-01-28T03:00:01Z Equally fine is Insane, another track on Scru's SoundCloud, on which his ludicrously fast rapping makes a mockery of the concept of "flow". New band of the day: Scrufizzer (No 1,397) 2012-11-15T20:30:01Z Streep built on that sentiment in her acceptance speech for the Cecil B DeMille award, condemning Trump’s mockery of a disabled reporter in a speech in 2015. Meryl Streep has hit on star-struck Trump’s big weakness 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z It’s a frequently amusing, occasionally hilarious, rarely unpleasant grab bag of mild mockery and inspired lunacy, decked out with cameos from beloved comic performers and random celebrities. Movie Review: ‘Anchorman 2,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Steve Carell 2013-12-17T21:57:43Z In her act Ms. Fisher wickedly mimics her mother’s fluty voice, but the affection beneath the mockery is one of the more appealing parts of “Wishful Drinking.” Television Review: Make ?Em Laugh With Tales of Tears 2010-12-09T22:52:00Z Local children imitate the hooting noises he makes, flap their hands in mockery. Floods, fires and a very reggae Christmas: how autism touched my family 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Noah's recent comments contribute to a larger discussion about West's bipolar disorder diagnosis and the mockery of his abuse towards Kardashian, her family and Davidson. After Trevor Noah says Kanye needs therapy, rapper spews racial slurs that gets him suspended online 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z One is an example of silly mockery; the other is an example of identity theft. Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump tightrope: Brilliantly impersonating a president who’s already impersonating a president 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z And then there is Las Vegas, a hysterical mockery of environmental providence, conjured in a location where evaporation has always far exceeded rainfall. Ben Ehrenreich’s Dispatches From the Beginning and End of the World 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z The mockery of television coverage and anchors is as old as the genre itself, with many iconic milestones, from "Network" to "Saturday Night Live's" star-generation "Weekend Update" sequence. Jon Stewart to exit, and that overshadows the Brian Williams news 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z When the last part of the ceremony is completed, “all three became conscious of living things around them — things that moved about, silently and surreptitiously and conveyed the impression of mockery.” Book World: ‘The Sorcery Club,’ by Elliott O’Donnell In these works, the artist’s love for animals is conveyed by skill as much as mockery. In the galleries: The free-for-all that is Artomatic 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z It’s a lot of homage, only a very low-key form of mockery, all of it served, it must be said, with too much self-indulgence. Review: ‘A Very Murray Christmas,’ a Holiday Special for the Disillusioned 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z It is such a tired, ridiculous trope that the best way to respond to it is outright mockery. The Internet has the perfect response to Barbie’s failed computer engineering book 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z On both sides of the border, prejudice is sometimes trumped by the corrupting power of money, which makes a mockery of the idea of justice. ‘Dead for a Dollar’ Review: How the Western’s Done 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z In mockery of all the Western books about Africa, Achebe ended with a colonial official observing Okonkwo's fate and imagining the book he will write: "The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger." Agent: Author Chinua Achebe dies at 82 2013-03-22T12:37:10Z Because beneath a veneer of mockery, Thom’s existential pain is taken surprisingly seriously. Review: Showtime’s ‘Happyish’ Is Funnyish 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z In the petition, titled “Tell Netflix: Cancel Blasphemous ‘Good Omens’ Series,” a Christian group called Return to Order calls the series “a mockery of God’s order and religion.” Neil Gaiman has perfect comeback for Christians wanting "Good Omens" canceled 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Child Actor are one of those acts currently making a mockery of the idea of the big budget and the expensive studio: the tracks on Victory sound huge, lush and impressively "professional". New band of the day – Child Actor (No 1,358) 2012-09-25T16:50:00Z And, besides shoving the gay thing down our throats, they made a mockery of Christians – again! Victoria Jackson calls "Glee's" gay kiss disgusting 2011-03-21T20:22:00Z Bachelder looks away when his characters experience those emotional extremes that do not allow for gentle mockery. Two Novels About Frustrated White Men, Thirty-five Years Apart 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z And my mockery was never so pronounced as when I heard my younger sister Karen play her Beatles albums. I mocked the Beatles, and then they saved me 2011-04-20T22:01:00Z The mockery from the chattering classes came quickly. What happens when you tie your career to Donald Trump? Ask Sean Spicer in a few months. 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z So putting animals in a yarmulke and slowly explaining the four questions to Fido actually makes a mockery out of both the Jewish struggle to free themselves from Egypt as well as your humiliated pet? Watching pet Passover: Should we allow animals to participate in the Seder? 2011-04-18T20:40:00Z His classical paintings depicting Trump in a variety of absurdly valiant settings have drawn praise from the right and mockery from the left. Bask in the absurdity of this 2018 #MAGA gift guide 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Yet these wordless images leave themselves open to interpretation — and sometimes, mockery. Seen but rarely heard: How Melania Trump is approaching the public role of first lady. 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Platforms that fed me soothing cake decoration tutorials and “Sopranos”-themed therapy memes now served up regular dispatches from the proceedings, all filtered through the glorification of Depp and mockery of Heard. TikTok’s Amber Heard Hate Machine 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Not many actors could pull that off, or pull it off without making a mockery of the character or not staying true to who the character was. From "The Wire" to "John Wick," we trusted Lance Reddick as a voice of authority, empathy and comedy 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z The Hypocrite who disguised his jealousy of all things good and sweet with sour mockery. I mocked the Beatles, and then they saved me 2011-04-20T22:01:00Z The Swedish Academy's surprise choice Thursday thrilled some and disappointed others, who felt giving the award to Dylan made a mockery of the prestigious Nobel Prizes. Times a-changin': Nobel jury says lyrics can be literature 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The virus itself deserves scorn and mockery, being the source of all this misery, although it is an elusive target, being inanimate and invisible. It’s OK to Find Humor in Some of This 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z But the targets of her affectionate mockery are usually white, middle-class New York City dwellers. Why Roz Chast Makes Fun of White Middle-Class New Yorkers 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z What really makes this song work, though, is not its mockery, so much as its sincerity. Newport State of Mind improves on the original 2010-08-01T21:00:00Z Anonymous trolls get their rightful mockery with crisp punk-pop guitar chords and tuneful, telegraphic disparagement in “The Internet” from Tacocat’s album “Lost Time.” The Playlist: Danny Brown and the Weeknd Serve Up Twists and Turns 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z One of the pleasures of the past few weeks has been the increasingly freewheeling Leno mockery, the “Tonight Show”-great-injustice stuff, and the praise of Johnny Carson, stated or understood. Goodbye, Dave 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z But since the comedy is so eager to take on so many other problems in the industry, mockery of the “woman problem” seems glaringly absent. Silicon Valley Needs to Address the Industry's 'Woman Problem' in Season 2 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z His jaundiced view of sex makes a mockery of the play’s central love affair. Trump, Troilus, and Cressida 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Trigger warnings have, of course, become part of the college experience, surviving mockery and concerns about censorship to win acceptance, if not broad approval. Brace Yourself in Act II: Trigger Warnings Come to the Stage 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Everyone is too busy to seem complacent, and too appealing to be subjected to overt mockery. Review: In ‘Nasty Baby,’ Friends Decide to Start a Family. What Could Go Wrong? 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z You look at Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben — these are pure mockeries of us. From Master P to Uncle P: Music mogul has turned his focus to popular line of grocery staples 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z They are monstrous and clownish, but more than just figures of fright or mockery. Review: In ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ Spike Lee Journeys Into White America’s Heart of Darkness 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Political art can either aim straight at its targets in angry, activist mode — or it can turn to mockery and humor to pull off its effects. Artists re-imagine 'The Game of Life' in satirical exhibition 2011-06-24T21:26:05Z “The opera ‘Don Carlo’ is a mockery of religion,” one sign read. Metropolitan Opera to Present ‘Klinghoffer’ Monday in Spite of Protests 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z That good-natured mockery is a welcome respite from a relentless work schedule. Never-Ending Superheroes: Here Come the Defenders and the Tick 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z What they want is something scandalous, filled with dramatic twists and ludicrous games that make a spectacular mockery of the things people do for love and money. The end of UnREAL: why it's time to say goodbye to TV's darkest comedy 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Anyway, I was measured today for a country suit by Mr. Udeshi, the large check pattern, that will likely bring me the kind of mockery that greeted Murdoch. What I Wore: Keeping His Cool in a Meltdown 2011-07-29T22:06:41Z She admires their undaunted courage and candor in the face of public mockery and disdain. A Sympathetic Look at Spiritualism Past and Present 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z There are the obvious nods to the Dada movement and its confrontational mockery of the bourgeois. Piers Morgan is our greatest living artist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z “Hope Springs” is about characters nobody would ever be likely to make a movie about, except perhaps in a spirit of faint but audible mockery. Pick of the week: Couples therapy with Meryl and Tommy Lee 2012-08-10T00:00:00Z Most of the mockery dished out in this world arises from a bottomless pit of self-loathing. Even My Mom Is Fat Shaming Me. Not Surprisingly, That Makes Me Feel Lousy. 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Hess’s “mockery of the local quirks and delusions is grounded in both affection and impatience,” A. O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times. What’s on TV Tuesday: James Corden in Britain and ‘Hannah Gadsby: Nanette’ 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z OWN is a place where cynicism takes a holiday and mockery hasn’t yet been invented. ArtsBeat: A No Cynicism Zone on Oprah?s Network 2011-01-02T15:41:57Z A few months later, he found a new object for his ravenous cultural interest: “Joe Millionaire,” one of the first stunt reality shows, and ripe for mockery. For ‘The Bachelor,’ He’s the Thorn in Their Tray of Roses 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Ms. Heard testified that she had received thousands of death threats since the start of the trial and called the online mockery “agonizing.” Johnny Depp Jury Finds That Amber Heard Defamed Him in Op-Ed 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z "The faithful of our Church are disgusted by the harassment by those in news and entertainment, and this sketch offends millions. The mockery of this difficult time in the Church’s history serves no purpose." Catholic leaders want SNL to apologize over joke comparing church to R. Kelly 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Any mockery, whether it's Halloween, Victoria's Secret - they are spitting on us. Victoria's Secret apologizes for use of headdress 2012-11-13T14:48:35Z The audience learns which groups Hollywood is still willing to treat as comic stereotypes, with the usual escape clause that the stereotypes themselves are being held up for mockery. Review: Amy Poehler and Tina Fey Come Home in ‘Sisters’ 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z And how absurdly, stupidly hypocritical it is that if the same beautiful woman were to gain an ounce or two, that same public display of burger eating would be fair game for mockery. Hollywood's obsession with tiny women, big meals 2011-02-17T21:01:00Z And though Heifetz’s acclaim as an artist is largely unchallenged, Lewis’s—his fame in France—is an enduring target of mockery, a joke that some might consider his best. Childlike Stars 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z And that's all for the good, since such jokes are just mockery and not satire. Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z When you call something Angel’s Envy, you’re inviting mockery and sowing the seeds of disappointment, because you’ve basically promised nothing less than liquid rapture: heaven on the rocks. The Tipsy Diaries: Celestial Come-Ons and Other Booze-Selling Ploys 2011-01-20T16:28:17Z Does this sound a bit like mischievous mockery? Nordic Noir, in the Horn of Africa 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Corden opted for musical mockery, marking Trump’s recovery and insistence he could be immune to the virus with a parody performance of Paul McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed” called “Maybe I’m Immune.” Late Night in 2020: The Show Must Go Home 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z He expresses his perpetual annoyance — to his confidante, God, to family and friends — with childish mockery, nonsense blather, a touch of camp. Review: Fierstein propels a robust, faithful 'Fiddler on the Roof' 2010-05-26T20:47:00Z But one thing is clear: Satirical mockery, political comedy and laughtivism are some of the most powerful weapons in our anti-Trump arsenal. Hitting Trump where it hurts: The satire troops take up comedy arms against Donald Trump 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z He’s a dry-eyed sentimentalist, gentle in his mockery and disinclined to designate villains. ‘Fatherhood’ Review: He Lost His Wife. Go Easy on Him. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z But as Betty heads with Gene and Henry to Reno, let's not forget her and her friend's mockery of divorcee Helen Daniels in series one. Mad Men: season three, episode 13 2010-04-14T21:45:00Z And they’ve followed a similar creative trajectory — starting out childlike, sweet and wholesome, transitioning into an object of mockery, and finally, a commercial product that is in on its own meta-joke. Santa’s a sleazebag. The elves are drunk. How did Christmas sweaters get so raunchy? 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z In that way the series is closer in sensibility to “The Comeback,” which starred Lisa Kudrow as an older actress trying to reboot her career, and which sought the razor’s edge between empathy and mockery. Television Review: ?Enlightened? Stars Laura Dern on HBO - Review 2011-10-09T22:00:00Z As her image falters, and mockery mounts, Ms. Palin’s inflated ego takes a toll. | ?Game Change?: In ?Game Change? on HBO, Julianne Moore Plays Sarah Palin 2012-03-08T13:00:00Z “He’s making a mockery of it,” she said. Our Favorite Magical Creatures Live at Ghibli Park, So We Had to Go 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Jack's Black Tenacious D acknowledged the same feelings – a mixture of mockery, affection and slightly ashamed admiration – 20 years later, with a song called, simply, Dio. Definitive Dio 2010-05-17T11:33:00Z There is even a hint here of the satiric mockery that eventually greeted the culture of the sea, aimed at the explorers who claimed uncommon strength and miraculous adventures. Exhibition Review: At the Folger, a 200-Year Survey of the Sea 2010-08-18T18:21:00Z That’s not realistic and it makes a mockery of the idea that the show humanizes its inmates. Don’t believe the “Orange is the New Black” hype: How the Netflix series misrepresents life behind bars 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z That is to say, it is a mockery of the very concept that usually ends in a fistfight.” John Oliver’s plea to America: “Never, ever” celebrate April Fools’ Day 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z The two men’s romantic appetites have made them occasional targets of mockery, as retro wingmen on the loose. The Dan and Dave Show 2010-12-11T00:04:00Z “Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan made a mockery of his ministerial responsibilities and tragically undermined his government’s attempt to work with Hay Festival to promote free speech and female empowerment,” she added. UK festival curator accuses UAE minister of sex assault 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z I can only repeat what I said then: all the energy and black comedy and, indeed, mystery of The Paperboy had been overlooked in a Twitter-accelerated group rush towards mockery and disdain. The Paperboy – review 2013-03-14T15:00:01Z For an activist, COP26 can be an opportunity for mockery, to dismiss the proceedings as “blah blah blah,” as Thunberg did this month. What was COP26? A slog, a spectacle — and, for one youthful delegation, an opportunity. 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z The women’s ardent love for fall also became a major point of mockery used to further exemplify how white culture is devoid of, well, any culture. Christian Girl Autumn was once a joke and has now become a seasonal inspiration of coziness 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z David Lean's grimly black-and-white Oliver Twist, released in 1948, muffles the book's raw, coarse alternation of murder and mockery, which Dickens likened to the layers of meat and fat in a rasher of streaky bacon. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z She gives plenty of juicy and breath-taking examples of repression and mockery in any period you care to look at. The Woman Reader by Belinda Jack – review 2012-07-05T07:00:01Z Yet it feels like a mockery or an offense to depict battle too beautifully. Maaza Mengiste Sings a Modern Song of War 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z His warnings earn only mockery from doubting fellow passengers. Michael Koryta's 'The Cypress House': a whiff of doom in a whisp of smoke 2011-02-03T00:02:06Z The essay expresses ambivalence from a privileged perspective without courting the kind of mockery sometimes given to “first-world problems.” ‘Unspeakable,’ Essays by Meghan Daum 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z To call this simply “mockery,” or “cultural appropriation,” is to miss the vital function of such acts. White people have a blackface problem 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z “He was breaking league rules … He has outsmarted the NFL, making a mockery of his request that he speak to reporters during access periods.” Dumber than Fox News: Super Bowl hype is brain-dead sports media at its worst 2014-01-31T19:51:00Z Tate Modern, London, from 28 June until 14 October Diane ArbusThe extremes of pathos and mockery in this photographers' art epitomise the power of photography itself.· Jenny Saville, Yoko Ono and Ai Weiwei – the week in art 2012-06-22T10:48:46Z But while stock footage is cheap and easy — some clips start as low as $19 — its ubiquity and staginess can also set up campaigns for mockery. Who are all those smiling people in campaign advertisements? 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Thompson, interviewed in 2000, decades after “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” makes delicious mockery of this sort of inquiry. Critic?s Notebook: Paris Review Editor Frees Menagerie of Wordsmiths 2010-10-22T23:00:00Z Besides inviting mockery of a magazine whose dignity and restraint has been part of its brand since the William Shawn years, it presented an urgent, if very 2020 human resources issue. The Undoing of Jeffrey Toobin 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z This subtle mockery of human kindness grows markedly less subtle by the minute. ‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 5: Running With the Devil 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Jewish comics at these hotels played with similar impulses, freely dispensing mockery and self-mockery. ‘Echoes of the Borscht Belt,’ Photos at Yeshiva University 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Working people who require specific environmental conditions — an autistic person, for example, may need an office without florescent lighting — may attract suspicion and even mockery. What Happens When You’re Disabled but Nobody Can Tell 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z You take a stupid gesture out of the realm of mockery and you give it illicit cachet. We've always found Hitler hilarious ? the alternative is much more odious 2011-08-27T23:06:06Z Like most trends, however, the bacon trend soon lost its "cool" factor and became a thing of mockery, scorn and embarrassment. Here's how we fell in (and out of) love with bacon 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z He’s presented not only as ordinary to a point of mockery but also as the film’s source of its wackiest attempted jokes. ‘The Sleepover’ Review: My Mother, the Jewel Thief 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Swift had only recently purchased a $20 million penthouse in Tribeca, so she earned some mockery when she was then named New York City’s “global welcome ambassador.” If you think Taylor Swift sings only about her exes, then you don’t get Taylor Swift 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z It culminates in her performing a variety of caricatures that makes a mockery of the casting director’s note. Theater Review: ‘Tar Baby,’ With the Comic Desiree Burch 2013-01-10T21:52:00Z Suarez grew up in a Spanish-speaking household, but went to a traditional English-speaking school, and found herself an outcast, preferring to stay quiet rather than open her mouth and endure the mockery of her classmates. Le Butcherettes a riot on stage 2011-11-01T04:20:00Z It’s a luxury conundrum, one that feels like a mockery of tremendous human suffering. Cliff Huxtable Was Bill Cosby’s Sickest Joke 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The aspects of his temperament held up for mockery — the hyper-intellectualism, the snobbery, the irreducible Jewishness — doubled as weapons of seduction. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z But there’s a certain conceptual purity to this film – the purity of exploitation cinema and community theater, swirled into a strange combo – that leaves me indisposed to mockery. “Cymbeline”: Ethan Hawke, Dakota Johnson and Ed Harris highlight a weird Shakespeare update 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z This poor kid has endured a lot, including mockery and hazing at school and his father's heart attack. Kurt and Blaine finally kiss on "Glee" -- but so what? 2011-03-16T13:17:00Z It’s hard to know what, quite, to make of the hoodie at first — the metaphors don’t quite match: The shroud was a mark of mockery, a dismissal of Jesus’s purported divinity. Perspective | A Black Jesus is at the center of a ‘Passion’ that transfigures the listener 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z As with “tough guy” or “big man” now, it was used for the kind of men whose posturing invited mockery. The problem with being 'badass' 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Ross’ characters are drawn with assurance, wit and gentle mockery — we definitely have met these people — but can seem a little glib. Plenty of bite in 'Of Good Stock,' but a soft heart lurks within 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Berlioz' great improvement upon Virgil was to empower the women, and Sunday they made powerful mockery of masters and commanders with their pathetic piety. S.F. Opera makes an epic effort with 'Les Troyens' 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z To commemorate the 200th episode, they gathered all the subjects of their mockery to star in the 201st – everyone from Jesus to Buddha, and everything from Scientology to Hinduism. No freak-out over South Park 2010-04-23T11:30:00Z But, she added, “he expends unlimited mockery upon the anti-germ faddists and carries their theories to absurdity in practice.” Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Siegel goes on to accuse Stewart and Colbert of negatively influencing the news media, leading it to dangerously confuse comedy, mockery and straight-faced reporting. Don’t blame Jon Stewart for Donald Trump: Comedy Central didn’t make America fall for “fake news” and “post-truth” 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z The road to online mockery is paved with good intentions. Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Boston draws online mockery, disdain 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Their cheerful mockery of me and my assigned text sparked a searching and substantive discussion. ‘Excellent Sheep,’ by William Deresiewicz 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z It’s dark, nihilistic, pessimistic, and impolite, and it makes a mockery of the dream that things will get better—that a new era of racial harmony is right around the corner. No Compromises 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Bozon derisively satirizes the ivory-tower bureaucratic condescension of the French educational system and highlights the indifference and mockery that it inspires on the part of poor and immigrant residents. What to Stream Over Labor Day Weekend: Catch Up on Four of the Year’s Best Films 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Media analysts generally tend to laud comedians for their edginess while the action of “The View,” circulated largely via viral bites, receives write-arounds focusing on their mockery. How we view the women of "The View": Come for viral catfights, stay for the substance 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z Either way, there’s a difference between mockery of Jesus and mockery with Jesus, and Black Jesus is ultimately about the second. REVIEW: Black Jesus Laughs With, More Than At, Its Son of God 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Before she shoos the reporter out, she says: “I will only speak when my son is here. My son is more important to me than money. The media are making a mockery of my life.” Saroo Brierley, the inspiration for the film Lion: 'The tears spoke for themselves' 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z It’s as if Knight were deflecting the mockery that the movie deserves with the solemnity of its subject matter. “Serenity,” Reviewed: An Earnestly Absurd Film-Noir Grab-Bag 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Its famously off-kilter exchange of pleasantries is a mockery of logic, appearing like small talk but then veering off course into random nonsense. Theater Review: Ionesco?s ?Bald Soprano? at City Center - Review 2011-09-27T21:06:39Z Afterward, Dole issued a statement calling the Senate’s refusal “a mockery of those who died, an insult to those who survived, and a repudiation of the sorrow of their families who live with us today.” ‘The unparalleled champion’: Bob Dole’s forgotten fight to get Washington to recognize the Armenian genocide 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z The secret of his comedy was in his delivery, which was a blizzard of mockery, raillery and mayhem. Don Rickles, lightning-fast launcher of comic insults, dies at 90 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z His bits on the difference between rich and poor are some of his smartest, but the mockery of the old and very young is his funniest. Four Stand-Up Specials That Showcase Hard-Working Comics 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Isenberg examines the white rural outcasts who have been vilified and shunned and have inspired mockery, kitsch and unceasing grimaces in the nation’s cultural imagination. Notable nonfiction books in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The National Review blogger Reihan Salam, who has linked to numerous Jacobin articles, called Mr. Sunkara “an almost hilariously savvy character who knows how to deploy mockery and flattery to great effect.” Bhaskar Sunkara, Editor of Jacobin Magazine 2013-01-20T22:57:50Z Despite its popularity and generally positive press, Sundance has often been the target of a certain amount of mockery, both good-natured and meanspirited. At Last Back at Sundance, Filled With Rocky Relationships and Glorious Writers 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z There is a guilty pleasure in savoring the moments of mockery, since they usually puncture hypocrisy, obsequiousness or arrogance. In Trying Times, the Balm of Jane Austen 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Over the last several decades people who might have been on the receiving end of such mockery have asserted their right not to be shamed for their weight, for their gender, for their desires. The Many Uses (and Abuses) of Shame 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Still, as the formula seems to require, the “Goes Wrong” shows often get near and sometimes cross the line at which violence and mockery cease to be funny. Review: Flying High and Falling Hard in ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, a fomenting Trump resistance movement has seen that televised mockery might be effective in creating the sort of tiny cracks that eventually cause meaningful collapse. Our president is a TV addict. It’s going to get the best of him, but he’ll never get the best of it. 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z The first time I saw it, on a recent visit back to Britain, I sat down at my dad's house in a spirit of mockery. Call the Midwife: an unexpected PBS hit with another Brit import 2013-04-26T14:04:18Z It's quite funny, though – Lord knows the Tumblr generation could do with more mockery. Magna Carta Holy Grail – a first-listen review 2013-07-04T14:23:37Z They emphasized that, for all the mockery in their show, their humor came from a place of genuine affection for the people and culture being satirized. In ‘Oh, Hello,’ Nick Kroll and John Mulaney Have a Stage Senior Moment 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z About 200 spectators bale out before the closing credits and many that remain do so in a spirit of mockery. Promises Written in Water 2010-09-07T16:12:00Z Somehow this joust took on a new meaning, making Putin a little more brazen in his mockery of Mueller’s accusations. Chris Wallace takes on Vladimir Putin, and is not outfoxed 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z The whole incident was quickly dubbed "Fangate" and served up ready-made for mockery. Stewart and Colbert find comedy winds blow their way in 'Fangate' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z The brainchild of two anonymous screenwriters, the site's concocted stories have rained mockery on an industry famous for self-regard and pushed boundaries of humour and taste. Site's satirical take on Hollywood pushes boundaries – and earns raves 2012-10-02T12:19:43Z In typical style, the magazine said that the secret to Ansari's success is his "counterintuitive ability to observe ridicule and react not with simple mockery or exasperation . . . but with half-crazed wonder". Aziz Ansari: mouth of the south 2011-02-16T21:30:00Z Having lived with cancer for half of her 16 years, Hazel has developed an emotional auto-immune system: mockery. REVIEW: "The Fault in Our Stars" Earns Its Big Fat Tears 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z To her credit, Karen “recognized that her life was ripe for mockery.” Can a parent’s liberal values pass the public school test? 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Anonymous social mockery was not born on the Internet. Valentines, Vengeful and Comic, Through an Antique Lens 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z But it inadvertently made a mockery of their inclusion by reducing both roles to blink-and-you'll-miss-them cameos in the US version. The China-fication of Hollywood blockbusters 2013-05-04T05:00:00Z He is caught in the stereotype that all gays are feminine and, worse, several of the others join in his mockery of me. Civilities: ‘Honey, it’s 1952 calling’: Dealing with dated telemarketing 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Having discovered his error, he has retreated into mockery of his wife. Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z It’s a mockery and a trivialization that, unfortunately, is in keeping with the tone of the entire film. Cultural Clicks: Benjamin Britten, Billie Holiday, and Bill Murray 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z The greatest mockery is heaped on an ambitious young female writer, Henry Etta James, whom Maurice once published in his brief tenure as editor of a literary magazine but now derides as insignificant. A Dark New Satire Asks, How Far Would You Go to Become Famous? 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z He is hallucinating that a junked TV in a nearby mound of trash is broadcasting scenes from a Little League World Series victory by the Taiwan team, making a mockery of his own personal failures. Edward Yang's Taipei: All Boxed In 2010-04-14T12:55:00Z Dudamel centred the work, however, in its scherzo, with its collisions between mockery and violence. Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic ? review 2011-01-28T00:29:54Z Such responses make you wonder if the mockery of the painting’s steep perspective was really about the sheer audacity of the Meyers’ arrival in elite society. The Secrets Behind Sargent’s Intimate Portrait of a Jewish Family 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z As background music, there’s a continual hum of “Trek” nostalgia and gentle mockery, for which viewers’ appetites will vary. ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Review: Life as Phaser Fodder 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z “Cape Spin” stumbles in force-feeding some easy mockery: a radio debate between campaign spokeswomen, for example, is framed as a boxing match. Movie Review: ‘Cape Spin,’ a Documentary About Cape Wind 2013-05-17T00:31:10Z Last year this episode gifted us with the Wisdom of Donny Osmond, where Donny was dishing out tens like sweets and generally making a mockery of something we were already mocking to death. Strictly Come Dancing 2015: week three – as it happened 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z These industries themselves, however, stand far beyond mockery’s reach. Hipsters, they’re just like us! “Normcore,” Sarah Palin, and the GOP’s big red state lie 2014-04-27T11:00:00Z Just as Heti’s previous mockery is never connected to the novel’s content, this epiphany is offered without qualification. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z But at least it adds a level of artistry to its mockery of modern courtship and has "Catastrophe" star Rob Delaney narrating the goofy proceedings. On "Sexy Beasts," love isn't quite blind – but it's an entertainingly shallow heavy petting zoo 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z The network is making a mockery of legal injunctions and the web is full of lies, distortions and half-truths. Everything you need to know about the internet 2010-06-19T23:14:00Z Then there was the social media mockery of the elbow-length black leather gloves she wore while posing with a sheet of dollar bills at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Washington society and Team Trump: A year in, the fear and loathing is mutual 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z For her praise of the widely derided chain, Hagerty was subjected to widespread online mockery. Anthony Bourdain praised by food critic whose Olive Garden review he defended 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z An hour later, the worst of populism stormed the building, assaulted police officers and parkoured around the seat of the republic in a mockery of the process. What does Josh Hawley think he’s doing? 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z The show derives a lot of its humor from Kaz’s earnest attempts to belong, which occasion some reasonably subtle mockery of the city’s social stratification and of a certain strain of tragic millennial mopiness. Review: An Anime New York in Netflix’s ‘Neo Yokio’ 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z When she drinks beer, her stomach grows swollen and bloated as if in mockery: she has had two miscarriages. Rereading Paula Fox’s “Desperate Characters” 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z However, critics of the practice usually stop at condemning blackface as a hateful form of mockery, of ridicule. White people have a blackface problem 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z But not everyone loves cities, American individualism runs deep and resistance to social engineering is pervasive, as the widespread mockery of smaller beverage sizes in New York demonstrated last year. City planners are increasingly aware of health benefits of clean, living landscapes He braved the mockery and opprobrium of the entire Internet in the calculated hope of “trying to go viral” and turn his life around. Karen Klein: YouTube’s most evil bullying video 2012-06-21T15:45:00Z The essay's tone – knowing, insiderish, never polemical, and constantly shifting between mockery and studied neutrality – probably accounts for some of its warm reception. A user's guide to art-speak 2013-01-27T19:00:02Z Helmets do not, however, protect her from mockery. Motherlode Blog: Helmets: Because Their Thick Skulls Aren’t Thick Enough 2014-02-07T17:22:38Z They fret that the artlessness of Twitter, and the heightened self- consciousness of Instagram, is diluting poetry’s power, if not making a mockery of the whole canon. From Instapoets to the bards of YouTube, poetry is going viral. And some poets hate that. 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z The promise and the challenge of this tactic: Trump clearly chafes at mockery. Why comedy as a weapon could be such a force in the 2016 election 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z These replies generally exhibited more thought and preparation than Ms. Wallace’s original complaint, and many of them showed a willingness to indulge, with a combination of mockery and fondness, the stereotypes she invoked. Watchlist : A-List Stars Invade Digital Auteurs? Space 2011-03-25T20:29:19Z A small turquoise faience baboon, 8.8 centimeters high, is a masterpiece of understated irony, so discreetly wielded that one cannot be absolutely sure that mockery was intended. Exhibition Review: Finding Ancient Egypt's Sense of Humor 2011-05-20T18:30:05Z The minister is met with the same mockery as Gabriel was: though some parishioners listen attentively, others yawn, frown, and grumble, and some members of the choir read a newspaper. Lois Weber’s Vital Films of the Early Silent Era 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Berger declared that he wrote out of an almost childish love, a love without mockery. Thomas Berger’s Egoless Fictions 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z McCann is unsparing in his critique, in his mockery even, of Bundy’s rhetoric, but he also regards him as a figure of considerable charisma — a sort of leathery Bill Clinton or militant Will Rogers. Can the American West Be Saved? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z It’s a mockery of the male-gazey big hair, stiletto high heels. Some Like It Not: Are Men in Dresses Still Funny? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z The director's statements drew light-hearted mockery from his fellow panellists, who included his regular collaborator Samuel L Jackson. Tarantino 'to retire' after 10th film 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z But these concerns are not new or — despite mockery from the right — part of some trendy cancel-culture hysteria. Perspective | The time is right to cancel Dr. Seuss’s racist books 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z What if you donned the binding garment of maturity only tentatively, and accessorized it with mockery, as if it were a hand-me-down from Grandpa or an ugly shirt plucked from a used-clothing rack? Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis 2010-05-08T18:21:00Z Though these categories employ different means — mockery, conspiracy, romanticization — all aim to show that “Shakespeare’s not the person he appears to be,” Joubin says. A new show imagines a punk rock Shakespeare — the latest of our many fantasies about the bard 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Comedy is built for mockery and skirting the line of offensiveness, that is what it is for. Trevor Noah and “The Daily Show” problem: Why do we insist on holding a TV host to a politician’s standards? 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Not true; many of them were fairly rubbish at the traditional sports and took up their chosen sport as an escape from failure and mockery. The Secret Olympian by Anon – review 2012-05-25T08:00:02Z The skilled cast members must flesh out their characters, and the unselfconscious Ms. Lynskey, who invites the audience’s mockery and ends up with its sympathy, is the revelation. Review: In ‘The Intervention,’ There’s a Big Chill in the Air 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump’s victory on Nov. 8 did nothing to dissuade “Saturday Night Live” from its mockery of the next occupant of the Oval Office to end the war of words between the two combatants. Trump and ‘S.N.L.’: A Look Back at a Complicated Relationship 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z We know he spends, or spent, much of his time caring for his children, and he has nothing but fond mockery for the conventions of what men should be. Comedy gold – Michael McIntyre's Live and Laughing 2013-07-23T09:28:55Z In another performer’s hands, the joke might have been a mockery of every Holiday Inn lounge lizard. The greatest role of Bill Murray’s life has been playing Bill Murray 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z So maybe less of the contempt, the mockery. Why do some theatre critics seem to be enjoying the arts cuts? 2011-04-08T14:46:10Z But despite the good intentions of “Whose Boat Is This Boat,” there’s something unavoidably disappointing about this bit of mockery in print. Perspective | Liberal satire is getting dangerously lazy in the Trump era 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The ironically titled "Social Security," a group exhibit at Kirkland Arts Center, suggests mockery works best. Artists re-imagine 'The Game of Life' in satirical exhibition 2011-06-24T21:26:05Z And he sure doesn't spare himself from witty mockery. David Henry Hwang's 'Yellow Face' a provocative sendup 2011-08-09T16:35:06Z These subversions mean that among the many groups targeted for mockery in this film – the police, Muslims, terrorists, converts and more – are the viewers, whose own prejudices are exposed. Four Lions: Laugh? I roared 2010-05-07T10:20:00Z He traveled across the country giving lectures that paid tribute to Thomas Paine, a patriot who fell from grace because of his mockery of revealed religion. An atheist in the White House? It could happen, thanks to Donald Trump 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z After 30 minutes the police arrived, but they were at a loss for how to stop the mockery of the dictator. Hitting Trump where it hurts: The satire troops take up comedy arms against Donald Trump 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z That refusal to go soft also helps to make the pervasive little-people gags seem less like mockery and more like comedy. Television Review: ?Life?s Too Short? on HBO Has Warwick Davis and Ricky Gervais 2012-02-16T22:44:56Z Although the photo itself showcases a wholesome moment shared between two friends, its early internet fame didn’t come from a place of kindness, but rather mockery. Christian Girl Autumn was once a joke and has now become a seasonal inspiration of coziness 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Rein said that during a trip to Coney Island with students after her encounter with Mr. Roma, he repeatedly singled her out for mockery, while others laughed. Thomas Roma, Photographer and Professor, Accused of Sexual Misconduct 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z This will be Gervais’ third year in a row hosting the awards telecast despite the fact that his performance earlier this year drew strong criticism for its mockery of the Hollywood elite. Offensive What? Ricky Gervais to Host 2012 Golden Globes 2011-11-16T22:37:50Z Mothers, on the other hand, became less frequent targets of mockery over time. Why are sitcom dads still so inept? 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z At her job at a marketing agency, she finds she can’t even order food without mockery. In This Korean Best Seller, a Young Mother Is Driven to Psychosis 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z He dreaded waking up on Sundays to phone calls about the previous night’s mockery. Saying Goodbye to Jeffrey 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z A teenage girl with a skin condition, accompanied by her father, seems just as riven by the school mockery she endures as by her ailment itself. ‘Lourdes’ Review: Pilgrims Find Fellowship on Quest for Miracles 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z There’s a defensiveness to the mockery, a telling joy in the takedown. Ryan Lochte: So sexy, so dumb 2012-08-06T21:30:00Z Audience participation and off-the-cuff mockery also play a part in the show that the FX basic cable network says brings "an unmistakably irreverent attitude" to its late-night programming. Russell Brand returns to stand-up on TV's "Brand X" 2012-06-28T12:03:19Z Adroitly poised between sincerity and mockery, laughter and tears, this eloquent “Falstaff” is a triumph for Mr. Muti. Review: Riccardo Muti, the King of Verdi, Still Rules With a Firm Baton 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Furthermore, most mockery of Southern accents underestimates the linguistic diversity of the South and creates the false perception that Southern accents are all the same. TikTok, #BamaRush and the irresistible allure of mocking Southern accents 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z “I knew mine would involve some light mockery,” she told me recently. The Stylish Socialist Who Is Trying to Save YouTube from Alt-Right Domination 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z But “Dannemora” pulls away from cheap mockery to achieve rich and sympathetic observation of a woman who, in signing on as the escapees’ getaway driver, succumbs to a pipe dream of flight. Patricia Arquette Succumbs to a Pipe Dream of Flight in “Escape at Dannemora” 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z With its earnest passion, “If Beale Street Could Talk” evokes America’s own sordid mockery of the pursuit of happiness. The Politics of Memory in Barry Jenkins’s “If Beale Street Could Talk” 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z They were initially met with skepticism, and in Drake’s case, mockery. Lil Nas X and rap’s reckoning over Black manhood 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z With their jittery, uncertain and self-referential style, the filmmakers have invited a certain amount of misunderstanding and mockery -- and doucheyness, after all, is in the eye of the beholder. Untangling the "Catfish" hoax rumors 2010-10-14T11:01:00Z No joke … Barack Obama, the US president, who has largely escaped the mockery of talkshow hosts. Talk show hosts vote with their jokes – and which standups are in the money 2012-11-06T17:02:36Z A typhoon of mockery immediately gusted across the internet. Mariah Carey Smiles and Glitters Through a Television Fiasco 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z Because under all the mockery, and there’s quite a lot of it, some friendly, some less so, it gets one thing about fashion very right. Making Fun of Fashion, Onstage and in Song 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Over the years, across countless articles and essays, writers have deployed battalions of irony to mock a tradition immune to mockery. Cruises Are So Uncool They Are Cool 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z This week: Baryshnikov channels Nijinsky, a new drama recalls Nazi efforts to derail a Charlie Chaplin classic, and a new musical makes a mockery of a certain HBO fantasy-drama. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 13-20: 'Letter to a Man' and more 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z What was most endearing to me was the manner in which both Sarandon and Lange were able to humanize these legendary personas without resorting to caricature and mockery. ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Season Finale: Two Seconds 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z In defense of his arch approach, he said, “I look at irony as something real, as the most human way to express yourself — not making a mockery, but using playfulness.” ‘The Visitors,’ by Ragnar Kjartansson 2013-01-06T04:59:41Z They were ridiculed on social media as bourgeois vigilantes; a 2018 St. Louis Magazine article on the painstaking restoration of their extravagant home was recirculated to fuel the mockery. The gun-toting McCloskeys said they feared death. They survived to fight the culture wars. 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z For all the cosmetics that Messner wore — and as much as she was ridiculed for it — members of the makeup team said they wanted to avoid mockery. How Jessica Chastain Became Tammy Faye 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z It seemed that, despite the mockery of the rightwing press, Sheffield would fly the red flag for ever. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z But recently, people have started using alternating capital letters to express a different kind of intonation: mockery or exasperation. 3 internet language trends from 2019, explained 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Critics will act superior, and disillusioned old-school fans will ramp up their mockery and piracy, like online rebels intent on destroying the Death Star. George Lucas' pathetic 3-D "Star Wars" re-release 2010-09-29T22:01:00Z The historical context of “blackface” is a mockery of a specific race. The rarity of black faces, not ‘Otello’ in blackface, should be issue in opera 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z First lady Melania Trump’s White House Christmas tree display, which she debuted on Sunday, is on the receiving end of online mockery. Melania Trump's Christmas tree exhibit compared to horror film by online critics 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Constitutions apart, it is only a citizen-wide "mockery" of the contemptible NRA, and its reactions to the Newtown murders, which will eventually bring the necessary change. Letters: Sacred text and satire 2012-12-25T21:00:03Z What’s exceptional is the dissonance between the golden idol and sex god that he was hailed as in the lead-up to and beginning of the games and the gleeful mockery he inspires today. Ryan Lochte: So sexy, so dumb 2012-08-06T21:30:00Z Fate rules here, making a mockery of both free will and chance. Learning to Love the Stories of Andre Dubus 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z He was just incompetent enough to provide endless fodder for mockery, and yet not so calamitously harmful that there would be no fun in making fun. Who is America? Sacha Baron Cohen's new show aims high but goes low 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z His style balances a self-deprecating tone with biting mockery on all sorts of absurdities. “Stupid is stupid no matter what country you’re from”: What Bassem Youssef’s story of Egypt can teach Americans 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z The show has a breezy confidence that never tips all the way into mockery. Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well … 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z It could hardly be an easier target for mockery if it minced about a comedy shooting range in a plastic tutu and Ronald MacDonald wig. Oops, we forgot Jesus's women 2010-07-30T11:14:00Z Berlant seemed to be making a mockery of confessional comedy, emphasizing the artifice of her own performance, talking about herself but revealing nothing. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Maybe they, too, have seen how things usually end these days, as the Karens increasingly get exactly what they’ve long had coming: resistance, mockery and, in some cases, the loss of their jobs. Perspective | Who’s the most galling, captivating character on our screens this summer? It’s Karen — and she’s everywhere. 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z On the other hand, there is the pressure to get it right: to fulfil expectations without descending into caricature, mockery or pastiche. Corrie on stage? Bless my hairnet! 2011-02-09T21:31:01Z Credited by some tech observers as a key innovation that helped TikTok create a sense of ongoing collaboration, “duets” are also a quick and easy vehicle for mockery. ‘It’s hard to put the brakes on it. We doubled down’: Charli D’Amelio and the first family of TikTok 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z With a mixture of mockery and disappointment, hundreds of fans shared the image. Disclosure admit miming at Wembley – but say they didn't want to 2013-06-11T12:02:49Z I can already hear the mockery: “Look at the frumpy critic who wants to return to the days when TV couldn’t show married people sharing a bed.” Critic’s Notebook: Realism Splashing a Screen Near You 2014-03-07T23:01:13Z Yet the chaos in Alabama offended Jackson’s sense of discipline and made a mockery of his treaties with the Creeks. When Freedom Meant the Freedom to Oppress Others 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Almost immediately, strangers began barraging the dead man’s Facebook page with insults and mockery. They Died From Covid. Then the Online Attacks Started. 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z As the exotic jazz strains of "Caravan" play in the background, Don returns home to his wife and sleeping children, and the family is framed in a mockery of a Norman Rockwell moment. Anxiety awaits in sixth season of 'Mad Men' 2013-04-04T16:42:20Z Complaining about their "mockery" of "one of the greatest bands of all time", he added: "Great art should never be compromised". Macaulay Culkin booed off stage 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Having grown up over her parents’ pub in Kent, Holly displays a tragicomic mix of confidence and naivete, which Mitchell balances endearingly to keep her from seeming like an object of mockery. Review: ‘The Bone Clocks,’ by David Mitchell “We have become accustomed to insensitive mockery, but had hoped that cisgender people had become tired of such stunts and realized that it is not funny,” a spokesperson for the Beaumont Society told Pink News. Retailer removes Caitlyn Jenner-inspired costume following backlash: 'It is completely tasteless' 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z I was so shocked that I froze, waiting for the mockery to end. Trying to Feel Love-Worthy (While Working for a Dating App) 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z “Flowers are like a mockery”: “A Widow’s Story” author, Joyce Carol Oates, re bereavement excess ... or Wisconsin Democrats on Senate Republicans’ attempts to brighten up their Illinois hotel rooms? Crib Sheet: The 10 Things to Talk About This Weekend 2011-02-23T21:11:29Z If you get through to them and they back down, thank them and cautiously treat this as the beginning of a beautiful, or at least not a one-sided mockery of, friendship. 4b. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Who should stand up to bullying in-laws? 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Stewart really took pizza seriously — another moment was his mockery of Donald Trump for eating a slice with a fork. Readers Share Their Essential Jon Stewart Moments From 'The Daily Show' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z In Joyce's writing, the figure of Charles Stewart Parnell, the lost leader hounded from power, remains pure, beyond reproach or mockery. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z The appalling mockery of this amply sized garment injects a sudden and unsettling note of pathos into the play. | 'Bachelorette': Wedding Trash Talk in Leslye Headland?s Comedy 2010-07-27T02:04:00Z So it goes, I think, with “dopamine fasting”, which got its moment in the mockery spotlight a few weeks back. Dopamine fasting is a tech fad that sounds silly – but might just work | Oliver Burkeman 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z His meteoric career and riotous artistry carry the seeds of their own destruction; his subject was humiliation, and it aged quickly in a new era of proud defiance and absurdist mockery. Movie of the Week: “The Patsy” 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Relentlessly cheerful and arguably a bit too zany, "Cedar Rapids" takes the dudely, profane comic tradition of movies like "The Hangover" and nudges it toward the Middle American mockery of Mike Judge or Matt Groening. "Cedar Rapids": "The Office" meets "The Hangover" in Iowa's sin city! 2011-02-09T20:30:00Z You keep waiting for the irony, the distance, the mockery. Theater Review: In ‘Family Play (1979 to Present),’ Intimate Moments Unfold 2014-05-04T21:42:46Z Making fun of his hair, orange face, tie or accent is just pure mockery. 5 ways the 2020 election will be shaped by late night comedy 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z What one does hear, particularly in the coda, are dissonances, but less in the spirit of mockery than of disquiet, a sort of cry of pain that nonetheless resolves and dissipates. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In Ruhl's world, art doesn't merely mirror life — it reconstructs it with a kind of mathematical mockery. 'Stage Kiss' elicits lots of giggles but not much emotion at Geffen Playhouse 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The class caused a small media tornado in 2000 when word of it was picked up for mockery by conservative news outlets. Books of The Times: ‘How to Be Gay,’ by David M. Halperin 2012-08-07T19:02:09Z Saturday Night Live was merciless in its mockery of the 6th Republican Debate that was on Fox Business News on Thursday. “Believe me, if I could say ‘liberal Jews’, I would”: “Saturday Night Live” nails Ted Cruz’s attack on so-called “New York values” 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z At its core, “Hard Like Water” seeks to make a mockery of claims to political purity. Cheat on Your Partner or Change the World: In This Novel, It’s All the Same 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Political guests are subject to continual mockery, especially if they have a scandalous past or their policies appear muddled. A Show That Laughs at Boris Johnson, and May Have Aided His Rise 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z We are drawn to her side, but we may also, at some point, be subject to her judgment and her mockery. Review: In ‘Elle,’ Isabelle Huppert Subverts the Role of Rape Victim 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z His performance as Rasputia, an abusive spouse who is obese, was criticized for its mockery of a fat person, though the portrayal emphasized, painfully, the character’s cruelty and indifference. Why Is Eddie Murphy in Cinematic Exile? 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z To Michael, laughter was always the sharpest political weapon, and he was a master of mockery. The Michael Foot I knew, by Neil Kinnock 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z Sure, it's an easy target for mockery, but you really have to love a tryer. Why I'm looking forward to Birdemic: Shock and Terror 2010-05-26T14:19:00Z It’s one thing to bring audience members onstage for three minutes of mockery, then sit them back down again. Critic's Notebook: It?s Date Night, and Lots of Strangers Are Along for the Ride 2010-12-16T16:47:38Z It made a mockery of its claim to be "socialist" when it joined with the Islamist religious right and persuaded the Stop the War campaign to support the "resistance" in Iraq. Why leftists and 'revolutionaries' are not the best feminists 2013-02-03T00:06:08Z SNL may still be trying to figure out what to do with its Trump impression, but in the wake of the election, the show was smart to keep some balance to its mockery. Saturday Night Live: the 10 funniest skits of the biggest season ever 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z “Cats” is also such a familiar cultural touchstone, such a deeply strange thing, that it has been the subject of nonstop friendly mockery and outright contempt from its inception. "Cats" is a mesmerizing laser pointer for your brain 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z But the result is that she is made a target of mockery and insult. “Mad Men” recap: “Advertising is not a very comfortable place for everyone” 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z “Never,” reported one of Paris’s better literary reviews, “has a painting excited so much laughter, mockery, and catcalls as this ‘Olympia.’” The 19th Century’s Most Scandalous Painting Comes to New York 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z That the tourism department of New York City named Swift a “global welcome ambassador” this week only added to the mockery: Who was Swift to be singing about a city in which she’d just arrived? Taylor Swift Silences "Welcome to New York" Critics, Donates to Public Schools 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z I knew that I was ugly—so mutilated, in fact, that I had a permanent gym class waiver to avoid having to disrobe and endure the mockery of my peers. Skout’s minor problem 2012-06-19T23:20:00Z Alice doesn’t like the ERA; she thinks it makes a mockery of her role as a homemaker. Perspective | ‘Karens’ try to make unequal power structures work for them 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z The song made a mockery of the hysteria projected on women who own cats. Claws out! Why pop culture clings to the crazy cat lady 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z The actor criticized the damaging coverage she received across social media, where she became a subject of mockery while Depp was hailed as a hero. Enduring love and fear: 5 surprising takeaways from Amber Heard's "Today" show interview 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Though “The Traitor” takes in the comedy and the squalor of Italy’s recent past, its dominant tone isn’t mockery or disgust. ‘The Traitor’ Review: Turning the Tables on La Cosa Nostra 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z But the mockery of Marty Huggins does nothing to get rid of them. Funny and Offensive? The Campaign Must be a Will Ferrell Movie 2012-08-09T12:00:49Z But it stills signals mockery, outrage or exasperation. 3 internet language trends from 2019, explained 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Singer Taylor Swift lamented to Harper’s Bazaar a couple years ago that she “can’t” — can’t! — wear a dress twice because of social media mockery, a comment that was immediately mocked on social media. Rent the Runway means you can always wear something new. Should you have to? 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z While conceding that nothing replaces the traditional comedy format, Paiz-Bourque said the doubts will look as shortsighted as early mockery of Twitter, podcasting and so many other now common internet forms. Is Livestreamed Stand-Up Here to Stay? 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Though coming out of the same sort of protest movements that created Charlie Hebdo, American liberalism is based far more on acceptance than mockery or even confrontation. The first rule of satire in the U.S.: Do not offend 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The dance floor was both a mockery of Minimalism’s recession into the decorative arts and a bona-fide place to boogie. Piotr Uklanski’s Kodak Moment 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z In Williams’ case, this happens to an appalling degree, whether it is fellow players stuffing towels down their shirts and shorts in a mockery of her physique or commentators banging on about her “aggressive” play. What the ban on Serena Williams’ catsuit says about the sexualising of black women’s bodies 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Not only was the Nigerian character in the novel unrecognizable to him and his classmates but he also detected, in the description of Nigerians, “an undertow of uncharitableness … a contagion of distaste, hatred, and mockery.” Chinua Achebe: The man who rediscovered Africa 2013-03-22T14:45:00Z Whatever mockery the show inspired on Thursday, all will no doubt be forgiven by July. ‘Game of Thrones’ Melts Ice, Reveals July Return 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Bush, lambasted the unmarried Murphy’s pregnancy as a mockery of fatherhood and a Hollywood raspberry to American morality. ‘Murphy Brown’ is ‘back to make some noise’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The time for truly effective mockery came and went while SNL and the rest of the comedy world dilly-dallied with Trump. Our president is a TV addict. It’s going to get the best of him, but he’ll never get the best of it. 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z In summer 2017, Perry fired back with a track of her own, “Swish Swish,” although it received more mockery than anything. If you think Taylor Swift sings only about her exes, then you don’t get Taylor Swift 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z With mild and exquisite mockery, Wodehouse shows us how to loosen the knots we tie ourselves in when we are intimidated by the kind of people who expect our deference. The balm of Blandings 2013-01-12T09:00:04Z A pushier, less confident filmmaker would have underlined the quirkiness of the characters, condescending to them with mockery, sentimentality or a coy blend of the two. | 'Terri': Another Teenage Misfit Trying to Like Himself 2011-06-30T22:04:07Z Some Italian-Americans say the art project makes a mockery of the great explorer and trivializes history. NYC Columbus statue enveloped by living room 2012-08-22T12:24:10Z After 10 years, that's either because it's so ludicrous, it's beyond parody, or because it's so brilliant, even gentle mockery would appear unnecessarily spiteful. Spooks final series: time for a glorious death? 2011-08-11T13:29:34Z The tone and mockery towards dance is just dated, old and not relevant anymore. Perspective | Lara Spencer apologizes for ridiculing Prince George and ballet, but the damage has been done 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Wilson: When the song hit the charts in early 1999, if there was any sort of mockery, I got really defensive about it. Semisonic revists "Closing Time" thanks to movie 2010-12-08T01:37:00Z Reitman's analysis of Scientology's ability to survive scandal and mockery is compelling and persuasive. 'Inside Scientology': an in-depth look at a secretive religion 2011-08-03T20:48:04Z Others make similar arguments, saying "true" liberal comedy is more likely to "punch up," while dismissing conservative comedy as mere mockery that reaffirms unjust systems of power. How conservative comic Greg Gutfeld overtook Stephen Colbert in ratings 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z She tapped her microphone four times — a clear mockery of Trump’s complaint that a faulty mic had given him trouble — and the crowd roared its approval. How Michelle Obama talks to voters in a way Hillary Clinton can’t 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z All those factors make me want to resist mockery, at least a little bit, especially since other critics and the marketplace will likely take care of that. “Winter’s Tale” and America’s tortured quest for the divine 2014-02-15T17:00:00Z The work evoked a dance by slaves that began as a mockery of their white masters. Houston Conwill, Whose Sculptures Celebrated Black Culture, Dies at 69 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z The tone of the piece shifts from silly mockery to earned sentiment as we learn about Mr. Oberzan’s brother’s drug addiction and imprisonment and how their relationship sustained him. Critic?s Notebook: Going Under the Radar, and Into the Unknown 2011-01-11T23:53:39Z In this case imitation is the sincerest form of mockery. Television Review: ‘The Choice’ Begins Thursday night on Fox 2012-06-06T22:45:04Z For "Bridalplasty," I think they were banking on the audience being the same type of audience that likes to watch "Jersey Shore," "Flavor of Love," and "The Bachelor," for the mockery of it. "Bridalplasty": The reality TV apocalypse no one watched 2011-02-01T01:05:00Z Likewise, many of our wiser politicians listened to their younger advisers and constituents and played “The Daily Show’s” game, rolling with the mockery instead of against it, which became a reliable way to project confidence. Can we go on without Jon Stewart? Of course we can. He’s shown us how. 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Behind my digital mask, I began a brief but satisfying tirade of mockery, contrariness and antisocial behaviour. Untangling the web: Hate 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z Surprisingly, the topic of mockery wasn’t his politics or attacks on former president Donald Trump. "The View" mocks Ron DeSantis for wearing shoe-lifts: "Call me petty. I am relishing this story" 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Evil fight shuns all sense of plausibility and presents instead a mockery of the adult themes and ideas Coben is attempting to discuss. Shelter by Harlan Coben - review 2012-06-20T14:00:00Z His friends adored him, but his “distilled and vitriolic mockery,” as one put it, was an acquired taste. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z The mockery continued even as Sundance’s imprint on the industry greatly expanded — partly because it expanded. At Last Back at Sundance, Filled With Rocky Relationships and Glorious Writers 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z “Ballad of a Thin Man” sharpened its mockery with something Mr. Dylan rarely uses, an obvious electronic effect: an echo repeating his vocal lines. Music Review: A Jovial Dylan Celebrates Reopening of Capitol Theatre 2012-09-05T11:35:10Z Though "Green Lantern" might receive the most mockery now, "R.I.P.D." is perhaps the best example of this. 15 summer "blockbusters" that completely tanked at the box office 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z God's Own Comedian was a respectful appreciation of the writer and performer who courted controversy in the 1970s with his mockery of religion, particularly of the Catholic variety. Rewind TV: Vicious; The Job Lot; Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian; The Repo Man – review 2013-05-04T09:45:01Z The wedding, the characters frequently remark, with the mixture of insouciant mockery and cosmopolitan self-congratulation that seems to have become the hallmark of this weary franchise, is a gay one. | 'Sex and the City 2': Sarah Jessica Parker, Flying Down to Abu Dhabi 2010-05-26T20:10:00Z It’s a mockery of a test of strength for her, a test of character for Jaime. Game of Thrones Watch: Dragons and Eagles and Bears, Oh, My! 2013-05-13T09:45:54Z If reality TV ever wanted to rise above being a mockery of its name, the students and the staff of teachers and administrators are the ones who would really be the stars of this show. "Teach": The useless tears of Tony Danza 2010-10-01T00:30:00Z The same night, NBC closes the book on the brilliant mockery of "30 Rock." TV midseason: 'Downton,' 'Girls,' 'Idol' and more 2013-01-08T14:19:54Z But then, all bold ventures risk mockery at some point. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and ST Coleridge, edited by Fiona Stafford – review 2013-07-16T11:35:07Z Last year this episode gifted us with the Wisdom of Donny Osmond, where Donny was dishing out tens like sweets and generally making a mockery of something we were already mocking to death. Strictly Come Dancing 2015: week three – as it happened 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z This makes a mockery of the vital Letter Scene. Eugene Onegin; La traviata – review 2013-02-10T00:06:16Z But now we’re seeing some indication that her campaign hopes to deploy comic mockery in its attempt to deflate the Republican nominee. Why comedy as a weapon could be such a force in the 2016 election 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z There may never have been a U.S. president who has more thoroughly encouraged public mockery than Donald Trump. Is dead Donald Trump funny? Understanding gallows humor in the Trump era 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z But he loved being in the public eye, even if it meant having to endure occasional mockery. Behind the Death of Dr. Fredric Brandt, Cosmetic Dermatologist to the Stars 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z The narrator refrains, recognizing mockery won’t help, a reminder to those of us on the left who smugly caricature all Trump supporters as ignorant rubes. Donald Trump should read Robert Frost's poem 'Mending Wall' 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z “No,” says Audiard, whose manner is soft-spoken, considered, and often with a faint edge of wry mockery. Jacques Audiard: ‘I wanted to give migrants a name, a shape… a violence of their own’ 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z The painter flings his mockery in the face of Eskandar, the world ruler, and by implication at all rulers, often hailed by panegyrists as “The Second Alexander.” Art Review: Iran's Mirror of the World 2011-02-25T12:00:05Z Q: There is a mockery of Hollywood and its cultural savagery, whether it's the "Cleopatra" film taking over Rome or one of the characters' scripts getting reworked into something completely different from the original script. Jess Walter: "Beautiful Ruins" explores love, loss 2012-06-22T19:22:33Z The more seriously a segment of the population takes itself, the more primed it is for mockery. How to Get a Cartoon in the 'New Yorker' in 7 Simple Steps 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Conceptual mockery of “lousy” Soviet pictures, as well as aching collages of poetry and everyday snaps. The Life’s Work of Photography’s Great Trickster, and Ukraine’s Greatest Artist 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The gratifying lesson is that however much the pious seek legal safeguards against mockery, they remain powerless against their greatest comic threat. Rewind TV: OK! TV; The British Academy Film Awards; Champions League Football; Dispatches: Lessons in Hate and Violence 2011-02-20T00:05:41Z All these decisions were made in public, and all were subject to passionate defense, or passionate condemnation, or measured appreciation, or outright mockery. Reckoning with My Love for Prince 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z “It turns out no one can work with the Republican House,” Stewart continued later, and he reserved much of his mockery for Speaker Boehner. Jon Stewart slams Congressional gridlock: “It turns out no one can work with the Republican House” 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z The sewer of mockery flowed both ways, upstream and down. It was the year of ‘OK boomer,’ and the generations were at each other’s throats 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z In the long run: Both were once figures of mockery; both are now considered notable guests at major sporting events. We mean it, maaan!: the lost art of the pop manifesto 2010-04-29T20:30:00Z Maybe it’s true that entertainment-industry conservatives face hostility and mockery from their peers, but a sense of grievance and victimization has come to permeate the modern conservative identity. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z She was faced with mockery that followed her for the rest of her career. Anne Heche Onscreen: Wily and Funny but Also Unnerving 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z And Millennials are not taking the online mockery they are receiving from their younger counterparts very well. Millennials slam Gen Z over fashion, beauty, emoji preferences 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z His courage invited the mockery of the whole village. Geeta and Babita Phogat: ‘Our father taught us never to be scared' 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z So shopworn has the approach become that is now ripe for the mockery of other comics. Comedy gold: Jason Manford's Live at the Manchester Apollo 2013-02-14T14:03:04Z It made a mockery of Reddit’s rules, and of its stated intentions around cultivating communities. Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Others may find the whole idea of garbage gastronomy an easy target for mockery. Waste not want not: the art of trash cooking 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Irony alone has no principles and no inherent purpose beyond mockery and destruction. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z The Los Angeles group Fear responded at the time with gleeful mockery in the song “New York’s Alright if You Like Saxophones.” Review: East Meets West in a New York Debut 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z For Shakespeare, the spectacle of working-class buffoons trying to stage noble tragedy seemed to be inherently ludicrous, but later artists targeted their mockery at the élites themselves, re-centering their stories on figures from the margins. In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z I think the powerful and rich should be subjected to greater mockery than the poor and underprivileged. Can you define offensive comedy? 2010-04-09T11:59:00Z In "Succession," when you admit you have a dream — when you want something you may have to work at — that's when you set yourself up for mockery. In "Succession," Kerry reveals weakness by having a dream 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Motives for mockery vary: they may be political, moral, aesthetic, psychological or misanthropic. Art Review: ?Infinite Jest? at the Metropolitan Museum - Review 2011-09-15T21:19:50Z Cliche tells us imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and such mockery is surely a measure of Downton's success on both sides of the Atlantic. Top TV spoofs: 'Don't I know you from Lark Pies To Cranchesterford?' 2012-10-11T14:27:05Z Despite Morrow’s confirmed atheism and his gleeful mockery of religious fundamentalism, in Chloe he’s created a character capable of surprising spiritual mutation. James Morrow’s satiric novel ‘Galápagos Regained’ takes on Darwin and God 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Gwen deserves better: she’s too appealing and crucial to the series to be the subject of mockery, including from her boyfriend. Movie Review: Andrew Garfield Returns in ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ 2014-05-01T12:00:02Z That sort of thing is stressful on a normal day, but makes a mockery of the idea of familial love and harmony. How Donald Trump ruined Christmas: I won't celebrate this year, and he's why 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Barbarisi writes with gusto and portrays the eccentrics he encounters with a candor that never quite slips into mockery; he sums up Beep as “a Renaissance man of the frivolous.” Review | They all think they’re Indiana Jones in ‘Chasing the Thrill,’ a tale of a real-life treasure hunt 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z “He has been able to use wit — or mockery, or impersonation, or irony — to try to govern every disastrous situation he is in.” Edward St. Aubyn, Author of ?At Last,? at Peace 2012-03-14T22:08:58Z It’s refreshing that the director Jon Sherman heeds this advice and doesn’t default to mockery around these things either. ‘They/Them/Us’ Review: Working Out the Kinks 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z School in town was a shock to his self-esteem–everything about him, from his threadbare clothes to his hick dialect, was a source of mockery. Brunello Cucinelli: Life By Design 2013-03-28T14:25:42Z Usually the response to these pitches is to either ignore them, make fun of them with colleagues, or post screenshots to Twitter for open public mockery. Vitamins make you horny, and other things I learned on Laura Ingraham’s insane new website 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The Portuguese prime minister tries to rally “a nation and an empire behind a cause of such antiquity that its mere mention made mockery of it,” Weisman writes. ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’: A powerful elegy for lost love and lost empire 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z One well-deserved cause of mockery was my decision to have an official box made up with the title "Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister" emblazoned on it. 'Tony Blair called back to see if I had blown myself up' 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z Jesus's angry mockery of the Pharisees was not just a rebuke to a sect – he was talking about the self-serving prig in all of us. Look to the gospels, not the pope 2010-12-02T12:21:00Z Past examples of television interviews that seem to play to exaggerated ethnic stereotypes have been the subject of online mockery that struck some observers as racist. Charles Ramsey's turbulent 15 minutes of fame 2013-05-08T20:21:10Z However, in response to some of the mockery, the retailer tweeted its own response on Friday, saying: “Proudly breaking down fashion norms since 2000.” ASOS crop, tube tops for men ridiculed on social media: ‘I'm done’ 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z In any case, Raskin has continued wearing bandannas, and he shrugs off the occasional mockery. Raskin has been sporting a bandanna he got from his rock-and-roll idol 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z In the final weeks of the campaign, after Mr. Trump’s staff banned him from tweeting, President Obama also took to the mockery. Breaking Up With Twitter 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Written by Punzo, made rhetorical by Arena, who speaks his lines with a mixture of mockery and defiance, across a range of facial expression that excites as much as it discomforts. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z “Home Alone” offers a target even more ripe for mockery, and as directed by Kristin McCarthy Parker, the company does a pretty thorough job in one breathless hour. Review: ‘Kevin!!!!!,’ a Multimedia Sendup of ‘Home Alone’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z He draws in nail polish, sloshes gnarly ceramic sculptures with glaze, builds and vandalizes Formica plinths in mockery of Minimalism and makes street-wise, toxic-looking Rothkos, using black and fluorescent spray paint. 2010-02-12T00:07:00Z I wasn’t bothered by that: Surely religion is fair game for mockery. Review: In ‘Mankind,’ Men Are Men and Women Are Extinct 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Too little mockery, though, and a show becomes toothless. HBO's 'The Brink,' with Jack Black, is satiric about the geopolitical 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z The moon’s majestic, silent mockery sets a revolution in motion and, rather than wishing the king good night, it helps his subjects bid tyranny goodbye. ‘Goodnight Moon,’ but Not Just Yet 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z But it also touched off a roiling controversy, pitting reformists against conservatives who resented Gogol’s mockery of Russian officialdom. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z So what about the Before and Afro girl: hair admiration or race mockery? For white chicks in afro wigs 2012-10-19T23:30:00Z One might suspect that calculated mockery of his life’s work would bother the executive producer Mike Fleiss, who created “The Bachelor” in 2002 and later followed it up with “The Bachelorette.” Television: ?The Bachelor,? Played for Laughs Onstage and Online 2012-02-12T15:50:32Z Keegan-Michael Key descended from the ceiling carrying an Mary Poppins-style umbrella, then discarded it in apparent mockery to Trump dumping his on the steps of Air Force One. New heroes and old history lessons: six key moments from the Oscars 2019 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z The writers transform their boredom into mockery and judgment as they circle around a tantalizing, perhaps frustrating question. Review: In ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Movie, Sex Is a Knotty Business 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z This was Stewart in his comfort zone, the object of mockery and the subject of his own self-deprecation, deflecting his own glory on to others. Jon Stewart's final Daily Show was a humble affair – like the man himself 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z It’s all affectionate mockery, poking fun at the Joyce’s frumpiness while respecting its history as an essential home for dance: the tactile, in-person experience for which this digital version is a placeholder. 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